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 35) 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	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

Watchmaker

• —— (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

• —— (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

• ——; 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 978-1643137971.
• ——; Macneal, Elizabeth; Hurley, Andrew; et al. (et al) (2023). The Winter Spirits: Twelve Ghostly Tales for Festive Nights. Little, Brown UK.

References

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. "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.

External links

• Pulley's official website