Natasha Katherine Pulley (born 4 December 1988) is a British author. She is best known for her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which won a Betty Trask Award.
Pulley has also been an associate lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University, a visiting lecturer at City, University of London, and a tutor in the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education (ICE).
Early life and education Pulley was born in Cambridge and educated at Soham Village College. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from New College, Oxford and then a Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia in 2012. She also earned a scholarship to study abroad in Tokyo for a year.
Works
Her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, was published in 2015 and was set in Victorian London. It won a 2016 Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks, was published in 2017, and her third, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, was released in the UK in 2019. All three are set in the same fictional universe.
Pulley's fourth book, an alternative history titled The Kingdoms, was released in May 2021, followed by her fifth book, The Half Life of Valery K, in June 2022, then her sixth book, The Mars House, on 19 March 2024, and her seventh book, The Hymn to Dionysus, on 18 March 2025. On 18 August 2026, she published her eighth book, The Salt King.
Awards Ref: YearTitleAwardCategoryResult2015The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetWaverton Good Read Award—2016Authors' Club First Novel Award—Betty Trask Prize and AwardsBetty Trask AwardCrawford Award—Gaylactic Spectrum AwardNovelLocus AwardFirst Novel2017The Bedlam StacksBooks Are My Bag Readers' AwardsFiction2018Encore Award— Walter Scott Prize—2019International Dublin Literary Award—2020The Lost Future of PepperharrowKitschiesRed Tentacle (Novel)2021The KingdomsSidewise AwardLong Form2022HWA AwardsGold Crown2023 The Half Life of Valerie K Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Published Novel 2024The Mars HouseClimate Fiction Prize—
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Watchmaker
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