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New novel, Den, coming Feb ‘27 from @wildfiredoesbooks Writer, book lover, and Bafta-winning producer. Rep’d by @daisylitagent @pfdagents
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Quirky, voyeuristic and original, Den is the strikingly inventive new novel about what it means to make – and protect – a home, from @joeevanswriter.
Available to request now on NetGalley 🦊
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02 Nov 2026
Ghost Girl, Banana by @wizwharton is an incredibly moving, powerful family epic that explores secrets, shame and belonging.
It’s told in parallel, interweaving timelines – the first, of 25-year-old Lily in 1997, and the other charting the story of her mother, Sook-Yin, in the 60s and 70s as she travels to Britain to train as a nurse and eventually returns to Hong Kong with her hapless British husband, Julian, and daughters Lily and Maya.
When Lily, now an adult living in London, is unexpectedly named in the will of a Chinese stranger, she goes back to Hong Kong on the eve of the handover to uncover the truth about her heritage and the death of her mother in 1977.
Wharton is brilliant on how shame manifests; the subtle ways in which immigrants are made to feel alien – not just in the country they’ve moved to, but also in the one they’ve left behind (which, we learn, has a bearing on the book’s title); and how the decisions we make in life are always limited by what we can see.
The portraits of both Sook-Yin and Lily, as highly intelligent women thwarted in different ways by racism and by their family’s legacies, are very moving. Wharton has a real skill for depicting relationships – the subtle power dynamics, the poignant ways love and affection are coded, the things that always remain unsaid.
These rich themes are woven into a narrative that’s so elegantly structured, from the way Wharton moves between the third person narrative of Sook-Yin to the first person of Lily, drawing connections between their experiences; to her use of the Chinese tradition of 49 days of mourning to count down towards the final reckoning. It’s propulsive (I read the last 150 pages at a feverish gallop) and, ultimately, gut-wrenching.
Such an absorbing story. I can’t wait to read Wharton’s next book!
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12 Nov 2026
As I was writing Den I began putting together a playlist that built into a map of the emotional territory and narrative arc of the book. Sharing it here.
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10 Nov 2026
I was completely entranced by ‘Our Wives Under the Sea’ the 2022 debut by @juliakarmfield (thanks to @_amelia_reads for the recent recommendation).
It tells the story of Miri and her wife, Leah, who’s recently returned from a submarine expedition that left her stranded with two others in the strange, wondrous depths of the ocean. Leah has survived, but she’s changed.
Told from the alternating perspectives of Leah and Miri (Leah’s through the journals she kept during the expedition), it’s thematically wide-ranging – from grief to the elusive nature of the unconscious - but Armfield weaves these intellectual strands together into a tight, propulsive narrative as Leah’s symptoms become ever more extreme and Miri struggles to cope with her forever altered wife. You begin to wonder whether Leah ever really returned at all.
What a rich, beautiful and haunting book.
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09 Nov 2026
Lovely day visiting some great indie bookshops with proofs of my forthcoming novel, Den.
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04 Nov 2026
I recently read Anne Tyler’s ‘Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant’ - the story of a woman bringing up three children alone in post-war Baltimore. One reason why I love Tyler’s writing is her masterful command of detail. Open the book on any page and you’ll find something - a gesture, an emotion, a physical description - that she renders so economically, so precisely that it feels like something you already know, have seen or intuited, and never been able to articulate:
‘Although it was a glaring day in August, her skin had a chilled, dry, powdery look…’
‘She wore uniforms designed for male physicians with forty-inch waists; there were no maternity lab coats.’
‘On the greyhound bus she sat grandly upright…’
‘It was twilight - a sticky evening, smelling of hot tires.’
It reminded me that it’s the details that imbue writing with life.
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06 Oct 2026
POV something is waiting in your garden 🦊
Proofs of Den by @joeevanswriter are here! Discover the bold and conversation-starting new literary novel about family, grief and what it means to make a home. Coming 11th February 2027.
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21 Sep 2026
Strong Booker Longlist this year. A few more of my recent reads. #bookstagram #bookerprize #bookrecs #bookreviews
21 Sep 2026
Introducing the strikingly inventive new novel about what it means to make a home 🦊
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In a garden somewhere in London, a fox is watching Ben and his family through their kitchen doors.
The fox has been stealing pieces of their lives – the odd shoe, a colourful sock, various bits of cutlery. He plans to one day take over the entire house, and Ben’s life with it.
The fox believes Ben is doing everything wrong: for some reason he’s acting strangely, he’s not there for his wife when she needs him, and he’s missing out on his children growing up.
The fox is certain he can do a much better job.
But as his dream gets closer and unusual memories start to recur, it becomes clear that nothing is as simple as it first appears.
Haunting and full of heart, Den by @joeevanswriter is coming 11th February 2027. Available to pre-order now.
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10 Sep 2026
Some recent books I’ve enjoyed #bookstagram #bookreviews #bookrecs
24 Aug 2026
My Booker Longlist reads so far #bookerprize #bookrecs #bookreviews
03 Sep 2026
Advance proofs of my novel, Den, are here. Huge thanks to everyone who sent me footage of foxes for this reel #bookstagram #novel #den #foxes @wildfiredoesbooks @headlinebooks @pfdagents
18 Aug 2026
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