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CLIO GRAY
Winner of
Harry Bowling
Award
2004
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Winner of
Scotsman
Orange Prize
2006
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Nominated
for the Man
Booker Prize
2015
Long Listed
for the
Baileys Prize
2016
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Short Listed
for Cinnamon
Prize
2022
CLIOGRAY
AWARD WINNING AUTHOR
Clio Gray's newest novel, The Running Wolf, was published in April 2026 and is set in Greenland. It is available now directly from Sparsile Books, alongside her other recent novels Stumblestone, The Fifth Face of Fear and The Hundredth Door, with extracts and book trailers for each on this site.
Clio Gray is an award-winning author of historical crime, adventure and literary fiction, writing novels that explore the stranger corners of the past. The Anatomist's Dream was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2015 and longlisted for the Baileys Prize in 2016, following the Harry Bowling Award in 2004 and the Scotsman Orange Prize in 2006.
Her work spans four series: the Stroop historical crime novels, the Scottish Mystery series, the Bookfinder novels and the Troubadour series, alongside standalone fiction, short stories and writing for teenagers.
The full backlist is available from Sparsile Books, Waterstones, Amazon and independent bookshops.
More hints of the story...
PUBLISHED
APRIL 2026
The Running Wolf
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GREENLAND
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HERE WHERE IT STARTED,
HERE WHERE IT MUST END
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CLICK BELOW TO PLAY THE TRAILER
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30 second video
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