New Oxford Novel Coming: Summer 2025

My next novel was recently announced in Publishers Weekly, a second “dark academia” psychological thriller set in the same Oxford universe as my first novel, Black Chalk.

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Meanwhile, click through the gallery below to see some photos from an Oxford research trip I took in the spring of 2022 that inspired the book.

The Publishers Weekly announcement reads as follows: “In a preempt, John Glynn at Hanover Square Press has acquired a new novel from Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk and Grist Mill Road. Jessica Papin at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret brokered the deal for world English rights. Hanover Square said the as-yet-untitled book is “an inventive reworking of Alice in Wonderland” that tells the tale of “a dangerous secret society at Oxford University” and “a first-year literature student whose life unravels in its shadows.” A summer 2025 publication is planned.”