The Borough Press wins auction for Ahana Virdi’s dark and compelling ‘Sour Fruit’

We are delighted to share that the Borough Press, will be publishing Sour Fruit by Ahana Virdi in Spring 2026!

The Borough Press’ Suzie Dooré, won UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) to Sour Fruit, at a two-way auction. Cara Lee Simpson said: “We are so excited to have found the perfect home for Sour Fruit with Suzie and the team at Borough. Their plans are as wild and creative as the book itself, and we can’t wait to work together to bring readers to this remarkable new voice in literary fiction.”

Virdi said: “I am so excited to be published by The Borough Press. I feel incredibly lucky to be working with a team that is so passionate and talented and has such an amazing vision for my book.” 

Dooré said: “Ahana’s voice exploded from the page when I first read this, and I knew I had to publish it. It’s a blisteringly fresh take on the hugely popular ’sad girl’ sub-genre—Ahana is a true original with a very bright future.” 

Sour Fruit is a dark and compelling lead literary debut about Avni, a young woman whose appetites threaten to overwhelm her. Grieving over the unexplained death of her girlfriend and trapped in a spiral of bad casual sex and self-loathing, she is finding it increasingly hard to suppress her craving for something unspeakable.