The Mistress of Nothing

Novel (paperback), WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD FOR FICTION 2009, McArthur & Co (Can), Serpent’s Tail (UK

‘A highly sensual evocation of place and time, Kate Pullinger’s The Mistress of Nothing is a journey down the Nile that explores the subtle complexities of power, race, class and love during the Victorian era. The book, narrated by the character of the maid, Sally Naldrett, has one of the most distinctive and memorable voices in recent literature.’
– GG Jury citation

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A Little Stranger

Novel (paperback), Five Star, 2007; Serpent’s Tail, 2006; McArthur & Company, 2004

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Weird Sister

Novel, Phoenix House/Phoenix, 1999

‘Not unlike Daphne de Maurier retold by Margaret Atwood… Pullinger’s most thrilling novel to date.’
-Times Literary Supplement

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My Life as a Girl in a Men’s Prison

Short stories, Phoenix House/Phoenix, 1997

‘Pullinger isn’t afraid of looking at anything. These stories are deft, honest and compelling.’
-Independent

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The Last Time I Saw Jane

Novel, Phoenix House/Phoenix, 1996

‘Her contemporary tale… is entirely successful and beautifully drawn.’
- Midweek

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Where Does Kissing End?

Novel, Serpent’s Tail/Phoenix, 1992

‘Precise, compelling, Kate Pullinger takes the metaphor of vampirism and explores its every crevice, to produce a very sexy depiction of amour fou.’

also available in French and German editions

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The Piano

Co-writer with Jane Campion, novel of the film, Bloomsbury, 1994

available in numerous editions and translations

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When the Monster Dies

Novel, Cape/Picador, 1989

‘An intelligent book, finely placed and well written.’
- The Listener
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also available in Swedish

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Tiny Lies

Short stories, Cape/Picador, 1988

‘Pullinger writes with a sardonic humour that had me laughing out loud.’
- Cosmopolitan

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Forcibly Bewitched

short stories

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Waving at the Gardener: The Asham Award Short Story Collection

edited by Kate Pullinger

Bloomsbury, 2009

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Is This What You Want?

The Asham Award Short-story Collection ~ short stories, Bloomsbury, 2007

A dazzling, witty and richly varied collection of short stories, which includes contributions by Patricia Duncker, Rachel Cusk, Tessa Hadley, Emily Perkins, Nancy Lee and Kate Pullinger - as well as the twelve brand-new voices of those shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Award 2007. The Asham Award was launched in 1996 to support and encourage new writers, and is Britain’s only prize for short stories by women.

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Don’t Know A Good Thing:  Prize Winning Stories by Women

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Shoe Fly Baby

Anthology of prize winning stories from the Asham Trust Award, Bloomsbury, 2004.

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Harlot Red

Anthology of prize winning stories from the Asham Trust Award, story by Kate Pullinger, ‘Fur Coats’. Serpent’s Tail

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The Writer’s Drawing Book

co-edited with Julian Rothenstein

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Border Lines: Stories of Exile & Home

Stories of exile and home, Serpent’s Tail, 1994

The Gambling Box

compendium

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The Writer’s Notebook

co-edited with Julian Rothenstein

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Punk Fiction: An Anthology Of Short Stories Inspired By Punk

Portico Books, 2009

Edited by Janine Bullman. Proceeds go to the Teenage Cancer Trust. Includes story ‘Public Image Ltd’ by Kate Pullinger.

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Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction Inspired by the Smiths

Anthology of short stories (paperback), Serpent’s Tail, 2009

Includes story ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’ by Kate Pullinger.

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How Maxine Learned to Love Her Legs

Short stories, edited by Sarah Lefanu

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Amazonian

Travel writing by women, edited by Dea Birkett and Sara Wheeler

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How To Write Fiction

in How to Write

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‘My Mother, My Father and Me’

in A New Book of Contemporary British Short Stories (Oxford/Moscow:  Perspective Publications, 2005)

‘At Home with George Clooney and Jodie Foster’

in The Mechanic’s Institute Review, Issue no. 3  

‘My Mother, My Father and Me’

in How Maxine Learned to Love Her Legs, and other takes of growing up ed. Sarah Lefanu

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‘Confessions of a Girl, Part One:  The Father’

in High Risk 2: Writings on Sex, Death, and Subversion ed. Scholder, Amy and Silverber, Ira

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‘Dear All’

in Bad Sex, ed. John Hoyland

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‘A Kind of Desired Invasion’

in So Very English, ed. Marsha Rowe

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‘A Prosaic But Punishable Offence’

in Colours of a New Day:  Writing for South Africa, ed. Sarah Lefanu and Stephen Hayward

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‘The Dinosaurs of Love’

in Storia 3: Consequences, (London:  Pandora Press/Unwin Hyman, 1989)

‘Celia and the Bicycle’ in Storia 1

(London: Pandora Press/Unwin Hyman, 1988)

‘A Modern Gothic Morality Tale’

in Sex & The City ed. Rowe, Marsha (London:  Serpent’s Tail, 1989)

‘The Good Ferry’

in Amazonian: the Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing ed. Birkett, Dea, and Wheeler, Sara (London:  Penguin Books 1998)

‘Hitching Through the Yukon’, in Half the Earth: Women’s Experiences of Travel Worldwide

ed. Jansz, Natania; Davies, Miranda; Longrigg, Laura; Montefiore, Lucinda, (London:  Pandora Press/Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986)

reprinted in Women Travel:  First-hand accounts from more than 60 countries (London:  Rough Guides, Ltd,. Penguin Books, 1995) and in More Women Travel:  First-hand accounts from more than 60 countries (London:  Rough Guides, Ltd,. Penguin Books, 1999)

The Book My Mother Can’t Read’ in Brought to Book:  The balance of books and life

ed. Breakwell, Ian, and Hammond, Paul (London:  Penguin, 1994)

‘Drive-In’ in Seeing in the Dark: A Compendium of Cinemagoing

ed. Breakwell, Ian, and Hammond, Paul (London:  Serpent’s Tail, 1990)

‘Small Town:  Pigeon Fancy’

in Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing ed. McLeod, John, Vol XXI Number 2, 1999

‘The Visits Room’

in Tank, Issue #2, 1998

‘The Visits Room’

in Gargoyle, ed Peabody, Richard M, Number 39/40 (Washington:  Paycock Press, 1997)

Pullinger, Kate, ‘Digital Fiction:  From the Page to the Screen’

in Transdisciplinary Digital Art:  Sound, Vision and the New Screen (Berlin Heidelberg New York:  Springer, 2008) 

Pullinger, Kate,  et al: Transliteracy as a Unifying Perspective

in Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies, (London:  Information Science Refernce, 2009)