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If you're a mood reader, and you love to invest deeply in a character, here is a tale of unusual animal-human bonds...
'Blending action with themes of conservation and understanding, The Angel of St Piran is indeed life-affirming'
Thank you @kelibanana for reviewing!
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"A read which both manages to highlight a significant and critical issue and also weaves in a bit of magic to give us an outcome the problem could well do with... Blending action and adventure with themes of conservation and understanding"
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Last chance to book - 3pm tomorrow is cut off x
A few tickets left this week to chat chimpanzees, billionaire greed and Cornish magic with best-selling novelist John Ironmonger at The Curious Cat Bookshop, Cheshire, this Thursday!
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Chimps, billionaire greed and an evening with internationally best-selling author and former zoologist, John Ironmonger! Please book via House of Books and Friends by tomorrow at 3pm
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A few tickets left this week to chat chimpanzees, billionaire greed and Cornish magic with best-selling novelist John Ironmonger at The Curious Cat Bookshop, Cheshire, this Thursday!
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An endorsement rising from the flames of Tracy Fahey's upcoming short story collection: 'Women Changing'! Big thank you Eden Royce for devouring these magical stories.
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Travel through books with John Ironmonger: quirky characters and big ideas. The Angel of St Piran and The Wager and the Bear both start in a small town in Cornwall known for its myths... and travel to the jungles of Tanzania and the glaciers of greenland!
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'Confronts humanity’s capacity for harm without losing sight of more hopeful possibilities...We are immersed in a natural world that is never presented as the idyllic stereotype; it carries a constant sense of threat'
Fab review for The Angel of St Piran in The Manchester Review
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Our first fiery endorsement is in for Tracy Fahey's magical realism short story collection, Women Changing! Big thanks to Alison Littlewood for devouring these surreal, darkly comic stories
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'The Dark Within Them is a brilliantly dark crime thriller which I adored!'
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Ma is loving and present, two things their parents are not. But one night during Ramadan—and on subsequent nights after—their childhood innocence is shattered into a million tiny pieces…
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A lovely review by @carol_bookworm for @Zahirrawrites 'The Whispering Jacarandas' 📖 out now in paperback from @flyonthewallpress
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Tune in today at 5pm for @readwithkapz and @Zahirrawrites Insta live, chatting about The Whispering Jacarandas, Zahirra's debut book!🌳
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"One of Ironmonger’s skills is in shifting the register of his prose. In The Wager and The Bear the focus moves in and out between a whimsical omniscience of St Piran events to a close third person account of visceral action above and within an icefloe." @TOMunro @jwironmonger
John Ironmonger's latest book The Angel of St Piran, was a very eagerly awaited pleasure which I started knowing only that it featured a young researcher living within a troop of chimpanzees. It is another entertaining delight from @fly_press fantasy-reviews.co.uk/2026/0…
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John Ironmonger's latest book The Angel of St Piran, was a very eagerly awaited pleasure which I started knowing only that it featured a young researcher living within a troop of chimpanzees. It is another entertaining delight from @fly_press fantasy-reviews.co.uk/2026/0…
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Just SOME of the stunning independent publishers we are thrilled to have at the next Northern Publishers' Fair - blessed to be in the North.
Join us for a natter on Sat 14th of November -
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Katie Clapham's book club review of The Others made our heart sing! Read in full here -
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Book Launch Today at @linghamsbooks 📖 @johnironmonger will be talking with @lotnumber249 about his love for chimpanzees, his background in zoology, and inspiration for his newest novel, The Angel of St Piran, out now in stunning hardback!🐒 Join us at 7pm!
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