Fiona Vigo Marshall was born in London and educated at Somerville College, Oxford. Her debut novel Find Me Falling, published by Fairlight Books in 2019, was shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 2020. The House of Marvellous Books is her second novel.
Her writing career started on a local newspaper in south London, after which she worked as a journalist in Mexico City. Returning to London, she pursued a career in publishing. Her short stories and poems have been nominated for numerous awards, including the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, which she won in 2016 with her short story ‘The Street of Baths’. She was also a finalist for the Reeds in the Wind International Literary Prize 2021. Her work has appeared in Prospect, Ambit, The Royal Society of Literature Review, Orbis International Literary Journal, The London Journal of Fiction and many other publications.
Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster.
With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor Drusilla focused...
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