Meet Alexandra Peel / E. V. Faulkner
Meet Alexandra Peel / E. V. Faulkner
What if literary fiction wandered into the uncanny? What if fantasy had something to say about ordinary human lives? What if science fiction wasn't really about technology at all—but about people?
That's the territory of Alexandra Peel and E. V. Faulkner.
You have learned, by now, that Peel and Faulkner are one and the same individual. Using pen names is common in the writing tradition. It enables an author to separate their different styles/genres into easy to understand brackets for readers.
This is a brief overview of what this/these writer(s) produce.
Across Rottnest, Saint Peter's Knickers, Haft and The Schimmering, the writing moves restlessly between literary fiction, horror, science fiction, fantasy, steampunk and speculative fiction. Peel's current writing also ranges into domestic gothic, supernatural horror, cosmic horror, crime and romance.
Rottnest takes an ageing music journalist to a remote Yorkshire estate where nothing is quite what it seems. Haft sends a troubled artist onto a dying planet. The Schimmering turns espionage into a doorway to dark magic. And Saint Peter's Knickers brings the focus down to the much smaller—and sometimes more frightening—world of childhood.
These aren't books that simply fit neatly into genres. They bend them.
Expect flawed people, unsettling mysteries, strange societies, dark humour, unexpected turns and a fascination with what happens when the world you thought you understood suddenly stops making sense.
If you like Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joe Abercrombie, Scott Lynch or Neil Gaiman, there's plenty here to explore—but Peel/Faulkner has a voice and imagination distinctly her own.
Come for the genre. Stay for the people. And expect the unexpected.
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