Emma Inch
@emmainch.bsky.social
multi award-winning writer | academic | UK Beer Writer of the Year 2018 | co-author: World’s Greatest Beers | producer: Same Again? mental health podcast | erstwhile rockabilly DJ | she/her | 🏳️🌈 | trans ally 🏳️⚧️
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Alison Bechdel - The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021)
Like many lesbians of my age, I discovered @alisonbechdel.bsky.social through her Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip & the ever-relevant Bechdel Test.
This is her 3rd memoir; a story of aging & searching that really hits home. Love it.
Like many lesbians of my age, I discovered @alisonbechdel.bsky.social through her Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip & the ever-relevant Bechdel Test.
This is her 3rd memoir; a story of aging & searching that really hits home. Love it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Alison Bechdel - The Secret to Superhuman Strength (2021)
Like many lesbians of my age, I discovered @alisonbechdel.bsky.social through her Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip & the ever-relevant Bechdel Test.
This is her 3rd memoir; a story of aging & searching that really hits home. Love it.
Like many lesbians of my age, I discovered @alisonbechdel.bsky.social through her Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip & the ever-relevant Bechdel Test.
This is her 3rd memoir; a story of aging & searching that really hits home. Love it.
Kate Summerscale - The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (2024)
A fascinating, almost forensic, account. Through painstaking research, Summerscale manages to evoke the atmosphere of the time in ways so rich you can almost smell the rain hitting the Notting Hill pavement.
A fascinating, almost forensic, account. Through painstaking research, Summerscale manages to evoke the atmosphere of the time in ways so rich you can almost smell the rain hitting the Notting Hill pavement.
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Kate Summerscale - The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place (2024)
A fascinating, almost forensic, account. Through painstaking research, Summerscale manages to evoke the atmosphere of the time in ways so rich you can almost smell the rain hitting the Notting Hill pavement.
A fascinating, almost forensic, account. Through painstaking research, Summerscale manages to evoke the atmosphere of the time in ways so rich you can almost smell the rain hitting the Notting Hill pavement.
Tracy King - Learning to Think (2024)
A raw, sometimes shocking, always compelling memoir of adversity & (ultimately) survival. Filled with both pain & hope, I enjoyed every page of it.
@tracyking.bsky.social
A raw, sometimes shocking, always compelling memoir of adversity & (ultimately) survival. Filled with both pain & hope, I enjoyed every page of it.
@tracyking.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Tracy King - Learning to Think (2024)
A raw, sometimes shocking, always compelling memoir of adversity & (ultimately) survival. Filled with both pain & hope, I enjoyed every page of it.
@tracyking.bsky.social
A raw, sometimes shocking, always compelling memoir of adversity & (ultimately) survival. Filled with both pain & hope, I enjoyed every page of it.
@tracyking.bsky.social
Fashionably late as usual, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - October 2025
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fashionably late as usual, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - October 2025
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
Only three this month, but each one represents a very different way of telling a true story.
#booksky
And I loved this account of a young Damien, aged just 6, finding a wild hop growing at the roadside & discovering for the first time the beauty & aroma that this magical plant holds.
‘It was sugary-sour. It smelled like something precious. I wanted to lock it up somehow & take it back with me…’
‘It was sugary-sour. It smelled like something precious. I wanted to lock it up somehow & take it back with me…’
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And I loved this account of a young Damien, aged just 6, finding a wild hop growing at the roadside & discovering for the first time the beauty & aroma that this magical plant holds.
‘It was sugary-sour. It smelled like something precious. I wanted to lock it up somehow & take it back with me…’
‘It was sugary-sour. It smelled like something precious. I wanted to lock it up somehow & take it back with me…’
Damien Le Bas - The Stopping Places (2018)
As someone with distant Gypsy roots of my own & a love of travelling the country in my campervan, I thoroughly enjoyed this honest & insightful account of one man’s journey through some of the Traveller stopping places of old. So many stories seldom told.
As someone with distant Gypsy roots of my own & a love of travelling the country in my campervan, I thoroughly enjoyed this honest & insightful account of one man’s journey through some of the Traveller stopping places of old. So many stories seldom told.
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Damien Le Bas - The Stopping Places (2018)
As someone with distant Gypsy roots of my own & a love of travelling the country in my campervan, I thoroughly enjoyed this honest & insightful account of one man’s journey through some of the Traveller stopping places of old. So many stories seldom told.
As someone with distant Gypsy roots of my own & a love of travelling the country in my campervan, I thoroughly enjoyed this honest & insightful account of one man’s journey through some of the Traveller stopping places of old. So many stories seldom told.
David Mitchell - Slade House (2016)
It’s always good when you find a book by one of your favourite writers in a charity shop. I scooped up this pleasantly creepy little novel & read it in a couple of sittings. Bargain.
It’s always good when you find a book by one of your favourite writers in a charity shop. I scooped up this pleasantly creepy little novel & read it in a couple of sittings. Bargain.
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
David Mitchell - Slade House (2016)
It’s always good when you find a book by one of your favourite writers in a charity shop. I scooped up this pleasantly creepy little novel & read it in a couple of sittings. Bargain.
It’s always good when you find a book by one of your favourite writers in a charity shop. I scooped up this pleasantly creepy little novel & read it in a couple of sittings. Bargain.
Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare (2024)
The only time I’ve ever seen a hare, it appeared in the road like a bad portent during a somewhat terrifying nighttime drive through France, but this fascinating & personal book has shown me the beauty of this
misunderstood animal.
@chloedalton.bsky.social
The only time I’ve ever seen a hare, it appeared in the road like a bad portent during a somewhat terrifying nighttime drive through France, but this fascinating & personal book has shown me the beauty of this
misunderstood animal.
@chloedalton.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Chloe Dalton - Raising Hare (2024)
The only time I’ve ever seen a hare, it appeared in the road like a bad portent during a somewhat terrifying nighttime drive through France, but this fascinating & personal book has shown me the beauty of this
misunderstood animal.
@chloedalton.bsky.social
The only time I’ve ever seen a hare, it appeared in the road like a bad portent during a somewhat terrifying nighttime drive through France, but this fascinating & personal book has shown me the beauty of this
misunderstood animal.
@chloedalton.bsky.social
For the first - and possibly only - time this year, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - September 2025
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
October 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
For the first - and possibly only - time this year, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read this month - September 2025
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
On some days it was warm enough to read outside, on others I had my central heating on high, but these books have seen me through the change in seasons.
#booksky
With a Trump flag hanging just a few hundred yards from where I live, and now the shelves of my local Tesco Express completely devoid of houmous, it’s hard not to feel personally targeted as a lesbian at the moment…
September 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
With a Trump flag hanging just a few hundred yards from where I live, and now the shelves of my local Tesco Express completely devoid of houmous, it’s hard not to feel personally targeted as a lesbian at the moment…
Elliot Page - Pageboy (2023)
Meandering memoir by the actor, Elliot Page that gives an insight into his own transition & the wider, sometimes toxic, world of Hollywood.
Meandering memoir by the actor, Elliot Page that gives an insight into his own transition & the wider, sometimes toxic, world of Hollywood.
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Elliot Page - Pageboy (2023)
Meandering memoir by the actor, Elliot Page that gives an insight into his own transition & the wider, sometimes toxic, world of Hollywood.
Meandering memoir by the actor, Elliot Page that gives an insight into his own transition & the wider, sometimes toxic, world of Hollywood.
Matt Rowland Hill - Original Sins (2022)
Given the subject matter, I did not expect this book to be as funny as it was but it had me laughing aloud at some points. A deeply personal, honest account of addiction & forgiveness with one of the best opening chapters I’ve ever read.
Given the subject matter, I did not expect this book to be as funny as it was but it had me laughing aloud at some points. A deeply personal, honest account of addiction & forgiveness with one of the best opening chapters I’ve ever read.
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Matt Rowland Hill - Original Sins (2022)
Given the subject matter, I did not expect this book to be as funny as it was but it had me laughing aloud at some points. A deeply personal, honest account of addiction & forgiveness with one of the best opening chapters I’ve ever read.
Given the subject matter, I did not expect this book to be as funny as it was but it had me laughing aloud at some points. A deeply personal, honest account of addiction & forgiveness with one of the best opening chapters I’ve ever read.
Kieran Yates - All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In (2023)
A powerful memoir of home & an intelligent & timely account of how the housing system in the UK fails so many of us.
A powerful memoir of home & an intelligent & timely account of how the housing system in the UK fails so many of us.
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Kieran Yates - All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In (2023)
A powerful memoir of home & an intelligent & timely account of how the housing system in the UK fails so many of us.
A powerful memoir of home & an intelligent & timely account of how the housing system in the UK fails so many of us.
Yael van der Wouden - The Safekeep (2024)
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize & winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, this is also in the running for my own personal book of the year. An absolute masterpiece of a novel & a lesson in history everyone should learn. Read it.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize & winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, this is also in the running for my own personal book of the year. An absolute masterpiece of a novel & a lesson in history everyone should learn. Read it.
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Yael van der Wouden - The Safekeep (2024)
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize & winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, this is also in the running for my own personal book of the year. An absolute masterpiece of a novel & a lesson in history everyone should learn. Read it.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize & winner of the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, this is also in the running for my own personal book of the year. An absolute masterpiece of a novel & a lesson in history everyone should learn. Read it.
Fashionably late, as always, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read in the past month - August 2025
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
September 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fashionably late, as always, here’s my regular round up of the best books I’ve read in the past month - August 2025
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
One novel & three - very different - memoirs have kept me company.
#booksky
Just so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
August 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Just so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later.
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
#NotAllHeroesWearCapes
Kit de Waal - Without Warning & Only Sometimes (2022)
Fascinating memoir of a childhood lived at the meeting point of different worlds. Painful at times but filled to the brim with courage. Wonderful.
@kitdewaal.com
Fascinating memoir of a childhood lived at the meeting point of different worlds. Painful at times but filled to the brim with courage. Wonderful.
@kitdewaal.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Kit de Waal - Without Warning & Only Sometimes (2022)
Fascinating memoir of a childhood lived at the meeting point of different worlds. Painful at times but filled to the brim with courage. Wonderful.
@kitdewaal.com
Fascinating memoir of a childhood lived at the meeting point of different worlds. Painful at times but filled to the brim with courage. Wonderful.
@kitdewaal.com
Greg Marshall - Leg: The Story of a Limb & the Boy Who Grew From It (2023)
Wonderfully entertaining & incredibly intimate memoir of disability & queerness. Loved it.
Wonderfully entertaining & incredibly intimate memoir of disability & queerness. Loved it.
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Greg Marshall - Leg: The Story of a Limb & the Boy Who Grew From It (2023)
Wonderfully entertaining & incredibly intimate memoir of disability & queerness. Loved it.
Wonderfully entertaining & incredibly intimate memoir of disability & queerness. Loved it.
Jeremy Atherton Lin - Gay Bar; Why We Went Out (2021)
I first heard of this writer when he came to do a talk at Kemptown Bookshop. This book is a romp through gay bars from SanFran to Soho. Informative & uplifting, occasionally challenging & undeniably queer.
@kemptownbookshop.bsky.social
I first heard of this writer when he came to do a talk at Kemptown Bookshop. This book is a romp through gay bars from SanFran to Soho. Informative & uplifting, occasionally challenging & undeniably queer.
@kemptownbookshop.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Jeremy Atherton Lin - Gay Bar; Why We Went Out (2021)
I first heard of this writer when he came to do a talk at Kemptown Bookshop. This book is a romp through gay bars from SanFran to Soho. Informative & uplifting, occasionally challenging & undeniably queer.
@kemptownbookshop.bsky.social
I first heard of this writer when he came to do a talk at Kemptown Bookshop. This book is a romp through gay bars from SanFran to Soho. Informative & uplifting, occasionally challenging & undeniably queer.
@kemptownbookshop.bsky.social
Many days late, here’s my regular round-up of the best books I’ve read in the past month (or 2!) - June / July 2025
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Many days late, here’s my regular round-up of the best books I’ve read in the past month (or 2!) - June / July 2025
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
I’ve read hundreds of thousands of words this summer but most were for a big project I’m working on. This has left little time for reading for pleasure but here are the best!
#booksky
Joining in the national #CheersToBeer for #BeerDayBritain with these specially brewed beers from Vocation!
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
June 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Joining in the national #CheersToBeer for #BeerDayBritain with these specially brewed beers from Vocation!
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
[thanks to the brewery sending samples]
Happy Beer Day Britain everyone!
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
June 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Happy Beer Day Britain everyone!
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
In the absence of a breakfast beer (an oversight on my part, obvs), I’m heading out to the pub in a bit to meet Beer Day Britain founder, @schoolofbooze.bsky.social herself, for a Sunday roast…& perhaps the odd beer or two.
#CheersToBeer
#BeerDayBritain
Caroline Litman - Her Name Is Alice (2025)
This will stay with me forever. Written by her mother, it’s the story of Alice Litman who died by suicide in May 2022 having already waited 1023 days for her first GIC appointment. A beautifully written call to action.
@alicemydaughter.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
This will stay with me forever. Written by her mother, it’s the story of Alice Litman who died by suicide in May 2022 having already waited 1023 days for her first GIC appointment. A beautifully written call to action.
@alicemydaughter.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Caroline Litman - Her Name Is Alice (2025)
This will stay with me forever. Written by her mother, it’s the story of Alice Litman who died by suicide in May 2022 having already waited 1023 days for her first GIC appointment. A beautifully written call to action.
@alicemydaughter.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
This will stay with me forever. Written by her mother, it’s the story of Alice Litman who died by suicide in May 2022 having already waited 1023 days for her first GIC appointment. A beautifully written call to action.
@alicemydaughter.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Samantha Harvey - Orbital (2023)
I’d been looking forward to this but found it quite a difficult read. Explored some very interesting (sometimes mindblowing) concepts & was very skilfully written, but it didn’t grab me as much as it obviously grabbed the Booker Prize judges.
I’d been looking forward to this but found it quite a difficult read. Explored some very interesting (sometimes mindblowing) concepts & was very skilfully written, but it didn’t grab me as much as it obviously grabbed the Booker Prize judges.
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Samantha Harvey - Orbital (2023)
I’d been looking forward to this but found it quite a difficult read. Explored some very interesting (sometimes mindblowing) concepts & was very skilfully written, but it didn’t grab me as much as it obviously grabbed the Booker Prize judges.
I’d been looking forward to this but found it quite a difficult read. Explored some very interesting (sometimes mindblowing) concepts & was very skilfully written, but it didn’t grab me as much as it obviously grabbed the Booker Prize judges.
Colm Toibin - Long Island (2024)
Beautiful follow-up to Brooklyn. A closely-observed tale of love revisited & the complications that come along with it. I don’t read many novels but I totally lost myself in this one.
Beautiful follow-up to Brooklyn. A closely-observed tale of love revisited & the complications that come along with it. I don’t read many novels but I totally lost myself in this one.
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Colm Toibin - Long Island (2024)
Beautiful follow-up to Brooklyn. A closely-observed tale of love revisited & the complications that come along with it. I don’t read many novels but I totally lost myself in this one.
Beautiful follow-up to Brooklyn. A closely-observed tale of love revisited & the complications that come along with it. I don’t read many novels but I totally lost myself in this one.