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Win, read and review paperback copies of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

To celebrate the publication of LULA DEAN’S LITTLE LIBRARY OF BANNED BOOKS in paperback, we’re offering a limited number of reading groups and book clubs a chance to win 10 copies for their group!

Could you be one of our lucky reading groups? If you’d like a set, please contact us on the email address below. The winning groups will be chosen at random.

Good luck! Here’s a little more information about the book.


From the author of THE CHANGE, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship.

In Troy, Georgia, local woman Lula Dean has campaigned to cleanse the town’s reading habits. All the ‘disgusting’, ‘pornographic’ and downright ‘un-American’ books have been removed from public spaces. Now, the townspeople are only allowed to read ‘appropriate’ books from Lula’s personal lending library.

But a small group refuse to be told what they can and cannot read and, unbeknownst to Lula, her personal collection is slowly restocked with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, spell books, and more.

One by one, each person who borrows the books from Lula’s library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. And as they begin to reveal their new selves, it’s clear that a showdown is fast approaching – one that will change the town of Troy forever …


‘One of the most inspiring and relevant books I’ve read’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘I cried, I laughed, I despaired!’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘A wonderfully satirical book for our increasingly censored times’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Chicken soup for librarians and readers’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘Gloriously and unashamedly inflammatory, uplifting and full of a love of books’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘A book of power, a book of joy and a book of rebellion’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘You’ll never judge a book cover in the same way again!’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘A call to arms for book lovers!’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘A fabulous satire on the serious issue of book banning’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
‘One of my favourite books ever!’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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