Mrs Edwards has been a teacher of English GCSE, A Level Literature and A Level Classics at Ysgol Eirias for over 15 years. The release of her debut novel comes after a long process of research and further education during an MA at Manchester University and a PhD at Bangor University.

Mrs Edwards is a PhD candidate at the University of Bangor and teaches English and Classics in a school in North Wales. Nicola has worked as a journalist and has lectured on race and representation in the media for Race Council Wales. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in Wales Arts Review.

This Thing of Darkness, her first novel, won the Michael Schmidt Prize at the Manchester Writing School

For more information: www.nicolaedwards.co.uk

To pre-order her debut novel: This Thing of Darkness by Nicola Edwards | Waterstones