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Rachel Taff

A STYLE MUST-READ BOOK FOR 2026 – the intoxicating thriller about cults, true crime and toxic mothers ________________________ ‘Darkly addictive’ Katy Hays ‘Fiction with a true-crime edge’ Janice Hallett ‘Will capture capture your attention until the very end’ Monika Kim ‘A twisty, coming-of-age thriller’ Charmaine Wilkerson ‘Stands shoulder to shoulder with the best cult thrillers’ Ashley Winstead ________________________ EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH… Lucy Golden is a true-crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult. Twenty ye …

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Atlantic pre-empts debut book by winner of Working-Class Writers’ Prize Jon Doyle

14 November 2025

James Roxburgh, Fiction Publisher at Atlantic Books, has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights to Jon Doyle’s debut, Communion, from Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander. Communion will be published in hardback and export trade paperback on 2nd April 2026. Jon Doyle is a writer based in Port Talbot, South Wales. He was part of Literature Wales’ Representing Wales scheme in 2022/23, and won the Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2023. He holds a BSc and MRes in Zoology and MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea …