Nina Allan

Nina Allan is a novelist and critic. In 2018 she was named as one of the Guardian's Fresh Voices: 50 Writers You Should Read Now. She is the recipient of the British Science Fiction Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle and the Grand Prix de L'imaginaire. In 2025 her novel The Good Neighbours was awarded the Prix Medicis Etranger. Her most recent novel is A Granite Silence (Riverrun Books) a historical true crime mystery. The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard, written together with her husband Christopher Priest, is published by Bloomsbury Continuum in 2026.