Elizabeth Day is a highly acclaimed author, journalist, and broadcaster from the United Kingdom. She was born in Northern Ireland and began her career as a journalist for The Derry Journal. Day's writing career has since taken her to various prestigious publications, including The Observer, The Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, New York Magazine, the Observer, Vogue, Grazia, and Elle. She is currently a columnist for You magazine on the Mail on Sunday and a contributing editor for Harper's Bazaar.
In addition to her work as a journalist, Day is an accomplished author with four novels to her name. Her debut novel, Scissors, Paper, Stone, won a Betty Trask Award in 2004. Her follow-up novel, Home Fires, was an Observer Book of the Year. Paradise City, her third novel, was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Observer and the Evening Standard and was People magazine's Book of the Week. The Party, her fourth novel, was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard and Judy Summer Book Club pick. It has also been optioned for television.
Day's writing has earned her numerous accolades, including the British Press Award for Young Journalist of the Year in 2004 and a Highly Commended recognition for Feature Writer of the Year in 2013. In addition to her work as a novelist and journalist, Day is also a broadcaster and podcaster. Her podcast, "How To Fail With Elizabeth Day," is a celebration of the things that haven't gone right and has been a massive success, earning her the Rising Star Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards.
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Scissors, Paper, Stone
2011
2
Home Fires
2013
3
Paradise City
2015
4
The Party
2017
5
Magpie
2022
6
One of Us
2025
Non-Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
How to Fail
2019
2
Failosophy
2020
3
Failosophy for Teens
2023
4
Friendaholic
2023
Short Stories/Novellas
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Collisions
2013
2
Babysitting
2014
The BBC National Short Story Award Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 (By: Helen Oyeyemi, David Constantine, Sarah Hall, Aminatta Forna, Jon McGregor)
2010
2
The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 (By: Alison MacLeod, M.J. Hyland, Jon McGregor, K.J. Orr, Sue MacGregor)
2011
3
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 (By: Miroslav Penkov, Carrie Tiffany, Deborah Levy, M.J. Hyland, Clive Anderson, Lucy Caldwell, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Julian Gough, Chris Womersley, Krys Lee, Adam Ross)
2012
4
The BBC National Short Story Award 2013 (By: Lionel Shriver, Sarah Hall, Lavinia Greenlaw, Lucy Wood)
2013
5
The BBC National Short Story Award 2014 (By: Tessa Hadley, Lionel Shriver, Zadie Smith, Rose Tremain, Francesca Rhydderch, Alan Yentob)
2014
6
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (By: Jeremy Page)
2015
7
BBC National Short Story Award 2016 (By: Hilary Mantel, Claire-Louise Bennett, Lavinia Greenlaw, Tahmima Anam, Jenni Murray, K.J. Orr)
2016
8
The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 (By: Joanna Trollope, Helen Oyeyemi, Jenni Fagan, Benjamin Markovits, Will Eaves, Cynan Jones)
2017
9
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 (By: Kerry Andrew, Sarah Hall, Ingrid Persaud, Nell Stevens, Kiare Ladner, Stig Abell)
2018
10
The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 (By: Lucy Caldwell, Jo Lloyd, Lynda Clark, Jacqueline Crooks, Nikki Bedi)
2019
11
The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 (By: Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Caleb Nelson, Jan Carson, Jack Houston)
2020
12
The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 (By: Danny Rhodes, James Runcie, Richard Smyth, Lucy Caldwell, Rory Gleeson, Georgina Harding)
2021
13
The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 (With: Kerry Andrew, Jenn Ashworth, Anna Bailey, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Saba Sams)
2022
14
The BBC National Short Story Award 2023 (By: Kamila Shamsie, Reeta Chakrabarti, Nick Mulgrew, Naomi Wood, Cherise Saywell, K Patrick)
2023
15
The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 (By: Lucy Caldwell, Ross Raisin, Will Boast, Manish Chauhan, Paddy O’Connell, Vee Walker)