Victoria Gosling

VICTORIA GOSLING is a British author. In 2021, her debut novel BEFORE THE RUINS was published by Serpent’s Tail (UK) and Henry Holt (USA).It received a star in Publisher Weekly and was favourably reviewed by The New York Times, The New York Journal of Books, LitHub, and Kirkus.Her second novel BLISS AND BLUNDER was published by Serpent’s Tail in August 2023. It was a Guardian book of the day and a TLS, Grazia and Good Housekeeping summer pick.Chosen by Spotify as one of their Best Indie Fiction Audiobooks and put on their Fiction Playlist, BLISS AND BLUNDER has also been optioned for TV.Victoria is the founder of The Reader Berlin and the Berlin Writing Prize.She is the recipient of a Hawthornden fellowship and has lectured at Gladstone’s Library. She has taught workshops for major UK literary festivals, for the Arvon Foundation and in prisons as part of Penned Up.These days, she divides her time between Wiltshire and Berlin.