Bella Bathurst (born in 1969 in London)[1] is an English writer, photojournalist, and furniture maker. Her novel The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award.[2][3]
Bathurst was born in London and presently lives in Scotland.[4][5] She lost "her hearing in her twenties and then unexpectedly regaining it twelve years later," which she explores in her 2017 book Sound.[6][7][8]
Aside from writing, Bathurst has worked as a freelance journalist, photographer, and illustrator.[1] Her writing has appeared in such publications as The Guardian,[9] The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Sunday Times, and The Washington Post.
The Lighthouse Stevensons won the 2000 Somerset Maugham Award[2][3] and was nominated for the 1999 Guardian First Book Award.[5][10] List Magazine named it one of the "100 Best Scottish Books of all time."[5] Booklist and Publishers Weekly gave the book starred reviews.[11][12]
Special was longlisted for the Orange Prize.[6]
Sound received starred reviews from Shelf Awareness.[13]