This month’s sales = 3 books. No sales in the Uk. America leading the way as ever.
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Working class literature: starter pack from @kovesi.bsky.social
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Wrote a blog for about the overlooked professional criminals of The Forty Elephants. Also - results of the W&A Working Class Writers' Prize will be announced soon! #thefortyelephants would approve I'm sure
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Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class

It's a shame they didn't think to cover authors and publishing in this study, but it's an unsurprising and mostly depressing read anyway, and I think we can extrapolate the numbers for our industry based on the report.
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