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FranMcBookface

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Book devourer & reviewer. Archivist. Occasional crafter. Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 [email protected] 📖 Fulvia📱The Society of Unknowable Objects 🎧 There are Rivers in the Sky https://linktr.ee/franmcbookface 💙📚

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 29

📚Book mail quandary 📚

When book mail arrives so beautifully wrapped you almost can't bear to ruin it but you also know it's the new @franhill123.bsky.social so you also want to rip it open 😄

Huge thanks to Olivia @legendpress.bsky.social for sending

Home Bird is out now

Book wrapped in pale green tissue stading alongside a cinnamon bun jellycat on a white bookshelf

Copy of the book Home Bird standing alongside a cinnamon bun jellycat and a themed bookmark on a white bookshelf

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 22

Not yet, but it's on the list!

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 22

Shared my review for the utterly brilliant The Show Woman by @emmacowing.bsky.social over on IG today

I honestly enjoyed this one so much, and I devoured it in just a couple of sittings

Out May 1st. Link to buy and full review in bio

A copy of The Show Woman book held up in front of a circus big top

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 22

When it comes to books, I'm powerless to resist! 😄

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 22

Can't believe it's taken me so long to go! 🙈

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you feel a very real need for a big gay Scottish love story about art and class and and obsession, then please sign up for my newsletter where I'll be giving away a handsome proof of my new novel, The Two Roberts (not out till September).

www.damianbarr.com/subscribe

#booksky

Subscribe — Damian Barr

www.damianbarr.com

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The First Eleven Minutes @firstelevenminutes.bsky.social · Apr 21

‘The Death Watcher’ by Chris Carter is coming soon in paperback with striking new colourways.

Out 8th May.

www.instagram.com/p/DIt8wb9M_z...

Shady character holding paperback version of ‘The Death Watcher’ by Chris Carter.

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 21

Fabulous day exploring the bookshops of Leith - Edinburgh Community Bookshop, @argonautbooks.bsky.social @typewronger.bsky.social McNaughtons &Topping
Couldn't resist picking up some of the Penguin Archive editions 😍

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 21

Hope you love it like I did!

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Bloody Scotland @bloodyscotland.bsky.social · Apr 18

What's that you say? It's the sound of the fourth episode of our podcast dropping! This week @craig-robertson.bsky.social and @dawnsgeddes.bsky.social have a chinwag with @callytaylor.bsky.social and debut author Tom Spencer bloodyscotland.podbean.com

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 18

I absolutely loved it! Hope you enjoy x

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Apr 17

Posted my review for The incredible Our Last Wild Days over on my IG

"Though the locations & situations are often bleak, the writing is luminous

From the title to the last page, this book had me in its thrall."

Out April 24th

Full review www.instagram.com/p/DIizuU8Ce5...

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Georgina Moore Author @georginamoore1.bsky.social · Feb 22

Thrilled to say that if you would like to pre-order River of Stars this weekend with @waterstones.bsky.social it is 25% off! Just go to Waterstones.com or use the app & enter code PREORDER25. If you could share this I would be so grateful as pre-orders are the Holy Grail for authors 🙏✨✨✨

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 21

Absolutely delighted to be part of the cover reveal for River of Stars by @georginamoore1.bsky.social

Look at this absolutely stunning cover!

It sounds just as good as it looks too

It's out July 3rd and there's a preorder link in my bio ✨️

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 16

Absolutely 😍

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 16

Loving David Tennants Scottish entrance at #Baftas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 11

Huge thanks to Eye books for this fabulous bookmail

Words Fail Me by Frances McKendrick sounds like a fantastic read and Val McDermid & Ian Rankin agree 👍

Out on Kindle on 19th March and in paperback on April 10th

#booksky

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Feb 10

#TheWeekenders is landing 27th February, have you pre-ordered yet?

Ebook - geni.us/Ir9dR9s
Print - geni.us/WVluqX

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 8

Thank you. I live in Edinburgh but feel lucky every day to live here 😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 8

Thank you 😘

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 7

Gorgeous train scenery on our way to Aviemore 🤩

#scotland

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 5

Highlighting this fabulous giveaway👇

I'm ridiculously excited for this one!

Georgina Moore Author @georginamoore1.bsky.social · Feb 5

Anyone in the mood to win a proof of my new novel River of Stars? My publisher @hqstories.bsky.social is giving away x 10 proofs so hop over to their insta account & mine (@georginamooreauthor) for all the details & a chance to WIN.

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 5

Sharing my review of Human, Animal by @sethinsua.bsky.social over on IG

A beautifully written and compelling story of a family in crisis

www.instagram.com/p/DFp8fUJiIN...

Image of a book Human, Animal - pale blue and featuring a cow at the bottom - next to a crocheted cactus in a white pot

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FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Feb 4

On it! Loved The Book of Doors

FranMcBookface @franmcbookface.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thank you! 😘