Sheil Land Associates Ltd.

Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist based in London. She has written extensively for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Guardian and WIRED and presented and produced for BBC radio. Before becoming a journalist Karen’s background was in politics. She began her career in the UK and South Africa. After returning to London she worked for The Fabian Society before becoming Director of campaign group Charter88.​

She is the author of the Sunday Times  bestselling memoir of Eva Schloss, After Auschwitz; Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend; The Health of Nations; Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust; The Diary That Changed the World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and The Diary of Anne Frank.

​

In 2026, Karen won The Orwell Prize for Political Writing for The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance.