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Imogen studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Art History at UEA’s Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts before going on to work in museums. She began to write small pieces of fiction inspired by the artefacts she worked with and around, and in 2013 won the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship to study for an MA in Creative Writing at UEA.

She won the Curtis Brown Prize for her dissertation, which grew into a novel titled The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock. An early draft was a finalist in the MsLexia First Novel Competition 2015, and it was also one of three entries shortlisted for the inaugural Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers’ Award.

Imogen lives, works, and walks around south-east London – an area whose history she takes a keen interest in – and he ...more

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Imogen Hermes Gowar’s books

Average rating: 3.6 · 30,685 ratings · 4,439 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock 3.55 avg rating — 20,268 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights by Bridget Collins (Goodreads Author), Natasha Pulley, Imogen Hermes Gowar 3.58 avg rating — 7,526 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Bridget Collins (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Susan Stokes-Chapman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Imogen Hermes Gowar (Contributor) 4.06 avg rating — 1,956 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold by Daisy Johnson (Goodreads Author), Kirsty Logan (Goodreads Author), Emma Glass 3.74 avg rating — 1,474 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homeless Bodies and Other Stories by Imogen Hermes Gowar (Contributor), Andrew Michael Hurley (Contributor), Laura Purcell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.63 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	XXL-Leseprobe: Die letzte Reise der Meerjungfrau: oder wie Jonah Hancock über Nacht zum reichen Mann wurde by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Angela Koonen (Translator) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witching Hour by Bridget Collins (Goodreads Author), Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Imogen Hermes Gowar's debut novel The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock is an enchanting tale about a merchant, a prostitute, and mythical...

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There There

by Tommy Orange

10 votes, 25.6%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

6 votes, 15.4%

The Hazel Wood

by Melissa Albert

4 votes, 10.3%

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

by Imogen Hermes Gowar

4 votes, 10.3%

Freshwater

by Akwaeke Emezi

4 votes, 10.3%

The Book of Essie

by Meghan MacLean Weir

4 votes, 10.3%

The Girl Who Came Home

by Hazel Gaynor

3 votes, 7.7%

The Bat

by Jo Nesbø

3 votes, 7.7%

The Leavers

by Lisa Ko

1 vote, 2.6%

Rainbirds

by Clarissa Goenawan

0 votes, 0.0%

39 total votes

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