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The Kitschies Awards
To wake in a dark night and keep dreaming
The Ticks (story in progress)
Read the first four chapters of City of Circles for free!
Antony Millen’s review of City of Circles

About Jess Richards

Welcome to my website. I’m Jess Richards, the author of Snake Ropes, which was longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel award, 2012 and the Scottish Book Awards. My second novel, Cooking with Bones, was published in 2013.

Both novels are published by Sceptre, who have also published my third novel, City of Circles, in August 2017. City of Circles was shortlisted for the Kitschies Awards (novel category) in March 2018.

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The Kitschies Awards
Jess - May 2, 2018

So proud that my third novel, City of Circles, has been nominated for the red tentacle (novel) category for the Kitschies Awards. Previous winners have included Margaret Atwood, and the …Read More

To wake in a dark night and keep dreaming
August 7, 2017
The Ticks (story in progress)
August 6, 2017
Yellow Petals: The natural beauty of New Zealand
Jess - September 4, 2016

I can make new things become old friends just by looking at them for long enough. There’s the black-green feathers of a Tui as it drinks desperate nectar – its …Read More

Some days you just shouldn’t get out of bed
February 14, 2015
Fragile
February 10, 2015