I’m delighted to finally reveal my next post-apocalyptic thriller The Feeding. No pre-order links yet, but here’s the US cover and book description:

With echoes of The Road, The New York Times bestselling author Anthony Ryan’s The Feeding is a brilliant post-apocalyptic novel that finds the sweet spot between commercial, literary, and creepy. Perfect for fans of Justin Cronin, M. R. Carey, and Alexis Henderson.

Fifteen years ago the feeders rose from the shadows to transform the world into a graveyard. The few survivors exist in fortified settlements surrounded by the empty ruins of a destroyed civilization. For years the citizens of New City Redoubt have relied on an elite cadre of Crossers to navigate the feeder infested wasteland between settlements in order to trade for vital supplies. But the Outside is becoming ever more dangerous, and the ranks of the Crossers grow thinner with every crossing.

Layla, only a child when the Feeding destroyed the old world, spends her days scavenging the ruins for valuable scrap and her nights helping her adoptive family eke a living from the Redoubt’s only movie theatre. Now, with her father slowly dying, Layla resolves to join the Crossers to retrieve the medicine that can save him. Smart, ruthless, and fast on her feet, Layla quickly gains the respect of her fellow Crossers. But, in a world lost to the deadliest predators, can even the most cunning prey survive?

For any book reviewers out there, The Feeding is now available on Netgalley: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/570508

If you’re a book reviewer/blogger/tuber without Netgalley access, get in touch and I’ll ask my publisher to send you an advance reader copy.

The Feeding will be published in the US by Blackstone Publishing and in the UK by Orbit on August 26th 2025 (UK cover to come). NB – the UK version will be published under my alter ego/pseudonym/nom de plume AJ Ryan, the dark, depraved corner of my psyche that also wrote Red River Seven – details here.