NATASHA PULLEY is the international bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The Bedlam Stacks, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, The Kingdoms, ak The Half-Life of Valery K. She has won a Betty Trask Award; been shortlisted for, among others, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize; and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize. She lives in Bristol, England. The queer sci-fi story The Mars House: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing) is her latest work.