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Eleanor Voss

Literary fiction. Four novels. Published by Riverhead Books.

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Biography

Eleanor Voss writes novels at the intersection of historical mystery and psychological fiction. Her books have been longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and translated into fourteen languages.

Born in Glasgow, she studied history at the University of Edinburgh, where she wrote her undergraduate thesis on archival silence and disappeared records — a preoccupation that surfaces in all four of her novels. She has been a writer-in-residence at the British Library and a visiting fellow at Princeton.

She lives in Edinburgh with too many books and not enough shelf space. She writes every morning, submits to no social media, and sends a monthly letter to readers from her desk.

Bibliography

  • The Salt Archive

    2023

    A Novel · Riverhead Books · ISBN 978-1-59448-123-4

    A code hidden in shipwreck salvage. A family unraveling in real time.

  • Where Silence Accumulates

    2021

    A Novel · Riverhead Books · ISBN 978-1-59448-098-4

    Memory as evidence. The past as crime scene.

  • The Glass Inheritance

    2019

    A Novel · Riverhead Books · ISBN 978-1-59448-072-5

    Three generations of women keeping the same impossible secret.

  • Fieldnotes on Grief

    2017

    A Novel · Riverhead Books · ISBN 978-1-59448-049-7

    A debut novel written in the debris of loss.

Awards & recognition

  • Booker Prize Longlist, 2023 — The Salt Archive
  • PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, 2021 — Where Silence Accumulates
  • Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, 2017 — Fieldnotes on Grief
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist, 2019 — The Glass Inheritance

Press highlights

  • “Voss writes with the patient ruthlessness of a forensic examiner. The Salt Archive is a novel of perfect compression — every sentence load-bearing, every revelation earned.”

    — Sarah Goldblatt, The New York Times Book Review · on The Salt Archive

  • “Where Silence Accumulates confirms Voss as the inheritor of Penelope Fitzgerald's legacy: precise, pitiless, and quietly devastating. One of the finest British novels of the past decade.”

    — James Meek, The Guardian · on Where Silence Accumulates

  • “The Glass Inheritance is a masterwork of structural audacity. Voss moves across seventy years of family history without a wasted word, locating in the smallest domestic details the exact weight of inherited silence.”

    — Ann Hulbert, The Atlantic · on The Glass Inheritance

  • “A debut of devastating emotional precision. Fieldnotes on Grief is unlike anything published this year — formally inventive, intellectually rigorous, and shot through with grief so controlled it becomes a kind of beauty.”

    — Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews · on Fieldnotes on Grief

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