Female, Nude: The smouldering and propulsive new literary read for 2026

Author:   Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Publisher:   Headline Publishing Group
ISBN:  

9781035413812


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 February 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Female, Nude: The smouldering and propulsive new literary read for 2026


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Author:   Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Publisher:   Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:   Tinder Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781035413812


ISBN 10:   1035413817
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   12 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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An intelligently nuanced and provocative exploration of female desire, motherhood and creativity. A very sexy, deceptively readable novel, which delves into deep questions with an alluring lightness of touch. You need to preorder this right now! -- Elizabeth Morris * Crib Notes * A literary novel with all the propulsion of a thriller, and sex that is actually sexy -- Georgina Moore, author of The Garnet Girls What a gorgeous, hot-blooded novel about art, the senses, and the multitudes of the female body -- Charlotte Runcie, author of Bring the House Down Such a thought-provoking, sexy, immersive read... a sun-soaked love letter to complicated women and female artists -- Cesca Major, author of Maybe Next Time and If I Were You A literary novel that has all the propulsion of a thriller. Smart, sharp and sexy -- Georgina Moore, author of The Garnett Girls


An intelligently nuanced and provocative exploration of female desire, motherhood and creativity. A very sexy, deceptively readable novel, which delves into deep questions with an alluring lightness of touch. You need to preorder this right now! -- Elizabeth Morris * Crib Notes *


A beautifully human story, romantic and heady and violent and sexy and gorgeously realised. It is honestly the best thing I have read this year -- Kirsty Capes, author of The Girls and Careless An intelligently nuanced and provocative exploration of female desire, motherhood and creativity. A very sexy, deceptively readable novel, which delves into deep questions with an alluring lightness of touch. You need to preorder this right now! -- Elizabeth Morris * Crib Notes * What a gorgeous, hot-blooded novel about art, the senses, and the multitudes of the female body -- Charlotte Runcie, author of Bring the House Down Such a thought-provoking, sexy, immersive read... a sun-soaked love letter to complicated women and female artists -- Cesca Major, author of Maybe Next Time and If I Were You A gorgeous, sultry novel about the push and pull of desire, and an artist living in a world that asks too much of a woman -- Szilvia Molnar, author of The Nursery Emotionally precise and devastating, hopeful and singular -- Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of The Lasting Harm Clever, tense, erotic, with a deftness of touch that packs a feminist punch -- Jessica Cornwell, author of Birth Notes Positively thrums with tension. Erotic, sensuous and eviscerating -- Lori Inglis Hall, author of The Shock of the Light A deeply enjoyable, compelling, and moving meditation on womanhood, desire, and the impulse to create. Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's glistening prose is a delight -- Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women What a sharp, beautiful meditation on the female body. This is a quietly stunning novel that I think will have an enduring impact on its readers -- Emily Howes, author of The Painter's Daughters Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett masterfully weaves themes of friendship, art and desire into a taut, tense novel about four women holidaying together on a Greek island. Bold and beguiling - as well as utterly transportive - Female, Nude explores the nuances of feminine power and identity, and seduces in the very best way. This is summer reading that leaves you feeling a little smarter, a little changed -- Hannah Richell, author of The Search Party and The River Home A literary novel that has all the propulsion of a thriller. Smart, sharp and sexy -- Georgina Moore, author of The Garnett Girls


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Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is the author of the memoir The Year of the Cat, a previous novel The Tyranny of Lost Things, and a collection of her Guardian columns, The Republic of Parenthood. She also reviews fiction for the Guardian and her journalism has appeared in Vogue, the Observer Magazine, i newspaper, TIME, the New Statesman, Stylist, Elle, and many more. Raised in Wales, she lives in north London with her husband, son, and cat, Mackerel.

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