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 The Betty Trask Prize and Awards are for first novels written by authors under the age of 35, who reside in a current or former Commonwealth nation. Each year the awards total £20,000, with one author receiving a larger prize amount, called the ...

Education

She was educated at

Soham Village College Soham Village College is a secondary school with academy status located in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. It has around 1,400 pupils, aged 11 to 16. Although its wide catchment area does not include Ely, some pupils from there and its neighbo ...

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...

, and the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

(MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction), 2012).

Works

Her debut novel, ''The Watchmaker of Filigree Street'', was published in 2015 and was set in Victorian London. It won a 2016

. Her second novel, ''The Bedlam Stacks,'' was published in 2017, and her third, ''The Lost Future of Pepperharrow'', was released in the UK in 2019. All three are set in the same

fictional universe A fictional universe, or fictional world, is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world. It may also be called an imagined, constructed, or fictional realm (or world). Fictional universes may ...

. Pulley's fourth book, an alternative history, ''The Kingdoms'', was released in May 2021. In June 2022, her fifth book, ''The Half Life of Valery K'', came out.

Bibliography

Watchmaker

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1988 births Living people Alumni of New College, Oxford Alumni of the University of East Anglia 21st-century British novelists English fantasy writers English women novelists 21st-century English women writers {{UK-writer-stub