Jacqueline Crooks
@Luidas
Born #Jamaica | @ObserverUK Top Debut | Shortlisted @WomensPrize @Waterstones Debut Author Prize: FIRE RUSH @JonathanCape @VikingBooks Rep: @nikicchang.
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'Fire Rush is a dramatic page-turner with a big heart and a careful eye.' —
Chicago Review of Books ❤️🔥
Start reading Jacqueline Crooks's (@Luidas) unforgettable story of one young woman’s search for home and the Jamaican spiritual imagination now 👉 bit.ly/3mVuh7d
It’s not long now until Varaidzo and Jacqueline Crooks will be in conversation at Waterstones Trafalgar Sq. talking all things Manny and the Baby!
Get your ticket at the link below -
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Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize Whoyyy!What would Yamaye say?Something like,‘Gwann with the riddims, Sis.’Congrats to the longlisted authors and Big-Up to the shortlisted authors-some of my favourite books are there Noreen Masud Yepoka Yeebo #AmiRao Jason Allen-Paisant #ElizabethJBurnett
❤️🔥 NEW IN PAPERBACK! ❤️🔥 Start reading FIRE RUSH by Jacqueline Crooks (Jacqueline Crooks), a book Bernardine Evaristo calls 'an exceptional and stunningly original novel by a major new writer.'
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/3mVuh7d
How wonderful to be shortlisted for the Authors' Club award. Thank you for platforming #FireRush . Congratulations to the other shortlisted authors Santanu Bhattacharya 🏳️🌈 Michael Magee Tom Crewe #SianHughes #ViktoriaLloydBarlow Looking forward to seeing everyone at the forthcoming events.
Nath’s #CouplaBooks is the place to be book club. What a vibe. Great discussions around the themes of identity, Jungian shadows, audiotopia, and Caribbean landscapes in #FireRush 🔥 Thanks for inviting me. #ReggaeFiction #ReggaeBooks #BookLovers #MusicFiction #BookClubs #DubReggae
Delighted to announce the longlist for Jhalak Prize 2024
Each of these books is a literary gem, to be admired, loved and treasured forever.
Our immense gratitude to the writers, creatives, publishers for bringing us this treasure trove!
#jhalakprize24
Thrilled to be launching a writing workshop for students affected by the English Language Test scandal with the amazing Jacqueline Crooks. Ten years fighting for justice after being falsely accused of cheating. They need to be heard.
Today we announce the longlist for the Best First Novel Award. #BFNA2024 Congrats Santanu Bhattacharya 🏳️🌈 #StephenBuoro , #KateCollins , Tom Crewe #JacquelineCrooks Jacqueline Crooks, Heather Darwent #SianHughes , #ViktoriaLloydBarlow Michael Magee Alice Slater 🐌 #SarahThomas & #WizWharton 🇪🇺 Wiz Wharton is AWAY (Updates only) 🇪🇺🌎
JAMAICA PATTY CO x FIRE RUSH
We've teamed up with JamaicaPattyCo. for a book + patty promotion from 23 - 26 Feb at both their shops. If you're in the area, pop in + order for the chance to get a free copy of @luidas' @womensprize shortlisted FIRE RUSH! (Quote 'password': YAMAYE)
One of the must-read debuts of 2023 is now in red hot paperback for you to fall in love with. Get your copy of the Women's Prize and Waterstones Debut Prize shortlisted FIRE RUSH by Jacqueline Crooks: bit.ly/firerushpb
Two shop favourites new in paperback this week! emilia hart's Weyward is a centuries-spanning tale of female resistance, one of the best of all the recent witch fiction, and Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks pulses powerfully with music, rage, love and modern history. Jacqueline Crooks
My favourite fiction of the year...
Daniel Kraus Chris Carse Wilson Wenyan Lu Oscar Hokeah Jacqueline Crooks Caleb Azumah Nelson Antoine Wilson #SamanthaHarvey #MartinMacInnes
Thanks to the fantastic Viking Books team. Ending the year on the The New Yorker Best of Books 2023 with these fantastic books feels 🎉🎉🎉
Fantastic Novel! Thanks Jacqueline Crooks !
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For this week's All City newsletter, I interviewed Jacqueline Crooks (Jacqueline Crooks) about growing up in Southall, west London, the joyful revolution of dub reggae music and why writing the heroine's journey of her new novel, Fire Rush, was cathartic: ciaranthapar.substack.com/p/12-jacquelin…
'Fire Rush is based on my experience as a young woman in a male-dominated world. Experiencing oppression. Dancing with wonderful people. The dark side and the light side as well.' Meet Jacqueline Crooks and latest author to be profiled bit.ly/3Svyaxr