🚨ONE MONTH!🚨

Allow Me to Introduce Myself is out in the UK one month today! Aṅụrị is gearing up to burst into the world and tell you that living in the social media spotlight is definitely not all it’s cracked up to be.

Are you ready?

Predictions?

I’m going for Soldier, Sailor, The Wren, The Wren, Nightbloom, Brotherless Night, Western Lane, Enter Ghost. Would be happy to see Ordinary Human Failings on there. Have heard good things about Hangman.

'The Great White Bard navigates a path of brave exploration, with absolute passion for Shakespeare’s writing that shines through every page.' Shakespeare’s Globe

The Great White Bard by Farah Karim-Cooper is perfect reading this #ShakespeareDay 🎭

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The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes is out next week - have you preordered your copy yet?? 🐑

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Yes yes, I know it’s St George’s Day, but it’s also Shakespeare Day - which means I get to once again share our You’re Dead To Me Live episode about him with ⁦Richard K Herring⁩ & ⁦Farah Karim-Cooper⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

selling it in one sentence:
four semi-estranged sisters reuniting in a cottage in-the-middle-of nowhere ireland, discussing sisterhood, philosophy, food, politics, and the impending doom of the planet, all in sizzling, glittering, unexpected sentences.

you know me
i adored it

Don't miss Onyi Nwabineli talking about her new novel Brixton Library Tues 11 June Free event @Onyiwrites Allow Me to Introduce Myself with author Onyi Nwabineli Tickets, Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

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'A well-researched, vivid and thoroughly entertaining Girl’s Own adventure... More, please.'

A brilliant review of The Grand Illusion by Syd Moore from Jamie Costello / Laura Wilson in the Guardian Books

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By some miracle, I chatted with NPR’s Andrew Limbong on ‘All Things Considered’ 🥹

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Clare Dunne’s reading of Prophet Song by ⁦Paul Lynch⁩ is as beautiful as it is haunting. ⁦Oneworld Publications⁩ ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

'A bold, beautiful, complex novel' - a fantastic review in The New York Times for Caoilinn Hughes's #TheAlternatives out in the UK, 2 May

Nightbloom by @peacemedie longlisted for the 2024 #WomensPrize for fiction, takes a keen-eyed look at family, class and discrimination in Ghana and the US.

Find out what Peace said when we sat down with her: bit.ly/49BWK4

My review of #ForSuchATimeAsThis by Shani Akilah ✨ is over on Instagram! (Link in bio)

Such a special book and an astonishing debut!

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📚💭Lovely to see some early excitement for The Haunted Wood by Sam Leith 🐝 - you can pre-order here:

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.Oneworld Publications has snapped up the “stunning” début novel from Ruthvika Rao, The Fertile Earth 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/oneworl…

All those in Devon in May, celebrate the paperback publication of Black Ops & Beaver Bombing with authors Fiona Mathews and Tim Kendall at the lovely First Draft Books!

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A quick chat about Medie's wonderful novel in my garden: youtube.com/watch?v=FeA_CJ…

Had the best time seeing Lemony Snicket (@DanielHandler) in conversation with Jack Meggitt-Phillips at Alexandra Palace for North London Book Fest yesterday. Super funny and full of insights. Daughter and Dad both very impressed (daughter delighted by inscription in her book to 'Future Orphan'!)

Here is a wonderful summary of my activist life by Binoo Joshi in Forbes India . Want to learn more? Read my book #IKickAndIFly in English & #GirlsBazaar in French . Available everywhere thanks to Rock the Boat 🌊 Editis Slalom Scholastic I read YA 🏳️‍🌈📚 HarperCollins