Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Three Rooms | 2021 | Buy |
| The Hypocrite | 2024 | Buy |
Jo Hamya is a British novelist born in 1997 in East London to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father. She studied at King’s College London and the University of Oxford. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Guardian, and she co-hosted the Booker Prize Podcast.
Her debut novel, Three Rooms, came out in 2021 and follows a young woman through a year of precarious living in post-Brexit Britain, moving between a rented room in Oxford, a stranger’s sofa in London, and her childhood bedroom. The Hypocrite, published in 2024, takes a different approach. It unfolds over a single afternoon at a theater, where a woman’s father attends a matinee of her play without knowing it is about him. The Hypocrite was shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards. Both books are short, tightly constructed, and interested in the gap between how people see themselves and how they actually behave.