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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 · 06/08/2026

That makes it worse/ better depending on my mood.

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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 · 28/03/2026

If it helps, I was basically where she is when I started writing it. It’s horrible, and if she ever reads it I hope it helps 💜 (also if you have any trouble getting hold of it, sit tight, it’s being re-released with a new publisher!) wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/thi...

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This Party’s Dead

A journalist travels to death festivals around the world in search of better attitudes to mortality

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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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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I wish we’d organised, we could have told him it was Parm Sunday and convinced him it was something to do with cheese

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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 · 23/03/2026

I’m amazed at how many have survived from when I was a teen! Most mean the same thing, a couple got a transfer to a different meaning…

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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

100%. It’s absolutely maddening.

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

I feel like, in Europe at least, we still definitely sympathise with what is clearly a hostage situation for a lot of people - but the trust? Definitely spent. I think a LOT will need to be put in place to prove this won’t happen again

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

The fact that that has led to this weird use of the phrase as if it expresses genuine neutrality, rather than a symbol of man’s ability to be placid in the face of unthinkable horror, is insane as well as genuinely chilling

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

THIS IS WHY it’s ABSURD when someone uses the phrase “I’m Switzerland” as if it’s some declaration of calm, reflective neutrality. Switzerland were “neutral” ON THE HOLOCAUST.

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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 · 18/01/2026

I’m with you on that. I don’t think this is that though.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Hey! So the writers get assigned interviewees, we only have the briefest overview of their views before we talk, and I actually had this discussion with the editors. They said that since such an alarming number of people hold these views they should be confronted. I’m in two minds on it all tbh

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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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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Because when you no-go you no-get killed. Source: I am posting from a no-go zone in east London where we are terribly lonely without all the visitors, tears glinting off the stabbie-stabbies we all have stuffed down our jeans and bras 😩

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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 · 08/01/2026

Some people are saying he can’t, but if anyone is saying that he *wouldn’t*, that’s got to be either a bot or someone so dim I wouldn’t want a conversation that could distract them from breathing

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Two pints of this, please. I think because of the size of the country it’s easy to forget that the US population is only five times larger than ours (UK), yet by size we’re smaller than Oregon.

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Really? Ok that’s something... I’ll take a pint of this please!

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Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The logic of that is that “we’re Americans: we do what we’re told or we will be immediately executed” is the deal, which is absolutely horrifying - as IF that’s what they had in mind whenever they were all “best country in the world! U-S-A! U-S-A!”

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

I hope you’re right! I’m surprised you’d think it’s unthinkable given everything they’ve done, and their repeated public suggestions that they should *checks notes* cancel the midterms

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

(That was aimed at Congress and any adults with relevant power left in the vicinity, not you @atrupar.com!)

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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 · 07/01/2026

Can I just check - why do people still think they’re going ahead with the midterms?

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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 · 06/01/2026

When I was 10 I woke up with a really stiff neck, I’d slept in a weird position. My nurse mother told me to exercise it. So I did a headstand. Agony, couldn’t get up from the sofa without help for a week and every time I got an utterly deserved lecture about being less of an idiot.

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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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