Teddy Bears Never Die
The action-packed Korean revenge story of girl meets bear!
Cho Yeeun author Sung Ryu translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Publishing:21st May '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 21st May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'The perfect mix of horror and heart' - KYLIE LEE BAKER, author of Bat Eater
'Cho Yeeun is amazing. Insanely amazing' - BORA CHUNG, author of The Midnight Timetable
'The epitome of Cho Yeeun's hallmark style' - ANTON HUR, author of Toward Eternity
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The genre mash-up you've been waiting for - from the award-winning Korean author Cho Yeeun comes a new novel where a young girl and a teddy bear team up to enact revenge!
A poisoned city - A grieving daughter - A boy trapped in a bear's body.
When the fledgling coastal town of Yamu was rocked by a mass-poisoning attack at The Seaview Parc, the luxury high-rise meant to revitalise the city, Hwayoung was one of many who lost family members. Except she has never believed that her mother was poisoned. Now, fuelled by grief and a desire for revenge, Hwayoung spends her time hustling to save every penny and bring those responsible to justice.
Across town, Doha wakes up in a teddy bear and realizes something sinister has taken him over. When fate brings Hwayoung and Doha together, the two team up for a revenge quest that will shake the city's glittering façade to its rotten core.
This time, revenge is not just personal - it's supernatural.
** Translated from the Korean by Sung Ryu **
More praise for Teddy Bears Never Die:
'A grotesque, hilarious and heart-felt romp' - BITTER KARELLA, author of Moonflow
'Absolutely singular' - MEGAN BONTRAGER, author of The Sea Hides its Dead
'A savagely entertaining revenge tale' - JINWOO PARK, author of Oxford Soju Club
Readers LOVE this action-packed and thrilling revenge story:
'A fun tale, but also a very thought-provoking one' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I absolutely cannot stop talking about this book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'A wacky and wild ride' ⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Bloody violence mixed with cutesy ridiculousness' ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cho Yeeun masterfully pulls off this delightfully campy premise with both earnestness and wit. This is the perfect mix of horror and heart. * Kylie Lee Baker, author of BAT EATER and OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG *
Part buddy heist flick, part supernatural slasher revenge, Teddy Bears Never Die is a grotesque, hilarious, and heart-felt romp that will make you believe anything is possible with the power of friendship and extreme violence! * Bitter Karella, author of MOONFLOW *
Cho Yeeun's ability to balance sheer bloody wackiness with genuinely touching moments of friendship against all odds is absolutely singular. * Megan Bontrager, author of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD *
A savagely entertaining revenge tale that charges forward on a knife's edge, Teddy Bears Never Die pairs brutal social satire with a charming yet tragic supernatural companion. Elevated by Sung Ryu's sure-footed translation, Cho Yeeun infuses her signature dark, grotesque imagination into Korea's sense of han to tell a story about violence that festers under unresolved injustice. * Jinwoo Park, author of OXFORD SOJU CLUB *
This book made sense to me. It feels really weird to say this but in an extremely unhinged way, everything made sense. I know this world. Some of it is actually bits and pieces of my own life and the rest is everything I've only dreamed of. Cho Yeeun is amazing. Insanely amazing. I hope she'd kill them all. Literally and figuratively. Mostly literally. * Bora Chung, author of THE MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE *
Teddy Bears Never Die is the epitome of Cho Yeeun's hallmark style of combining fantastical genre-based storytelling with keen insight into contemporary social issues, aided this time by Sung Ryu, the finest Korean translator in the world. * Anton Hur, author of TOWARD ETERNITY *
ISBN: 9781035431250
Dimensions: 214mm x 134mm x 26mm
Weight: 305g
304 pages