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If you’re looking for a sharp, sexy, funny age-gap romance then look no further 🥵❤️🔥🌶️
Pre Order Someone Your Own Age now!
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On the eve of her forty-second birthday, Esme’s husband announces he’s leaving her for a twenty-something sound bath practitioner. Desperate to avoid becoming her mother (who left her marriage in tatters and abandoned Esme as a child), she throws herself into her work, but when she meets new office temp Callum, Esme finds herself in the middle of what appears to be a second sexual awakening.
Inexplicably drawn to Callum and the potential of someone eleven years her junior, Callum and Esme embark on a secret affair that gives Esme back the joy she was missing in her staid, joyless marriage. The two grow closer, but Esme knows that she can never be more than a secret, physical connection - she’s too old, too career-driven, she’s approaching the end of fertility. What could a young, handsome aspiring actor want with her, anyway?
But when Esme is forced to choose between what society deems acceptable and her feelings for Callum, will she follow her heart, or her head?
A sharp, sexy, funny love story about ageing, leaving your baggage behind, and the power of dating like a man. Fans of The Idea of You, Daisy Buchanan, Caroline O’Donoghue and the film Babygirl will love this.
❄️ Giveaway #1! ❄️
I’m so excited to bring you the first of several giveaways for Head Over Skis, and with this one you get the chance to read the first few chapters of the book early 😱.
Full details are in the video and summarised below:
Giveaway includes: signed, handwritten note, bookmarks, stickers, AND a booklet containing the first three chapters of the book!
To enter:
1 entry = like and comment
10 entries = pre-order the book and send me a screenshot
Giveaway is open to those based in the UK and Europe.
Winner announced on 17th May.
Good luck!! ❄️💙🎿
#romancebooks #winterromance #cosyromance #headoverskis
With the assisted dying bill in its final day in parliament, it felt timely to introduce you to Fight To The Death.
From Paul Brand, Fight To The Death is the definitive book on the global battle over assisted dying, exposing the fierce moral, legal and political clashes that define one of the most urgent human rights debates of our time.
Fight To The Death is available to pre-order now, publishing in October 2026.
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Every story in this book begins with a life shaped by love.
Assisted dying is a question that reaches into the deepest parts of us, sitting at the intersection of medicine, morality and personal liberty. For decades, debates around legalisation have played out across the world, even as people on both sides have suffered, struggling with impossibly complex choices.
In Fight to the Death, award-winning journalist Paul Brand explores the lives unfolding behind the headlines, collecting true stories from those who stand on both sides of assisted dying: people living with unrelenting pain who long for autonomy in their final days, and those who have lost someone they love to a decision they could not accept.
These narratives are not arguments on either side of a political debate, but lives unfolding – a mother facing the slow erosion of her body, a son believing he made a merciful choice. Brand takes us inside the rooms where those decisions are confronted - in the hospitals, kitchens, courtrooms and quiet late-night conversations.
Honest and unflinching, Fight to the Death invites readers to witness, not judge. This is a book about the limits of the human body, the strength of family, and the emotional landscapes no law can ever capture.
‘A haunting, honest work of art… Absolutely beautiful’ Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Eirinie Carson‘s debut fiction novel, Bloodfire, Baby, is out on the 21st May.
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Sofia is losing her grip.
She planned to be the perfect mother, and nothing like her own, who raised her to fear the end of the world was approaching.
When Sofia’s husband leaves for an extended work trip and she is left with their three-week old daughter, it’s not long before loneliness and anxiety manifest into something else. Sofia descends into paranoia, and sleep-deprived madness.
She is from a long line of women, all the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter. Her bloodline dates back to 1700s colonised Jamaica. Is that where the source of her haunting lies? Who is this shadow that stalks her in the night? And the face that appears beside her own in the mirror?
There isn’t anything she wouldn’t do, Sofia realises, to protect her new baby girl from these threats.
Even bloody violence.
We all love ASMR behind the scenes content, right? Here’s Becca putting together more influencer boxes for the fabulous Turn Back Time by @eleanortuckerauthor which publishes next week!
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You could look 20 years younger. Would you do it?
47-year-old beauty journalist Erica Pells is over the ‘pro-ageing’ articles she is exclusively asked to write (apart from the punny headlines that no one appreciates). Frankly, she’s over most things; getting older, heavy contouring and boring old Wiltshire.
So when her former editor gives her the opportunity to try a revolutionary hi-tech beauty treatment called WULT (Woke Up Like This), that promises to make you look 20 years younger, she jumps at the chance. What has she got to lose, anyway?
But how does a Gen X woman who grew up with Bridget Jones survive when she looks like fresh-faced Gen Z?
🍓To celebrate the UK release of Princeweaver by @elianjmorgan we have teamed up with @bookloversbookshop for a competition that could land you with a signed copy of the book, some book lovers goodies and a limited edition Princeweaver tote bag 🦊🍓🪶🍂
To enter, all you have to do is:
🦊 Follow @canelo_co and @bookloversbookshop
🦊 Like this post
🦊 Tag a friend for an extra entry
*Entries close 24th April at 5pm GMT. This competition is open to UK and Irish residents only. The promoter reserves the right to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. The winner will be notified by DM and must claim their prize in 5 working days, if unclaimed, the promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected. No purchase necessary to enter. By entering, each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.
Good luck !! 🍓
Do you like a romantasy that has hot vampires? Of course you do 🧛♂️
If you want to be in with a chance of getting a proof copy of Of Shadows and Blood by @ivyrosewrites , you can sign up via the link in our bio 🩸
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In a realm of Vampyrs, bloodlust takes Liv to another reality. From the bleak and dystopian, to the pale and enchanted: their thirst must be quenched…
Liv has woken up from a coma. Except she isn’t anywhere she recognises.
The last thing she remembers is the fall she had from a tree in her home village; a barren, unforgiving land where thirst is endless and labor is unyielding. Struggling with the conflicting feelings she harbors for her absent, enigmatic neighbor, Sawyer, she searches for meaning in a world that seems to offer none.
Now with fractured memories and a forgotten past, Liv awakens in a forgotten kingdom, Lux, inhabited by Vampyr, magical sorceresses, and humans: all of whom believe she is the next queen destined to rule on a continent of tense rival kingdoms.
Torn between the fragmented pieces of her identity and the unsettling allure of their king, she must navigate a realm of ancient politics, shadowed love, and dangerous bargains. As she battles to reclaim her lost memories and redefine her purpose, Liv faces an impossible choice: trust the cold Vampyr King to help break her curse or flee.
No thoughts, just this book
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Princeweaver has been calling my name ever since I heard its’ release being whispered about upon the grapevine (which is on April 16th, btw - I see you adding it to your tbr 😉).
This is a spellbinding reimagining of the English conquest of Wales, following Meilyr & Osian, who are only marrying to save a warring kingdom. At least, that is before their feelings towards each other begin go grow.
Thank you so much @canelo_co for the beautiful finished copy & all the pretty goodies! Im so excited to jump into this 🥰
#fantasybookstagram #fantasybookrecommendations #bookrecsofinstagram #romantasybooks #bookgirlies
✨🥹I FREAKING LOVE MY PUBLISHER😭✨
Not @canelo_co stepping up again with this absolutely wonderful magical Princeweaver box 🥹 these are starting to make their way out into the world and I am so in love with them...! (Yes that's a TOTE BAG I will be using everywhere, and yes that's a candle and yes it smells AMAZING.)
I can't thank @emly_bedford and the whole team enough for all the care you guys take over every little thing. I am truly so so lucky, and my queer romantic fantasy could not have found a better home than with you all. 💙
I'll be sharing the author letter I got to write for this and a few other details at a later date, but for now catch me crying over this.
Reminder that PRINCEWEAVER COMES OUT IN LESS THAN THREE WEEKS (wtf??), my pre-order campaign 🔗 is in my bio AND if you order from @lovestoriesbookshop you can get extra swag!! 🏴✨
(P.S. Bookplate art by the brilliant @mariamarcelw 💙)
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👑🌿 If you like your queer romantic fantasy trilogies SUPER slow burn, with marriages of convenience AND magically-bonded main characters, PRINCEWEAVER might be for you! It's also steeped in Welsh folklore and history, with a splattering of botanical body horror, and I cannot wait for it to be out in the world. 💙
Out APRIL 14th in the USA, April 16th in the UK with Canelo (DK, PRH)!
#princeweaver @2026_debuts #queerfantasy #lgbtfantasybooks #mmromantasy
