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💜🧡SHE’S HERE🧡💜 Happy publication day to #ProstituteLaundry by the incredible @charoshane 🧡 PROSTITUTE LAUNDRY is a radically honest, deeply thoughtful book about sensuality, money and identity — how those forces can break us and how they can make us whole again. Written as a series of confessional letters sent by the author to a small mailing list, Charlotte muses on the nature of sex work and the value of beauty, discovers hidden emotional complexities and contemplates leaving her profession. Philosophical, funny and explicit, this is an affecting, immediate account of one life lived to its fullest 🧡💜✨ Out now online and in shops! #debutbook #debutauthor #memoirwriting #memoir #newbook #bookstagramuk #feministliterature #feministbooks #feministbookclub #bookrecommendations #nonfiction #nonfictionbooks #newnonfiction
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Convincing you to read this summer’s most out-of-this-world read with just the opening line… ❤️ Deborah Willis’ dark, poignant and satirically funny debut #GirlfriendOnMars launches 6th July, and is PERFECT for fans of #MyYearOfRestAndRelaxation, #ImAFan and #FleishmanIsInTrouble. Buckle up for the trip of a lifetime…! 🚀 #Bookstagram #BookTok #Fiction #DebutFiction #Novel #DebutNovel #OpeningLines
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'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' – Guardian #AnExcitingAndVividInnerLife by Paul Dalla Rosa is a darkly funny short story collection that perfectly captures life in the internet age. Whether working in food service or in high-end retail, lit by a laptop in a sex chat or by the camera of an acclaimed film director, or sharing a flat in the city or a holiday rental in Mallorca, the protagonists of the ten stories comprising this debut navigate the spaces between aspiration and delusion, ambition and aimlessness, the curated profile and the unreliable body. By turns unsparing and tender, Dalla Rosa explores our lives in late-stage Capitalism, where globalisation and its false promises of connectivity leave us further alienated and disenfranchised. Like the legendary Lucia Berlin and his contemporary Ottessa Moshfegh, Dalla Rosa is a masterful observer-and hilarious eviscerator-of our ugly, beautiful attempts at finding meaning in an ugly, beautiful world. Publishing in paperback on 1st June. #Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #ShortStories #PaulDallaRosa #SundayTimesStoryPrize #LiteraryFiction
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'First they get married, then they get buried' 🌺 @SaraiWalkerAuthor explores sisterhood and tragedy in the paperback of #TheCherryRobbers. Publishing on June 1st, this is a tale of familial loyalty, sexuality, and coming-of-age that we can’t wait for you to read! Preorder available now. 🌺🌺🌺 About the book: The reclusive Sylvia Wren, one of the most important American artists of the past century, has been running from her past for sixty years. Born Iris Chapel, of the Chapel munitions dynasty, second youngest of six sisters, she grew up in a palatial Victorian 'Wedding Cake House' in New England, neglected by her distant father and troubled, haunted mother. The sisters longed to escape, but the only way out was marriage. Not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second sister, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, with heart-wrenching consequences. The Cherry Robbers is a wonderfully atmospheric, propulsive novel about sisterhood, mortality and forging one's own path. #thecherryrobbers #saraiwalker #fiction #igreads #serpentstail #bookstagram
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Our favorite books that incorporate myth and folklore ✨ The Green Man of Esherwood Hall by Jacob Kerr 🍃 Verge by Nadia Attia 🕯️ The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer 🕷️ Bliss & Blunder by Victoria Gosling 👑 (coming this fall!) #igreads #mythology #fiction #folklore #anansi #greenman #arthurianlegend #bookstagram #indiepublisher #ukpublisher #bookpublisher
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