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For readers who haven’t (yet!) read ‘The Wedding People’ can you tell us about it in one sentence? The novel is about a woman who thinks she's at the end of her life, but unexpectedly learns how to start her life over at a stranger's wedding.

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read The Husbands, can you tell us about it in one sentence?It's a comedy about a woman whose attic starts to generate an infinite supply of husbands.

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read ‘Weirdo’ can you tell us about it in one sentence?  It's a romantic adventure deep inside an Essex Girl's mind, finding humour in insecurity, paranoia and terrible sex. 

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read ‘Stop Me If You've Heard This One’ can you tell us about it in one sentence? It's that classic story we all know: lesbian birthday party clown in Orlando, Florida hooks up with a much older female magician in order to take her art to the next level.

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read ‘Fundamentally’ can you tell us about it in one sentence? Fundamentally is a satirical comedy about a UN program to deradicalise ISIS brides! It follows Nadia, a heartbroken academic from London, who takes a UN job in Baghdad, and quickly becomes engrossed with Sara, a bolshie and hilarious young ISIS bride.

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read ‘Don’t Make Me Laugh’ can you tell us about it in one sentence? It’s one woman’s heady journey down into the rabbit hole of the UK comedy scene, where she finds lust, intrigue and female solidarity as a group of women prepare to unleash a #MeToo reckoning on the toxic men they work with.

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read your ‘Butterflies’, can you tell us about it in one sentence? Imagine if you could travel back in time to save the love of your life… only to promptly screw everything up!

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read your ‘Octopus’, can you tell us about it in one sentence? To paraphrase one reviewer:Octopus is a wild story of an extraordinary globetrotting family, as told by someone who’d rather be at school.

Can you tell us about the brilliant ‘Some News’ in one sentence? 'Some News' is about two very different sisters from Derry: Sarah, a stressed single mother now living in Dublin, and Sinead, a Belfast-based (and freshly unemployed) party animal, who end up swapping lives and cities temporarily... conflict, connection and chaos ensue! 

Can you tell us about 'Generation Ex' in one sentence? 'Generation Ex' is a novel set in Brighton about a childfree magazine publisher in her forties whose life falls apart in spectacular, humiliating fashion when she loses her very average middle-aged boyfriend to a famous Gen Z influencer.

Can you tell us about the brilliant ‘The Way of Nellie May’ in one sentence? Reclusive Amber busts her grandma Nellie out of care home to give her one last day trip to Aberystwyth from Birmingham but instead of returning, Nellie has other ideas.

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read your ‘Game of Trust’, can you tell us about it in one sentence? When members of Scotland’s worst diet group infiltrate a reality TV game show to catch an art thief, the last thing they expect is to find themselves on the trail of a murderer (warning - contains strong language, adult humour and far too much shortbread). 

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read your ‘The Stand-up Mam’, can you tell us about it in one sentence? The perfect mother enters a stand-up comedy competition which could be life changing but has potential to blow up her family life.

Can you tell us about the brilliant ‘Checking Out’ in one sentence? 'Checking Out' is about a woman named Geraldine who has lost her path in life and who needs to except the finality of death before she can truly live. 

Could you tell us about your story in one sentence? An absurdist coming of age story about a hapless young man and a beleaguered pig on the run.

Can you tell us about the brilliant ‘Music for the Samosa Generation’ in one sentence? Sandwiched between her headstrong ageing mother and rebellious teenage daughter, Yasmin involves them both in launching a community choir and learns how much she has underestimated them (and herself).

For readers who haven’t (yet!) read your ‘A perfect Year?’ Can you tell us about it in one sentence? A Perfect Year? is the story of three unlikely neighbours, told entirely through 21 years of their annual round robin letters.

Congratulations on being included in the compilation! Could you tell us about your story in one sentence? An absurdist coming of age story about a hapless young man and a beleaguered pig on the run.

Congratulations on being included in the compilation! Could you tell us about your story in one sentence? An absurdist coming of age...

A read in which Annemarie Cancienne uses her ‘screwball writing voice’ to relate to our delusional expectations. Could you tell us about...