![]() ![]() However, it is also a splendid crime narrative of memory, compulsion and the effects of trauma.' Guardian 'Allan is best known for speculative fiction, and there is certainly an element of fantasy in this wonderfully atmospheric novel, which references schizophrenic patricidal artist Richard Dadd as well as folklore and mathematical theory. Her new novel, CONQUEST, is forthcoming from riverrun in 2023. Nina lives and works on the Isle of Bute, together with her partner the writer Christopher Priest. Her latest novel, THE GOOD NEIGHBOURS, was published by riverrun in March 2021. This was followed by THE DOLLMAKER, published by riverrun in the UK and Other Press in the US. THE RIFT , a tale of two sisters separated as teenagers and reunited in mysterious circumstances twenty years later, was published in July 2017 by Titan Books and won the British Science Fiction Award and The Kitschies Red Tentacle. She also won The Novella Award for THE HARLEQUIN. Her debut novel THE RACE, set in an alternate Britain and dealing with themes of identity and loss, was shortlisted for the Kitschies Red Tentacle and the John W. ![]() ![]() With her short fiction appearing in many magazines and anthologies, Nina’s story collection THE SILVER WIND , a meditation on time, memory and the nature of reality was awarded the Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire (France) in 2014. She studied German and Russian at Exeter University and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she completed an MLitt and monograph on madness, death and disease in the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov. ![]()
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