MitgliedAliceMcVeigh

Mix of classics and prizewinners, also plays.

Novelist and pro cellist. Londoner. Latest book "Editors Pick: outstanding" on Publishers Weekly.

First published by Orion in the late 90s (While the Music Lasts, Ghost Music, both in hardback and paperback). The first of these contemporary novels is now available from https://www.alicemcveigh.com

Feb. 2021 published by UK's Unbound Publishing, in science fiction (Last Star Standing, Kirkus-starred, using pen name Spaulding Taylor). This novel was in March 2022 one of the two runner-ups in the Independent Press Awards (Action/Adventure). It was a finalist in the International Book Awards, the Wishing Shelf Awards and Chanticleer's Cygnus Award, the Eric Hoffer book awards and won bronze in Entrada's Incipere Book Awards.

Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel was published by Warleigh Hall Press in June 2021. it was rated 10/10 on PW's BookLife Prize (quarterfinalist), won the Gold medal at the Pencraft, Global, eLit, Incipere and Historical Fiction Company Book Awards. It was selected by Shelf Unbound as one of "100 notable Indies of 2021", and has also been a finalist in the Indie Excellence, Wishing Shelf and Chanticleer's Goethe Book Awards.

Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation was Editors Pick on Publishers Weekly, with a starred review and recently the only honorable mention in General Fiction for Foreword Indies' "Book of the Year" award. It won a bronze IPPY, and was a finalist in Chanticleer's Chatelaine Book Awards, the International Book Awards, among others.

Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation, was published on 30 June 2023. Currently shortlisted (last seven) for the UK's prestigious Selfie Book Awards (fiction). Gold medallist in the Pencraft, Global and Historical Fiction Company's Book Awards.

McVeigh is also a professional cellist, playing with London orchestras including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic. Her career as a cellist inspired her two first novels (Orion/Hachette's While the Music Lasts - and its sequel - Ghost Music). She is married to Professor Simon McVeigh, with whom she shares one daughter - currently studying at Harvard - two long-haired sausage dogs, a place in Crete and an addiction to tennis.