29 June 2015
Former Daiwa Scholar Natasha Pulley, interviewed about her debut novel on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
Categorised under: Books & Publications, Scholarships
You can listen to 2013 Daiwa Scholar Natasha Pulley talking with Jeremy Sallis on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire about her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street.
Sallis rightly refers to her as a “rising literary star” and asks her about the book and her time in Japan as a Daiwa Scholar.
The book is about a Japanese watchmaker who can remember the future!
You can listen to the interviewer via this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02szkhf#t=33m05s.
Natasha gave a talk at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation on 21 July 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuRWnCBBmL0 (youtube).
Natasha Pulley is one of the six 2013 Daiwa Scholars. She finished the Scholarship at the end of March 2015. Natasha read English at the University of Oxford and in 2012 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has a long-standing interest in Japan and in Japanese literature, and has recently completed her first novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. It will be published on 2 July 2015.
About The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
London, 1884. When Thaniel Steepleton comes home to find a new watch on his pillow, he has bigger things to worry about than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, where he has just received a Fenian bomb threat. But six months later, the watch saves his life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, and at last, he goes in search of its maker. He meets Keita Mori, a Japanese immigrant who remembers the future. As Mori begins to tweak daily life in Thaniel’s favour, everything seems to be going well—until physicist Grace Carrow unwittingly interferes. Soon events spiral beyond Thaniel’s control, and nothing is certain anymore…
In this assured debut, 24 year old Natasha Pulley plays with time and destiny to take the readers on an unexpected journey through Victorian London and Beyond. (And watch out for the clockwork octopus…).
Author Natasha Pulley
Publication date 2nd July 2015
Original publisher Bloomsbury (UK)
International publishers
Random House Mondadori (Spain), Random House Mondadori (Spain – Catalan)