Nadia Attia’s debut novel Verge – a folk horror-tinged road trip across a divided, alternative Britain where people have returned to the old ways of spells and superstitions – was published by Serpent’s Tail as a lead debut in May 2023 and has been optioned for TV.

Nadia comes from a working-class background, has Egyptian-German heritage and is drawn to stories of otherness and the supernatural. She’s a BFI NETWORK Talent Executive, a published film journalist and a freelance film/TV script reader. In 2019 she was a participant on the London Writers Awards and won the FAB (Faber) prize for fiction.

Notes on Verge…

“An enthralling trip through a changed British landscape, funny and ominous by turns, digging deep into folk beliefs and the power of curses and blessings” — Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series and renowned film critic

“A propulsive and hallucinatory road trip through a fractured UK with a cursed young woman and a man full of fire. VERGE is literary folk horror of the highest calibre. A triumphant debut of huge ambition” — Eva Dolan, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Zigic and Ferreira series

“This is a road-trip novel through a dystopia which McCarthy would be proud of… Such a strange and haunting debut! Attia’s spellbinding sentences and wonderful characters draw you into a story unlike any other. This is an author to watch” — T.L. Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead