It's #TwitterBookLaunch day. The wine has been unscrewed, the prawns de-veined for the most part, and its time to celebrate twenty brilliant books published during lockdown. There'll be 2 parts to the thread but please scroll through, share and buy books if you can. So -

In #Empireland, @sathnam shows how our imperial legacy shapes Britain today. 'Intensely readable..mindful of complexity' says @mrjamesob, 'perfectly-judged' says @jonathancoe, this important book is available from - for instance - @kewbookshop https://t.co/7f7BChWzcT
- and here's #HowWeMet, 'a beautiful, refreshing and honest memoir about family, love, inheritance and loss' @nikeshshukla. 'Beautiful, witty, romantic' says @VivGroskop Quick, join Huma in conversation with @SaimaMir at 11, on IGTV via @eandtbooks - https://t.co/PKtzngOMQg
Best title of the week goes to #MrsDeathMissesDeath from poet-turned-novelist @salenagodden, 'a fantastically imaginative story of life, death and everything in between' @idriselba. Beautiful special editions available from many indies, e.g @NewhamBookshop https://t.co/KmSQLSkcZI
And happy publication day to @colette_snowden and @Ofmooseandmen for 'Captain Jesus' (another pretty good title). Loss, family trauma, guilt and the natural world. Signed copies available from @ChorltonBkshop or order from the many indies below -
https://t.co/S9tcuFMjHw
Congratulations to @LisaGardnerBks for #BeforeSheDisappeared, the brand new thriller from the author of 'When You See Me'. 'Lisa...knocks it out of the park' says @tessgerritsen 'Frankie Elkin is a heroine for the ages, a fierce, female Shane'.
https://t.co/RZvGCkIBWV
A 'stunning new literary thriller...a chilling take on art, illness and power', #TakeMeApart by @SaraXSligar. 'This book has everything' says @CrimeReads, 'a raw unfiltered twist on gaslighting' says @aramintahall. From @text_publishing, more praise here- https://t.co/Lq8oaRu2o1
And congratulations to @sylviaapetter for All the Beautiful Liars, a debut about making peace with the past. A richly evocative picture of Central Europe in the decades after the war, it's published by @EyeAndLightning books and you can read more here - https://t.co/XELZ0Obco1
Congratulations to Musa Okwonga @Okwonga for 'In the End, It Was All About Love'. A journey of loss and acceptance based in Berlin, it's about love, sexuality, spirituality and racism and you can find it via @RoughTradeBooks here - https://t.co/ryKk3WA4tg
Finally for PART ONE, join the brilliant screenwriter @jackthorne for #afternoontea as part of the @Soc_of_Authors events series and, if you can, please donate to the Authors' Contingency Fund, helping to support authors facing hardship. Details here - https://t.co/rW1gvWVF1R
That's Part One. Please mingle, share and look back through other #TwitterBookLaunch threads for more brilliant titles. Back after coffee...

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