Silver, Josh - Fruit Fly

Fruit Fly

Author: Josh Silver

Genre: Adult, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Pages: 405

Publisher: Faber and Faber

Release Date: April 23, 2026

Format: Paperback

Size (in cm): 21.5 (height) x 13.4 (width) x 3.2 (depth)

ISBN: 9781836432395

Synopsis:

A BBC must-read book of 2026 – “Sharp, dark and humorous, it’s a real nailbiter.”
Go gay. Go sad. Go dark.
A washed-up author will stop at nothing to claw her way back to relevancy—even if it means appropriating a young gay man’s tragic story.

Mallory Maddox is buried under seven years of writer’s block. With her status as a literary sensation fizzling, she’ll do anything she can to resurrect her career. Inspiration needs to strike—and fast.

Enter Leo. He’s a struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He’s vulnerable. He’s enigmatic. He’s exactly what Mallory has been looking for.

Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. The world needs Leo’s story right now, and Mallory believes she deserves to tell it. Really, it’s her story—she’s the one who wrote it, after all.

But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must decide how far she will go to pen the perfect story.

A razor-sharp satirical thriller, Fruit Fly will appeal to fans of R. F. Kuang’s Yellowface and Yomi Adegoke’s The List.

LGBT Themes:

• Achillean

Relevant Tags:

Fiction, LGBT, Contemporary, Queer, Literary Fiction, Gay, Achillean, Adult, Thriller