Honey

The blistering thriller taking the literary world by storm VOGUE

A FEARNE COTTON HAPPY PLACE BOOKCLUB PICK
A SPOTIFY BEST DEBUT OF 2026

Yrsa knows what’s right and wrong. She’s a high achiever. A woman with standards.
She’s also bored. Tired of her PhD. The world’s everyday injustices. The endless disappointments of men.
Then one impulsive act leaves a man dead. And suddenly, Yrsa feels alive.
Comic, sexy, addictive, unpredictable, Honey is about the not-always-righteous path of taking justice into your own hands.
The essential next read for fans of Butter, Yesteryear, My Sister the Serial Killer, Fundamentally or Boy Parts.

‘Honey is a Trojan horse: a commercial thriller that folds in race and feminist theory. Sassy and pacey, it nods to Promising Young Woman and RF Kuang’s Yellowface’ PANDORA SYKES, SUNDAY TIMES STYLE

‘The best kind of campus novel, satirical and razor-sharp, crossed with a crime story’ GUARDIANTantalising FEARNE COTTON
Its just so clever LOUISE ONEILL
Impossible to predict ERIN KELLY

‘A beautiful, relentless novel’ ABIGAIL DEANWow, basically HARRIET TYCE
Worryingly relatable SOPHIE DUKER
These characters and Thompson’s dark wit will stick with you long after you read’ CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS

‘Yrsa serves up the unhinged hot girl homicide I didn’t know I needed’ SOPHIE DUKER
‘Juicy, dark, addictive, and truly clever. Yrsa is the antihero weve been waiting for’ SILVIA SAUNDERS
A marvel of a novel, a story that breathes beyond its pages ORE AGBAJE-WILLIAMS
A twisted comeuppance story … Wow. Think Fleabag KIRKUS
The hotly-anticipated debut … a dark tale which throws light on the intersections between politics, race, sex, violence and love through the eyes of a female serial killer MARIE CLAIRE
Dark, thrilling and undeniably hot GLAMOUR
Brilliant SERVICE95
Sexy, scary, this debut became compulsive reading for me BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Thompson writes with wit and precision IRISH TIMES
Imani is a writer to watch and Honey is the entertaining (and quietly damning) read youll need to kick off spring ELLE