Isabel Ashdown

Isabel Ashdown
Isabel Ashdown 2014

Isabel Ashdown (born 1970) is a British writer of contemporary fiction.

Biography

Isabel Ashdown was born in London and grew up in East Wittering on the south coast of England. She is the author of five novels, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and a member of the Society of Authors. In 2014 she was Writer in Residence at the University of Brighton.

An extract from her debut novel Glasshopper won The Mail on Sunday Novel Competition judged by Fay Weldon and the late Sir John Mortimer, going on to be named as one of the best books of 2009 in the London Evening Standard.[1]

She went on to release a further three novels with Myriad Editions[2] before more recently signing with Trapeze Books, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group. Her latest novel Little Sister (2017) sees the author move into the territory of psychological thriller.

In 2014 her essay Voice and the Inescapable Complexity of Experience was published in Karen Steven's academic anthology Writing a First Novel (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

Isabel Ashdown is represented by The Viney Agency, London.[3]

Novels

YearTitlePublisherNotes
2018Beautiful FriendsTrapeze/Orion(out April 2018)
2017Little SisterTrapeze/Orion(out April 2017)

Translations: USA, Germany, France, Italy, Poland

2015FlightMyriad
2013Summer of '76Myriad
2011Hurry Up and WaitMyriadTranslations: Germany
2009GlasshopperMyriadTranslations: Germany

Notes

  1. ↑ Nicolson, Juliet. "The best books of the year". Evening Standard. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
  2. ↑ Isabel Ashdown page, Myriad Editions.
  3. ↑ Isabel Ashdown at The Viney Agency.
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