Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Bedlam Stacks | 2017 | Buy |
| The Kingdoms | 2021 | Buy |
| The Half Life of Valery K | 2022 | Buy |
| The Mars House | 2024 | Buy |
| The Hymn to Dionysus | 2025 | Buy |
| The Salt King | 2026 | Buy |
Watchmaker Of Filigree Street Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| De horlogemaker van Londen | 2015 | N/A |
| The Watchmaker of Filigree Street | 2015 | Buy |
| Le torri di vetro | 2017 | N/A |
| The Lost Future of Pepperharrow | 2020 | Buy |
Natasha Pulley studied English at Oxford and spent time living in Japan, both of which have left clear marks on her fiction. Her 2015 debut The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, set in Victorian London, won a Betty Trask Award and became a Sunday Times bestseller. The novel introduced her distinctive approach: taking real historical settings and weaving in speculative or fantastical elements that feel natural rather than forced.
Since that debut, Pulley has published a book roughly every year or two, each set in a different time and place. The Bedlam Stacks (2017) drew on her travels in Peru. The Kingdoms (2021) is an alternate history involving time travel and the Napoleonic Wars. The Half Life of Valery K (2022) takes place in a secretive Soviet nuclear city in 1963. The Mars House (2024) shifts to science fiction, telling a queer love story on a Mars colony. Each book feels distinct from the last, but Pulley’s interest in how people live under strange or oppressive systems ties them all together. Her upcoming novels, The Hymn to Dionysus (2025) and The Salt King (2026), continue that pattern with settings in ancient Thebes and an apocalyptic English salt town.