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Katherine May Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Brackish human • Author of Wintering/Electricity • Enchantment coming 2023 • Wintering Sessions pod • #actuallyautistic she/her • No DMs Speaking: @prhspeakers

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Book Cover for: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Katherine May

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Katherine May
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...although a lot of Wintering is about my love of winter and my affection for the cold and even the dark, wintering is a metaphor for those phases in our life when we feel frozen out or unable to make the next step, and that that can come at any time, in any season, in any weather...

Hardcover, 2020

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, Cole Arthur Riley

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

Cole Arthur Riley
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Have you caught the most recent episode of The Wintering Sessions? I talk with poet and author Cole Arthur Riley @blackliturgist about about her book This Here Flesh, spirituality, silence and her experience of selective mutism as a child https://katherine-may.co.uk/season-3/cole https://t.co/YUD7R8cgZ3

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

The Book of Delights

Ross Gay
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🎧 New episode of The Wintering Sessions! This week I talk to Ross Gay, poet and author of The Book of Delights about finding delight in dark times https://t.co/285v8uKaRx https://t.co/7cvOzQRWRU

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Taste: My Life Through Food, Stanley Tucci

Taste: My Life Through Food

Stanley Tucci
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This has been such a great Christmas on @BBCRadio4 - Stanley Tucci’s Taste, Moonminland Midwinter and Richard Osman on Desert Island Discs. Perfection.

Hardcover, 2021

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Practice, Ross Gay

Practice

Ross Gay
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"A practice of gratitude, I think, is serious. It is grave. It’s hard to be grateful when you don't have some kind of relationship to sorrow” Catch my conversation with Ross Gay on The Wintering Sessions https://t.co/285v8uKaRx https://t.co/oX5FTxoeaE

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Book Cover for: The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle, Sarah Krasnostein

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle

Sarah Krasnostein
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I'm so excited to say that Sarah Krasnostein will be our first guest, talking about her excellent book, The Believer 🖤 https://t.co/8ufw5s1nYD

Hardcover, 2022

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, Meghan O'Rourke

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke
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"That's why I wrote the book. I was like, I have to somehow make this invisible problem visible” In this week’s podcast, catch my conversation with Meghan O’Rourke @meghanor where we talk about chronic illness and her new book The Invisible Kingdom: https://t.co/jo3YjAoRDd https://t.co/2PbXP9gtm8

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Matrix, Lauren Groff

Matrix

Lauren Groff
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@srjudithl @ClaireWTheology It comes up in Lauren Groff's new novel, Matrix :)

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home, Katherine May

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

Katherine May
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Very good news today: The Electricity of Every Living Thing is finally going to be translated - into both Polish and Korean! For the longest time publishers have declined because a book about autism wasn't thought to have an audience. I'm thrilled that this is changing.

Paperback, 2021

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, Melissa Febos

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos
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Excellent book post this week! Congratulations again @porridgebrain on your beautiful paperback of A Still Life. And I’m really looking forward to Body Work by @melissafebos 😍 Thank you @BloomsburyBooks & @ManchesterUP https://t.co/PyfnWWrkPd

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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