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
Really good to see you and to sample such great beer & food with you!
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Really good to see you and to sample such great beer & food with you!
* On time for the first - and possibly only - time…
October 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
* On time for the first - and possibly only - time…
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
The beer briefcase is back????
September 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The beer briefcase is back????
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.