Launching Mid 2026
Hard cover edition 
 
Dead Dog Barking by Thompson
 
Dead Dog Barking
by Thompson
Prepare to be entertained through the story crafting genius of Love, Thompson. Charlie Black has spent five years searching for herself in Indian ashrams, and all she's found is loneliness, a secret obsession with a man she's never seen, and a chocolate habit she can't kick.
Now she's back in the small Australian town of Sope, minding her Aunt Bell and Uncle Ned's beloved pub while they holiday in Europe. It should be simple enough. Except that the neighbour's insufferable dog, the one she's nicknamed Doug (Dog Off Under Ground), hasn't stopped barking since she left. And her neighbour Hope (as in, hope you don't get too upset when I kill your dog) shows no signs of caring.
Between Doug's relentless racket, the chaos of running a country pub, and the lingering memory of a deep-voiced stranger whose arm sent electricity through her in a Delhi airport, Charlie's hard-won calm is unravelling fast.
Dead Dog Barking is a wickedly funny, warm-hearted story about coming home, falling apart, and the unexpected ways love finds us, usually when we're flat on our backs with our dress the wrong way up.