#callout
I need book industry insiders to tell me their must-read books for winter for Stylist.co.uk – BUT it has to be an entirely independent recommendation. If you'd still like to get involved - DM me. I want to hear your thoughts!
Chuffed to have the @the-bookseller.bsky.social cover interview this week with the brilliant @hallierubenhold.bsky.social
If I was a billionaire, I’d give everyone a set of goddamn earphones for 73 bus.
Jedi training handbook featuring Bero recipes.
Handed down from my mother to my daughter (I’ve been bypassed due to lack of baking skills obviously).
2025’s biggest most exciting books as picked by the experts for Stylist Magazine!
www.stylist.co.uk/books/2025-b...
Just ban the word elevate unless it applies to a goddamn lift.
Calling all book PRs - I’m looking for the 15 must-read books for 2025 and short on non fiction/memoir so send an email to francescabrown@hotmail.com with deets please…
Instagram: do you like my kitchen?
Bluesky: oh it’s so lovely to have a kitchen - let’s just enjoy kitchens
Threads: let me tell you about the time I walked into a kitchen over 180 words…
X: you have a fucking kitchen - why you privileged tile lover…
The only gift guide you need (I may be biased) - www.stylist.co.uk/fashion/styl...
Actual useful gifts…
A picture of my lovely empty inbox
Do not email me.
One of the happiest reading times ever!
Swan Song book cover
Started watching Feud so now downloading Capote’s Women…
even though Swan Song about Truman Capote and the women who turned on him is magnificent.
The Persians book cover by Sanam Mahloudji
Been starting a lot of books recently then putting them down but - oh my god - The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji. Straight in there with a vicelike and very funny grip. Out 30 Jan 2025
No we do.
Mum’s bookshelves.
If you need a good podcast - Rest Is History doing French Revolution is v interesting for where we’re at now. They’re surprisingly funny too, well done!
Where’s the best place to go for pizza and pasta in soho please? And Christ not Circolo Popolare.
If I was Keanu, I’d get straight on Blue Sky for the best bit of celebing since that Timothee lookalike contest.
Wasn’t it delightful? She’s such a brilliant writer.
Read the new Anne Tyler that’s coming in 2025 and I’m now on my third Anne Tyler book in a fortnight.
I can’t get enough small moments revealing devastating larger truths… MORE MORE.
Some greats books for 2024
New books in 2024? Lemme know about your fiction and non-fiction for a lovely BIG roundup… here’s some on the tbr pile…
A jar of apricot jam from Spanish supermarket giant Consum being used as a prop for a painful, laboured pun referencing Prefab Sprout's 1988 hit The King of Rock 'n' Roll.
🎵Hot dog,
Jumping frog
