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Julia Gray is the author of three novels for young adults, published by Andersen Press. Her Norse-mythology-influenced novel The Otherlife (2016) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Little Liar (2018), a tale of friendship, performance and the dangers of telling lies, was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for Best YA Novel at Crimefest 2019. I, Ada (2020) explores the tumultuous teenage years of Ada Lovelace, inventor of the machine algorithm. It was shortlisted for the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction. To accompany the publication of the book, Julia co-produced and presented a podcast series called On the rADAr, in which she interviewed women in the fields of maths and science.

As a singer-songwriter, Julia has released six albums; her most recent EP, Songs for Nora Tobias, was released as a companion piece to her novel Little Liar.

Julia lives in south Oxfordshire with her husband, son and dog. She also writes for the publisher Wonderbly.

Recent things

New podcast interviews on Soundcloud

I’ve recently been doing some incredibly fun interviews which are now up on Soundcloud. Here’s me chatting to Simon Bailey from Kent Libraries (we even get to talk about Metallica!) And here is an interview for the brilliant Booklings Chat, organised by Glenthorne Library. I always love talking about Ada Lovelace, writing, research and anything… Read more »

BookTrust Piece

It was a huge pleasure to write an article for BookTrust about writing I, ADA and why we need stories about women in STEM.    

‘In the Reading Corner’ podcast

It was a huge pleasure to talk to Nikki Gamble for her In the Reading Corner podcast – a podcast for teachers, student teachers and librarians. We chatted about why I wrote I, ADA; what I learned about Ada and her mother while researching the book; and whether I envisage ever writing music based on… Read more »