We’re delighted to be celebrating the UK paperback publication of The Gathering by Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man and The Burning Girls, C. J. Tudor.

The Gathering has sold over 10,500 copies in the UK, reaching No. 11 in the UK Original Fiction charts in the first week of sales and then No. 2 in the Amazon chart. C.J’s previous book The Drift was a Sunday Times No. 7 paperback bestseller, and No.11 in Audible Movers and Shakers. It was included in The Guardian’s ‘Best Recent Crime and Thriller’ roundup, was an Observer ‘Thriller of the Month’ and Apple Book’s ‘Best of the Month’. Tudor was also a finalist in the 2024 International Thriller Writers awards for The Drift, in the Best Hardcover category.

The Gathering has received rave press reviews and endorsements since publication:

‘A crime thriller with a vampiric twist. What a cracking read and such assured writing. She just gets better and better!’Sarah Pinborough


‘Incredibly exciting novel, tightly plotted and brilliantly tense, with an atmosphere you could eat with a spoon’Stuart Turton


‘Tudor slays with this brilliantly imaginative take on the vampire genre’ John Marrs

‘Vampires, or “vampyrs,” roam the earth—and provoke heated political debate—in this wildly imaginative supernatural thriller from Tudor (The Drift)…this frostbitten procedural is a bloody good time.’Publishers Weekly, starred review

‘My first vampire book but it definitely won’t be my last! Really enjoyed The Gathering, a chilling and claustrophobic story set in the snowy wilderness of Alaska.’B.A. Paris

If you haven’t already, you can get your copy here

Happy publication day C.J!