Review by pudseyrecommends - John of John Douglas Stuart has a preternatural ability to find the marrow in the bone. After the gritty, r...

John of John
Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart has mapped the topography of the human heart against the harshest of elements. John of John is a masterpiece of Hebridean heartbreak.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Clara & the Devil, Vol. 1 He’s tall, dark, and infernal... and I am officially ready to be corrupted, tee hee hee.I was ...

Clara & The Devil

This partnership between Olivie Blake and Little Chmura is an absolute dream.

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Is This a Cry for Help? If you’d asked me a few weeks ago what the most stressful job on earth was, "librarian" probab...

Is This A Cry For Help?

resilience, integrity, and the freedom to consume whatever stories you want without the world telling you "no."

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Trans Day Of Visibility 🫶🏽🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽

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Currently reading… hoping to finish these in the coming week! As long as I don’t get distracted 😜😂

What are you hoping to finish before the month ends?!

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Review by pudseyrecommends - Minor Black Figures The must-read novel of Summer 2026 has arrived.Over one sweltering summer in New York, a young...

Minor Black Figures is a love story, but also a novel about ambition, belief, race, art-making, ethics and the dangerous pleasure of being truly seen.

The must-read novel of Summer 2026‼️

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The Witch Finder by Tracy Whitwell

This was an absolute romp! funny, heartfelt, witchy

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Gripped by
Micaiah Johnson ‘s The Space Between Worlds

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Review by pudseyrecommends - The Trial of Leopold and Loeb: Dickie & Babe I don’t normally read true crime, but I was immediately curious about this one because it’s th...

1h31 thrilling minutes! it absolutely delivers. I was completely wowed. I genuinely felt as though I were sitting in that courtroom.

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Accessible, incisive, and bang up to date. Jones does an excellent job of breaking down and actively challenging persistent misinformation and disinformation about LGBTQ+ lives.

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And just like that… it’s February! 🌟 Top reads: The Crystal Vase (first 5⭐ of the year), It Would Be Night in Caracas, Leave the World Behind,
The Fox and the Devil,
The Eyes Are the Best Part
🎧 Heart The Lovee

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The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi

Heated rivals meet the Knights of the Round Table in this historical romp!

A knight falls for his captive-turned-squire. enemies-to-lovers, political scheming, jousting tournaments and representation!

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✨ Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor
✨ Outrage by Ellen Jones
✨ The Crystal Vase by Astrid Goldsmith
✨ The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi

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Currently reading

The long call by Amn Cleeves

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This is a phenomenal book. I totally agree. Another must read.

📚books
👨‍❤️‍👨 mm romance
🌈Gay books
📘 queer books

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Found family, morally complex relationships, beautiful queer representation, and a richly researched historical setting that totally pulled me in. I flew through this and could not put it down.

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Cinnamon Blog It has been such a delight to work with Robin Ford on this collection and wonderful to share pictures of the launch at Medina Books on the Isle of Wight.

Jellyfish by Robin Ford: Acutely observed

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Currently reading
Leave the world behind by Rumaan Alam

So far: a gripping moody thriller

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A truly fabulous reading year: 191 gripping, enlightening, and entertaining books! I laughed, cried, and learned a lot. Deeply grateful to authors & publishers who trusted me with their work.

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✨ Here are my favourites by genre ⬇️

Butter = temptation. Meals = power. Hunger is never just about food, right?!

Cosy but unsettling. Gentle but furious. I’ll never see butter or rice the same again 😭🍚🧈

Polly Barton’s translation is inspiring

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Jackson Alone by Jose Ando - A short, blistering riot of a novel. Unhinged, darkly funny, & sharply queer in the political sense. Almony’s translation crackles with energy, and Pun Bandhu’s narration sharpens every tonal shift

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Lana Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is a witty, tender, and quietly radical book about queer partnership, migration, and being rendered invisible, whilst insisting on being seen anyway.

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s Almost Life is a sharp, bittersweet queer love story set in 1970s Paris. Erica and Laure burn bright, choose differently, and live with the echo of an “almost” life. Tender and unforgettable. 💙

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Heart wrenching, incisive, I couldn’t put it down.

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This novel deserves all the hype. It’s quirky, absurd, darkly funny, and at the same time horrifically provocative and razor-sharp in its satire. Why can humans be such monsters?!

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✨ The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson

🎨🖤This one surprised me in the best way. Cursed paintings, hidden grief, and a whole lot of globetrotting darkness and queer rep!

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I love the Afrofuturist textures that reminded me of Black Panther. Ashing-Giwa here moves in a slower, deeper current, asking what endures when power reshapes everything.

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I’ve been waiting for this beauty for a while!!

It’s finally arrived! #bookmail

The Life Of Violet by Virginia Woolf

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October through books : what a wonderful chaotic month!! Quite moody too 😂 Recognised any of these?

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Human, animal by Seth Insua
#currentlyreading #audiobook
Hybrid reading

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