Elinor Brown is a graduate of the Glasgow University Creative Writing MLitt. Shortlisted for the 2010 Sceptre Prize, her novel, The Recklessness of Water, is a mystery set in Sardinia. A young English woman moves to a claustrophobic village on the coast and becomes obsessed with the disappearance of a local girl.

Elinor’s short stories have appeared in anthologies by Freight (Let’s Pretend) Pulp Faction (Allnighter) and Egmont Press (Love from Dad, Would you Believe It?). She is also co-editor of the Brown Williams Journal.

Warned off a career in publishing at an early age by her mother (a fiction editor) Elinor has been skirting round the industry ever since. She has worked in drama development for film and tv, as a publisher’s reader, a rare book cataloguer and as editor of several websites. She has always written for a living.