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16/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month x 🗓️ Bloomsday x 📚Independent Bookshop Week =

The perfect excuse to pick up Helen Palmer's 'Pleasure Beach' from Brick Lane Bookshop!

A Ulysses-inspired q***r love story set in glorious Blackpool, full of chip shops, hangovers, and a trip back to the 90s.

15/06/2026

🌴 June is !

This selection of books is a small sample of the rich and diverse literary culture of the nations of the Caribbean. It includes classics from 🇧🇧George Lamming, 🇬🇾 Edgar Mittelholzer, 🇹🇹 VS Naipaul & 🇩🇲Jean Rhys, and contemporary work from 🇧🇧 Cherie Jones and 🇧🇧🇯🇲 ; the poetry of 🇱🇨Derek Walcott and 🇧🇧Safiya Kamaria; and memoir from 🇯🇲 Safiya Sinclair as well as collected essays on and from the Windrush generation.

On July 3rd, Brick Lane Bookshop will be hosting three Bajan authors: Cherie Jones. Andie Davis & Shakirah Bourne who will showcase Barbados beyond the beach. Grab a ticket via the link in our bio!

11/06/2026

🍕🍕🍗🍕The absolute G dropped by and signed copies of 'A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut' which is PUBLISHED TODAY! She's gonna be Burley Fisher Books chatting about it tonight too.

🏳️‍🌈 And we got some stunning book recs from her too, once again aptly picked for

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🍕🍗 A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut - Hannah Levene

Herb and Lara are busy slinging coffees in their hometown - of Watford! While Herb dreams of leaving to write big gay plays for a big gay world, Lara's dedication to being in the here and now keeps her firmly rooted. Plus she's fallen madly in love with Cynthia, a high-femme roboteer here to finish her PhD, teaching her way through robot post-doc hell, stamping on the brains of robo-boys as she goes. Soon Watford will use Cynthia's inventions to reinvent itself into the communised Watford Underburg, but not yet.

Meanwhile, Lazarus is back at her mum's. Her attempt at city life didn't exactly go to plan, and now she spends her days working on a Yiddish translation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and playing video games. With no capacity to think about her future and trying to forget her past, what will happen? Local football coach Butch Lichenstein, that's what.

A Pizza Hut, A Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut is a wildly inventive and funny novel that counters the idea of the suburbs as a place q***rs leave and plays out the radical implications of staying put.

🪭 Cool For You - Eileen Myles Eileen Myles

The first published novel of legendary poet and performer Eileen Myles follows a q***r female growing up in working-class Boston, straining against the institutions that hold her family, Catholic school, jobs at a camp, at a nursing home, at a school for developmentally disabled adult males. Free-ranging and deadpan, tragic and joyful, this is a book about women, gender, class, bodies, escape, and what it means to be "inside." Never more relevant, and now with an introduction by Chris Kraus.

🙊 Bad Language - So Mayer

In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how

10/06/2026

Thanks for dropping by and signing copies of Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told.

The J-A-L also gave us a list of his favourite recent reads, perfect recommendations for

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Deep House - Jeremy Atherton Lin

It's 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration. The pair sn**ch time in forests and deserts, London fashion shows, and East Village hotel rooms; eventually, finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in San Francisco, What emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts.

Deep House moves through the couple's various domiciles while unlocking doors to a lineage of outsiders who came before them:

hapless criminals, sexpot bartenders, friars, pirates, government workers who subvert the system and activists who go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for their freedoms. Combining cultural history with radically intimate memoir, Deep House is at once a romp through the q***r archives and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.

Zipper Mouth - Laurie Weeks ()

In this extraordinary novel, Laurie Weeks captures the exuberance and mortification of a le***an ju**ie as she navigates the chaos and horror of everyday life. Through longing monologues to Vivian Leigh, ranting letters to Sylvia Plath and to-do lists that never get done, Zipper Mouth gives us an unforgettable protagonist caught in a spiral of addiction, unrequited love, and mental health crises, and the effortlessly hilarious and strange inner workings of her mind. A messy and raw depiction of striving to live in a world that doesn't cater to your brain chemistry, Zipper Mouth is an outstanding work of q***r fiction.

Come for the exalted nightclub epiphanies, stay for the devastating morning-after hangovers.

Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall - Neil Bartlett

It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in

08/06/2026

🇧🇧 Barbados Beyond the Beach: A Showcase of Bajan Authors

📆 July 3rd | 🕖 7pm | 🎟️ £6

🔗 Tickets available via link in bio.

June is month, so we're reminding folks that Brick Lane Bookshop is hosting an evening celebrating contemporary Bajan and - with a slightly amended line-up. and -shortlisted author will now be joined by who will have lots to say about the youth arts of Barbados.

Each author presents the Caribbean island with depth and complexity, affection and critique, and the reality of a country and its people with a history of generational trauma and pride.

Andie Davis

Born in Montserrat, Andie Davis grew up in Barbados and later moved with her family to the United States. Her debut novel, Let Me Liberate You, was published in 2024 by Little A. Her short stories have been published in The Caribbean Writer, Delmarva Review, and other publications, while her essays have appeared in Ghana Web and Business Daily Africa. She has been awarded a 2026 Hedgebrook residency.

Cherie Jones

Cherie Jones is a Barbadian novelist and short story writer whose short fiction credits include Reflex Fiction, The Feminist Wire, PANK, Eclectica, and BBC Radio 4. She is a former fellowship awardee of the Vermont Studio Centre and the International Writers Programme of the University of lowa. Her first novel How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021, the OCM BOCAS Prize in 2022 and the Internationel Literaturpreis Prize in 2023 and was translated into French and German. The French translation of her novel won the Prix Carbet des lycéens 2023.

Shakirah Bourne

Shakirah Bourne is a Barbadian author. She is a recipient of the Governor General Award for Excellence in Literary Fiction for her adult short fiction collection, In Time of Need. Her debut children's book, Josephine Against the Sea, received starred reviews in Kirkus and Booklist, was a SLJ Best Book of 2021. Her middle grade books, Nightmare Island, Beware the Heartman, Here Lies a Ghost and Bajan Ana

04/06/2026

📚 The Top 10 Stack for May, featuring the winner of the International 🏆, three female authors of Iranian heritage (including 2 Int. Booker Prize listed) and a couple of hardbacks which are taking the city by storm 🌩️

🧱 New Short Stories ed by
♀️ Women Without Men by
🇮🇷 The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by .baz
✋🏼 Rejection by
🔵 Event Horizon by .a.l.s.a.m.k.a.r.a.m
🇹🇼 Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zî
🤐 The Things We Don't Say by
💂🏼‍♂️ London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
🐄 Yesteryear by
🪰 Fruit Fly by

🇹🇼 Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zî

🏆 Winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize

🏆 Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature

Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, Taiwan Travelogue is a bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history and power. Set in May 1938, the young novelist Aoyama Chizuko sails from Japan to Taiwan where her interpreter proffers tantalising glimpses of island life and helps her to taste as much of cuisine as her larger-than-life appetite can bear.

🐄 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

My name is Natalie Heller Milh, and I was perfect at being alive. Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle and her followers are sick with envy. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial grade ovens behind the scenes? What her followers don't know won't hurt them.

Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children - they're all familiar, but something's off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God?! Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn't her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible.

As darkly funny as it is shocking and gripping, Yesteryear is an electrifying examination of tradition, fame, faith and the grand performance of w

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