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Nick Binge
April 23, 2026

What A Year

No, seriously. What a year.

Hi everyone — I know, I know. I said these would be quarterly. The last one was in August. It is now… not August. In my defence, quite a lot has happened, and I kept thinking "I'll send one when things calm down," and then things never calmed down. So here we are. Consider this a bumper edition.

Let's get into it.

DISSOLUTION

If you missed it, Dissolution (above) was named one of the best thrillers of 2025 by The New York Times and one of Esquire's best books of 2025, which remains slightly surreal to type. On the film side, we have a script from the wonderful Eric Heisserer, and we've been having some really exciting conversations with directors who Sony want to work with. We're in the process of narrowing down exactly who's going to be at the helm of the thing, and I wish I could say more, but I can't. Yet. Watch this space.

EXTREMITY

Extremity came out in September and the response was brilliant. Fantasy Hive called it "easily in the running for the best novella of the year," which I'll take. On the adaptation front, we've signed an exciting showrunner for the TV development — but I can't share who just yet. Soon, though!

ABYSS

My latest novella, Abyss, is out next month with Nightfire! Early reviews have been fantastic. Grimdark Magazine called it "the horror book for our modern age," which might be my favourite thing anyone has ever said about my work. It's a strange, creepy, Kafkaesque office horror about late capitalism and doomscrolling and what happens when you stop paying attention to your own life. I'm really proud of this one. More on the launch in the events section below.

WHITE SMOKE

Right. Here's the big one.

Some of you may know that I've been quietly working on something a little different. I wrote a crime novel — a Vatican-set heist thriller about a group of conmen and thieves who attempt to steal the Vatican's most remarkable treasures during a papal conclave. Think Ocean's Eleven meets Conclave. I wrote it under a new pseudonym, Nick Brucker, to keep it separate from my sci-fi and horror work.

And, well, it did rather well.

White Smoke sold in a seven-way auction to Zaffre (Bonnier Books UK) for a six-figure sum, with the book positioned as one of their lead crime/thriller titles for Spring 2027. Translation rights have since sold in twenty-five territories now and counting.

Oh, and also:

That's a real sentence that I just wrote, about a thing that is actually happening. I had a creative meeting with Benedict a few weeks ago and he was wonderful — deeply passionate about the material and full of ideas. It should be fantastic.

The book comes out in 2027, and I cannot wait for you all to read it.

EXHUMATION

The next big Binge novel is Exhumation, out October 20th with Riverhead (US) and Voyager (UK). It follows Arlo Abbas, a London PI who investigates the disappearance of a young woman and stumbles into something much darker — a clandestine lab, human trials that blur the line between life and death, and a mysterious underground organisation whose roots go deeper than he could have possibly imagined.

I'm really excited for this one. I think it's the most ambitious thing I've ever done, and it's the kind of book I've been building towards for years. It's big, it's dark, it's weird, and I hope it lands.

Oh, and here's the US cover:

Cool, right?

WHAT'S NEXT?

I'm currently working on:

  • Editing Illumination — my novel set around the Apollo missions to the Moon going disastrously wrong. Multi-POV cosmic horror. Dinosaurs. Yes, dinosaurs. On the Moon. As you do.

  • Writing Blue Blood — the sequel to White Smoke, this time set around a jewel heist at Buckingham Palace.

  • Writing Submersion — which is all my usual weird stuff, but set in an underwater labyrinth made of TIME. I don't know how else to describe it.

PODCASTS

The Binge Reading Book Club enters its second year and second season! This year we've got some fantastic authors joining us — LR Lam, Shauna Lawless, David Goodman, and more — to talk about the books they love and how they're crafted. If you're interested in becoming a better reader or writer and want to learn from great books, do come and join us. You can find us on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. More info on the website.

I also joined the team at Narrative Damage to do a three-episode Call of Cthulhu actual play of the scenario Loki's Gift. It was a hell of a lot of fun. I played alongside wonderful authors Tariq Ashkanani and David Goodman (again!), run by the fantastic games master Marco Rinaldi. If you want to hear three authors lose their minds in Victorian London, you can find it on the Page One podcast feed.

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? EVENTS!

A few upcoming things if you want to say hello in person:

I'd love to see some of you at any of the above!

I think that's it? Bloody hell, that felt like a lot. I promise the next one will be shorter. Or at least sooner. Probably not both.

Have a brilliant spring, everyone, and as always, if you've read something of mine and want to get in touch, please do. I love hearing from you.

All the best, Nick