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.
Pictures, Words & Tangles
Jess - October 29, 2021
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Jess - September 25, 2020
THE MOTH BRIDE You think there was once a witch, but you’re not sure. Long ago, and you never met her. Somewhere back then. Some once upon …Read More
Latest Release
Birds and Ghosts is a new story by Jess Richards, published by the wonderful Linen Press and now available to buy from their website!

"This intimate story edges the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, confident in its experimental style. It is memoir in a pure, unconstrained form, brave and beautiful, moving and utterly compelling."
– Linen Press
“Birds and Ghosts blurs and transcends the borders between life and death, poetry and prose, drawing and language. Tracing the arc of grief, Richards reveals how loss opens us into a deeper truth of love."
– Diane Comer, author of The Braided River: Migration and the Personal Essay