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Biographies

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Press kit (PDF)

Short biography, 50 words

Nell Garroway is the author of four novels, most recently The Weather Indoors (2025), longlisted for the Meridian Fiction Award. Her fourth novel, Tidewrack, is published by Harrow Lane Books in June 2027. She lives in Ibadan.

Long biography, 150 words

Nell Garroway grew up on the coast at Badagry, in Lagos State. Her first novel, The Salt Year (2018), was shortlisted for the Ashcombe First Novel Prize, and her second, Small Hours at the Baths (2021), won the Readers’ Choice at the Northern Book Awards.

The Weather Indoors (2025), a novel about a family sitting out a winter in a house at the edge of a cliff, was longlisted for the Meridian Fiction Award and has been sold in nine languages. Her essays and journalism appear in Saltwater Quarterly, The Northern Review and The Lantern.

Her fourth novel, Tidewrack, is published by Harrow Lane Books on 3 June 2027. She teaches a workshop on writing weather and lives in Ibadan.

Author photos

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Hi-res covers

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Fact sheet and contacts

Lives in
Ibadan, Nigeria
Novels
The Salt Year (2018), Small Hours at the Baths (2021), The Weather Indoors (2025), Tidewrack (2027)
Publisher
Harrow Lane Books: Tom Ashby, publicity@harrowlane.example
Agent
Priya Mendes, Calloway & Rook Literary: priya@callowayrook.example
Translation rights
Jonah Teale, rights@callowayrook.example
Pronunciation
GARR-oh-way
Photo credit
Anika Huizinga (replace with your photographer)

Recent interviews and coverage

  1. Interview: “The house is the first character I write”

    The Long Room podcast

  2. Feature: a paperback, a cliff and a family

    The Lantern, weekend magazine

  3. Review: The Weather Indoors

    The Northern Review