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post office windows start to look like the louvre // publicity manager @headlinepg // he/him // unfortunately, all views my own🏳️‍🌈

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ollie
8 months
my favourite books of 2023 — a mixture of high-concept, sweeping epics, a modern love story for the ages, and the most enjoyable crime novel i’ve read in a long time seems i reallllllly enjoyed reading about the mundanity of life in extremis which feels like it tracks?¿
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2 years
lots of goofy smiles this friday as i’m super excited to say the folks at @HodderBooks have promoted me to a press officer — many pints of guinness for me pls🤠☄️
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3 years
Well, I'm absolutely OVER THE MOON to announce that the rumours are true - I will be returning to books next month!☄️ I've been offered a down-right delightful position with the publicity team at @HodderBooks (!!!) and I cannot wait to get started!🥳
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6 years
pros of being in a same-sex relationship: nearly everything cons of being in a same-sex relationship: buying each other the same shirt for christmas
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11 months
really jazzed to have opened @HachettePride ’s doors last night and hosted the first cross-industry Pride social — a chance to celebrate the immense contribution of queer people in the publishing industry🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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1 year
i’ve agonised over synonyms for ‘some news,’ so should just say it — after two years at @hodderbooks , today is my last day! it’s been real fun; great books and even greater people delighted to be stepping up and starting as Publicity Manager on @headlinepg ’s list next week🤠
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2 years
🚨oh, also, some news 🚨 very proud (har har) to be heading up the Hachette Pride Network for the next two years so just really cannot wait to make Carmelite House even gayer xxx
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ollie
2 years
a hoot of a lunchtime hosting Naoise Dolan in conversation with editor, @letticefranklin about her brilliant, zingy new novel, The Happy Couple⛪️ the first @HachettePride event of 2023 and it was a stone cold banger ft wedding cake
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3 years
honestly, the #PotteryThrowdown has been the highlight of my lockdown weekends - i’m not really sure what will replace the sheer feel-good escapism of it, also @siobhni is pure joy
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11 months
disappeared to greece for two weeks, read some great books, ate a lot of food and forgot i had a job✌🏻🇬🇷
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3 years
presented without comment #RedTaylorsVersion
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1 year
introducing the Dallergut Dream Department Store - a shop that exists on the edge of consciousness; each floor selling different kinds of dreams, mysteries and nightmares #1 bestselling novel in Korea and BOOK OF MY DREAMS publishing Nov 2023, via @wildfirebks 😴💭
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3 years
happy hanya yanagihara day to all who celebrate – this is me for the foreseeable x
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3 years
completely floored by Young Mungo – a quietly beautiful novel of first love, shame and shifting perceptions. the sense of place and character is staggering and will stay with me for a long time thank you @picadorbooks and @CamillaElworthy for the early copy –out in April🕊
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6 years
remember emma stone and ryan gosling in la la land? this is them now #Eurovision
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10 months
sexy, existential translated fiction post today😴 finished copies of #1 , million-copy-bestseller, Dallergut Dream Department Store are *in* and looking quite gorgeous reviewers, journos, booksellers, pls shout if you’re looking to avoid responsibility and read about dreams👋🏻
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2 years
the list nobody asked for but everybody wants — my 5 fav books of the year! an eclectic mix of memoir and escapist fiction; all of them seem to be united by one common thread: dark and complex stories laced with notes of hope which i guess kinda sums up my 2022
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3 years
work said happy #NationalComingOutDay with rainbow totes, badges and gay books 🎉🌈
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3 years
i couldn’t slim it down to the usual five, so here are my top reads of 2021 – a year of exemplary, wistful fiction that helped in these strange times, and revelatory non-fiction that explained the past and let me hope for a better future
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1 year
huge day at Headline — proofs of @thebobpalmer ’s tender, polyphonic second novel, Small Hours are in the building (!!!) it’s a wild and beautiful story about our relationships with the ones we love, the natural world and identity publishing March 2024🦊
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2 years
anyone heard of this one????¿¿?
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6 years
somehow i managed to blag a proof of @matthaig1 ’s ‘notes on a nervous planet’ through work and i’ve just finished it on a particularly anxious train journey and it is a bloody masterpiece. i’ve never felt more at peace with anxiety and i am going to make every1 ever buy a copy
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3 years
if you heard screaming from south london, it was me THANK YOU @picadorbooks @CamillaElworthy 🥲
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2 years
a hoot of a lunchtime hosting Naoise Dolan in conversation with editor, @letticefranklin about her brilliant, zingy new novel, The Happy Couple⛪️ the first @HachettePride event of 2023 and it was a stone cold banger ft wedding cake
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3 years
travelled down to London to meet the @HodderPublicity team after working with them for the last month and it was an absolute triumph 🎉🍾
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2 years
it’s publication day for maame by @JessGeorge_ — we bought it in my first week at hodder (18 months ago?!) and i’m endlessly proud to have worked on it with PR maestro, @BeccaCMundy — it’s a book about caring, the messiness of grief, and coming into your own
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2 years
not to be dramatic but i sat in front of florence welch at the southbank centre on sunday and now there’s new music coming tomorrow?? am i her muse??? i think i might be her muse
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3 years
really truly awful scenes from the office today
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@ollie__martin
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10 months
proofs of @mattcoyney ’s timeless debut, Frank & Red are in the office and warming up a freezing cold Monday if you’re a fan of laugh-until-you-cry, cry-until-you-laugh novels about unlikely friendships, make yourself known🙋🏻‍♀️ publishing feb 2024 via @Wildfirebks
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2 years
say it with me: big! jumper! season!
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2 years
DELIGHTED to announce my first acquisition - MY STORY by Liz Truss Lettuce. An electrifying and whip-smart look at how a lone leaf vegetable captured the heart of the nation and beat the prime minister out of office. 'Timely' - Theresa May.
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2 years
something something scheming, something something Tiepolo Blue👀
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2 years
#MAAME is a compelling and tender novel about what it means to care, grieve and grow as a young person — its quiet confidence sings from page one, and the novel is a ray of light☀️ quite poetic how the sun came out as we made these boxes. quite gross how much it made me sweat xx
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@HodderBooks
Hodder & Stoughton
2 years
Get ready to meet Maddie. #Maame by @JessGeorge_ is THE book everyone will be reading in 2023. We're so excited that from today a few lucky people will be receiving these beautiful, exclusive early proofs😍 Find out more about the incredible Maame here >
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3 years
spent a rainy valentines day spreading the love for @sarramanning ’s latest – London, With Love – dropping proofs and roses off across london bookshops🥀📚
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6 years
My bake off loving, events coordinating heart is SO FULL - thank you @kimjoyskitchen for making Waterstones Leeds sparkle today 📚💖
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2 years
☀happy summer hours day to all UK publishing minions☀
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2 years
so hard to keep the Sexy and Mysterious brand up when you have to strategically remove your long johns at a launch party
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2 years
nothing quite like drunkenly flossing your teeth and crying to a new florence + the machine album simultaneously #dancefever
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10 months
not even the storm could dampen a day dropping proofs of @mattcoyney ’s debut, Frank & Red around London with him and little icon Charlie (the inspo for Red) thanks to all the girlies who let us in from the rain @Foyles , @WaterstonesTCR , @GoldsboroBooks , @WaterstonesPicc & more
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9 months
you're telling me this ISN'T the accidental tourist?! girlie is on holiday in a bookshop #HiddenBooksGame
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6 years
to the old man who called me a faggot as soon as i walked onto the tram after kissing my boyfriend goodbye
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6 years
twitter pls help me, i am in the doghouse - hello @taylorswift13 i am missing my boyfriend’s 22nd birthday for your concert next friday, pls put 22 on the set list so i can facetime him when it’s on and make it all better, ty love you xxxx
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2 years
astonished by this novel and its brilliance – unsure if i’ve read a book so few in pages, but so huge in scope. beautifully written with threads that tie together perfectly – shall be thinking about it for a long time. thanks for sending @picadorbooks – out in april🌗
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3 years
why yes, yes i am freaking out #ToParadise THANK YOU @picadorbooks - i am off to cry
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ollie
2 years
not to out myself but i just wrote the words ‘would love to see a board member eat a meal deal’
@thebookseller
The Bookseller
2 years
We are launching a survey for industry staffers aged 25 years old and younger! Our quick online questionnaire aims to explore the concerns facing young people working in the book trade, as well as their visions for its future. Take part here:
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2 years
covid 2.0 has been so unchic, but have at least had the company of @Chomsky1 ’s brilliant debut, Ghost Girl, Banana — ambitious and sprawling, it’s a book about family, belonging and memory out May 2023 from @HodderBooks 🧧
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2 years
cannot believe the undoing of boris johnson isn’t the unnecessary deaths of countless 1000s in the pandemic, breaking ministerial code or general buffoonery… but a tory being a nonce
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@ollie__martin
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4 years
me: i want an interesting fulfilling job that makes a positive impact on the world also me:
@UniversityLeeds
University of Leeds
4 years
It's a quiet, wintry morning on campus, but our campus ducks still appreciate the company.
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2 years
regret to inform everyone that i did in fact survive primavera and two (2) weeks in barcelona despite healing a broken leg, getting mugged and experiencing clinical dehydration
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1 year
had a glorious evening last night celebrating @bertsbooks ’ first birthday as a bricks and mortar shop — complete with a sold-out panel between Bryan Moriarty and @julie_cohen discussing their latest books🎂🏳️‍🌈
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2 years
turns out the cure to the Sunday Scaries is just.. cuddling small animals…?
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1 year
SURELY one of the year’s literary standouts — struggling to think of a time i’ve been more emotionally affected by a book than Bellies by Nicola Dinan a sexy, tender look at queer love in all of its messy, sparkling forms — thanks for sending @mowen_b 🍑
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2 years
luvvvvvved the new @csittenfeld novel, Romantic Comedy — strong concept, smart dialogue and real, believable characters. strong recc for all summer holidays this year. out April 2023🎥 thanks for sending @izzieghaffari !
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10 months
happy @cmatbaby day to all who celebrate
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2 years
honestly never known gay euphoria quite like charli xcx bringing out caroline polachek at ally pally
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4 years
nobody asked, but here are my top 5 reads of the year - they either made me feel better about the shocker of a world we live in (thx Human Kind) or took me so far away from it that I momentarily forgot that everything is on fire
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3 years
didn’t need or want my garden fence anyway xx
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1 year
immaculate. no notes. perfect summer read. didn’t want The Rachel Incident to end — i’ve never read (or realised i needed to) a book about being young and messy in the midst of the 2009 financial crash but my god does it work perfectly bravo @ViragoBooks , @sarahsavitt
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2 years
MAAME on tour is a GO‼️🟨 spent the morning dropping proofs of @jessgeorge_ ’s inimitable debut off around north London, introducing Maddie’s story to @BookBarUK , @Ink84Books , @WaterstonesN8 and @StokeyBookshop 📚
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5 years
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BBC Breaking News
5 years
Conservatives set to win majority in UK general election, according to exit poll for BBC, ITV and Sky #BBCElection
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2 years
really genuinely, very, insufferably sorry to be so on it👀
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Hodder & Stoughton
2 years
We have something VERY exciting (and yellow) starting to land tomorrow for a lucky few people 👀 Any ideas what it might be? Keep your eyes peeled for the biggest debut of 2023…
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2 years
rent going up, bills going up, WHEN will the vibes go up
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1 year
harrogate festival, let’s harragoooooo #TheakstonsCrime xx
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3 years
before anything else, i am first and foremost, a cliche #BWWAY
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1 year
OVERJOYED to see @AnnabelMonaghan ’s escapist and joyful new novel, Same Time Next Summer as Heat magazine’s book of the week (on publication day, no less!!) publishing girlies rise, this is your summer read☀️📚
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2 years
a beautiful day wandering about edinburgh dropping off finished copies of the iconic Tiepolo Blue with @JamesCahill (aka the blue head book) — grateful for brilliant booksellers supporting brilliant books💙
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10 months
accidentally left my phone at home this morning and had arguably the most productive day of my career, but also realised that i cannot live without sending unhinged commentary texts about any and all minor inconveniences
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3 years
four very good things!!!!🎄✨
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2 years
happy princess diana weather x x
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3 years
not sure i’ve ever looked happier than when i walked into last night’s @swiftogeddon for 5 hours of deep cuts - and ten minutes of sobbing in the club to all too well (10 minutes version)
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3 years
screaming, crying, dying THANK YOU @louisecc — milk teeth is coming 21 July from @SceptreBooks
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ollie
5 years
this is an open invitation to the insecure white, bald heterosexual that just visibly took the piss out of me and my boyfriend - would you like to come to pride and dance to @arianagrande with me? 💁🏻‍♀️ xxx
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3 years
my family turned paddington off in favour of the football so i simply Must Leave
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ollie
1 year
LOVELY to come into the office and see this @thetimes interview with Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow about her road to Booker-longlisting success and more! thanks to @iamliamkelly for a thoughtful piece, and helping to spread word about All The Little Bird-Hearts🦅
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5 years
Spent a lazy, caffeinated morning finishing up #expectationbook and can’t rave about it enough, it’s exceptional - really beautiful writing about life and friendship, filled with deep and fully realised characters go 👏🏻 read 👏🏻 it 👏🏻
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1 year
announcing an absolute dream of a book tomorrow😴💭
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ollie
2 years
left my soul at lorde’s roundhouse gig last night — 11/10 for visuals, concept, sound, set list and all-round-euphoria
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2 years
cannot wait to see proofs of @NatalieLewisPR 's riotous debut - Don't Believe The Hype - start to land over the next few weeks💥 it's a super fun debut set in the world of fashion PR; think The Devil Wears Prada meets Call My Agent, Ab Fab meets The Bold Type
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Natalie Lewis
2 years
Went into @HodderBooks today to sign some books and meet with @amy_batley and @ollie__martin WHY DIDN’T I BRUSH MY HAIR 🥴🥴 #dontbelievethehype
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11 months
huge day for me personally, thank you x1000 to @ellamharold , @PenguinUKBooks 🫶🏻
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2 years
in awe of @CecilekvPin ’s debut, Wandering Souls — charting the journey of three siblings fleeing Vietnam and making a life in Thatcher’s Britain — an experimental novel about hidden histories, family in extremis and inherited trauma out in March from @4thEstateBooks
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3 years
what a GLORIOUS DAY for a lil jab - unsurprisingly, there’s huge grin under that mask🤠
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2 years
hi gay! making a #midnights support group, because how dare taylor swift come out here batting with the lyrics ‘it’s me, hi, I’m the problem it’s me’ to a melodrama baseline aND EXPECT ME TO BE OK
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1 year
astonished by Daniel Mason’s new novel, North Woods; the freshest, most exciting thing i’ve read in ages — it tells the story of a cabin in the woods over 400 years through its inhabitants. completely unique, incredibly fun and quietly revolutionary out 14/09 from @johnmurrays
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ollie
2 years
hello @TfL i’ve just been just been verbally abused for my sexuality on the 35 to Shoreditch (I got on at Loughborough Junction) — can you please point me in the right direction of reporting this as a hate crime? thanks
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4 years
Spent my Sunday morning polishing off #TheDevilAndTheDarkWater by @stu_turton , and loved it a lot. Super fun, whacky mystery set at sea - perfect for drowning out the mess of 2020🌊⚓️
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2 years
read @robdelaney ’s devastating account of the loss of his son, Henry, last night — beautiful, painful, haunting, but most importantly, full of so much love. a very special book that’ll stay with me forever and help countless numbers of people. out on thurs from @CoronetBooks
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3 years
trekked up albert’s seat early this morning and have zero (0) regrets - might be falling in love with edinburgh just a tinyyyy bit🏔
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5 years
I cannot be the ONLY one seeing this? Flush him away #eurovision
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3 years
no one has ever done more for me than @netflix dropping little women as i suffer from covid
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1 year
had THEE most stunning evening at @WaterstonesPicc for @HachettePride ’s annual Pride in Writing event examining New Masculinities and Chosen Family🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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2 years
my energy going into 2023 x
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2 years
unexpected scream at BIG SWISS turning up in the post this morning, what a jacket — ty ty ty @joshsm_th
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ollie
2 years
entirely blown away by #TOMORROWX3 ; an incredibly special book. the characters, plot and language have so much depth and complexity without ever giving into cliche. it made my 8-bit, nerdy heart sing and i want to read it all over again thanks @AnnaLRedman for an early copy👾
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ollie
11 years
Game of Thrones addiction is getting too much: http://t.co/1yroXExECw
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ollie
6 years
Tonight has been one of those nights where I just can’t believe I get to do my job. I got to put on the best event with Sally Rooney and @libertylobsters in celebration of Normal People, a book I’ve not shut up about for mOnTHs and it’s been so GREAT ugh books you have my heart
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1 year
the happiest of publication days to bryan moriarty’s charming debut, sounds like fun — queer book of my dreams!!!! endlessly proud to have championed this story out into the world🎈 ((also pls marvel at the lino cut bryan made of the book cover))
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ollie
2 years
insightful and captivating morning at the national gallery with @JamesCahill talking booksellers and media through the paintings and ideas behind his debut novel, Tiepolo Blue — hype is a goooooo
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6 years
i've been home for christmas for 5 hours and you better believe that i've already sang santa tell me by ariana 50+ times to my dogs
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@ollie__martin
ollie
2 years
impulsive, sexy, queer poetry purchase in the station (and happy publication day @p_scalpello !)
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@ollie__martin
ollie
3 years
some gay old sunday reading – what a cover(!)
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