Natasha Pulley | |
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![]() Pulley at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
Born | December 4, 1988 |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | New College, Oxford University of East Anglia |
Notable works | The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) |
Notable awards | 2016 Betty Trask Award |
Natasha 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.
She was educated at Soham Village College, New College, Oxford, and the University of East Anglia (MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), 2012). [1] [2] [3]
Her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, was published in 2015 [4] and was set in Victorian London. [5] It won a 2016 Betty Trask Award. [6] Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks, was published in 2017, [7] and her third, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, was released in the UK in 2019. [8] All three are set in the same fictional universe. [9]
Pulley's fourth book, an alternative history, The Kingdoms, was released in May 2021. [10] In June 2022, her fifth book, The Half Life of Valery K, came out; [11] The Mars House on 19 March 2024. [12]
Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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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 |