The opening of Emma Styles’ debut novel, No Country for Girls, published by Sphere on 21 July 2022. The highway is long and flat and arrow-straight, running into the setting sun, and that is how he gets into difficulty. That, and his too-frequent glances between the rearview mirror and the holdall on the passenger […]
Emma Styles
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles
No Country for Girls is the debut crime novel by UEA alumna Emma Styles and is published by Sphere this week. Emma grew up on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives in London, where she was born. She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2020, having previously worked […]
Emma Styles wins Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award
No Country For Girls by Emma Styles has been announced as this year’s Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction. The award, which is worth £3,000, is judged by a panel of Sphere Fiction editors and awarded to the best graduating student on the UEA MA in Crime Fiction. The inaugural winner in 2017 was Merle Nygate […]
Rigali, Styles and Wood shortlisted for Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction
Ed Wood, Publishing Director at Sphere Fiction, has announced the three titles in the running for this year’s Little, Brown Award for Crime Fiction. They are An Off-Cut Murder by Amanda Rigali, No Country For Girls by Emma Styles, and Holloway by Lucy Wood. The award, which is worth £3,000 to the winner, is judged […]
No Country for Girls
An extract from Emma’s MA novel. Corellas It’s two a.m. and I am driving. Charlie/Charlize kicked off about this. She reminded me I crashed my car and am a liability. Says she’s seventeen and has her licence but she’s so small I find this hard to believe. She’s a liability herself. She’s been jumpy since […]
