Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her writing has been awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize, an O Henry Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, and been longlisted for Ondaatje Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. She teaches on the Creative Writing Masters at Oxford University.@JollyAlice
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Bloomsbury presents The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly, read by Rosina Aichner **WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2026** From the multi-award-winning author – a beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel telling the story of a youn... SEE MORE