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Natasha Pulley

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Natasha Pulley
Pulley at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Pulley at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
BornNatasha Katherine Pulley[1]
(1988-12-04) 4 December 1988 (age 35)
Cambridge, England
OccupationAuthor
Alma mater
Notable worksThe Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015)
Notable awards2016 Betty Trask Award

Natasha Katherine Pulley (born 4 December 1988) is a British author. She is best known for her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which won a Betty Trask Award.

Pulley has also been an associate lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University, a visiting lecturer at City, University of London, and a tutor in the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education (ICE).[2]

Early life and education

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Pulley was born in Cambridge[3] and educated at Soham Village College. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from New College, Oxford and then a Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia in 2012.[4][5][6] She also earned a scholarship to study abroad in Tokyo for a year.[3]

Works

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Her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, was published in 2015[7] and was set in Victorian London.[8] It won a 2016 Betty Trask Award.[9] Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks, was published in 2017,[10] and her third, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, was released in the UK in 2019.[11] All three are set in the same fictional universe.[12]

Pulley's fourth book, an alternative history, The Kingdoms, was released in May 2021.[13] In June 2022, her fifth book, The Half Life of Valery K, came out;[14] The Mars House on 19 March 2024.[15]

Awards

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Ref: [16][17][18]

Year Title Award Category Result Ref
2015 The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Waverton Good Read Award Longlisted
2016 Authors' Club First Novel Award Shortlisted
Betty Trask Prize Betty Trask Award (runners up) Won
Crawford Award Shortlisted
Gaylactic Spectrum Award Novel Shortlisted
Locus Award First Novel Nominated—5th
2017 The Bedlam Stacks Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards Fiction Shortlisted
2018 Encore Award Shortlisted
Walter Scott Prize Longlisted
2019 International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted
2020 The Lost Future of Pepperharrow Kitschies Red Tentacle (Novel) Shortlisted
2021 The Kingdoms Sidewise Award Long Form Shortlisted
2022 HWA Crown Awards Gold Shortlisted

Bibliography

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Watchmaker

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  • —— (2015). The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Circus. pp. 1–325. ISBN 978-1408854280.
  • —— (2017). The Bedlam Stacks (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury UK. pp. 1–337. ISBN 978-1408878446.
  • —— (2020). The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (paperback ed.). Bloomsbury Circus. pp. 1–512. ISBN 978-1408885185.

Other novels

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  • —— (2021). The Kingdoms (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1–448. ISBN 978-1635576085.
  • —— (2022). The Half Life of Valery K (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1–384. ISBN 978-1635573275.
  • —— (2024). The Mars House (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1–480. ISBN 978-1639732333.

Collections

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References

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  1. ^ "Natasha Katherine Pulley". Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  2. ^ Owen, Frances (13 March 2023). "Historia interviews: 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award shortlist: Natasha Pulley". Historia. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Fiction skills: Capturing time and place with Natasha Pulley". The Guardian. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
  4. ^ Cliss, Sarah. "Natasha holds author's event at Ely and meets up with some familiar faces". Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Natasha Pulley Author Page". Foyles. Foyles. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  6. ^ "Natasha Pulley". Bloomsbury.
  7. ^ Wecker, Helene (31 July 2015). "'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street,' by Natasha Pulley". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  8. ^ Times, Los Angeles (10 July 2015). "'Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is a magical tale of Victorian London". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
  9. ^ "Prizes - The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  10. ^ Wheeler, Sara (15 September 2017). "A 19th-Century Smuggler in the Peruvian Andes". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  11. ^ Pulley, Natasha (2019). The Lost Future of Pepperharrow. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-63557-330-5. OCLC 1042353069.
  12. ^ Codega, Linda H. (19 February 2020). "Peering Into The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley". Tor.com. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  13. ^ "The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup". the Guardian. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  14. ^ Pulley, Natasha (22 June 2022). "Natasha Pulley on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  15. ^ "The Mars House". Gollancz. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  16. ^ "sfadb : Natasha Pulley Titles". sfadb.com. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  17. ^ "Natasha Pulley | Author | LibraryThing". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  18. ^ "Award Bibliography: Natasha Pulley". www.isfdb.org. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
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