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31/10/2024

⚡THE CATCH by Yrsa Daley Ward⚡

Back in the summer of 2023 we shared the news that we’d be publishing @ Yrsa’s hotly anticipated, first.ever.novel. We’ve been keeping our lips sealed ever since and now we can finally share a little bit more with you 😏

Spoiler alert its WEIRD + WONDERFUL

The novel follows the story of twin sisters Clara and Dempsey, who were adopted by different parents following their mother’s disappearance in their infancy. Clara is successful, Dempsey is not. They grow up estranged, until one day Clara encounters a woman who looks like their mother, aged not a day since her disappearance, who comes crashing back in their lives with a debt to collect.

Swipe to read an exclusive excerpt reveal 📖

📆 July 2025

🛒 available to pre-order now

Watch this space for the cover reveal 👀

23/10/2024

🏆 Prize News 🏆

We’re over the moon to share that The Race To Be Myself by has been longlisted for the 2024 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award ⭐️

We are incredibly proud to publish the great Caster Semenya and thrilled that this culture defining book is getting the recognition it deserves 📖

Casters story is our story. A story of defiance and resilience, a testimony to anyone forced to stop doing what they love and to fight for what they believe in.

Please join us in congratulating Caster Semenya on this achievement 💛

22/10/2024

🌟✨ joined forces with our friends at for this year’s Fiction Showcase, and it was nothing short of spectacular! 📚✨

A HUGE thank you to everyone who came out and supported! 🙌

Six phenomenal authors, including our very own , dazzled us with sneak peeks of their upcoming novels. 🖋️✨

We were thrilled to share a selection of proofs, and seriously, how stunning are the covers for Model Home and A Beautiful Lack of Consequence? 😍📖

Stay tuned, because we’ve got a lot more incredible content coming your way, spotlighting our 2025 publications! 🎉🚀

Click the link in our bio to find out more! 🔗✨

14/10/2024

⌛ A Beautiful Lack of Consequence by is coming soon! ⏳

Across thirty striking tales, Monika weaves together the surreal with the everyday, confronting the experiences of contemporary womanhood with a tender ferocity shot through with humour.

A woman walks into a bar, and nobody notices. A newly married couple are punished for their childlessness with an unsettling nocturnal invasion. A girl trades her vocal cords for a chance at freedom. A door-to-door salesperson offers the antidote to women’s fear – but it comes at a high price.

Bubbling with an urgent rage that occasionally tips over into vengeance, Radojevic deftly charts the moments that make a life: from the warmth of first love to the recognition of anger, and the possibilities that take shape as we find or lose our ability to speak. A Beautiful Lack of Consequence explores the ways in which the world bends and breaks women with the pressure it puts on them – and what happens when those women snap back.

Moving and irreverent, dark and otherworldly, A Beautiful Lack of Consequence is a blazing debut collection from the winner of the Books New Writers’ Prize. 🏆

We have proofs available to make sure to message the page if you'd like to request an early copy📚
Swipe right to listen to Monika’s very own playlist that perfectly captures the emotion and feeling of this incredible collection ➡️🔊

Click the link in our bio to find out more 🖱️

11/10/2024

🚨 Cover Reveal Alert 🚨

Check out the gorgeous cover for Model Home by .solomon which is available to pre-order now 📚

Two bodies lie in the garden of a sprawling property in Oak Creek Estate, a wealthy gated community in Dallas, Texas.

The bodies belong to the parents of Ezri, Eve and Emmanuel, who have long since abandoned the childhood home in which their parents remained all these years. A home that has haunted and hollowed them throughout their lives, in a neighbourhood where they grew up as the only Black family, hoping to survive a place that wanted to claim them, expel them and ruin them all at once.

In the wake of their parent’s death, Ezri and their siblings are forced to confront the reasons they left, the nightmares that have held them captive and the possibility that realities exist beyond those that have forged them.

Bold and tender, Model Home is a powerful meditation on the power of memory, loss and identity.

Click the link in our bio to find out more 🖱️

04/10/2024

📚Proof Party 📚

Join us this Sunday for an unforgettable event with three of our incredible authors! ✨

Tickets are FREE so, don’t miss your chance to get your hands on some early proof copies ⭐️

Click the link in our bio to find out more 🖱️

06/08/2024

🏆 The New Writers’ Prize is back 🏆

We hope you’ve been busy writing!

If you’re aged between 18 and 35 and have a manuscript you are working on or an idea ready to be put onto paper, we want to hear from you ✍🏾

Submissions close on 2nd September 🗓️ but swipe right for all the key dates! ➡️

We want everyone who is eligible to have the opportunity to submit to the prize so please share this post far and wide. You never know which one of your friends, family or followers may be a writer!

Click the link in our bio to find out more and apply 🖱️

Shoutout to for this year’s logo 🎨

11/07/2024

Empowering the next generation at BOOKS x HSBC UK Futures, hosted by Brixton House! 🌟

On Tuesday we took over to deliver a day packed full of inspirational panel talks, workshops, and careers sessions, touching on topics such as entrepreneurship, personal finance, investing and creative careers 🧠

A huge thank you to the amazing speakers for sharing their insights and inspiration: , , and 💚

And shoutout to the incredible .news panellists: , , , and ⭐️

Together, we’re shaping brighter futures. 👏🏾✨

04/06/2024

Look at what got delivered this week 👀

We took over the cover of The Bookseller with the Your Money Life Times ✨

Coming 29 August 2024, Your Money Life by is the transformative book on women’s finance that will help you become Happier, Healthier and Wealthier 💷

Your Money Life is available for pre-order now. Click the link in our bio to find out more 🖱️

09/05/2024

🚨 We’re Hiring 🚨

Swipe right for more details 👉🏾

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable acting as an ambassador for Books, someone who understands our brand and can navigate the cultural space we sit in.

So, if you have a proven track record in editing, acquiring, and proactively commissioning new ideas, have sound commercial judgement and the ability to build strong relationships – We want to hear from you.

To find out more and apply, click the link in our bio 🖱

14/12/2023

✨ Last night was a whole vibe ✨

Thank you to for allowing us to celebrate our five year anniversary with our wonderful authors and friends 💛

We are so grateful to everyone who has supported Books since our inception in 2018.

A special thanks to all of our authors for trusting us with their work 📚

So, here’s to the next 5, 50 and 500 years 🎉

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☀️ Make Yourself All Honey And The Flies Will Devour You ☀️ ⚠️ This post contains flashing images ⚠️ We’re so excited to share the incredible cover for Sunstruck by @willhunterr 📚 Winner of the 2022/23 New Writers’ Prize Sunstruck is a blazing debut 🏆 @willhunterr blew us all away with their writing and we cannot wait for you all to get to experience this story ⭐️ Coming May 2025, you can click the link in our bio to find out more or pre-order your copy now 🖱️ It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the south of France. At the dinner table, the Blakes are waiting for him: Annie, the family matriarch and world-famous singer, her inscrutable husband David and their children, Dot, aloof and rebellious, Lily, the man’s carefree university friend, and their enigmatic older brother Felix. Between sun-drenched days spent lounging by the pool and nights blurring into endless, opulent parties far from the reality of life in London, a restless attraction grows between Felix and the man. The possibility to be part of a family – and an entire world – in which he doesn’t belong is suddenly within reach. But the idyllic haze of the summer slowly fades as they return to the city. While the man struggles with his troubled past and the challenges of navigating Felix’s world as a black, working-class person, Felix is tormented by demons of his own. As their lives spiral out of control, the couple’s bond will not only be tested but pulled apart at the seams, altering the course of their lives and the future of those around them. Sunstruck is a dazzling and poignant exploration of race, status and the parts of ourselves we risk losing when we fall in love.

Get ready to be SUNSTRUCK in May 2025 ☀️ This phenomenal literary debut by 2022 Merky Books New Writers’ Prize winner William Rayfet Hunter is a salacious summer must-read, perfect for fans of Small Worlds, Call Me by Your Name and I May Destroy You 📚 Think Saltburn – but less bathtubs and graveyards 🛁🪦 This lyrical and poignant story is a dazzling exploration of race, status, manhood, and the parts of ourselves we risk losing when we fall in love. Available for pre-order now, click the link in our bio to find out more 🖱

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