Polly Atkin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Polly Atkin

@PlashingVole Two recent cumbrian ones too: Mike Craven's 'The Puppet Show' begins at Castlerigg Stone Circle for some contemporary crime, and Alex Mularky's 'The Sky Beneath The Stone' features Long Meg, which reminded me of The Song of the Sea & Wolfwalker films. https://t.co/03pZyyDBM8

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Advance Book Warning 📣: #SomeOfUsJustFall - known to her pals, or those for whom 5 words and a subtitle is too many to type, ie. me, as #SOUJF - is published by @SceptreBooks A MONTH TODAY, July 6th. It's a mix of #memoir, #NatureWriting and #Pathography (#IllnessWriting). https://t.co/DDNy8e1DLn

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@CharifShan Incl. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, 'The Grassling', Porochista Khakpour 'Sick', Jan Grue 'I live a life like yours', Jenn Ashworth 'Notes Made While Falling', Natasha Trethewey 'Beyond Katrina', Billy-Ray Belcourt 'A History of My Brief Body', Sonya Huber 'Pain Women Takes The Keys'

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image description: two second clip showing completed scratch card with paperback cover of Gabrielle Zevin's 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow And Tomorrow', featuring the great wave image from Hokusai against a pale pink background and rainbow writing and details.

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Today I took my copy of #NorthCountry from @SarabandBooks ed. by @karenlloydwrite to see the view I write about #DorothyWordsworth writing about in it. It's almost DW's 251st. Join us on zoom on December 19th to hear more responses to her by amazing artists. #DW250 #OnlineEvent https://t.co/IGezHPqW1Q https://t.co/aB3mM6QF8D

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@StuHennigan Celeste Ng 'Our Missing Hearts' - a brilliant literary novel set in a slightly alt America in the grip of a new patriot act, which outlaws un-American thought with all the expected consequences. Frighteningly close to current realities, and beautifully written.

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Me & @likewinterblue having a bit of a booksellers bank holiday from @SReadBooks, spending the afternoon in Kendal selling Jenny Graham’s book ‘Coffee First, Then The World’ for her talk at #KendalCyclingFestival. #Cycling https://t.co/uPFpsTlIJT https://t.co/UGKobMevn2

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Between reading Elif Batumann's brilliant Either/Or, Emma Straub's discombobulating 'This Time Tomorrow', re-reading Gabrielle Zevin's #Tomorrowx3 & watching #FleishmanIsInTrouble this last month all my bath music is now chosen by my teenage-self: all Fiona Apple and Mazzy Star.

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@halekatie The subtle haunting in Jenn Ashworth's 'Ghosted' really got to me too, and David Mitchell's 'Slade House'. I think it's fair to say 'Beloved' could count as haunted house? For classics, I go back and back to 'The Turn Of the Screw'.

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@BarrowMember At different points & in diff ways people who have helped me personally or just through their writing incl - @sonyahuber, @Keah_Maria, Abby Norman, @Lent_Hirsch, @abipalmer_bot, @ehlastigirl, Eli Clare, Sally Huband (who sent me their copy of Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection),

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