Her fiction is characterized by the combination of horror with satire and includes the novels Suckers (1993), Stiff Lips (1997), The Ex (2012), [1] The Coming Thing (2017) and The Half Man (2019).
[citation needed] Granta named Billson one of the "Best Young British Novelists" in 1993.
She has written film reviews for Time Out, Tatler (1989–90), and the New Statesman & Society (1991–92).
[2] Billson has written several volumes of nonfiction, including monographs on movies such as John Carpenter's The Thing and Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In.
"[3] In 2015, she was chosen by the British Film Institute as one of “25 Female Film Critics Worth Celebrating.”[4] She has lived in London, Tokyo, Paris, Croydon and Brussels, and now lives in Antwerp.