Silver, Josh – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:38:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Silver, Josh – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Traumaland https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/traumaland/ Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=48096 The deliciously dark new thriller from bestselling YA author Josh Silver

]]> The deliciously dark new thriller from award-winning YA author Josh Silver, perfect for fans of Black Mirror and Holly Jackson.
 
‘A visceral and gripping thriller … you have no choice but to follow Eli into Traumaland.’  Lex Croucher, author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
 
Welcome to your worst nightmare.  

Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash.  

Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub. Here he joins crowds of other emotionally numb people, all seeking to experience a new thrill by entering virtual reality simulations of nightmarish scenarios through the points of view of various characters.

When he enters the story of a boy called Jack, he discovers a darker truth to the club. A truth that sets Eli on a dangerous journey to find the source of his own trauma.  

]]> Dead happy https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/dead-happy/ Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=39864 The nail biting sequel to the LGBTQ+ dystopian thriller, HappyHead

]]> Be prepared to be scared again in the nail-biting sequel to  HappyHead.

‘One of the very best voices in YA right now.’ Benjamin Dean

FRIENDS, WELCOME TO ELMHALLOW. YOU ARE THE CHOSEN TEN.  

By some miracle, Seb has survived the HappyHead programme, only to find himself stranded on a remote island under the guidance of a freakishly beautiful couple.

Far from home, Seb reluctantly teams up with Eleanor again and the pair are forced to compete in a series of ever stranger trials to prove their connection. All the while, he can’t stop thinking about Finn. Determined to find him, Seb’s search uncovers an even darker reality.

Can he escape the island  and  expose the sinister truth behind HappyHead?

‘Brilliantly twisted  -  even better than the first.’  Brandon Flynn

‘The perfect sequel…heart-pounding  and heart-wrenching.’  A. F. Steadman, author of the Skandar series  

]]> Happyhead https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/happyhead/ Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=31152 Squid Game meets They Both Die at the End in this thought-provoking LGBTQ+ thriller

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Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer.

 

When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Finn, Seb starts to question the true nature of the challenges they must undergo. The deeper into the programme the boys get, the more disturbing the assessments become, until it’s clear there may be no escape…

The first in a thrilling, thought-provoking new series for fans of They Both Die at the End and Squid Game

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