Bury Your Friends
By (Author) Benjamin Dean
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Simon & Schuster Ltd
11th November 2025
14th August 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Paperback
368
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
From bestselling and award-winning author Benjamin Dean comes a dark, decadent and deadly YA thriller following the perfectly privileged lives of spoilt rich kids and the messy, murderous things they'll do to get what they want. For fans of How to Die Famous, One of Us is Lying and Five Survive.
Ten friends. One night. A classy celebration. A deranged killer. Lots of murder.
Noah and his best friends Cameron, Baby, Fliss, Griffin, Miles, Tabitha, Wim, Verity and Hugo are finally graduating from Woodthorn Academy with the world and all its promises laid out before them. To celebrate exam results day, theyre hosting a party weekend at Black Stone, an opulent country estate, for the whole school to attend. But for one night only the ten friends will have a low-key celebration after all, its how the upper echelons begin their futures.
But things take a sinister turn when they find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer making one simple demand: every hour, one person must be evicted from the house or someone inside the house will die.
With nowhere to run and a killer on the prowl, choices must be made. But, as people inside the house start to go missing too, it soon becomes clear that nobody is safe. By the time morning comes, who will have survived the night And is the killer much closer than they realised . . .
PRAISE FOR BENJAMIN DEAN:
A scandalous thriller. TheGuardian
Benjamin Dean has written a royal triumph. Juno Dawson, author ofClean
Scandalous, funny, and deliciously compelling! Catherine Doyle, co-author ofTwin Crowns
All hail this exquisitely twisty, delightfully queer mystery. Chelsea Pitcher, author ofThis Lie Will Kill You
A compelling thriller that stays with you long after youve finished reading. Kathryn Foxfield, author ofGood Girls Die First
More jaw-dropping, OMG-twists than even the most salacious tabloid journalist could create.Erik J. Brown, author ofAll That's Left in the World
One page-burning scandal after another. Benjamin Dean is YA royalty.Femi Fadugba, author ofThe Upper World
A scandalous, twisty mystery that had me on the edge of my seat gasping for more. Kate Weston, author ofMurder on a School Night
A twisty thriller that kept me guessing until the very end. Lex Croucher, author ofGwen and Art are Not in Love
Addictive, compelling, and utterly delicious.Simon James Green, author ofNoah Cant Even
Benjamin Dean is a full-time author with a background in celebrity journalism. He has interviewed a host of glitzy celebrities and broke the news that Rihanna can't wink (she blinks, in case you were wondering). His award-winning middle-grade debut, Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow, was described as 'One of the most joyful books you'll read this year' (The Bookseller), and he's since gone on to publish The Secret Sunshine Project, as well The King is Dead and How to Die Famous for older readers. Benjamin can be found on Twitter as @notagainbentweeting about Rihanna and LGBTQ+ culture to his 10,000+ followers.