Katie Bishop - High Season. In conversation with PJ Ellis

We are absolutely delighted to announce that we will have Katie Bishop in conversation with PJ Ellis at The Heath Bookshop! They will be in discussion about Katie's new book, 'High Season'. 

They will be in conversation for around an hour. There will be a book signing afterwards.

Katie Bishop is an author, journalist, and Kings Heath local. Her debut novel The Girls of Summer - a book that explores themes of consent, trauma and memory in a post-MeToo world - was chosen as a book of the month by The Times, Good Morning America, Apple Books and The New York Post when it published in 2023. Her journalism has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, the BBC and many others. Katie's second novel High Season is due to publish in August 2025.

High Season:

In the heat of summer, the past can become hazy. . .For twenty years, Nina Drayton has told herself that she must have seen her sister, Tamara, being murdered by the family babysitter – Josie Jackson. That she doesn’t remember it because she was five, and amnesia is a normal trauma response.But now, with the anniversary of Tamara’s death approaching and true crime investigators revisiting the case, Nina finds it harder to suppress her doubts. Returning to her family’s sparkling villa on the Cote d’Azur for the first time since the murder, she wants to uncover more about the summer that changed so many lives. Because if she was wrong, then she sent an innocent woman to jail – and the real killer is still walking free.

PJ ELLIS is the author of Love & Other Scams and We Could Be Heroes, and Sex & Relationships Editor at Men’s Health. His writing has appeared in publications including GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV, and his short fiction has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He lives in Birmingham and tweets @Philip_Ellis.

This event will take place at The Heath Bookshop and tickets are on sale now.

We look forward to seeing you. 

Catherine & Claire