Isabel Ashdown

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

Isabel Ashdown
Isabel Ashdown 2014

Biography

Isabel Ashdown was born in London and grew up in East Wittering on the south coast of England. She is the author of seven 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 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 Shaw Agency, London.[3]

Novels
YearTitlePublisherNotes
2018Beautiful LiarsTrapeze/OrionTranslations: USA, Netherlands
2017Little SisterTrapeze/OrionTranslations: USA, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Greece, Poland
2015FlightMyriad
2013Summer of '76Myriad
2011Hurry Up and WaitMyriadTranslations: Germany
2009GlasshopperMyriadTranslations: Germany
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gollark: You should have said so.
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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 Archived 17 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine at The Viney Agency.
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