Imani Thompson in conversation with Nikita Gill, at Heffers Bookshop

Publishing 7th May, Honey is a blistering, dark, and comic novel that introduces a daring new voice into contemporary fiction. Heffers is delighted to be welcoming Imani Thompson and fellow writer Nikita Gill to discuss this thrilling story in Cambridge, the city in which it is set.

The first time, Yrsa doesn’t intend to K*ll.

But the Cambridge professor sitting opposite has manipulated her friend, stolen her

research. When she flicks the bee into his Sanpellegrino, she thinks he’ll get a nasty

sting.

Then he’s dead. And Yrsa, who – let’s face it – has been bored for a while, is alive.

It’s a sweet feeling, finally having some control.

Imani Thompson is a British writer with Jamaican heritage. During her time studying Sociology at Cambridge University she was published in The Mays and won the Vogue new writer’s prize. She wrote Honey while working as a bookseller at Daunt Books and is now working on her second novel.

Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator living in the South of England. She has published seven collections of poetry including Your Soul is a River, Your Heart is the Sea, Wild Embers, Fierce Fairytales, and Great Goddesses. Her novel-in-verse called The Girl and Goddess was published on National Poetry Day in 2020. Her novel-in-verse, Hekate, the first in a loosely connected trilogy about the Greek Goddesses of the Underworld, was published in autumn 2025. It is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. The second installment, Styx, will be published in September 2026. Her work has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the CLIPPA and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize.

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