Moorehead has written eight biographies, of
Bertrand Russell,
Heinrich Schliemann,
Freya Stark,
Iris Origo,
Martha Gellhorn,
Sidney Bernstein,
Edda Mussolini, and
Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet. The latter figure was the daughter-in-law of
Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin, who experienced the
French Revolution and left a rich collection of letters as well as a memoir covering the decades from the fall of the
Ancien Régime to the rise of
Napoleon III. Moorehead has also written many
non-fiction pieces centered on human rights including a history of the
International Committee of the Red Cross, ''Dunant's Dream
, based on previously unseen archives in Geneva, Troublesome People
, a book on pacifists, and a work on terrorism, Hostages to Fortune
. A work in this category on refugees in the modern world, Human Cargo
, was published in 2004. Moorehead has also published A Train in Winter
, a book which focuses on 230 French women of the Resistance who were sent to Auschwitz, on Convoi des 31000,
and of whom only forty-nine survived. Her book Village of Secrets'' (2014) is on a similar theme, describing a story where a wartime
French village helped 3,000 Jews to safety. Moorehead has written many book reviews for assorted papers and reviews, including
Literary Review,
The Times Literary Supplement,
Daily Telegraph,
Independent, Spectator, and
New York Review of Books. She specialized in human rights as a journalist, contributing a column first to
The Times and then the
Independent, and co-producing and writing a series of programs on human rights for
BBC Television. ==Appointments==