
The Candid Book Club
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5 candid reviewers reading widely! 📚Non-Fiction & Fiction Regular IRL events at Waterstones Piccadilly| 📧 Mailing List ↓ 🎬 Now on YouTube ↓ Link in bio!
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My first poetry collection, SWEET BONE GIRL, will be published on March 31 by Broken Sleep Books. You can find the pre-order link on my linktree in my bio. Your support would mean a lot! This project has truly been a labour of love, and both the cover and my new headshot make me happy.



📚 THE 2025 SHORTLIST 📚 We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's stellar Swansea University (Swansea University) Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist! #SUDTP25 Who will be crowned our winner on May 15th? 🏆 PRESS RELEASE 📰 : bit.ly/SUDTPshortlist…






Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher who has woken up to a bright spring morning here in Swansea as the 2025 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize WINNER 🏆. Her debut novel, 'The Coin' was the judges unanimous pick in an incredibly strong shortlist of titles by 6 amazing authors. #SUDTP25




In Treasure Beach for Calabash Festival happening this weekend! 🇯🇲 @pretty_x_bookish came all the way from South Africa and The Candid Book Club is here from London! It's gonna be amazing! #Calabash2025




It was amazing to be at the Black Writers' Guild author chat with Shani Akilah and the phenomenal Caribbean Girl Experiencing The World yesterday ahead of day one of Calabash Festival today. Why not head down to #calabash2025 🇯🇲 and join the inspiring conversations? 👉🏾 calabashfestival.org


Calabash Festival is the best likkle festival In the best likke village In the best likke parish In the best likke country 🇯🇲 In the world 📚 #Calabash2025


I got to host some of my favourite bookish people at Calabash Festival . @pretty_x_bookish came all the way from South Africa Esme my brilliant cousin and published poet The Candid Book Club Linda is also here from the UK. I love that as readers there's a space for us 🇯🇲📚


“If your only experience of literary festivals are polite, well-mannered affairs inside tents in the British countryside, Calabash Festival, held on Jamaica’s Treasure Beach, hits differently.” A must read by Liv Little in today’s The Guardian #calabash2025 👉 theguardian.com/books/2025/may…

