Rozie Kelly Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Rozie Kelly is a published author of fiction.

She is based out of West Yorkshire. She read English Literature and pursued Creative Writing at Warwick University and the University of Manchester. After that she moved to Hebden Bridge where she was busy working for the Arvon Foundation serving as the host of creative writing courses.

She was longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2026 but before that, Kelly had the honor of receiving the 2024 Northbound Book Award, which was produced by New Writing North, The University of York and Saraband. In 2023, Kelly was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize 2023.

Rozie Kelly participated in the inaugural 2024 Prototype Development Programme with seven others, a scheme that is able to offer extended support and career development to 8 emerging writers and artists. The program was made possible through a partnership with Prototype Publishing and New Writing North.

Kingfisher is a 2025 novel by Rozie Kelly. If you have been keeping your eyes open for a new and original book to read, check this one out and find out why it was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

A creative writing academic starts to develop an infatuation for his colleague, a poet. But at the same time, he is also involved in a long term relationship with Michael, his partner. The obsession deepens and it is not too much longer before it starts to become a threat to his relationship.

The academic finds Michael to be beautiful and safe. But the poet also provides something that Michael does not have because she is so different, and she has so many things that he wants. The poet’s very life seems to have the type of freedom that he himself does not know if he can reach. Michael is steady, but the poet that he is working with is enchanting and luminous.

The more that he is around her, the deeper that his fixation becomes. The lines between desire, admiration and possession also start blurring. He writes about things like steel and sex, she dreams about how swallows move. He focuses on his career while she writes from a house in the woods. The poet is his Kingfisher and is pulling him further away from the life that he knows into a different world full of illusion, longing, art, and more. Soon the academic is moving between his old life and the new one, his fixation becoming more powerful this entire time.

The only focus that the academic starts to have is the poet, and he is somewhat hypnotized by her, whether it is actually her or just what she represents. When illnesses come in and his reality is threatened by them, he must question what he can take. Following along with grief, desire, power and more, this story questions when intimacy becomes obsession and so much more.

Marie Claire named it an editor’s pick and called it a ‘tenderly written meditation on art, love and life that’s as much about the search for self as for connection’. Follow along from start to finish by getting a copy of Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly.