Joëlle Thee Editor
@Joelle_o
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Editorial Director @penguinukbooks📚 | Bookseller Rising Star ⭐️ Lapsed Geologist🔨views my own
The People's Republic of South London™
Joined April 2009
A huge factor in the collapse of our collective mental health is the decline in reading for pleasure. Reading lessens loneliness, builds community, sharpens the intellect. It brings joy. You will be shocked at how much better you feel if you begin to read regularly.
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Do you know how racist you have to be to start abusing a cancer charity and cancelling direct debits because they highlighted the fact that Black men have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer?
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Anne Mensah and Joelle Owusu-Sekyere were recognized at the 2025 Black British Business Awards. Mensah, Netflix UK’s VP of Content, received the IMPACT Award for her leadership and $6B investment in UK creative industries, while Owusu-Sekyere, Editorial Director at Penguin Random
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THANK GOD 😭🙌🏾
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Jilly Cooper wasn’t just a writer she was a force of nature in pearls and prose. She captured Britain the way it used to be. Cheeky, charming, confident in its own skin. Her books were outrageous and humane in equal measure, unashamedly middle England, full of laughter, lust,
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What an icon! There will never be another Hyacinth Bucket (Bouqet)❤️💐
Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, star of BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96 https://t.co/5zGpb5Sy5d
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Yrsa Daley-Ward's THE CATCH, which I published this year has been shortlisted for the @GoldsmithsPrize! "An extraordinary shape-shifting, genre-defying fiction...Reading, by turns, as pop fiction, literary fiction & science fiction, it calls all such distinctions into question.”
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Happy Black History Month. In honour of the start of BHM I want to highlight Black bookshops. First up is New Beacon Books, the UK’s 1st Black bookshop. In 2021, owners said they’d be closing down due to financial pressures but then over £70k was raised to keep them open 🙌🏾
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Sally Rooney 👏👏👏 "Because of my support for non-violent anti-war protest I'm advised I can no longer enter the UK without facing arrest" https://t.co/oin8hEz0Cx
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Cutest trackside proposal during FP2 while alsonso, piastri and russell zoom past☺️💍 #F1 #AzerbaijanGP
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I’ll tell you what, Christianity is probably the most gullible religion out there. Someone can spew hate but cos he was a Christian you’re doing tribute posts? Were his action Christian like? Were his words Christian like? The lack of discernment is very evident.
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Racism isn’t a “political view” in case that needed to be explained to anyone.
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One of my goddess braids has mysteriously fallen out today which means theres a rogue braid somewhere in the Penguin office 😭
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Hugh Bonneville took advantage of a live TV interview at the premiere for #DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale to make a statement about Gaza. Watch the face of ITV News reporter Helen Keenan drop as he *goes there*.
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