Wasteland Girls

Anna Bailey is a Sunday Times bestselling author from Gloucestershire. Their debut novel, Tall Bones , inspired by their experiences living in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, was nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and Goldsboro Glass Bell awards, as well as the Prix Nouvelles Voix du Polar. Their short stories, based on their travels through rural America, have been dramatised for BBC Radio 4, including ''Long Way to Come For a Sip of Water'', which was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. They live in Bordeaux with their wife.>

About the author

Anna Bailey is a Sunday Times bestselling author from Gloucestershire. Their debut novel, Tall Bones, inspired by their experiences living in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, was nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and Goldsboro Glass Bell awards, as well as the Prix Nouvelles Voix du Polar. Their short stories, based on their travels through rural America, have been dramatised for BBC Radio 4, including 'Long Way to Come For a Sip of Water', which was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. They live in Bordeaux with their wife.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Bailey
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 16.07.2026
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781529962048
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-6204-8
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions (packing): 13.5 x 21.6 x 4 cm
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Narrative theme: Sense of place, United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Rural communities / rural life, Relates specifically to the life experience of women or girls