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Natasha Brown

Biography

Natasha Brown

Natasha Brown is a British novelist. Her debut novel, ASSEMBLY, was shortlisted for awards including the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Orwell Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, UNIVERSALITY, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and longlisted for the Prix Femina, the Prix Médicis and the Booker Prize. Natasha’s books have been translated into 20 languages.

Natasha was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023 and one of the Observer’s Best Debut Novelists in 2021. She is the Chair of the International Booker Prize 2026 judges.

Natasha Brown

Books by Natasha Brown

Universality
by Natasha Brown - Fiction

Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic newspaper columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers.

Assembly
by Natasha Brown - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. The narrator of ASSEMBLY is a Black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: Is it time to take it all apart?