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(b.Sarah Perry was born in Essex. She gained a PhD in Creative Writing & the Gothic from Royal Holloway in 2012, having been supervised by Andrew Motion. A winner of the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize & a Royal Holloway doctoral studentship, she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library, January 2013. She is currently the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence in Prague. She has written for a number of publications including the Guardian, the Independent, Slightly Foxed and the Spectator. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and RTE 1.
Genres: Historical, Horror
Novels
Collections
Eight Ghosts (2017) (with Kate Clanchy, Stuart Evers, Mark Haddon, Andrew Michael Hurley, Max Porter, Kamila Shamsie and Jeanette Winterson)
Sarah Perry recommends
The Binding Song (2017)
Elodie Harper
"A wonderful new arrival in the 'Norfolk Noir' genre, this deliciously gripping novel casts the familiar setting of Norwich and its surroundings in a grim and haunting new light."
Almost Love (2018)
Louise O'Neill
"With a pen sharp as needles, the author unpicks the kind of obsessive love to which nobody is immune: I would challenge any reader to turn the final page without having flushed, at least once, in recognition. Her gaze is unflinching but never cruel; we are invited to examine, but never judge. O'Neill is a vital and necessary presence in contemporary literature, and we are lucky to have her."
Confessions of the Fox (2018)
Jordy Rosenberg
"Confessions of the Fox is quite simply extraordinary. Imagine if Maggie Nelson, Daphne du Maurier, and Daniel Defoe collaborated? That."
The House on Vesper Sands (2018)
Paraic O'Donnell
"The most vivid and compelling portrait of late Victorian London since The Crimson Petal and the White."
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