Kirsty Logan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Eyyyy this is nice to see! The essay is an adapted extract from my forthcoming memoir The Unfamiliar, so if you like it then look out for the book in June 2023 https://t.co/C5deGL1REK

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Day 9 of #31DaysOfFemaleHorror is Emily R Austin’s Oh Honey. I didn’t think I’d like a book about call centres, as that’s one of the jobs I had and hated, but I loved this brutal, cold and hugely compelling novella and read it in a single morning https://t.co/yCVw3XQJ1W

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Day 28 of #31DaysofFemaleHorror is Marie NDiaye's Self Portrait in Green (translated by Jordan Stump). While it's not horror in a traditional sense, this mix of memoir and fiction about being haunted by a mysterious green woman (and also a river) is surreal and unsettling https://t.co/vi92zTZR2o

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I've heard SO many great things about @moirafowley's new book and I can't wait to read it. This is a killer book list and I'm honoured to have Things We Say in the Dark included https://t.co/OZg7GSh2Qr

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Day 10 of #31DaysOfFemaleHorror is Masako Togawa’s The Master Key (translated by Simon Grove). Her wiki says she was a “singer/songwriter, actress, feminist, novelist, lesbian icon, former night club owner, metropolitan city planning panelist, and music educator” - truly an icon https://t.co/Va0IT56MRJ

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Day 2 of #31DaysOfFemaleHorror is Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred. It’s sci fi time travel, it’s historical fiction, and it’s also one of the most horrifying books I’ve ever read. It’s a classic for good reason https://t.co/s2XDzP2IPp

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Day 11 of #31DaysOfFemaleHorror is Chloe Hooper’s The Engagement, a modern psychosexual Jane Eyre. I also loved her first novel A Child’s Book of True Crime, which I’m currently rereading for its sinister rural Australian vibes and analysis of the appeal of true crime https://t.co/N2NC3rIQhm

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Happy publication day to Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (translated by @japanonmymind and @_davidboyd), out now in the UK from @HarvillSecker! I loved this strange, funny take on a phantom pregnancy https://t.co/zuhLqFdIpW

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@gemmamilne @HeatherParryUK @hautepop @Philip_Ellis @sarahmanavis @beccacaddy @charlottejee @emmaskipper I'm sure you've had recs for Olga Ravn's The Employees but I highly recommend!

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I'm so excited and honoured to have not just one but TWO @edbookfest events this August! On 12 Aug I'm talking about power, patriarchy, the potency of myth and the plight of marginalised people in Now She is Witch and Johanne Lykke Holm's Strega: https://t.co/acE1uY9b06

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