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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So excited to finally announce that my debut novel THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU has been picked up by two publishers: 🇬🇧 Oneworld and 🇺🇸 Macmillan.

BOOKBRUNCH: Oneworld signs
'extraordinary' debut horror novel
Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
Guardian journalist Erica Buist's The Hand that Feeds You 'is a novel that grabs you in a steely grip from page one and continues to squeeze the fear long after the final page'

Oneworld signs 'extraordinary' debut
horror novel
Rights - Fiction Tuesday, 22nd September 2026
Guardian journalist Erica Buist's The Hand that Feeds You 'is a novel that grabs you in a steely grip from page
one and continues to squeeze the fear long after the final page'
Publishing Director Wayne Brookes has acquired two literary horror novels from Guardian journalist and viral
blogger Erica Buist. Brookes bought UK & Commonwealth rights, including audio, to The Hand that Feeds You, and
one other novel, from Jade Kavanagh at Darley Anderson at auction. Meanwhile US rights were also sold at auction
to Char Dreyer at St Martin’s Press, and The Hand that Feeds You will be published in hardback in the UK in late
Summer 2027, and in the US in Winter 2028.
According to the acquisition statement: 'After a fire destroys his life, Evan ends up on the streets of London, mute
with grief.
'When an eerily thin, emotionally blank woman named Bernadette offers him the use of her empty Belgravia flat in
exchange for five square centimetres of skin per month, he takes the deal. He knows she's insane. But she's offering
what no council waiting list, no outreach worker, no amount of cardboard signs can: a rung on the ladder back to
society.
'As Evan claws his way back to normality – landing a job in a cook shop, befriending his endearingly dorky
colleagues, saving for a deposit on any crappy little room in the city – Bernadette tightens her grip. She sabotages
his escape route with chilling precision, and draws him into a cabal of wealthy cannibals whose annual "dinner party"
reveals the full horror of what she is. Trapped between the streets that nearly killed him and the monster who might
finish the job, Evan must decide what – and who – he's willing to sacrifice to survive.
'In a city of nine million people, no one can hear him scream.”

Brookes said: "The Hand that Feeds You is a novel that grabs you in a steely grip from page one and continues to
squeeze the fear long after the final page. I’ve been searching for a new voice in horror for a long time, something different with a fresh, sharp and unsettling tone. I’ve been a fan of horror since my teens and I believe Erica Buist has
everything you need to become a huge name in the genre. I will never forget these characters, and I’m already
looking forward to seeing what nightmares Erica’s amazing mind will conjure up next.
"
Buist said: "I am beyond delighted to be working with my brilliant editors, Wayne Brookes and Kobe Grant at
Oneworld and Char Dreyer at St Martin’s. It’s always a leap of madness to show someone your novel and hope it
lands - but when it’s about a cannibal landlady, you run the risk of people putting it down to check you’re ok. So, I
could not be more grateful to my agent, Jade Kavanagh, for her immediate enthusiasm when I sent her a sample,
and for finding it two such incredible homes.
"
Kavanagh added: "From the moment I started reading The Hand that Feeds You I've been completely obsessed!
With the story, and with Erica's extraordinary talent. I am thrilled that Erica has found such perfect publishing homes
in both the UK and the US. Wayne and the brilliant Oneworld team are a dream match for Erica and her debut, and
the wonderful Char and the team at St Martin's make this an incredible powerhouse partnership on both sides of the
Atlantic! I can't wait to see this book out in the world.
"
The Hand that Feeds You is Erica’s first novel and will be published in hardcover in the UK late summer 2027 and in
the US winter 2028.
Pictured: Erica Buist (cr Marti Albesa)
Source article:
https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/oneworld-signs-extraordinary-debut-horror-novel

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Can we do an alert back at them about what new drilling in the North Sea is likely to do?

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I cannot believe how embarrassing our species is. We’ve got everything we need to make life here incredible for everyone, and instead we’ve let one creepy, sweaty, barely-human wax figurine hoard all the wealth and lazily bash his useless, phallic litter into the moon.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Sunday morning, 11am, I’ll be at Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green talking about that time I went to a bunch of countries to find out how people cope with mortality (way more dancing corpses than you might think). I will be joined by a live band and poet! www.tickettailor.com/events/sunda...

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Reserve your spot – This Party’s Dead: A Journey to Seven of the World’s Death Festivals – Backyard Comedy Club

This Party’s Dead: A Journey to Seven of the World’s Death Festivals – Backyard Comedy Club, Sun 3 May 2026 - This week, to mark Dying Matters Awareness Week, we welcome writer and journalist Erica Bu...

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I won a Creative Climate Action Award for a poem called There Are Still American Flags on the Moon. www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Spanish PM: "The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket" In other news Starmer is in the Middle East today.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If you ever feel like you’re generally not good at things, think of this picture: my failed attempt to crack an egg. You’re doing great, sweetie.

A hand holding an egg with half its shell missing but the membrane somehow still intact.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city. Antisemitism is vile and has no place here. Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"What's your favourite book of the Bible, Robert?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of the Bible"

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Reform thinks not being allowed to invite themselves to speak at a university is an attack on free speech (it’s not), and they responded by threatening an actual attack on free speech.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Trump is mentioned in the files WAY more than Harry is mentioned in all the Harry Potter books. And all of the Harry Potter books have come out.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“Peace isn’t what you ask for when the boot is already on someone’s neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted.”

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

“What horseback sport featured at five summer Olympic Games?” “Jousting.” Let’s not chuck the baby out with the bath water here folks, I’m taking that one as a suggestion.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yesterday London posed very nicely for me from the window of the OXO Tower.

A picture of London and the Thames from the window of the OXO Tower, overlayed with the shadowy reflection of St Paul’s from another window.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Trump administration demands lists of Jews “as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses” Phew! Calm down everyone, the administration sending out a Gestapo to abduct people to force them into penal slavery just wants to help www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If you won't bring severe consequences for these relentless crimes against humanity, if you won't even consider it, if you won't even try then what is the point of you? Not just as a politician; as a human being.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I am so tired of the narration. It’s a pedophile protection ring, kidnapping and murdering their own citizens and trying to start WWIII - we have the info we need, a thousand times over. No more narration needed. DO SOMETHING. AND NARRATE THAT.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We in Britain are proud to emulate the Democrats’ tough line against lawbreaking, corruption and bare-arsed evil: we won’t do anything, or even really suggest anyone should, but so help me god, we will narrate it.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The lack of courage in the “home of the brave” is desperately embarrassing. They’re being dragged into an openly corrupt illegal war by a murderous pedophile to a Democrat chorus of “oh hey, come on now!”, and the only thing that will ever take him down is his own rancid, failing carcass.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Well, it’s not as if Trump went THAT beyond the pale. It’s not like he [trigger warning: terrorism] spray-painted a plane.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

"Ho ho ho remember when we thought Bush was as bad as it got hehehe" narrative always ALWAYS ignores the fact: it's because they were as bad as it was allowed to get THEN. That's how bad they could be at that point and they paved the way for it to be the way it is now. Same as in the UK.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

If one more person shares this with a joke about Stephen Miller being on the end to hide the fact that he has no reflection, so help me GOD I will laugh again

Vanity Fair photo of the band of ghouls in the Trump administration

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Corporate wants you to find the difference between this picture and this picture.

Two headlines: “Streeting orders review into
'overdiagnosis' of mental illness and ADHD in welfare spending”
And
“Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health 'overdiagnosis'”

Headline from 2020: “Trump: 'If We Stop Testing, We'd Have Fewer Cases'”

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Two things I cannot get past in the new Stranger Things: The kids are somehow now older than the parents ‘Vecna’ still sounds like a midrange hatchback

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Sometimes my dog barks at me from the other room because he wants food or a walk. Sometimes it’s because he’s on the sofa, and feels very strongly that I should be too.

Brown and white cavalier King Charles spaniel sitting on the sofa with an expression that says “Excuse me? Some company, please?!”

Brown and white cavalier King Charles spaniel lying on a sofa, my hand on his back stroking him. He’s happy now, but thinks I need to learn when it’s time to come and give him a cuddle when he wants one, and not force him to bark for if like some sort of FOOL.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

“A few bad apples” is such a weird way to try to dismiss something as not serious. The saying is “a few bad apples SPOIL THE BUNCH”, not “it’s just a few bad apples so the bunch is definitely totally fine, eat it”

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Is anyone else thinking of contingency plans for if it happens?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/09/2025

In his first show after being reinstated following his suspension, Jimmy Kimmel greeted the audience with the same opener used by Jack Paar in 1960 when he returned to his show after being censored by his network.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“Malicious communications…the act of sending an indecent, grossly offensive, or threatening message, or false information, with the intent to cause the recipient distress or anxiety” So the victim of this presumably is Trump?!

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Listen lads - Trump, Vance, Hegseth - at the risk of repeating myself: YOU don’t need to pray. You have the power to change the gun laws.

Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: "We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot. A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!"
JD Vance, the vice-president, tweeted: "Say a prayer for Charlie Kirk, a genuinely good guy and a young father." Those sentiments were echoed by the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth: "Prayers for Charlie Kirk. An incredible Christian, American, and human being. May the healing hand of Jesus Christ be upon him."

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

What in the cartoon-nineteen-fifties-housewife is he on about now? www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/09...

Linehan said he knew Ms Brooks was hanging around the meeting where insects were released 'with some very
bad people.
I knew it was the kind of thing the claimant would find very funny.
'A lot of women famously do not like insects, they have a natural revulsion against insects. This is a form of terrorism that's very specifically aimed at women.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I seem to have pulled my left bicep. Apparently to heal it needs something called “rest”. So my question is: do I now just stop lifting weights, or should I continue on my right side? Will I be Popeye on the right and Olive Oil on the left? Ok I’ve thought about it and that’s now my aim.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/08/2025

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

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The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

So it’s not urgent, but does anyone know… when Elvis sang “well you ain’t never caught a rabbit and you ain’t no friend of mine”, was he just stating two unrelated facts or did he have a very weird selection process for friends? No worries if not. x

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My dog and I went to an off-grid cabin in a forest in Norfolk. The meteor shower was a bonus.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Oh good, more thoughts and prayers. So much cheaper than funding the agency that monitors and gives early warnings on natural disasters. Not as effective - dozens died - but cheaper.

Tweet from JD Vance: Our nation's heart breaks for the victims in Texas and their families. Just an
incomprehensible tragedy.
I hope everyone affected knows they're in the prayers of my family, and of millions of Americans.

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