Happy publication day to the wonderful @seanluskauthor and his brilliant second novel A Woman of Opinion! 📜🪶
To celebrate we’re delighted to partner with Sean to give away this curated pack, perfect for any opinionated woman! To enter comment your favourite strong female character and tag a friend who inspires you! T&Cs apply.
A Woman of Opinion by @seanluskauthor is out now in hardback! 📚📜🪶
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‘I shall be a thousand different Marys and, in such manner, shall find the one I wish to be...’
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu longs for adventure, freedom and love, believing that only by truly living can she ever escape the stalking crow of Death...
An aristocratic woman in 18th century England is expected to act in certain ways. But Mary has never let society’s expectations stifle her: she writes celebrated poetry and articles advocating for equality, as well as endless, often scandalous, letters to her many powerful friends.
However, Mary wants more from the world. Using her charm and connections, she engineers a job offer for her husband as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Travelling to Constantinople, Mary finally discovers the autonomous life she dreams of. And when she observes Turkish women ‘engrafting’ children against smallpox, she resolves to bring the miracle cure back to England.
Despite this, Mary’s reputation becomes increasingly tainted. Her inability to abide by the rules, her outspoken opinions on women’s rights, and her search for love and desire at all costs gains her powerful enemies. While Mary tries to ensure her name will live on by arranging the publication of her diaries after her death, her own daughter works against her, afraid of what they might contain...
An illuminating and beautiful novel, A Woman of Opinion gives a voice to the tragically unremembered yet extraordinary life of pioneering poet and feminist, Mary Wortley Montagu.
We are extremely excited that Paddy Crewe’s stunning second novel True Love is publishing tomorrow! 🎉
We can’t wait for you to read this gorgeous and tender novel about what it means to love and be loved. But don’t just take our word for it…
‘Paddy Crewe writes with a lyrical, lonely prose that’s full of the kind of tenderness which both frightens and saves us’ Minnie Driver
‘Empathetic, honest, compelling. I’ll read anything Paddy Crewe writes.’ Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
‘True Love had me from its gorgeous, lyrical opening to its transcendent final pages. Paddy Crewe is an exceptionally gifted writer.’ Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses
‘Pulls you in, holds you fast. A mesmerising tale of love and the depth of loneliness.’ Claire Daverley, author of Talking at Night
True Love is out on 4th July, and is available to buy via the link in our bio 🧡
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What does it mean to love and be loved?
It is the 1980s and Finn and Keely are growing up in the North East of England.
Keely is a fighter. Even in the face of loss she strives to seek connection, but finds that she’s not always searching in the right places.
Finn is quiet, sensitive, distant. He spends much of his time alone, yet deep down he wants to discover the thrill of relating to others.
When the two finally meet, everything is changed. Love – with all of its attendant joys and costs – is thrust upon them, and each must decide if they will bend or break under its pressure. True Love is a story of the trials of youth, the bonds of family and friendship, and of how much we are willing to risk to have ourselves be seen.
‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’
Heart, Be at Peace is the stunning new novel from the number one bestselling author Donal Ryan; a standalone novel that can also be read as a companion to the award-winning bestseller, The Spinning Heart.
Out on 8th August.
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Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two.
In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.
But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch…
A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan’s multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’.
GIVEAWAY 🚨📚
As Pride Month draws to a close, we are VERY excited to be doing a giveaway for one lucky person to win two gorgeous paperback copies of Bellies (one for you and one for a friend) along with some epic ‘Bellies’ branded socks!! 🧦
To enter this giveaway, like this photo and leave a comment tagging the person that you would give your spare copy to 🧡 Make sure you are following us, otherwise your entry won’t count!
Giveaway ends Sunday 30th June at midnight and a winner will be selected randomly on Monday 1st July.
Winners will be contacted by DM and must be willing to provide a UK postal address. T&Cs apply.
Good luck! 🤞
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Discover the beautiful coming-of-age story about falling in-and-out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak.
It begins as your typical boy meets boy.
Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life.
Then Ming announces her intention to transition.
As Tom and Ming both face shifts in their relationship and confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken, they must both ask if it is worth losing a part of themselves – or each other – to become the people they want to be.
Wishing a very happy publication day to @bea.setton whose brilliant book Plaything is out now in Hardback!
We’re also excited to be publishing these two wonderful novels in paperback today, The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone by Alex McCarthy and Word Monkey by the late Christopher Fowler.
All books are available to buy at your local bookshop 📖
Last night we celebrated the cover reveal of The Blue Hour by turning London blue. The cover was projected onto the Tate Modern, a nod to the opening scene in the book, and two other major London landmarks.
We are thrilled to be publishing this gripping and atmospheric novel this October.
You can pre-order a copy with @waterstones and receive 50% off until 10am on Friday 28th June.
#TheBlueHour@paulahawkins2010
A Dangerous Time To Be Alone … ⏳
Introducing The Blue Hour. A dark and unapologetic addictive thriller, from the bestselling author of the global phenomenon The Girl on the Train, @paulahawkins2010
Eris, an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland twelve hours each day. ⏳
Once home to Vanessa. A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.
Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.
But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.
And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge …
The Blue Hour is out 10th October 2024.
You can pre-order from Waterstones and receive 50% off until 10am on 28th June!
The inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book 💛📖
What You Are Looking for is in the Library is out now in paperback and available to buy in your favourite bookshop 📖
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What are you looking for?
So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has the unique ability to read the souls of anyone who walks through her door. Sensing exactly what they’re looking for in life, she provides just the book recommendation they never knew they needed to help them find it.
Every borrower in her library is at a different crossroads, from the restless retail assistant - can she ever get out of a dead-end job? - to the juggling new mother who dreams of becoming a magazine editor, and the meticulous accountant who yearns to own an antiques store. The surprise book Komachi lends to each will change their lives for ever ❤️🩹
Life of the Party is @oliviagatwood ’s dazzling debut collection of poetry ✨
And you can now get your hands on this brand new paperback look 😍
Are you a big reader of poetry? If so this should definitely be on your TBR 💙🩷
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In this powerful, candid collection, Olivia Gatwood explores the trials and triumphs of growing up as a woman.
She celebrates the teenage girl and the colour pink while questioning the role that fear and male violence play in who we are and what we become. These piercing poems are at times blistering and riotous, and at times soulful and exuberant.
Balancing singularity of view with a sense of universal experience, Life of the Party is about the pain, the joy, the challenge, the reward of being a girl and a woman in today’s world.
‘Yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me’ JAMIE LOFTUS
Wishing a very happy publication day to @thejaneflett and her delicious novel, Freakslaw! 🎡🎉
A travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?
Make sure this one is on your summer TBR 📚🔥
Out now!
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It’s the summer of ’97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the Freakslaw – a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, the most powerful fortune teller, and other architects of mayhem. It doesn’t take long for the Freakslaw folk to infiltrate Pitlaw’s grey world, where the town’s teenagers – none more so than Ruth and Derek – are seduced by neon charms and the possibility of escape.
But beneath it all, these newcomers are harbouring a darker desire: revenge.
And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that’s been simmering for centuries is about to be unleashed…
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that The Silence in Between by @josie_ferguson_author has been shortlisted for the @waterstones Debut Fiction Prize!🏆
Huge congratulations to Josie, and the other shortlisted authors 🎉
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your child... The Silence in Between is a gripping historical debut about a family separated by the Berlin Wall.
Out tomorrow and available to order now via the link in our bio 📚
#WDFP#TheSilenceInBetween#JosieFerguson
