Independent Bookshop Edition: The Four by Ellie Keel

We are so excited to announce that in April 2024, HQ will publish an independent bookshop edition of The Four by Ellie Keel. The independent bookshop edition will be signed and features pink sprayed edges with a roman numeral design!

This dark academia debut novel by the award-winning producer and campaigner is perfect for fans of The Secret History, If We Were Villains and The Things We Do To our Friends.

Four scholarship students’ dreams come true when they are accepted into an exclusive boarding school, but they will soon be bound by a dark secret that could save one of them… or destroy them all…

HB | 9780008580346 | 11 Apr 2024 | £16.99​

We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms.

The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege.

It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out of our bedroom window that day. Certainly, it would have been tragic. She would have died instantly.

But Marta didn’t push her then, or – if you choose to believe me – at any other time. If she had, all of what we went through would not have happened.

I’ve told this story as clearly as I could – as rationally as I’ve been able, in the circumstances, to achieve. I don’t regret what we did. And I would do it all again.


We have POS packs coming soon to celebrate the upcoming release of The Four, including bookmarks, posters and standees! Independent booksellers can request POS by emailing IndieThinking with their name, shop address and listing the items they would like for their shop. POS packs will be dispatched in early April ahead of publication.

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