Saint in Swindon

Alice Jolly's most recent novel 'Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile' was published in 2018 by Unbound. It was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize, was on the longlist for the Ondaatje Prize and was also selected as a Walter Scott Prize recommended novel. Alice has also won the Pen Ackerley Prize for her memoir and the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for one of her short stories. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University.

'An insight into a fascinating and inspiring world of reading!' -Debbie Hicks MBE Creative Director, The Reading Agency'This novella is suited to our fevered times' -The Spectator'An entertaining, yet profound meditation on the replenishment and complications of reading in dystopia' -Diana Evans, author of Ordinary People'A story that offers plenty to think, talk and even smile about' -Matt Holland, Director, Swindon Festival of Literature