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Nathan Filer

Nathan Filer is a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He has worked as a researcher in the academic unit of psychiatry at the University of Bristol and as a mental health nurse on in-patient wards. He has written for television and radio. His Nathan Filer is a writer and lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He has worked as a researcher in the academic unit of psychiatry at the University of Bristol and as a mental health nurse on in-patient wards. He has written for television and radio. His first novel The Shock of the Fall won the 2013 Costa First Novel Award.

Awards: SoA (2014), Costa (2013) see all

Novels

The Shock of the Fall (2013)
aka Where the Moon Isn't

Non fiction show

Awards

	2014 Betty Trask Prize : The Shock of the Fall
	2013 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel : The Shock of the Fall

Award nominations

2014 Waverton Good Read Award (nominee) : The Shock of the Fall

Nathan Filer recommends

Seduction Theory (2025)
Emily Adrian
"A ferociously clever, funny and compulsive read. Seduction Theory is an absolute gift of a novel, playing with form and expectation in the most exhilarating ways. It's by far and away my favourite book of the year - and probably next year, too."

The Boyhood of Cain (2025)
Michael Amherst
"Amherst has created a young protagonist of extraordinary depth and complexity. We don't so much observe him as live him."

Only Here, Only Now (2024)
Tom Newlands
"It's not every day you read a modern classic. But this feels destined to become one. A thunderous achievement."

Moral Injuries (2024)
Christie Watson
"Moral Injuries takes the reader into a world where medicine meets morality, and every choice has a cost. With page-turning twists, it explores friendship, betrayal and the decisions that define us."

Orbital (2023)
Samantha Harvey
"Orbital is a magnificent, thunderous work and yet so brief, so fleeting. It is an elegy to planet Earth in all its splendour and fragility. Exquisitely well-written, it confirms Samantha Harvey as a singular talent."

Shy (2023)
Max Porter
"There is no other writer quite like him, is there? His consistent ability to control the intersection of form and content, his precision, inventiveness, stylistic radiance and heart. The way Max reveals Shy's fragility without so much as a hint of sentimentality is masterful. It's a book that pushes back against the reductive nature of the now ubiquitous 'trauma plot' and, in doing so, more deeply honours the complexity of its subject."

The Answer to Everything (2021)
Luke Kennard
"A funny, wry, unsettling and ultimately redemptive novel about love and narcissism, and about the versions of ourselves that technology both creates and destroys."

Exciting Times (2020)
Naoise Dolan
"Fiercely intelligent, brutally funny and written with such heart, Exciting Times announces an impressive new voice in literature."

The Island Child (2020)
Molly Aitken
"It's a rare pleasure to come across quite such an accomplished novel as The Island Child. This is a work positively brimming with pathos and emotion, articulated in truly exquisite prose. Oona is a captivating narrator. She's alive on the page."

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (2020)
Deepa Anappara
"Deepa Anappara is a writer of considerable talent. This is a wonderful, energetic book filled with humour and pathos. Charming, sensitive and deeply moving."

The Illumination of Ursula Flight (2018)
Anna-Marie Crowhurst
"This 17th century coming-of-age tale is at once subversive, moving and utterly fresh and original."

Three Things About Elsie (2017)
Joanna Cannon
"A very special book that makes us think about ourselves and others more deeply … a terrific pageturner."

Things We Have in Common (2015)
Tasha Kavanagh
"Unsettling, deeply moving and very, very readable. I loved it."

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