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Thursday, August 13, 2026

Book Spotlight: Give Me Everything You've Got by Imogen Crimp

 













Give Me Everything You've Got by Imogen Crimp
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Publication Date: July 21, 2026
Format: Hardcover - 304 pages
               Audiobook - 9 Hours 35 Minutes
               Kindle - 289 pages
               Nook - 304 pages
ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1250792792
ASIN (Audiobook): B0FT43Y74W
ASIN (Kindle): B0FMS98N9B
BNID (Nook): 978-1250792808
Genre: Literary Fiction / Women's Fiction



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Book Description:


A seductive modern gothic novel following a promising young filmmaker during one sun-bleached July at a famous director’s summer home

In the midst of an unrelenting heatwave, up-and-coming filmmaker Ruby arrives at the summer home of her idol. Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist director known for mentoring other women, has offered Ruby a room of her own while she finishes her screenplay. Hyped as the next big thing, producers are clamouring for a “female story” mined from Ruby’s trauma, and her deadline is fast approaching.

When she arrives in the countryside, Ellen’s house emerges like something out of a dream—grand and imposing, surrounded by sprawling gardens and a shimmering swimming pool. But tension thrums beneath the picture-perfect surface. Ellen’s reputation is under fire after she’s accused of appropriating a story that wasn’t hers to tell. Meanwhile, Ellen’s mercurial twenty-something daughter Lara lounges by the pool under the blistering sun, drawing her mother’s latest houseguest towards her like a moth to a flame.

Trapped between scorched empty fields and waiting for the heat to break, Ruby’s aspirational summer of artistic retreat spirals into an all-consuming affair. Even the house itself begins to feel haunted, and Ruby has the unnerving sensation that she’s not the first promising young woman brought here to fall under its spell.

Hot to the touch, Imogen Crimp’s Give Me Everything You’ve Got is a spellbinding fever dream, exploring the dark corners of ambition, exploitation, and what it takes to be a woman artist.





About The Author



Imogen Crimp’s debut novel A Very Nice Girl was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize, selected for Malala Yousafzai’s Fearless Book Club and chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times and Grazia. her recent novel, Give Me Everything You've Got was published in July 2026. She lives in London.


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Thursday TBR: 8/13/2026

 




Welcome to Thursday TBR


Every Thursday I will be sharing my current top TBR books that I want to read. Of course, the TBR list will change from week to week as I read the books, or if new books pique my interest more! My ever-increasing TBR list is just another way of sharing my passion for reading books.