Almost a Ghost Story

Emily Bullock won the Bristol Short Story Prize with her story ‘My Girl’, which was also broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her short stories have been included in collections such as Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, A Short Affair (Scribner, 2018), and Bath Short Story Prize Anthology. She has an MA in 19th Century Literature from King’s College London, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and completed her PhD at the Open University, where she is a Staff Tutor in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, The Longest Fight, was shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Awards and listed in The Independent’s Paperbacks of the Year. Inside, the Beautiful Inside was a Sunday Times Book of the Month

Praise for Emily Bullock:Startlingly original and poetic—Bullock combines horror and brutality with unexpected moments of tenderness.– ObserverThe voice she gives to Norris as memories and delusions meld in his disintegrating mind is a haunting one.– Nick Rennison, Sunday Times, Historical Novels of the Month