Emma Cowing

Emma Cowing is an award-winning journalist and writer. She has written for a wide number of publications including The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Guardian Weekend Magazine, Spectator and Scotsman.

Emma is a former Feature Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards, and two-time Interviewer of the Year. She holds an Ochberg Fellowship in Journalism and Trauma at Columbia Journalism School in New York, for her work covering the war in Afghanistan, and its aftermath.

Emma was shortlisted for the 2023 Cheshire Novel Prize, and longlisted for the 2023 Bath Novel Award and Blue Pencil First Novel Award. The Show Woman is her first novel.

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  • Glass Bell Award - SHORTLIST 2026

    Glass Bell Award - SHORTLIST 2026

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Goldsboro Books is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Glass Bell Award, celebrating six exceptional novels chosen from a long list of twelve outstanding books. This year's shortlist...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Glass Bell Award - SHORTLIST 2026

    Goldsboro Books is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Glass Bell Award, celebrating six exceptional novels chosen from a long list of twelve outstanding books. This year's shortlist...

  • Fresh Ink: November 2026 Revealed

    Fresh Ink: November 2026 Revealed

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Why We Chose Hope House by Joe Bond for Fresh Ink, November 2026 “A rare, brilliant, generous, bighearted book that mines hope from the darkest and most difficult human experiences.”—...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    Fresh Ink: November 2026 Revealed

    Why We Chose Hope House by Joe Bond for Fresh Ink, November 2026 “A rare, brilliant, generous, bighearted book that mines hope from the darkest and most difficult human experiences.”—...

  • PREM1ER: November 2026 Revealed

    PREM1ER: November 2026 Revealed

    Rebecca McDonnell

    For November 2026, we wanted to choose a novel that would bring something completely different to the PREM1ER collection: witty, original, wonderfully eccentric and utterly absorbing. Peck & Peck by...

    Rebecca McDonnell

    PREM1ER: November 2026 Revealed

    For November 2026, we wanted to choose a novel that would bring something completely different to the PREM1ER collection: witty, original, wonderfully eccentric and utterly absorbing. Peck & Peck by...

  • New Doors, New Readers, the Same Goldsboro

    New Doors, New Readers, the Same Goldsboro

    David H Headley

    On 27 August, I will be in Kuala Lumpur with Daniel to officially open Goldsboro Books’ first international shop. Even now, writing those words feels extraordinary. Goldsboro has travelled a...

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    David H Headley

    New Doors, New Readers, the Same Goldsboro

    On 27 August, I will be in Kuala Lumpur with Daniel to officially open Goldsboro Books’ first international shop. Even now, writing those words feels extraordinary. Goldsboro has travelled a...

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