Hello!
I'm a London-based author and journalist. If I'm not tapping away at a keyboard, I'm probably taking something out of the oven. Or eating it.
My first novel No Such Thing As Perfect was published by Century in 2021. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Spotlight First Novel Competition. My second novel, It’s Complicated, is out now, also with Century. I studied English at the University of Cambridge a very long time ago, Creative Writing at the University of Manchester slightly more recently, and Screenwriting at Curtis Brown Creative after that. My short story ‘The Match Factory’ won The London Magazine Short Story Competition in 2016.
As a journalist I mostly cover food and travel, but I’ve also written about everything from relationship advice on Reddit to romantic comedies, running a wine marathon and applying to join MI5. I've written for the Guardian, Time Out, Waitrose Food, Country Life, the Telegraph, Wired, ES, Grazia, British Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller and lots of other places. I’m currently Country Life’s London restaurant columnist. You can read some of my work here, and have a look at my photography here.
I'm on Instagram as @emmahughes86; follow me for pictures of cakes, books and other people’s pets.
Photograph by Clara Molden