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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

#callout I need book industry insiders to tell me their must-read books for winter for Stylist.co.uk – BUT it has to be an entirely independent recommendation. If you'd still like to get involved - DM me. I want to hear your thoughts!

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snoopy reading a book called the bunnies

ALT: snoopy reading a book called the bunnies

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Caroline Sanderson @carosanderson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Chuffed to have the @the-bookseller.bsky.social cover interview this week with the brilliant @hallierubenhold.bsky.social

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

If I was a billionaire, I’d give everyone a set of goddamn earphones for 73 bus.

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

2025’s biggest most exciting books as picked by the experts for Stylist Magazine! www.stylist.co.uk/books/2025-b...

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Just ban the word elevate unless it applies to a goddamn lift.

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Calling all book PRs - I’m looking for the 15 must-read books for 2025 and short on non fiction/memoir so send an email to francescabrown@hotmail.com with deets please…

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Instagram: do you like my kitchen? Bluesky: oh it’s so lovely to have a kitchen - let’s just enjoy kitchens Threads: let me tell you about the time I walked into a kitchen over 180 words… X: you have a fucking kitchen - why you privileged tile lover…

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Started watching Feud so now downloading Capote’s Women… even though Swan Song about Truman Capote and the women who turned on him is magnificent.

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Been starting a lot of books recently then putting them down but - oh my god - The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji. Straight in there with a vicelike and very funny grip. Out 30 Jan 2025

The Persians book cover by Sanam Mahloudji

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If you need a good podcast - Rest Is History doing French Revolution is v interesting for where we’re at now. They’re surprisingly funny too, well done!

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Where’s the best place to go for pizza and pasta in soho please? And Christ not Circolo Popolare.

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Read the new Anne Tyler that’s coming in 2025 and I’m now on my third Anne Tyler book in a fortnight. I can’t get enough small moments revealing devastating larger truths… MORE MORE.

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Franabouttown @franbrown.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

New books in 2024? Lemme know about your fiction and non-fiction for a lovely BIG roundup… here’s some on the tbr pile…

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Steven Cowan @scowan.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

🎵Hot dog, Jumping frog

A jar of apricot jam from Spanish supermarket giant Consum being used as a prop for a painful, laboured pun referencing Prefab Sprout's 1988 hit The King of Rock 'n' Roll.

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