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thrilled to be here!

Okay, so here it is, my news in full!

I’ve written a novel, Determination about Jamila Shah, an overworked and under appreciated immigration solicitor, and all the characters that populate her world.

It took me YEARS to write and I’m so excited to share it with you! ❤️❤️❤️

Out now! Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Hanako Footman reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope in Mongrel, out now: bit.ly/3uD5EQS

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Really excited about A WOMAN OF PLEASURE, the first novel to be translated into English by legendary Japanese writer Kiyoko Murata, based on the true story of the Meiji-era courtesans who organised a labour-strike. Out in March from Footnote Press - hmu for proofs x

🍂 Happy publication day to Moving Mountains - edited by Louise Kenward and with a foreword by Samantha Walton, this compendium of 24 writers' works on nature, disability and chronic illness is one to treasure throughout the seasons. 🍂

🍃 Read now at footnotepress.com/books/moving-m…

THANK YOU!! I am bowled over by the love for MOVING MOUNTAINS today!

Enormously grateful to you all. Wonderful also to see everyone who joined us this evening online with David Cooper Centre for Place Writing & Manchester Poetry Library, and special guests Cat Chong Khairani Barokka & Sally Huband.

With just 2 weeks to #MovingMountains 📚

‘An anthology to treasure and return to’ Dr Elinor Cleghorn

‘Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful’ Lucy Jones

‘Deeply affecting’ Tom Shakespeare

‘Promises to change the landscape of nature writing’ hux | lizzie huxley-jones 🍟📚

an intro to contributors:

Delighted to be publishing Maurice J Casey's brilliant, radical biography next year!

Highlights from the editorial process include Rose Cohen 'comrade-zoning' an ardent communist suitor and Liam O'Flaherty occupying the Rotunda concert hall for five days

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could not be more excited for this, especially with key feline endorsement here

My life peaked this week when I got to judge a samosa competition! Contest was between restaurants on Drummond Street, where trade has sunk by 60% due to HS2 construction work. The street is very much open and accessible through a corridor to the left of Euston Station. Go visit.

Preparing for the launch of #MovingMountains , I thought I'd share some #writing that explains & explores a bit about what led to this #anthology & how I connect with #nature & ideas of 'nature cure' living with #illness & #disability #place 📚💙🌿🐌 thepolyphony.org/2022/09/20/s...

Happy Publication Day to Maylis de Kerangal and Jessica Moore (trans.)! CANOES is a beautiful collection of seven short stories and a novella themed around women's voices 🛶

You can find one of these stories below, and buy the full collection here: hachette.co.uk/titles/maylis-…

Listen to me read an exclusive extract from NADEZHDA IN THE DARK Footnote Press
and talk about subversion, slav queerness, & prose-poetry

🖤Thank you Anna Burtt 🖤

And join me The Coast Is Queer Festival on Oct 15 with Maria Jastrzebska & Dvijka collective to talk about QUEER UKRAINE 🇺🇦 🌈

Can't wait for you all to read Malwina Gudowska beautiful words! 'Thought-provoking' gets used a lot in this industry, but really this book provoked SO MANY thoughts as I read the manuscript that my mark-up has involved far more musings on the topics raised than anything else 😅

Teary-eyed mother of this brand new body [of text]. Thank you Rose Green and Footnote Press for all your midwifery !