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Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley teaches literature and creative writing at Bath Spa University College and lives in Cardiff. Her first novel, Accidents in the Home, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

October 2024

The Party

Novels

   Accidents in the Home (2002)
   Everything Will Be All Right (2003)
   The Master Bedroom (2007)
   The London Train (2011)
   Clever Girl (2013)
   The Past (2015)
   Late in the Day (2019)
   Free Love (2022)

Collections

   Sunstroke and Other Stories (2007)
   Married Love (2012)
   Bad Dreams (2017)
   Reverse Engineering II (2022) (with others)
   After the Funeral (2023)

Novellas and Short Stories

My Mother's Wedding (2016)
The Party (2024)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Tessa Hadley

The Book of Bristol (2023)
A City in Short Fiction
(Reading the City)
edited by
Heather Marks and Joe Melia

The Best Short Stories 2021 (2021)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019 (2019)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Laura Furman

More books

Award nominations

2014 BBC National Short Story Prize (nominee) : Bad Dreams

Tessa Hadley recommends

How to Be Somebody Else (2024)
Miranda Pountney
"Unsettling and original."

Mother's Boy (2022)
Patrick Gale
"A lovely, generous, absorbing novel. Charles is made both 'of' and belonging to his place and world, while also not fitting into it. The war sections are so very good, so terrible and ugly and gritty. I absolutely believed all of it."

Skinship (2021)
Yoon Choi
"Lovely stories, such a good writer, everything so delicately made but robust and unsentimental too."