Wonderful to see Maxine’s exquisite book out in paperback. Makes me want to read it all over again Hutchinson Heinemann Maxine Meifung Chung Anna Argenio

🫀 OUT TODAY IN PAPERBACK 🫀

Maxine Meifung Chung's extraordinary exploration of what makes us who we are.

'Full of wisdom and insight ... I cannot recommend it enough' JULIA SAMUEL
'Brilliant' KATY HESSEL
'Fascinating' GUARDIAN

#WhatWomenWant

turned out I only had one appropriate picture of me in a flat landscape where I was actually looking at the camera and not eg poking a standing stone, and in it I’m scowling next to a gate. Anyway I’m in Guardian Travel today, happier than I look theguardian.com/travel/2024/ja…

A distressed deer races to his home
And a stunned and silent swan
Wild turkeys stand as still as stone
Benjamin has gone.

Very honoured to have been asked to give the Prospect Cottage Lecture, which aims to uphold the spirit and values of the great Derek Jarman. I’ll be talking about ‘Some Gay Men I’ve Met in the Victorian Novel’ in Folkestone on 19 November, 6pm: creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/prosp…

Tonight is the night! We will present some of our new fiction publishing in 2024. Here's a snapshot of our exciting proofs. If you're joining us this evening, we can't wait to see you and don't forget to use the hashtag #HHShowcase24 💚

COVER REVEAL: Flora Carr dazzling story of desire, grit and God-given power during Mary Queen of Scots' darkest hour is out in March.

'I am moved and impressed' TRACY CHEVALIER
'A cocktail of tension and tenderness' SALLY HINCHCLIFFE

Pre-order now: penguin.co.uk/books/456704/t… 🔥

Had a great day at the first South London Feminist Book Club & North London Feminist Book Club Festival yesterday Laura Dockrill taylor-dior rumble @Jyoti_patel rebecca perry and JP Watson the pound project. Sadly Maxine Meifung Chung couldn’t make it but her wonderful publicist could! Looking forward to today!

Had a great day at the first South London Feminist Book Club Festival yesterday Laura Dockrill taylor-dior rumble @Jyoti_patel rebecca perry and JP Watson the pound project. Sadly Maxine Meifung Chung couldn’t make it but her wonderful publicist could! Looking forward to today!

Join Maxine Meifung Chung, author of WHAT WOMEN WANT, at the very first London Feminist Book Club Festival: a weekend of talks, creative workshops and panel discussions with London's poets, playwrights and spoken-word artists. Tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-femin… 🔅

'This book will certainly leave readers feeling a bit less alone, and a bit less afraid to want what they want.”

WHAT WOMEN WANT by Maxine Meifung Chung (out 9/19) is among the best books of September, according to Shondaland Digital! bit.ly/3L7FBXa

The brilliant and underappreciated Simone Weil died on this day in 1943, far too young, leaving us her timely wisdom on the relationship between our rights and our responsibilities – a tonic for our self-righteous times: themarginalian.org/2016/02/03/sim…

To celebrate #RomanceAwarenessMonth , WHAT WOMEN WANT by Maxine Meifung Chung is read now on @Netgalley through the end of August!

To desire is an action. This book empowers us to claim what we truly want.

Download here: netgal.ly/lOTccz

“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.”

On Baldwin's birthday, his advice on writing themarginalian.org/2016/02/08/jam…

Beautiful #Amalfi 🍋👌🏽

Thank you Tatler for featuring #WhatWomenWant alongside so many gorgeous books 📕 💛
Hutchinson Heinemann

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I'm in The Times and The Sunday Times today talking about matrescence, the science of the parental brain, the outdated misnomer of 'baby brain', the existential crisis of motherhood

thetimes.co.uk/article/yes-ha…