Nell Stevens

About The Author

Nell Stevens writes memoir and fiction. Her debut novel, Briefly, a Delicious Life was longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Award. She is also the author of Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me, which won the 2019 Somerset Maugham Award. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018. Her writing is published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, New York Review of Books, Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. Nell is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick.

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Books by Nell Stevens

The Good Time

By Nell Stevens

‘But we were having such a good time,’ I said. That was all there was, all I could say, whether or not it was enough. ‘Weren’t we? Weren’t we having such a good time?’The first collection of short stories from the author of The OriginalA woman suffering an extreme allergic reaction to a yoga mat ...

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The Original

'Puts Stevens in the class of Sarah Waters and even du Maurier herself' Financial Times

By Nell Stevens

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize 2026
A Finalist in the Nota Bene Prize 2026

‘Casually magisterial’ Guardian

'Endlessly intriguing' Observer

‘A marvel of a novel’ Ali Smith

‘Jane Eyre by way...

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