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@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
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Callum May
7 days ago
“Even if it has two more decades to grow, Bluesky will probably never become as influential as Twitter once was. Maybe that’s not a bad thing.” This is good, by
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
, about Twitter and BlueSky.
observer.co.uk/news/science...
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The rise and fall of Twitter | The Observer
The social network founded 20 years ago brought us community, the ‘Twitter revolution’ and #MeToo. But it is now defined by bots, algorithms and Elon Musk’s disastrous takeover
https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-twitter
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The Observer
15 days ago
"Riding the ‘cock carousel’ can induce depression about the state of men and the world." Read
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
full review of Zoe Strimpel's "Good Slut".
https://bit.ly/4aYbU7d
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The problem with the Good Slut manifesto | The Observer
Zoe Strimpel believes that the patriarchy is in retreat and women have never had it so good. Current events might suggest otherwise
https://bit.ly/4aYbU7d
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what's the happiest place in england like on the saddest day of the year? and WHY does it smell like that?? i investigate for
@dispatchmedia.bsky.social
dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
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How to be happy in England
A visit to England's happiest town • On the saddest day of the year • How does Skipton do it?
https://dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-happy-in-england-skipton/
about 2 months ago
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Dispatch
about 2 months ago
Skipton in North Yorkshire is officially the "happiest place in England". But what's it like on the most miserable day of the year?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
reports:
dispatch-media.com/how-to-be-ha...
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John Merrick
2 months ago
This is a brilliant dispatch from Nottingham, the table top gaming capital of the world, and its "lead belt"
dispatch-media.com/the-warhamme...
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The Warhammer capital of the world
Nottingham has a new export • From coal mines to Games Workshop • Even the Freemasons have noticed
https://dispatch-media.com/the-warhammer-capital-of-the-world-nottingham/
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George Monbiot
2 months ago
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government
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column this week is about the new frontier of aspirational parenting: being performatively crunchy
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
4 months ago
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i HATE let them theory
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The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts
Mel Robbins’s bestseller has sold seven million copies and even been anointed by Oprah, but it’s the worst kind of advice for young women
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-let-them-theory-may-be-non-fiction-but-there-arent-any-facts
5 months ago
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column this week: everything is dumb now, for some reason
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
5 months ago
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Marc de Faoite
6 months ago
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
on Irish accents on the screen. After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/30/tv-problem-irish-accents-house-of-guinness-helen-mirren
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Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not Wrote about this for the guardian
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/30/tv-problem-irish-accents-house-of-guinness-helen-mirren
6 months ago
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The Fence
6 months ago
Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
reports from home.
www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...
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Titanic Street Preachers
JESUS SAVES FROM HELL
https://www.the-fence.com/titanic-street-preachers/
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i wrote about the golden age of vice for the ft
www.ft.com/content/8e39...
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Vice Is Broke and the risky business of selling cool
A new documentary from former Vice presenter Eddie Huang charts the media powerhouse’s rise and fall
https://www.ft.com/content/8e39ecfb-feb5-4352-8d6d-63e96109a40a
6 months ago
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Róisín Lanigan
The British Election Study
6 months ago
Labour's decline in support is remarkable. Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
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column this week is about flegs
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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wrote this for
@irishnews.com
today
www.irishnews.com/opinion/rois...
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As Kneecap’s Mo Chara returns to court, and hundreds are arrested at Palestine protests, there is something rotten here in England
Belfast-born journalist and novelist Róisín Lanigan reports from London as the British government increasingly turns to terror laws to clamp down on dissent over Palestine
https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/roisin-lanigan-as-kneecaps-mo-chara-returns-to-court-and-hundreds-are-arrested-at-palestine-protests-there-is-something-rotten-here-in-england-MZFRSRVQIJDCVGQ237HXSMWCE4/
7 months ago
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wrote this for
@irishnews.com
today
www.irishnews.com/opinion/rois...
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As Kneecap’s Mo Chara returns to court, and hundreds are arrested at Palestine protests, there is something rotten here in England
Belfast-born journalist and novelist Róisín Lanigan reports from London as the British government increasingly turns to terror laws to clamp down on dissent over Palestine
https://www.irishnews.com/opinion/roisin-lanigan-as-kneecaps-mo-chara-returns-to-court-and-hundreds-are-arrested-at-palestine-protests-there-is-something-rotten-here-in-england-MZFRSRVQIJDCVGQ237HXSMWCE4/
7 months ago
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observer column this week: make musicians poor again
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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It’s our fault that Oasis are now the status quo
Liam Gallagher took a pop at the establishment in Edinburgh – but isn’t his band part of it?
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/its-our-fault-that-oasis-are-now-the-status-quo
7 months ago
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wrote some things about THE PUB for
@thefence.bsky.social
’s book about THE PUB
7 months ago
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Dispatch
8 months ago
Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm. Latest here:
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
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Benidorm's greatest patriots
A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast
https://dispatch-media.com/benidorms-greatest-patriots/
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I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result
open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...
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Money's No Object #8: Róisín Lanigan
Money's No Object · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TvgfAqK77weKeM5tZKhs3?si=0e219028ecba4cf4
8 months ago
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Lewis Goodall
8 months ago
A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/we-faced-hunger-before-but-never-like-this-skeletal-children-fill-hospital-wards-as-starvation-grips-gaza
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Dr Jo Kershaw
8 months ago
We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.
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Fórsa trade union
8 months ago
What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars! While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts. One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
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in the new issue of
@thefence.bsky.social
i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless
8 months ago
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John Merrick
8 months ago
This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke @dispatchmedia.bsky.social
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
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The forgotten founder of the EDL
Paul Ray lit the fuse • Then disappeared • From Luton to Ukraine
https://dispatch-media.com/the-forgotten-founder-of-the-edl/
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David Storey
8 months ago
Putting the 'sham' in shamrock:
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
on the problem of Irish chic
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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‘Cool Eire’ puts the sham in shamrock | The Observer
All of a sudden, it’s cool to be Irish – but only if you talk about Ireland in a certain way
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/cool-eire-puts-the-sham-in-shamrock?s=09
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Last week I went semi-undercover in Benidorm for
@dispatchmedia.bsky.social
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
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Benidorm's greatest patriots
A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast
https://dispatch-media.com/benidorms-greatest-patriots/
8 months ago
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Dispatch
8 months ago
What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
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Mormon Wives in the Ft?? This could be the end of momtok
www.ft.com/content/c25b...
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The money-spinning surprises of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
The hit reality TV show has returned for a second season, with its cast of ‘MomTok’ influencers still pushing boundaries
https://www.ft.com/content/c25be8b9-25a9-47e5-9b36-331411b78e94
9 months ago
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The Observer
10 months ago
Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex. The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
. Read more:
bit.ly/43bl8Jp
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Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex | The Observer
The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness – one that suggests a smiling, darkly sexy bunch with flattened political views
https://bit.ly/43bl8Jp
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The Fence
10 months ago
Here's
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
's Central London Tourist Bingo
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Jacob Furedi
10 months ago
It's sports week at
@dispatchmedia.bsky.social
— and who better to kick things off than
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
? On pigeon racing, the King and a retired builder called Terry.
dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-...
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The men who race pigeons
A King's betrayal • Athletes of the sky • Don't tell PETA
https://dispatch-media.com/the-men-who-race-pigeons/
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Dan Wilson Craw
11 months ago
Just catching up with
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
's superb column on the new Observer website - the first of many presumably?
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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The shit flat expert
Independent journalism | News, culture & style | Investigations, analysis, features, ideas, recipes, newsletters & podcasts that make sense of the world
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/home-is-where-the-carbon-monoxide-is
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in the sunday times magazine this week writing about snooker, sheffield, saudi, ££££££££££££
www.thetimes.com/sport/snooke...
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Inside the fight to stop snooker deserting Sheffield for Saudi Arabia
The crumbling Crucible theatre has been the home of the World Snooker Championship since 1977. Now the city is struggling to keep its place at the table
https://www.thetimes.com/sport/snooker/article/snooker-sheffield-saudi-arabia-g7dzj96hg
11 months ago
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
11 months ago
THIS COMING MONDAY, 14th April, I will be sitting down with
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
to discuss her excellent book I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There. Tickets now available! You should come!! 📅 Mon, April 14 🕢 7:00pm 📍 Reference Point (London, UK)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-want-to-...
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I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There
Róisín Lanigan in conversation with Séamas O’Reilly discuss her debut novel, I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-want-to-go-home-but-im-already-there-tickets-1289827963159
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The Fence
11 months ago
Issue 23 Is Here 🦈 With work from
@emmafmagnus.bsky.social
,
@drblacklock.bsky.social
,
@jimmymcintosh.bsky.social
,
@seamas.bsky.social
,
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
,
@louisstaples.bsky.social
,
@dwhitehouse.bsky.social
,
@williamasclarke.bsky.social
& more
www.the-fence.com/shop/
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if u would like to read 3,000 of my words about pigeon racing then u can do that by subscribing to this magazine (equally don't let that put u off)
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12 months ago
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Laurie McRae Andrew
12 months ago
'I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There' by
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
: a bit of millennial gothic, mixing classic haunted house tropes with Gails and Fleabag references. Finely poised between realism and horror, a compelling invocation of the cursedness of the contemporary housing situation.
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In AnOther mag today!!!!!
www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
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This Uncanny Novel Captures the Horror of Renting in London
Róisín Lanigan’s debut novel I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There weaves the nightmare reality of renting in London with psychological horror. Here, the author talks about gentrification and the ha...
https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/16277/roisin-lanigan-i-want-to-go-home-but-im-already-there-book-interview-london-rent
12 months ago
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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy
12 months ago
I Want to Go Home But I'm Already There by
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
is an intriguing mix of dark, unsettling, and compelling ghost story and arresting dissection of class and the rental crisis... An intense contemporary gothic you won't want to miss, out now! 💙📚
#horror
#SFF
#RentalCrisis
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next week i'm so excited !!
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12 months ago
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West Cork Literary Festival
12 months ago
The Best Books of 2025 so far, as chosen by
@thetimes.com
critics. Loads of reading inspiration here and lovely to see Joseph O'Connor and three Irish debut novelists
@garrettcarr.bsky.social
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
and Róisín O'Donnell on the list 💚
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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The best books of 2025 so far — our critics’ picks
The literary year is blooming, with must-reads from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joseph O’Connor and Anne Tyler
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/best-books-2025-so-far-ranked-67cj980w2
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The i Paper
12 months ago
Róisín Lanigan on how the horrors of the housing market inspired her Gothic debut novel – and why it's a theme for our times
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How the rental crisis is fuelling a new wave of fiction
Róisín Lanigan on how the horrors of the housing market inspired her Gothic debut novel – and why it's a theme for our times
https://trib.al/i3z6DCg
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spoke to the face about my book !
theface.com/culture/rois...
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What does “home” mean, anyway?
In her bone-chilling debut I Want To Go Home But I’m Already There , writer Róisín Lanigan brings a gothic edge to the persistent horror of renting in London.
https://theface.com/culture/roisin-lanigan-interview-i-want-to-go-home-but-im-already-there-housing-crisis
12 months ago
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Jonn Elledge
12 months ago
BOOK LAUNCHED
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Joshi Herrmann
12 months ago
🚨 The highly anticipated
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
debut is out, and as
@londonermag.bsky.social
points out, it’s very good.
www.the-londoner.co.uk/nfts-basquia...
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Book of the day baby! (Also publication day 🥰🥰🥰)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There by Róisín Lanigan review – a housing crisis ghost story
London’s property market is the villain in this wry gothic novel for generation rent
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/20/i-want-to-go-home-but-im-already-there-by-roisin-lanigan-review-a-housing-crisis-ghost-story
12 months ago
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Jonn Elledge
12 months ago
shout out to
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
whose ACTUAL NOVEL is published today, go buy
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I Want To Go Home But I'm Already There
Renting is a nightmare. Áine should be feeling happy with her life. She’s just moved in with Elliot. Their new flat is in an affluent neighbourhood, surrounded by bakeries, yoga studios and organic v...
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459281/i-want-to-go-home-but-im-already-there-by-lanigan-roisin/9780241668535
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