Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| On Anxiety | 2017 | Buy |
| Trauma | 2021 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Water Cure | 2018 | Buy |
| Blue Ticket | 2020 | Buy |
| Cursed Bread | 2023 | Buy |
| Permanence | 2026 | Buy |
Sophie Mackintosh is a Welsh writer whose debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. The book, set on a remote island where a father raises his three daughters in isolation to protect them from a toxic outside world, established Mackintosh as a distinctive voice in literary and speculative fiction. Her prose is spare and atmospheric, favoring suggestion over exposition.
Her second novel, Blue Ticket (2020), imagines a society where women’s reproductive futures are determined by lottery. Cursed Bread (2023) shifted to historical territory, loosely inspired by the 1951 mass poisoning in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, and told through the eyes of a baker’s wife drawn into a mysterious affair. Permanence, due in 2026, continues her interest in relationships under pressure.
Mackintosh has also contributed to essay collections, including On Anxiety and Trauma. Her fiction consistently returns to questions about who controls women’s bodies and what freedom looks like when the rules are stripped away. She writes with a cool precision that leaves plenty of space for readers to sit with their own discomfort.