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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Everything Under

Sisters

A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

The Hotel: A Series of ghost stories with a feminist twist

The Hotel

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The British literary heir to Stephen King ... crammed with mesmerising images

As splendidly written as it is haunting

Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King

The Hotel… [is] as haunting as many a British ghost story

In The Hotel, Johnson has given us a deftly constructed new version of a horror collection, with stories that slip in like mist under the door, just right for Halloween. But like all the best horror stories, they have deep roots. Like The Hotel itself, they are haunted

The Hotel is…striking: it should be read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting

Sisters is a gothic masterpiece... Confirms Johnson as a profoundly inventive and masterful storyteller

Surprising, gorgeously written and profoundly unsettling, Everything Under will sink into your bones and stay there

Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction

The stories Daisy Johnson tells are at once heart-rending and hair-raising. Her prose is elegantly emotional; her plotting would make Shirley Jackson, a master of upmarket horror, proud

Everything Under is weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling. Daisy Johnson writes in a torrent of language as unrelenting and turbulent and dark as the river at the book’s heart; dive in for just a moment and you’ll emerge gasping and haunted

Celeste Ng, author Little Fires Everywhere

There are few writers as talented as Daisy. After reading Sisters, I binged on Fen and Everything Under and am now obsessed

Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory

Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country... An astonishing stylist

To read Daisy Johnson is to have that rare feeling of meeting an author you’ll read for the rest of your life

Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds, Singing

Lovers of horror will devour this book and I hope literary fiction fans will be tempted outside of their comfort zone. The contemporary literary scene would be a poorer place without Daisy Johnson around

A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during the depths of Covid lockdown, the collection is fittingly suffocating

A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations –yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. 
 
On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women... 
 
They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.

‘The British literary heir to Stephen King’ Sunday Times 
 
'Striking: it should be read at night, with the lights low, in one sitting' Observer 
 
'As splendidly written as it is haunting' i 
 
'The contemporary literary scene would be a poorer place without Daisy Johnson around' Financial Times 
 
A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page 
 
A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations –yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore. 
 
On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women... 
 
They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull. 
 
*** PRAISE FOR SISTERS *** 
 
'[A] gothic masterpiece... You can't stop reading' i news 
 
'Daisy Johnson is one of the best writers in this country' Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers 
 
'A short, sharp virtuoso tale of literary horror' BOOKSELLER 
 
'Deeply unnerving and unnervingly prescient.' VOGUE 
 
'Poetic, haunting prose to be savoured slowly' EVENING STANDARD 
 
'I LOVE THIS BOOK! Explosive, dark, weird and utterly compelling... After reading Sisters, I binged on Fen and Everything Under and am now obsessed - Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, A. M. Heath Prize and Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her debut play, Viola’s Room, was produced in 2024 by the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk. She currently lives in Oxford by the river.

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