Edward Parnell

Edward Parnell is the author of the narrative non-fiction 'Ghostland' (Harper Collins), shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley 2020 Award for memoir. He currently lives just outside Edinburgh and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He has been the recipient of an Escalator Award from the National Centre for Writing and a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. 'The Listeners' (2014) was his first novel, and was the winner of the Rethink New Novels Prize. 'Eerie East Anglia: Fearful Tales of Field and Fen' (2024) is the first anthology of ghost stories that he's edited for the British Library's 'Tales of the Weird' series.