#whattoreadnext — Public Fediverse posts

A Ride to Remember

https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/a-ride-to-remember/

New Release: A Ride to Remember

https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/new-release-a-ride-to-remember/

I’m running a Goodreads Giveaway for Rail: A High Speed Adventure, the newest novel in my global ecofiction trilogy. Hop on over to my Goodreads page to follow my author profile, and receive the notification.

Environmental storytelling + solutions = your next read.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16489046.Maia_Kumari_Bree_Chowdhury

#ArcticFiction #BookGiveaway #Ecofiction #Hokkaido #JapanFiction #NYC #PaperbackGiveaway #ScribesAndMakers #Svalbard #VisionaryEcofiction #WhatToRead #WhatToReadNext

Paperbacks now available! 🌍📘

Three good things about this moment:
1️⃣ Print on demand means sustainable production and global access.
2️⃣ Getting books to readers is the heart of independent publishing.
3️⃣ Readers! You make the whole ecosystem real.

Rail: A High Speed Adventure is now open for paperback presale worldwide. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

About Rail:
Drawn into a globe‑spanning infrastructure proposal with uncertain motives, a designer confronts ecological ethics, corporate ambition, and the meaning of home as her past and future converge.

Words from Global architect Raya Ani:
"Building on The Erenwine Agenda, this work expands the conversation between architecture, environment, and responsibility — moving from personal conflict into global systems and their consequences."

Ebooks are available now, worldwide.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3ThRP6t

#3GoodThings #AmericanAuthor #BCAuthor #BookClub #BookLaunch #BookReview #BookWyrm #CanadianAuthor #ClimateFiction #DesignInFiction #DesignLeadership #DesignThinking #Ecofiction #EnvironmentalStorytelling #ErenwineTrilogy #FictionAboutArchitecture #HighSpeedRail #Hokkaido #IndieAuthor #IndiePublishing #Infrastructure #NJAuthor #NYC #NewBookRelease #Presales #ReaderGuide #Resilience #SaltSpringIsland #ScribesAndMakers #SlowTravel #SmallPress #SustainableDesign #Svalbard #SystemsThinking #Urbanism #VancouverAuthor #VisionaryEcofiction #WhatToRead #WhatToReadNext #WomenAuthors #WomenInArchitecture #WomenInDesign #WomenInEngineering #WomenInLeadership #WomenInSTEAM #WomenInSTEM
@3goodthings

New Release: Waiting for a Reason

https://higginbothampublications.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/new-release-waiting-for-a-reason/

Available everywhere
https://books2read.com/u/4Xp8q6

#romancebookstagram #bookish #bookrecommendations #whattoreadnext #bookcommunity #romancelandia #bookaddict #historicalfiction #steamyromance #bookrecs

#newtitles #books #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcast #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat #bookofthemonth #bookstodon

#books #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat #bookofthemonth

Join us in the lounge as we explore Bruegel's paintings, art politics and more in the 3rd part of Emma Darwin & The Bruegel Boy, now on Spotify and Youtube:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/11b2hmOw0jcV4ernRQRiOR

https://youtu.be/T8dSaZ7kR58

#newtitles #books #bookstodon #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcast #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat #bookofthemonth

A clip from Part 1 of the Bruegel Boy Podchat, which is up on our Youtube and Spotify channels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mydQzPEvG10&t=12s

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Gci6ACb1IRWsTot3yS5n5

#newtitles #books #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcast #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat #bookofthemonth #bookstodon

Wishing the @booklounge a very happy 18, and thrilled to see Braids & Migraines by Island Prize selectee Andile Cele made the Book Lounge's shortlist!

Many happy returns to @booklounge and mega congrats to Andile!

Braids & Migraines https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/braids-migraines/

#books #shortlist #whattoreadnext #bookoftheyear #bookstodon

Book of the Month - The Times

Published by Holland House Books

Sitting on a bookshelf near you....
https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/the-bruegel-boy/

Podcast coming soon...

#newtitles #bookstodon #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcast #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat #books

The Woolfs, the Hogarth Press and the Book Society - Nicola Wilson guides us around crucial landmarks, personalities and influencers in book reading culture in the Holland House Podchat - now on Spotify & Youtube :

https://youtu.be/OOPKQKMFsZQ
https://open.spotify.com/episode/51gH6vGfZtkxuhwuisjj7f

#newtitles #bookstodon #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcastshow #historicalnonfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat

Mini clip from the new Holland House Podchat, coming soon - The Bruegel Boy, with Emma Darwin in the lounge, talking art, politics, artists and artists' models, lost treasure and more.

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/the-bruegel-boy/

#newtitles #bookstodon #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #podcast #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookchat #books

Some wonderful words from the HIstorical Novel Society and Essie Fox - for a wonderful book

Now available from Holland House Books and all good bookstores!

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/the-bruegel-boy

#newtitles #books #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #bookstodon

Out Today!

'With this novel, Emma Darwin proves conclusively that she is a rich chronicler of the human condition'
Barry Forshaw

Available now from all good bookstores and our website (link in bio): www.hhousebooks.com/books/the-bruegel-boy

#newtitles #bookstodon #outnow #publishing #pieterbruegel #historicalfictionbooks #historicalfiction #whattoreadnext #books

Holland House author Nicola Wilson will be at the Taunton Literary Festival - Are You There?

Check them out:

brendonbooks.org

www.hhousebooks.com/books/recommended

research.reading.ac.uk/thebooksociety/book-society-choices/judges/

#literaryfest #bookstodon #historical #booksociety #whattoreadnext #books

A busy line-up this week for Holland House/ Island Prize author Andile Cele as she steps up to speak this Thursday online about her book 'Braids & Migraine' - before heading off to join fellow panellists at the Open Book Festival -

Are You There? Catch the link from the QR code

See you there!

#booktalk #bookchat #books #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #healingpathways #bookstodon

Check them out (& give them a follow):

https://www.annablasiak.com/
https://lisakalloophotography.co.uk/
www.hhousebooks.com/books/rozpetanie-deliverance
saveaswriters.co.uk

https://www.sarahisaacs.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cathyparkkelly/

#poetry #literaryfiction #poetrycommunity
#africanliterature #whattoread #whattoreadnext #books #bookstodon

Available to listen to now on our Youtube & Spotify channels ! (links in bio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRHOYQiiKiM

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/holland-house-bookchat/episodes/The-Holland-House-Bookchat-Bookcases--Bedpans-e360fg1

Join us in the lounge as we talk books, birds, Corsairs and 16th century street lighting - it all connects up, promise!

#bookchat #bookstodon #bookstagram #authors #favreads #literature #whattoreadnext #books

Chatting books - specifically, Green for Danger, by Christianna Brand; British Library Publishing ed.

https://youtu.be/xVc4qRyXX4c

#books #bookstodon #whattoreadnext #mysterynovels #bookchat

A quick reminder of tomorrow's event - Recommended! author Nicola Wilson will be talking about her book, the book society, the people behind it, and the legacy of their taste that is still with us on bookshelves today.
Event link:
https://www.eveshamfestivalofwords.org/event/recommended-the-writers-who-changed-how-we-read/

#bookstodon #booktalk #bookfestival #event #authorslife #newtitle #whattoreadnext

Available in the UK today

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/recommended/

#readlocal #bookstodon #books #outnow #readingtime #whattoreadnext #booksaboutbooks #historical

A spectacular line-up of events coming up for our latest title which comes out on the 26th!

Recommended! by Nicola Wilson https://www.instagram.com/nicolawilsonm/
Check out the following for details, links etc :

https://www.eveshamfestivalofwords.org/event/recommended-the-writers-who-changed-how-we-read/

https://www.thehiveworcester.org/CA8055134C5B4CF888B0AB51CABEA2AC.html

https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/book-launch-nicola-wilsons-recommended-the-influencers-who-changed-how-we-read/

#comingsoon #bookevents #bookstodon #booksociety #newtitles #publishing #whattoreadnext #booklaunch

'A deeply researched, stylishly written piece of narrative history, full of detail and telling vignettes.'

Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the

'...a triumph of imagination, historical research, and storytelling.'

Claire Battershill, University of Toronto,
author of Circus

'...a very impressive achievement indeed.'

Nicholas Redman, Chairman, Hugh Walpole Society

Recommended! publishes on the 26th of this month!

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/recommended

#books #newtitles #whattoreadnext #bookstodon

Check them out:
https://www.instagram.com/ms_andilecele/
https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/braids-migraines/
https://www.instagram.com/womanzonecapetown/

https://www.instagram.com/nicolawilsonm/
https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/recommended/

#bookstodon #BookClub #CapeTownEvents #WomenWriters #books #whattoreadnext #reading

Check them out:

https://femrite.org/the-poetry-night/

www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

https://www.instagram.com/thebooksquares/

www.hhousebooks.com/books/recommended

#booksbooksbooks #poetrycommunity #poetry #openmic #storytelling #femrite
#writing #celebrating #reading #whattoreadnext

Updates & excerpts in our spotlight special today! Check it out here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJbWawgsiCr/?img_index=1

Check out : https://brittlepaper.com/2025/05/hair-hope-and-healing-south-africa-andile-celes-portrait-of-black-girlhood-in-braids-migraines/

https://www.flf.co.za/participants/andile-cele/

#islandprize #authorspotlight #excerpts #published #publishingjourney #bookstodon #whattoreadnext #authorslife #africanliterature #africanauthors

Reviews, quotes, excerpts and readings - Island Prize winners and and An Island author Karen Jennings

Check them out:

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/braids-migraines/

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a-mouth-full-of-salt/

https://linktr.ee/thescf.uk

https://linktr.ee/little_boat_house

https://invisiblepublishing.com

https://www.instagram.com/_notesandnovels/

https://www.instagram.com/_booksagsm/

#africanliterature #africanauthors #whattoreadnext #newtitles #reviews #writing #booksbooksbooks

Crooked Seeds is now available as paperback!

Look out for it in your bookstores and online

”Crooked Seeds” leaves us reeling’

The Washington Post

‘…stark, darkly humorous…Deirdre is such a perfectly realised fictional creation.'
The Observer

#books #bookstodon #booksbooksbooks #karenjennings #crookedseeds #tbrlist #whattoreadnext

Check them out:

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/braids-migraines/

https://masobebooks.com/ng/

https://masobebooks.com/ng/writer/jesudubami-jemima-aganaba/

https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/a-mouth-full-of-salt/

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/sand-roses/

#books #bookstodon #comingsoon #publishing #shelterbox #whattoreadnext

Spending a sunny weekend on the coast?
Ramsgate is a-bustle with events and our very own Holland House authors Anna Blasiak and Lisa Kalloo are book signing their latest anthology of photo-poetry 'Deliverance' @the_falstaff this Sunday - 11- 3 p.m. !

https://www.thefalstafframsgate.com/

#books #booksigning #photopoetry #anthology #newtitle #outnow #justpublished #whattoreadnext #bookstodon #booktokker

Today Island Prize & Holland House author Hamza Koudri is at #SILA !

https://tiktok.com/@hhousebooks/video/7437433649789816097

#authorlife #booksigning #sila #sila2024 #algeria #literature #africanliterature #books #bookstodon #historicalfiction #reading #whattoreadnext

Detail from stunning photography by Lisa Kalloo, co-author of 'Deliverance'.

'Deliverance' is 'a book of design, of illustration, a collaboration built upon a dynamic exchange across mediums; a collection of photopoetry, of image and poem, each elevating the other'
— SJ Fowler, poet, writer, organiser of European Poetry Festival in the UK

Now available from all good bookstores & online !

#photography #photopoetry #poetry #anthology #outnow
#poems #reading #readingcommunity #whattoreadnext

It's been quite a tour! Music from the @dz_fest where Sand Roses made its last stop... for now...

Music while you read:
https://www.tiktok.com/@hhousebooks/video/7420737409807109408

#booktour #books #whattoreadnext #reading #literature #historicalfiction #algeria #algerianliterature #authorslife #algerianauthors #bookstodon

Relax with HH author @hamz_kou , interviewed in this wonderful setting : https://instagram.com/reel/C-csLBpItFN/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzJiMzQ5ZWQ2Mw==

Hamza will be in London late September at the DZ Festival

https://hhousebooks.com/books/sand-roses/

#interview #authorinterview #books #booktok #whattoreadnext

The Holland House Bookchat is back on Spotify with Emma Darwin in the lounge, chatting ancestors, (NOT) The Ancestor, the creative process, historical fiction and non, and much more : https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holland-house-bookchat/episodes/HH-Bookchat-This-is-Not-a-Book-About-Charles-Darwin-e2lvqbn

(check out our links in bio)

#writers #podchat #creativewriting #creativeprocess #bookchat #book #whattoreadnext #podcast #books #bookstodon

In case you hadn't seen - our very own HH author Sarah Isaacs made it to the SA Time Literary Awards Longlist with her debut novel Glass Tower

Mega congrats to Sarah !

https://sarahisaacsphotography.com/

#debutnovel #longlisted #SouthAfricanTimesLiteraryAwards #literaryawards #literaryfiction #whattoreadnext #books #booktok

Check out
@dzfest
and their website to book :
https://culturama.co.uk/dzfest-2024-1

Crooked Seeds reviews:

https://irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2024/06/08/crooked-seeds-by-karen-jennings-a-taut-confrontation-with-the-horrors-of-the-past-that-resists-moralising/

https://scroll.in/article/1067107/crooked-seeds-karen-jenningss-new-novel-is-cautionary-political-moving

#SundayTimes #irishtimes #exclusivebooks #FictionPrize #literaryawards #longlist #dzfest #newtitles #whattoreadnext #booktok #reviews #bookstodon #books

Excerpt 3 from Crooked Seeds which had its South African launch yesterday at @booklounge in Cape Town.

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

‘hard to read and impossible to look away from….”Crooked Seeds” leaves us reeling’

The Washington Post

‘…stark, darkly humorous…Deirdre is such a perfectly realised fictional creation.’

The Observer

#outnow #newtitles #literature #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstagrammer #books #reading

So many covers, so many colours ... bringing together all cover editions of "Crooked Seeds" by Karen Jennings, available in the UK from Holland House Books, & launching in South Africa this week from Karavan Press.
Can you remember which cover is from which country/continent?

Grab a copy from Holland House meanwhile: https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

#outnow #newtitles #literature #bookcover #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstodon #books #reading #bookcoverdesign

https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

'...three cheers for Deirdre van Deventer, the often ghastly main character'
The Daily Mail

'the real artistry of “Crooked Seeds” lies in Jennings’s ability to make this story feel so propulsive.'
The Washington Post

'...stark, darkly humorous....'
The Observer

#preorder #comingsoon #newtitles #literature #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstagrammer #books #reading

Happy publication day to Karen Jennings, whose latest novel publishes today in the UK, US, India and Nigeria.

Available from Holland House Books:https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

"unputdownable" Roddy Doyle
"quietly devastating" Jan Carson
"profoundly beautiful" Chigozie Obioma

"'Crooked Seeds' leaves us reeling" The Washington Post

"stark, darkly humorous" The Observer

#newtitles #literature #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstodon #books #reading

One more day to publication!
Crooked Seeds, by Karen Jennings, author of Booker-longlisted 'An Island' will be available from tomorrow -

'unputdownable.’
Roddy Doyle

'quietly devastating'
Jan Carson

'profoundly beautiful'
Chigozie Obioma

‘...stark, darkly humorous...’
The Observer

Available for pre-order from Holland House Books
https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

#preorder #comingsoon #newtitles #literature #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstodon #books #reading

A rainbow of colours with the covers of Crooked Seeds, which is launching across the world - US, India, Nigeria and of course UK with Holland House Books!

"'Crooked Seeds' leaves us reeling" The Washington Post

"stark, darkly humorous" The Observer

Launching on the 16th in UK
Available for pre-order from Holland House Books : https://www.hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

#preorder #comingsoon #newtitles #literature #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstodon #books #reading

"It is not a 'feelgood' book but it did make me feel joy at its precise pursuit of its vision"

John Self, The Observer

Crooked Seeds launches in the UK on the 14th. Available for pre-order from Holland House
https://hhousebooks.com/books/crooked-seeds/

#Books #preorder #comingsoon #newtitles #literature #southafrica #africanliterature #whattoreadnext #literaryfiction #bookstagrammer #reading

Another book signing with Holland House /Island Prize author Hamza Koudri, whose book Sand Roses is available in the UK, Algeria, Nigeria & now in South Africa!

“… an extraordinarily immersive narrative, and a fascinating story of the little-known Ouled Nail dancers.”

The Island Prize Judges

“A compelling storyteller, fresh and engaging.”

Karen Jennings, An Island

#booksigning #booksigningevent #books #bookstodon #debutnovel #historicalfiction #literature #whattoreadnext #reading

Happy International Mother Language Day!

We're celebrating by sharing books by Holland House authors from across the world!
Which ones have you read already?

https://hhousebooks.com/books/

#books #language #InternationalMotherLanguageDay2024 #reading #whattoreadnext #bookstodon