Jacqueline Crooks's second novel 'Sky City' arrives three years after Women's Prize-shortlisted debut

Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, published Jacqueline Crooks's second novel 'Sky City' on 6 August 2026. The debut, 'Fire Rush', was shortlisted for the Women's Prize in 2023. A three-year gap is notably fast for a prize-shortlisted novelist; many take five or more years between books.