Silver, Josh – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:38:12 +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 Fruit Fly https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/fruit-fly/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/fruit-fly/ The razor sharp novel from an extraordinary new voice in fiction

]]> 'AN INCREDIBLE BOOK.' RUSSELL T DAVIES

'A REAL NAILBITER.' BBC MUST-READ BOOK 2026

'SAVAGE AND DARKLY HILARIOUS.' JUNO DAWSON

'A RAW, VISCERAL TRIUMPH.' JOHN MARRS

'LIKE THE OFFSPRING OF TRAINSPOTTING AND YELLOWFACE … CLEVER AND ASSURED.' DAILY MAIL

Anyone can write a bestseller. Here’s how…

GO GAY

It’s been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with writer’s block, she’s desperate to resurrect her career before it spirals into obscurity. She needs inspiration to strike – and fast.

GO SAD

Enter Leo – a young struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He’s vulnerable. He’s enigmatic. He’s exactly what Mallory has been looking for.

GO DARK

Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. Authenticity sells, and there’s nothing more authentic than real life. She’s the perfect person to tell Leo’s story. Gay, sad, dark – just what the world needs right now. But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide: just how far will she go to pen the perfect story?

A darkly funny literary satire that examines privilege, queer identity, and our modern obsession with authenticity, perfect for fans of Detransition, Baby, Evenings and Weekends and Eliza Clark.

'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ.' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY BLEW ME AWAY.' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'I DIDN’T BREATHE FOR PAGES AT A TIME.' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'HORRIBLE IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY.' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'THIS BOOK WAS EVERYTHING.' READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

]]> 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

]]> We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness.  

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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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