Natasha Pulley | |
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![]() Pulley at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
Born | Natasha Katherine Pulley [1] 4 December 1988 Cambridge, England |
Occupation | Author |
Alma mater | |
Notable works | The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) |
Notable awards | 2016 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]
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]
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 titled The Kingdoms, was released in May 2021, [13] followed by her fifth book, The Half Life of Valery K, in June 2022, [14] then her sixth book, The Mars House, on 19 March 2024, [15] and her seventh book, The Hymn to Dionysus, on 18 March 2025. [16]
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 and Awards | Betty Trask Award | 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 | ||
2024 | The Mars House | Climate Fiction Prize | — | Longlisted |