Natasha Pulley
Natasha Pulley studied English Literature at Oxford University. After stints working at Waterstones as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University Press as a publishing assistant in the astronomy and maths departments, she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She later studied in Tokyo, where she...
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Natasha Pulley studied English Literature at Oxford University. After stints working at Waterstones as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University Press as a publishing assistant in the astronomy and maths departments, she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She later studied in Tokyo, where she lived on a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and she is now a visiting lecturer at City University. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is her first novel.
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I enjoyed 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street', but the plot lacked real stakes as far as I was concerned. There were also some other tics to the story that weren't satisfying. Pulley has delivered something spectacular this time around. Character still comes first, which I found satisfying, but th...
A gold pocket-watch left in Thaniel Steepleton's apartment saves him from an explosion several months later. Investigation leads him to Japanese watchmaker Keita Mori. How could the watch predict when the bombing would occur? With threats of more bombings looming Thaniel agrees to help Scotland Yard...
Reminiscent of a H Rider Haggard or H G Wells novel, his book deals with a pair of English explorers in Peru to bring cinchona bark to India to make quinine and prevent a malaria epidemic. They travel to "Bedlam" of the title and meet a variety of local characters as well as encountering "magical" p...
In 1883, Thaniel returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocket-watch on his pillow. When the watch saves Thaniel's life from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori – a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world of clockwork and music. Meanwhile,...
I don't know how to properly review this without getting super spoilery, so the following non-spoilery ramblings probably won't be all that helpful to anyone but me. Oh well. I'm having trouble parsing my feelings for this book. It's subtle and clever and intricately plotted, but it took too long ...
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