Blind Date with a Book

Blind Date with a Book

Author: Emily Kerr Listening Length: 9h 50m

A brand new Oxford-set summer romance inspired by Pride and Prejudice from award-winning author Emily Kerr. For fans of enemies to lovers, forced proximity and book lovers! Molly Bramble thought running a bookshop on a narrowboat would be a dream come true – until her biggest challenge turned out to be her new neighbo...

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The next day, I sat down at my laptop to start phase one of the plan Nana Rose had helped me come up with: send emails to every living author I could think of, inviting them to do a talk or even just a signing at the Oxford Bookship.

I’d always intended to host author events but had been putting it off, afraid I wouldn’t be able to replicate the lively literary salons I’d daydreamed about for so long.

However, the time for allowing fear to hold me back was long past. Then I trawled through the online list of bookshops I admired elsewhere in the country to see what drew the crowds to their establishments.