Elle Machray

Elle Machray grew up in Birmingham to St Lucian and Scottish parents.

Elle is an Observer Top 10 Debut Novelist, winner of the Somewhere: For Us Culture Award and featured on The List's Top 100 influential creatives. 

Elle's debut novel, Remember, Remember, is an alternative history which reimagines the gunpowder plot. The novel follows Delphine, a formerly enslaved woman as she takes on the British Empire to save her brother.

Remember, Remember was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Prize, judged by Dame Hilary Mantel and was shortlisted for Scotland's National Book Award. Her latest book Havisham, is a queer feminist 'untelling' in which Dickens' most infamous female character tells her side of the story, at last.

You can find them on Instagram @elle.andthebooks.