Event 50

Imani Thompson – Honey

Yrsa doesn’t mean to kill the first time, when she knocks a bee into her hated professor’s Sanpellegrino. But it’s a delicious feeling finally having some control. So who’s next? Imani Thompson’s novel about a bored graduate student who murders “bad men” in the name of feminism provoked a 10-way auction between publishers, drawing comparisons with My Sister, the Serial Killer, Butter and Yellowface. She talks about why a darkly comic thriller is the ideal vehicle to talk about race and misogyny – and why she’s the most unlikely creator of a serial killer imaginable. Raised in Dorset, Imani Thompson is a British writer of Scottish, Irish and Jamaican heritage. After studying Sociology at Cambridge University, she worked as a bookseller. “Wow, basically”, Harriet Tyce.