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Hello Twitter. Here& #39;s a short thread about some exciting new books due out soon. I& #39;ve been having trouble concentrating and haven& #39;t been able to read as much as I& #39;d like, but I can at least tell you about them.
(Before I start: things are a bit hard for people with books coming out now/soon, with no festivals or bookshop signings to spread the word, Am*zon not taking delivery of print books for a while, and distribution and retail hurdles, too. If you can cheerlead for an author rn, DO)
First up is THE LIAR& #39;S DICTIONARY by Eley Williams, due out July 16 unless it& #39;s been moved. I& #39;m so looking forward to starting this. Eley& #39;s first book, Attrib., was a collection of ridiculously inventive short stories and I LOVED it. As you can read here > https://www.ft.com/content/14b71ac2-1ddd-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c">https://www.ft.com/content/1...
Next is COME JOIN OUR DISEASE by @byers90, which already sounds extremely prescient! His last one, Perfidious Albion, was a dark, funny and nightmarishly brilliant satire. Sam is a writer who can tell us about ourselves. This one& #39;s due out on August 6, unless it gets moved.
SISTERS is the new novel from @djdaisyjohnson. Like a lot of people, I adored her debut short story collection, Fen, and her next book, Everything Under was shortlisted for the *actual Booker*. SISTERS is due out July 2, all being well.
Given that it& #39;s social history structured around a series of walks on which people find all sorts of interesting things, photographer and beachcomber Lisa Woollett& #39;s RAG AND BONE: A FAMILY HISTORY OF WHAT WE& #39;VE THROWN AWAY looks right up my street! It& #39;s due June 11, hopefully.
Esther Woolfson& #39;s a brilliant nature writer. Corvus: A Life with Birds came out back in 2010, and Field Notes From a Hidden City in 2014. Her new one is BETWEEN LIGHT AND STORM: HOW WE LIVE WITH OTHER SPECIES and it looks completely fascinating. It& #39;s out in September.
Also out in September is ENGLISH PASTORAL: AN INHERITANCE by @herdyshepherd1. I loved his first one, as thousands of us did, and reviewed it here: https://www.ft.com/content/1cfa863c-df65-11e4-a6c4-00144feab7de.">https://www.ft.com/content/1... I have absolutely no doubt the new one will be wonderful, too. No jacket yet.
That& #39;s it for now. Hopefully at some point my concentration will return and I can make proper inroads into my #bookpost. In the meantime, do continue to buy books! Phone your local indie bookshop and ask if they can post out orders. In fact, they don& #39;t even have to be local! 
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