The Compound by Aisling Rawle (PRE-ORDER)

DATE OF RELEASE: 3 JUL 2025

‘Lord of the Flies meets Love Island – dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted’ LOUISE O'NEILL 'So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality tv at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?' TORREY PETERS 'A clever and delicious treat' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS 'Page-turning, nail-biting… utterly bingeable' OLIVIA GATWOOD

You wake up in a compound in the middle of the desert, along with nine other women. All of you are young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside world.

You realise that cameras are tracking your every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans. Soon, ten men will arrive on foot – if they all survive the journey. What will you have to do to win? And what happens to the losers? LORD OF THE FLIES meets LOVE ISLAND in this explosive, addictive debut novel, as bingeable as the best reality TV, with dark undercurrents of literary dystopia and consumerist satire.

Hardback
Publication: 3 Jul 2025, Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780008710088
Extent: 336 pages