THE SHOW WOMAN: A beautifully evoked historical novel about the first all female circus act

Emma Cowing is an award-winning journalist and writer. She has written for a wide number of publications including The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Spectator and The Scotsman, and currently works as Associate Editor (Features) at the Scottish Daily Mail, where she pens a weekly column.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.