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Anna Bailey

(b.1995)

Anna Bailey was born in Bristol in 1995 and spent her childhood in Gloucestershire. She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa university and wanted to become a journalist, but ended up moving to Colorado and becoming a Starbucks barista instead. In 2018 she returned to the UK, where she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-writing course and wrote her first novel inspired by her experience of living in small-town America.

Genres: Mystery, Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

July 2026

Wasteland Girls

Novels

   Tall Bones (2021)
     aka Where the Truth Lies
   Our Last Wild Days (2025)
   Wasteland Girls (2026)

Series contributed to

BBC National Short Story Award
The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 (2022) (with others)

Award nominations

	2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Tall Bones
	2022 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (longlist) : Tall Bones
	2022 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Long Way to Come for a Sip of Water

Anna Bailey recommends

Darkrooms (2026)
Rebecca Hannigan
"A masterful, menacing debut, which neither flinches from its own integral darkness nor succumbs to it. Rebecca Hannigan is a powerful new voice in literary thriller fiction."

The Silver Bone (2024)
(Kyiv Mystery, book 1)
Andrey Kurkov
"Rich and compulsive, a modern classic in the making."

The Good Daughter (2023)
Laure Van Rensburg
"A powerful Southern Gothic thriller about the dangers of blind faith, the strength of women, and the deceptive nature of memory."

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