the shining girls | Lauren Beukes

April 5, 2023

I’ll Be At The 2023 Cheltenham Science Festival

Super honoured to be a part of Cheltenham Science Festival this year. Physicist Jim Al-Khalili will be talking to me and, visual effect expert, Paul Franklin about The Nature of Time in Science Fiction. Join us in the Main Hall on Saturday the 10th of June 2023 at 6:15pm. See you there! "Whether it’s Back [...]

March 29, 2023

The Shining Girls On Sale With Kindle This Week

Happy Spring US readers! My high-concept thriller novel, recently adapted to screen and showing on Apple TV+, The Shining Girls, is on sale via Kindle until April 2nd. Own it for $2.99 here bit.ly/shining-girls-kindle-offer. ‘Clever story, smart prose’ – Stephen King In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to [...]

November 23, 2022

Time Out List Shining Girls As A Series You Do Not Want To Miss in 2022

Time Out created a list of their top "22 best TV and streaming shows of 2022 (so far)" and included Shining Girls! The adaptation is featured alongside some amazing shows released in 2022, Time Out's Phil de Semlyen writes: "What a year. Seriously, why did we ever go outside?" "Mind-bending and complex" Alim Kheraj writes: [...]

November 17, 2022

IndieWire Include Shining Girls In Most Anticipated Films And TV Shows At SXSW 2022

Kate Erbland and Eric Kohn at IndieWire included The Shining Girls adaptation premiere in their list of The 20 Most Anticipated Films and TV Shows at SXSW 2022. So cool to see it listed here amongst some truly amazing films and shows featured at SXSW this year. The series premiered at SXSW under the EPISODIC [...]

November 9, 2022

Amazing Fan Art Of Shining Girls Episodes Featuring Dan, Kirby And Harper

We found this awesome fan art from @greentea_0830 while trawling the #shininggirls hashtag on Instagram. They've captured Dan, Kirby and Harper so brilliantly. Every one of their paintings are almost like picture summaries of each episode from episode 1 through to episode 6 - so cool. Thank you so much @greentea_0830 for the beautiful paintings [...]

November 2, 2022

Shining Girls Included In Vulture’s Top 2022 Book-To-Screen Adaptations

Thrilled to see Vulture include Apple TV's The Shining Girls adaptation in their 60 New Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2022 Reading List! A comprehensive list with some stellar book-to-screen adaptations. From Vulture: "After The Handmaid’s Tale and Shirley, Elisabeth Moss seems to have developed quite the penchant for gripping dramas. Her next venture is The Shining Girls, [...]

October 27, 2022

The Shining Girls, Violence In Media And Talking Book To Screen Process With NPR

Throwback to when NPR interviewed me in 2013 for The Shining Girls. We talk writing and researching, the violence depictions in the book (read the related post All The Pretty Corpses on violence in pop culture), optioning the adaptation for TV and I read an excerpt from The Shining Girls. A snippet from the interview: [...]

October 19, 2022

Talking Parenting Across The Multiverse On The Living While Feminist Podcast

I get personal with the wonderful Jen Thorpe on her podcast Living While Feminist. We talk about all things parenting, the Apple TV adaptation of The Shining Girls, Afterland, my new upcoming novel Bridge and so much more. Here's a quote from the interview about my upcoming book Bridge, which I am super excited to unleash [...]