Lauren Beukes – Lauren Beukes

May 10, 2025

Imagined Futures at AI UK

I hate that "AIs" like ChatGPT (aka people-pleasing hallucinating plagiarism engines) are trained on work stolen from writers, including every single one of my books. I hate more that it's [...]

April 21, 2025

Her Seal Skin Coat

In 2019 I was lucky enough to be able to afford to tag along on a dream of a lifetime trip to Antarctica on a small ship with only 100 [...]

March 5, 2025

Read Afterland on Kindle for $2.99 this Month

Hey US readers! My high-concept feminist thriller, released-post-pandemic, contagion novel Afterland is available this month only for $2.99! "She lets her tale do the talking, and the results are quite [...]

September 13, 2024

The Child by Alistair Mackay Book Launch

So excited to be chatting to brilliant fellow saffer author Alistair Mackay next week Friday 20 September, 6.30pm at The Common Press in London for the launch of his latest [...]

September 5, 2024

Read Bridge on Kindle for 99p this Month

Hey UK readers! My latest novel Bridge about mothers, daughters, the multiverse, grief, found family and neuroparasitology is on sale this month at 99p with Kindle, only in our reality! [...]

August 29, 2024

Talking Everything Bridge at Books on the Rise

Do come say hi and chat with me about my latest reality-bending, reverse-Persephone book Bridge at the incredibly lovely Books on the Rise bookshop in Richmond, London on Thursday 5 [...]

August 8, 2024

Catch Me At Glasgow Worldcon This Weekend

So stoked to be at Glasgow Worldcon 2024 this weekend, what a perfect way to celebrate the paperback release of my kind of weird but wonderful multiverse novel Bridge featuring [...]

August 1, 2024

Happy UK Paperback day to Bridge!

Happy UK paperback day to meeeee! Bridge is out today in the UK in easy-to-read on the beach / on the tube / side of lido / in the park [...]

June 27, 2024

Bridge Longlisted For The Sunday Times Literary Prize

Late to the party. Thrilled to see that my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse-murder novel, BRIDGE, is on the longlist for the Sunday Times Literary Prize in some pretty amazing company! Image of [...]

June 20, 2024

Immersive Worlds And Revisiting Cyberpunk Fiction At Bradford Literature Festival Sunday 30 June

Stoked to be talking at the Bradford Literature Festival again on Sunday 30 June. Talking Worlds Within Words with John Connolly in the John Stanley Bell (JSB) Lecture Theatre and [...]