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Gwendoline Riley

(b.1979)

Gwendoline Riley was born in Liverpool in 1979. After graduating early from Manchester University she studied on Michael Schmidt's writing course and at the age of 20 was appointed literary editor of City Life magazine. Her first novel, Cold Water, won a Betty Trask Award and she was chosen by the Guardian as one of six best first novelists in 2002.

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

April 2026

The Palm House

Novels

   Cold Water (2002)
   Sick Notes (2004)
   Joshua Spassky (2007)
   Opposed Positions (2012)
   First Love (2017)
   The Palm House (2026)

Collections

Tuesday Nights and Wednesday Mornings (2004)

Novellas and Short Stories

My Phantoms (2021)

Award nominations

	2022 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : My Phantoms
	2017 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : First Love
	2017 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : First Love
	2017 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee) : First Love
	2002 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : Cold Water

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