Since the days of Big Brother, reality TV has been a world ripe for extreme behaviour — making it the perfect setting for a thrilling novel about what happens when the experience goes wrong. Irish ...

We love watching people ruin their lives on television, while wanting to buy what the contestants are wearing and own the same make-up products. These are two of the themes tackled in Leitrim author ...

The author of the "GMA" Book Club pick for July dishes on her debut novel, which follows contestants on a dystopian reality show that quickly becomes a game of survival. Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars ...

The Compound opens with a dreamy, cinematic sequence: a beautiful woman wakes up in a house that is familiar, though she’s never been in it. It’s a sleek but derelict modernist building in the middle ...

First time novelist, Aisling Rawle, has just published "The Compound" - a book set in a semi-dystopian reality TV show. Reality TV shows may feel like their own dystopia to both fans of the genre and ...

The Borough Press emerged victorious in the five-way auction for ex-bookseller Aisling Rawle’s debut Easy Living, a dark literary satire about a reality TV show. Suzie Dooré, editor-at-large, and Beth ...

Tell us about your debut novel, The Compound. Louise O’Neill called it “Lord of the Flies meets Love Island”! The Compound is a dark satire of reality television. We follow 19 contestants in an ...

Debut novelist Aisling Rawle joins Sara for a chat about her brilliant new page-turner, 'The Compound'. It has been described as Lord Of The Flies meets Love Island - and will be a great book to keep ...

Aisling Rawle talks debut novel, 'The Compound'The author of the "GMA" Book Club pick for July dishes on her debut novel, which follows contestants on a dystopian reality show that quickly becomes a ...