Emma Cowing
author|editor|writer
Emma Cowing is an award-winning Scottish journalist and author. In a nearly 30 year career she has written for publications including The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The Scottish Daily Mail. She is the author of two novels, THE SHOW WOMAN, and the forthcoming THE PLEASURE PALACE.
Books
Emma’s debut novel, THE SHOW WOMAN, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2025 and named one of the best debuts of the year by Stylist. Her second novel, THE PLEASURE PALACE, will be published in January 2027.
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“Emma Cowing not only writes beautifully, but she pulls the rug from beneath the reader again and again with both confidence and skill.”
Joanna Miller, author of The Eights“As well as being often enchanting, and presenting a vanished world and way of life, this is also a novel that tells a compelling and well-devised, often surprising story”
The Scotsman“This gorgeously written novel about four very different women is compulsive, heart-breaking and like nothing else. .”
Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country“Sequins and spite collide in this gorgeous novel.”
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