Sarah May is an English author. Her first book, The Nudist Colony (1999), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.[1] Her other books include Spanish City (2002), The Internationals (2003), The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia (2006), and Becky (2023). A reviewer in The Guardian wrote of Spanish City: "the world conjured into view by May's slanted approach to scene and dialogue is peculiarly charged and vivid."[2]