It's HardBack Out Here | Books for your 20s

Flatmates can be hell… and we can’t wait to chat about it! On Thursday 28th May we are bringing you our flagship book club event AS WELL as a live interview with the amazing Tobi Coventry! We’ll be chatting with Tobi about hellish flatmates, lonely London, writing queer horror, and a whole lot more before splitting into small groups for community discussions about this novel! Tickets are available in the bio - we can’t wait to see you all there 🫶 #bookclub #bookrecs #authorinterview #reading #tbr

So, how did It’s Hardback Out Here begin?! 👀 We’re finally spilling the tea and sharing the full origin story of IHOH… Spoiler alert: it started with three best friends, a pub, and a lot of feelings about how hard(back) out here it is living in London in our 20s 💌❤️‍🩹 Each month we explore a new theme that speaks to the real stuff 20-somethings face. From career qualms to quarter-life identity-crises to dating disasters, we pick books that just get it, for people that just get it 🤩📚 We’d love to see you at our next book club, social or author interview – there is a friendly, welcoming community waiting for you here ❣️ we promise x P.S. we LOVE community input so if you have any book recs, suggestions for events or ideas of ways that we can make this community even better then keep ‘em coming. You (our members) ARE It’s Hardback Out Here and we want this to be a space FOR you, so please don’t be shy! Love, Team IHOH Hana, Em and Josh 😚x #bookclub #social #socialevent #meetingpeople #newfriends #friends #friendship #makingfriends #londonevents #thingstodoinlondon #community #londoncommunity #twenty #twenties #20something #twentysomething #20something #BookClubLondon #Bookstagram #ReadingInYour20s #BookClubCommunity

What a HUGE honour to host the sold out paperback launch of @emmagannonuk Table For One last night at the GORGEY @librerialondon ! Table For One was honestly the perfect book to chat about with Emma - following Willow, a millennial going through a big break-up, who, after being pitted against a Gen Z ‘single’ influencer, realises that they can both learn so much from each other in their journey into discovering themselves. We loved hosting Emma and our wonderful community so much, this was a really really special one for us 🥹 thanks so much to @harperfiction @harpercollinsuk for the opportunity!! Stay tuned for what’s next divas! WE LOVE YOU! xoxox

Hands up if you too have survived the OpenRent wars 🙌 This month we’re looking at the theme of “Flatmates” by reading “He’s The Devil”! This spooky, steamy novel follows Simon as he welcomes the enigmatic Massimo into his home. Massimo’s arrival brings out something new in Simon; something exciting and horrifying, something that could be the beginning or end of him. Flatmates can be hell… We can’t wait to discuss this novel with you all, and also maybe even with a very special guest 👀 (more info coming very sooooooon) Keep your eyes peeled for more info coming soon girlies! See you later this month 🫶 #londonbookclub #botm #flatmates #bookrecs #booksbooksbooks

One week today we’re hosting the ✨ official London paperback launch ✨ of @emmagannonuk Table For One! We’ll be at the GORGEOUS @librerialondon . Genuinely have to pinch myself sometimes because Emma was such a vision board author for us and we are so lucky to be collabing with @harpercollinsuk for this event 🥹 There are < 10 tickets left so run don’t walk to the link in our bio and we shall see you there 🥹🩷 - Em, Josh & Hana x

Spring is in full swing, and SO ARE WE!😮‍💨 Keep up with the IHOH divas at our next events! We’re chatting NEXT WEEK about Chetna Maroo’s fantastic “Western Lane” at our flagship Book Club event, and then diving back into our hosting era for the sensational Emma Gannon’s paperback release of “Table For One”! The good times keep rolling!🫶 Tickets available in the bio for all of our events, and we can’t wait to see you all there! LOVE YOU XOXO #bookevents #thingstodoinlondon #reading #books #bookstagram

If you haven’t read our BOTM yet then where have you been diva?? Here’s @joshpullinger_ review of Western Lane by Chetna Maroo, there are still some tickets for book club on Monday AND she’s only 150 pages so you’ve got no excuses xoxox #bookclub #londonbookclub #20something

Ticking off the dream event list one paperback launch at a time 😍 We’re incredibly excited to be partnering with Harper Collins to bring you the London paperback launch of Emma Gannon’s INCREDIBLE “Table For One” at the gorgeous Libreria bookshop! We’ll be celebrating the work all evening with plenty of bookish chats with London literature lovers, and a live interview with Emma discussing the novel - IT’S A BOOK GIRLY’S DREAM 🫶 We can’t wait to celebrate this amazing novel’s new life, and we’re so excited to share this evening with all of you! Limited tickets available in the bio x #paperback #bookclub #bookrecs #thingstodoinlondon #reading

20-SOMETHINGS OF LONDON !! 📢📢📢📢 I have a PSA for you: CHECK OUT THE LINK IN OUR B!0 FOR YOUR NEXT SPRING EVENING PLANS - we can promise you great chat, great books and a whole bunch of new besties 🤩🪩 Can't wait to meet you soon <3 Upcoming events: ⭐ 21st April ~ In Conversation with Ela Lee on "Minbak" ⭐ 27th April ~ Book Club reading Western Lane by Chetna Maroo 🎫🎟️🎫🎟️🎫🎟️🎫🎟️🎫🎟️🎫 #bookclubsofinstagram #Bookstagram #londonsummer #authorinteview #londonevents

A week tomorrow we’ll be interviewing @ela__lee at @claphambooks ! 🌸 You might have heard about JADED (very IHOH coded, a young lawyer that wakes up wondering how she got home and faced to confront the realities of climbing the corporate ladder)! Ela is an amazing writer - and was also named in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2025! MINBAK tells the story of three generations of women who are forced to confront their history in the same room, from South Korea to London. It’s poignant, heartbreaking - and one that we think you will love as much as us! We’ll be chatting all things writing in your 20s, moving from lawyer to author and of course all things MINBAK! Limited tickets are available in our bio, we’ll see you there 😚 xxx

No matter how old we get, we’ll always be our parents’ babies 👶 This month we’re reading “Western Lane” by Chetna Maroo and talking about the theme of “parents” in our 20’s, and we thought you guys could do with a few more recs on theme to add to the tbr 🙂‍↕️ Come along and chat to us on May 28th as we discuss “Western Lane” by Chetna Maroo at our regular flagship Book Club event! Tickets in the bio!x #bookrecs #readingrecs #readingrecommendations #books #bookclub

Book of the month book of the month book of the MONTH! 🪩 This month’s BOTM is Western Lane by Chetna Maroo! We can’t wait to chat to you all about it, link’s in our bio and we’ll see you the last Monday of the month @theministry.london If you can’t wait until then we’re also interviewing @ela__lee at @claphambooks for MINBAK on the 21st and we can’t wait! 💖💖💖 #bookclub #itshardbackouthere #booksbooksbooks