Megan Hunter was born in Manchester in 1984, and now lives in Cambridge with her young family. She has a BA in English Literature from Sussex University, and an MPhil in English Literature: Criticism and Culture from Jesus College, Cambridge. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and she was a finalist for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award with her short story Selfing.
Venus, Vanishing (2026) Rebecca Birrell "This book offers us a radiant vision of art against evil, of the endurance of love, ambition and vitality amidst the worst of atrocities and betrayal. A bold, moving novel."
Private Rites (2024) Julia Armfield "A book of extraordinary sentences, set in end-times which feel bleakly real yet pulse with a tireless, tangible force of love."
Cat Brushing (2022) Jane Campbell "I loved these fresh, wry, strange stories; by turns moving and unnerving, they disturb expectations of the longings, loves and ambitions of older women."
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (2022) Maddie Mortimer "Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a beautiful novel about death that feels completely alive, pulsing with tenderness and wit."
Violets (2022) Alex Hyde "Moving, graceful... Violets has a compelling, quiet power all the way to its exquisitely affecting end."
The Fell (2021) Sarah Moss "A masterfully tense, deeply empathetic novel about lives stilled and re-examined, and the uncertainty and danger of the world that surrounds them. I was completely riveted by the central questions of its narrative, and by its tender, insightful exploration of the times we are living through."
A Lonely Man (2021) Chris Power "I loved this taut, graceful literary thriller, in which domesticity is as riveting as the threat of criminal entanglement. In A Lonely Man, family life-and love-is the beating heart of the story, creating an absorbing, menacing interplay between home, ambition and (self-) deception."
Bright Burning Things (2021) Lisa Harding "A novel of extraordinary intimacy and vividness, a uniquely disquieting account of a mind sinking into the depths and rising again, full of such powerful love and fear."
The Appointment (2020) Katharina Volckmer "The Appointment is darkly hilarious, moving and original. Its vibrant, incisive voice surprises and enlivens the reader on every page."
Miss Iceland (2020) Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir "A potent, atmospheric story of creative frustration and fulfilment. I loved the wry, tender voice of Ólafsdóttir's narrator. I'm now going to read all of her other novels."
Indelicacy (2020) Amina Cain "I read it slowly, in a kind of reverie, wanting to savour every page… A completely absorbing, luminous account of a woman inhabiting her life and creativity."
