'Jill Dawson’s novel Wild Boy skilfully balances and toys with our concepts of good and evil, of natural innocence or of knowing wickedness. '
- New Image Magazine
Gas & Air an anthology of stories on pregnancy, childbirth and babies. Co-edited with Margo Daly and includes stories by Peter Carey, Polly Samson and Emily Perkins. Published by Bloomsbury, August 2002.
'I love its variety, depth and honesty, and I'm sure that it can help women going through the birth experience acknowledge and accept their own intense feelings.' - Sheila Kitzinger
Fred & Edie
novel, published by Sceptre August 2000. Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Orange Prize. Long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC award.
'A captivating account of a strangely impassioned, and compelling, love affair.'
- Caryl Phillips
Wild Ways
an anthology of stories of women on the road. Co-edited with Margo Daly. Includes stories by Ali Smith, Louise Doughty and Leone Ross amongst others.
'These tales reach beyond their remit of women on the road. Great for dipping into.'
- The Guardian
The Virago Book of Love Letters
anthology of letters by women writers such as Simone De Beauvoir, Anne Stevenson, Anne Boleyn, and two by Edith Thompson, the subject of Dawson’ novel, Fred & Edie.
'Jill Dawson has snipped the pink ribbons on a bushel of vintage love letters and exposed their secret folds to the light.'
- Daily Express
White Fish with Painted Nails poetry pamphlet. Published by Slow Dancer Press, 1994.
'Confidently launches and swims into surprising landscapes...Jill Dawson uses bold and evocative images which convey much of the duality I believe she expresses with her title.'
- Jennie Fontana The North
How Do I Look? non-fiction book on self-image, eating disorders. Published by Virago teenage imprint, Upstarts in 1990. Includes introduction where the author describes her own recovery from an eating disorder. Now out of print
School Tales
anthology of short stories by young women writers. Published by The Women’s Press teenage imprint Livewire. Includes stories by Malorie Blackman and Joanna Briscoe.
