Natasha Pulley

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.

Natasha Pulley
Pulley at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born	Natasha Katherine Pulley[1] (1988-12-04) 4 December 1988 (age 36) Cambridge, England
Occupation	Author
Alma mater	New College, Oxford University of East Anglia
Notable works	The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015)
Notable awards	2016 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

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

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] and her sixth, The Mars House, on 19 March 2024.^[15]

Awards

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 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	—	Pending

Bibliography

Watchmaker

• —— (2015). The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Circus. pp. 1–325. ISBN 9781408854280.
• —— (2017). The Bedlam Stacks (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury UK. pp. 1–337. ISBN 9781408878446.
• —— (2020). The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (paperback ed.). Bloomsbury Circus. pp. 1–512. ISBN 9781408885185.

Other novels

• —— (2021). The Kingdoms (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1–448. ISBN 9781635576085.
• —— (2022). The Half Life of Valery K (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1–384. ISBN 9781635573275.
• —— (2024). The Mars House (hardcover ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1–480. ISBN 9781639732333.

Collections

• ——; Macneal, Elizabeth; Hurley, Andrew; et al. (et al) (2021). The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights (hardcover ed.). Pegasus Crime. pp. 1–336. ISBN 9781643137971.
• ——; Macneal, Elizabeth; Hurley, Andrew; et al. (et al) (2023). The Winter Spirits: Twelve Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights. Little, Brown UK.