Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her writing has been awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize, an O Henry Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, and been longlisted for Ondaatje Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize.
She teaches on the Creative Writing Masters at Oxford University.
@JollyAliceGenres: Historical
Novels
What the Eye Doesn't See (2003)
If Only You Knew (2006)
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (2018)
Between the Regions of Kindness (2019)
A Saint in Swindon (2020)
From Far Around They Saw Us Burn (2023)
The Matchbox Girl (2025)
If Only You Knew (2006)
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (2018)
Between the Regions of Kindness (2019)
A Saint in Swindon (2020)
From Far Around They Saw Us Burn (2023)
The Matchbox Girl (2025)
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Books containing stories by Alice Jolly
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Alice Jolly recommends
Aednan (2024)
Linnea Axelsson
"Lyrical and ambitious... every page offers expanses of white space, reminding the reader that this is a narrative of absence, fracture, silence, erasure. This sparse form mirrors the landscape itself: harsh, thinly populated, often snowbound... Axelsson's novel is a bold and original attempt to answer that question and to return the Sami to their rightful place in history."
The Book of Sand (2021)
Theo Clare
"A huge and brilliant and engaging read. It feels like a place I have been to rather than words on a page."
Crow Court (2021)
Andy Charman
"Inventive, original and deeply moving. There is a warmth and humanity, an acceptance of the vagaries and challenges of life."
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