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Book Publishers Shining a Light on Mental Health

WEBDuring The Bookseller’s tenth FutureBook conference in 2019, poet and activist MC Angel voiced the need for writing (and publishing) the “raw element, the pure gritty pain” of …

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The Wellcome Collection: Understanding Health and Human …

WEBBy Emma Regan, Jordan Maxwell Ridgeway, Hayley Gray and Ella O'Neill This week the alternative publishing team is taking a look at the Wellcome Collection, a global …

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Self-Care Challenge

WEB10–16 May was the Mental Health Foundation’s official mental health awareness week. We challenged ourselves to commit to self-care acts in this five-day window, to reflect on …

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Book Recommendations for Mental Health Awareness Week

WEBBroken (in the Best Possible Way) is blogger and journalist Jenny Lawson’s memoir about her journey with mental health. With her books, Lawson joins an increasing group of …

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Kate Nash’s Positively Purple Breaks the Silence on Disability and

WEBKate Nash is CEO and Founder of PurpleSpace, the first and only professional development hub for disability network leaders. In 2017, she started the #PurpleLightUp movement to …

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If the Body Could Speak: an Interview with Dr Shahd Alshammari

WEBBy Madhu Manivannan, Jia Wen Ho, Shaniah Shields and Leanne Francis We interviewed Dr Shahd Alshammari about her book Head Above Water, which was published on …

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#DisabilityVisibility in Publishing: Time For Action

WEBIn 2017, The Publishers Association published a ten-point inclusivity plan for building a workforce representative of modern society. It set a 15% target for BAME representation …

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The Road Less Travelled: Children's author Atticus Ryder's journey …

WEBI'm a self-published author based in London. I’ve published three children’s books with more on the way. It all started in secondary school when I won a prize for a short story, which …

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Birthday By Meredith Russo And The Representation 0f Mental …

WEBBy Morgan’s sixteenth birthday, her mental health is in an extremely low place. The theme of suicide is poignant in the novel and tragically in wider society too. A national survey …

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“We are all secondary characters in the lives of other people”: An

WEBMaithreyi Karnoor is an author, poet and award-winning translator who lives in Bangalore, India. She is the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow in …

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Grief, Adolescence and Expectations in Talking at Night by Claire …

WEBA classic will-they-won’t-they romance for fans of Sally Rooney and David Nicholls. Having built a career in publishing, Claire Daverley is a new voice in the literary scene, but …

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This Way Out in Conversation with Tufayel Ahmed

WEBThis Way Out is a fictional novel focusing on the character of Amar, a second generation British-Bangladeshi man living in London. After having suffered the loss of his mum, …

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Exploring Accessibility in Bookshops for Disability History Month

WEBAt the very least, bookshops should ensure that any posts with photos of book covers also have a link to the book so blind and partially sighted users can find it. Threads of tweets …

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Daniel Lavelle’s Powerful Down and Out Exposes the …

WEBDaniel Lavelle is one of the UK’s most talented investigative journalists. With an MA in Journalism from Goldsmiths, University of London, he is an important voice writing for …

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Industry Insights: Jodie Lancet-Grant

WEBI wrote The Pirate Mums to counter the dearth of picture books featuring families that looked like mine. As soon as my daughters started to realise that our family, having two mums, …

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Behind the Screen of Being a Social Media Influencer: Bad …

WEBLiving in a digital age where we broadcast ourselves through social media, Oenone Forbat has built her career by cultivating an #Instagramable lifestyle. Bad Influence is a …

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A Cover Most Aesthetically Pleasing

WEBDeath Sets Sail, and the ‘Murder Most Unladylike’ series as a whole, fits comfortably into the mystery genre and I love how Tara incorporates particular elements and symbols to …

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