Natasha Pulley

Natasha Pulley is the author of six novels, most of which are historical fiction. An international bestseller, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, the Locus Awards, and remained on the Sunday Times bestseller list for much of summer 2016. The Bedlam Stacks was longlisted for the Walter Scott Award and shortlisted for the Encore Award. In 2023, The Half Life of Valery K was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

Natasha has lived in Japan as a Daiwa Scholar, as well as China and Peru. She was a 2016 Gladstone Writer in Residence. She teaches Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and tutors postgraduates at the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.