Will Eaves

Will Eaves was born in Bath in 1967 and educated at Beechen Cliff School and King’s College, Cambridge.

After a brief spell as an actor and several years in trade journalism, he began writing for the Times Literary Supplement in 1992 and joined the paper as its Arts Editor in 1995. He left in 2011 to become an Associate Professor in the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick.

In 2020, he judged the Goldsmiths Prize and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. In 2016, he was a Sassoon Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Library.

He has written five novels, two poetry books, and one volume of literary essays, and is represented by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Associates in Oxford.

Books in order of publication:

The Oversight. Picador.(2001)

Nothing to Be Afraid Of. Picador. (2005)

Small Hours. Brockwell Press. (2006)

Sound Houses. Carcanet Press. (2011) 

This Is Paradise. Picador. (2012)

The Absent Therapist. Penguin UK. (2015). 

The Inevitable Gift Shop. CB Editions. (2016). 

Murmur. CB Editions. (2018).