🚨Quick request to give KILLING JERICHO a vote! Imagine a gay Traveller lead character making it to the #Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year SHORTLIST! What that would mean for representation in the genre!
Please vote Killing Jericho here 🕵️‍♂️🎡🏳️‍🌈
harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com/vote/

I started Clean after work yesterday and I just finished it, white-knuckled and silently screaming, on the tube this morning. Incredibly compelling and wildly dark, it’s an absolute bangerrrrrr 🧼🪣

This should be excellent, featuring, among others, Comma’s hero… Kamila Shamsie (oh and Basma too:). Peace for Palestine - Writing on the Wall writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/peace…

Book of the Week are springing into May with 'Death of a Bookseller' by Alice Slater 🐌!
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Explore what books available from our libraries by joining this delightful online reading group, log in to take part!⁣

📅 Friday 3 May, 2.30pm.⁣
📍Online.
🔗 eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-of-the-…

THIS WEEK! Join us to hear from Emmeline Clein & Alice Slater 🐌 7pm Weds 1st May, tickets £5: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/em…🎟️

Hauntingly macabre and piercingly insightful, these gothic stories lead you into a labyrinth of other possible worlds, each one darker than the last...

#FlowersFromTheVoid publishes 2nd May 🖤

serpentstail.com/work/flowers-f…

Sayaka Murata at Foyles Bookshop Charing Cross Road! A legend! A joy!

It’s been a year and a day since Death of a Bookseller was unleashed upon unsuspecting UK readers 🥲 thank you for reading my horrible little book – I’m so grateful for all the love and support! 🩷💚🐌

It’s my birthday today and we’re closing the web shop, and 3 of Cups in 3 days! I feel very sad about this but also very proud. Please buy a book if you’d like ❤️

They killed Refaat Alareer Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸’ daughter, the one to whom the poem “If I must die” was dedicated to. His entire bloodline being wiped out. This is genocide. May we all fly kites in their honor, reaching the heavens. 🪁

.Rita Bullwinkel's HEADSHOT came out in March & we are *so* excited that in May, we publish her collection of short stories, the brilliant BELLY UP. Dark, sharp-edged, slithering with strangeness, yet alway tied to a recognisable reality, they explore the human condition:

As if I was going to let #LesbianVisibilityWeek go by without something special for the lesbians (and the trans, bis, pans etc too, of course). SO SO SO excited for this!
thebookseller.com/rights/dialogu…

Essential reading for book people : Lincoln Michel (gently) rebuts some bits of the viral “books don’t sell” post.

To me the below is really key. We have to take it into account when drawing on the PRH/S&S merger case for information.

open.substack.com/pub/countercra…

Wild how many estate agents want to organise viewings on a weekday with less than 3hrs notice but also expect all tenants to be in full time work 🙂

Billie Eilish circa July 2019 to March 2021

I saw that snipers are on the roof of the student union at Ohio State right now as well. It’s incredible how terrified these universities are of their own students

The Israeli state has literally created hell on Earth. These are unspeakable and unforgivable atrocities.

Our next event is on Wednesday 1st May! Join us to hear Emmeline Clein discuss Dead Weight with Alice Slater 🐌 🎟️ Tickets are £5 including a glass of wine or soft drink and can be booked in the shop or online: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/em…