Katie Bishop Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Katie Bishop is a British author and journalist based in the United Kingdom.

The Girls of Summer is the debut novel from Katie Bishop. If you have been looking for something original and refreshing to enjoy, check out this book from an author who never fails to deliver and experience one of the fresh new voices in fiction.

Rachel is a young woman who has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. She is now married to someone else, but she still has those feelings. Even if she was just a teenager when they first met, and despite the fact that he is twenty years older than her.

Rachel and Alistair had a summer love affair on a remote Greek island. The affair has consumed her since she was seventeen years old, destroying everything in its wake. As Rachel starts to become obsessed with reliving the events of a long time ago, she is able to reconnect with the other girls who were drawn to the lifestyle of the island, where the nights were always long, the alcohol flowed freely, and people acted in the types of ways that they never would risk at home.

As she does so, dark and suppressed secrets about the first love affair that she ever had start to come tot he surface. So does the truth when it comes to her time working for a strange wealthy man, who has been able to control much more than she would have ever realized.

Coming into a post #MeToo discourse, this book takes on various themes of sex, power, and consent, looking into the complex nature of trauma and memory, as well as what it requires to reframe and claim your own story once more.

High Season is a 2025 novel by Katie Bishop. If you have read work by this author that you enjoyed before, check this novel out too and see what you think!

When it comes to that summer, some things should not be spoken of again. It was twenty years ago on a beautiful night in summer that 17 year old Tamara Drayton was discovered. The troubled teen was found floating in the pool face down at the site of her family’s mansion in the south of France. It was left to her twin brother Blake to end up picking up the pieces of their family, which now had been shattered apart.

Left behind as well was their sister Nina. At 6 years old, she has become the youngest person to testify in a French murder trial. That’s in part because she was the only one who was there to witness what happened. She watched as her babysitter pushed Tamara under the water. Josie Jackson then kept her there, holding her there until she finally stopped breathing.

Or at least that was what she thought happened. It has now been twenty years later and Nina’s memories have faded. She has no idea of what really went on that night and cannot be certain of her recall. Then a new true crime documentary that features the murder of her sister was announced, and Nina was finally convinced this might be her chance to find out.

The truth always comes with a cost. Who is going to pay the price for it and why? Placed over the course of two important summers set two decades apart, High Season is an exploration of many things such as the power of truth, the nature of memory, and the gray areas that exist in between. Read it to follow along with it all and absorb the details for yourself!