Londoners you're in luck!
Both Brixton Library and Waterstones Piccadilly have released some extra tickets for their events with @tayari ! Head over to our website for info on how to book.
Hurry, before they're gone 🏃♀️➡️🏃♂️➡️
💛🩷Cover reveal!
Hannah is a journalist running on empty. Balancing the chaos of new motherhood, her job and her faith, she increasingly feels the judgement of a newsroom that doesn’t value her voice. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall.
As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza intensifies, a teenage student is arrested for protesting a university’s ties to an Israeli arms manufacturer. Both Hannah and Ashraf are pulled into the unfolding drama – but in very different ways. While Hannah fights to tell the true story, risking her place in the newsroom, Ashraf chooses caution, prioritising his reputation as the stakes rise around him.
As their paths begin to converge, both must confront what they are willing to stand for – and what their silence might cost them.
Perfect for fans of Enter Ghost and Prophet Song, this is a powerful, emotionally charged novel about grief, privilege and the complicity of silence
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How Queer Bookshops Changed the World is going on tour!! ❤️🏳️🌈
Over the next few months A.J West will be travelling across the UK to visit some wonderful bookshops.
Find out how to get your tickets in @ajwestauthor 's bio or over on our website 🎟️
May is Short Story Month!
Short stories are great if you’re in a reading slump or looking for a short, slim book to be a trusty companion on your next visit to the park or beach ☀️
Here are 6 short story collections we think you’ll love ❤️
🌼 Hail Mary by Funmi Fetto
☀️ For Such a Time as This by Shani Akilah
🌼 Monstrum by Lottie Mills
☀️ Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
☀️ Man v. Nature by Diane Cooke
🌼 Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
For over a century, booksellers have been the unsung heroes of queer libration, offering friendship solidarity and sanctuary.
How Queer Bookshops Changed the World celebrates cherished bookstores past and present, the groundbreaking books they housed when others wouldn't and the booksellers who demonstrated courage and community through it all.
This wonderfully informative and life-affirming book is out today! ❤️🏳️🌈
@ajwestauthor shares his four favourite queer bookshop ‘did ya knows’ (aka, fun facts!)
You can find out about these, and so many more, amazing and inspiring people and bookshops in How Queer Bookshops Changed the World which is out on Thursday!
Special thanks to @gaysthewordbookshop for letting us film outside their gorgeous shop 🏳️🌈❤️ #bookstagram #bookshops #lgbtqbooks #lgbtq #bookish
ONE WEEK TO LAUNCH: The first EVER history of queer bookshops from 1700 to present day. A truly incredible story of radical love, queer power and mind blowing bravery.
@ajwestauthor says: "This book completely transformed the way I think about queer history and I know it'll do the same for you.
"It's so rare to find a truly untold history these days, and I'm proud to share this extraordinary and hitherto untold story.
"These shops didn't just change the world, they revolutionised it, and it's high time these heroes past and present got the acclaim they deserve."
How Queer Bookshops will change the world on May 7th. Link in bio to order now.
The Fruit Fly book tour continues!! 🪰🍊
Don’t miss the last two London dates, a super exciting Manchester event with @ocean_vuong plus some special visits for fans over in Australia and New Zealand.
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✨Exciting news! ✨ An adaptation of Eating Ashes by @despixeleada will be screening at Cannes Film Festival in May!
Directed and produced by Diego Luna and starring incredible actors such as Anna Diaz, Adriana Paz, Laura Gomez and Charlie Rowe, this Spanish language adaptation, ‘Ashes’, is sure to be as moving as the wonderful book it’s based on 🧡
The day has finally come, Fruit Fly is out today!! 🪰🍊
This darkly funny literary satire moves from middle-class secrets and pretentious literary parties to the raw underworld of chemsex, abuse and addiction, examining privilege, queer identity, and our modern obsession with authenticity.
Step into the world of Mallory and Leo. You’re in for a wild ride!
P.S. keep an eye out for Fruit Fly in the Tube! 💚🧡
The KIN book tour is approaching and we are so excited for @tayari 's visit! 🤍💛
All the booking links are now live and on our website (which you can find linked in our bio)
See you there!
