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11/06/2026

“A life filled with flowers and sunny days and people who show you all the time that you're valued and worthy. You deserve it all.”

The Book Fairies are delighted to celebrate our TENTH this summer with some truly incredible reads! This is just one of five hundred books being shared around the UK.

This book fairy has hidden a copy of Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings for a lucky finder to discover in Cardiff :)

Book fairies around the world are encouraged to share some great LGBTQIA+ reads over the next few months.

About the book:
Winning the lottery ruined Opal Devlin's life. She may have been able to leave her dead-end job, but now she's getting endlessly bombarded with people knocking at her door for a handout . . .
and she can't seem to stop saying yes.
Opal realises she has a chance to follow her own dreams, and decides to spend almost all her new money on a failing flower farm in North Carolina where she can start her painting business.
But her plans for isolation soon go hopelessly awry when an angry (albeit gorgeous) Pepper Boden is waiting for her at her new farm. Pepper states that she's the rightful owner of Thistle and Bloom Farms, and she isn't moving out.
There's not much else they can do except strike up an agreement of co-habitation, but they're
soon butting heads at every turn. While they each have a reason to stay, can these two opposites find a way to plant some roots? Or will their combustible arguing (and growing
attraction) burn the whole place down?

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11/06/2026

“They’d met and become friends in their early twenties, when they were both pretty wild and carefree. Now Erica was married, to a corporate lawyer, of all things.”

The Book Fairies are delighted to celebrate our TENTH this summer with some truly incredible reads! This is just one of five hundred books being shared around the UK.

This book fairy has hidden a copy of Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory for a lucky finder to discover in Cardiff:)

Book fairies around the world are encouraged to share some great LGBTQIA+ reads over the next few months.

About the book:

Avery Jensen is almost thirty, newly single and ready for a change. She wants to get a hobby, date around (especially women) and flirt with everyone she sees. One problem: she has next to no experience when it comes to dating, and even less confidence.
Enter Taylor Cameron, champion heartbreaker. She just broke up with her most recent girlfriend and her best friend bet that she can't go two months without sleeping with someone. So, she offers to give Avery flirting lessons. It should keep her nice and busy, keep her away from dating and take her mind off how inadequate she feels compared to her (much more settled and
grown-up) friends.
With Taylor's help, Avery finally has the life she always wanted. But now she wants Taylor too.
And, as their mutual attraction becomes impossible to ignore, both women must decide if acting on these feelings could ruin the best thing they've ever had, or if it could make it even better.

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JasmineGuillory

05/06/2026

“Who would I be now, if I hadn’t started searching for who I was back then?”

Waiting in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama!

The Book Fairies are delighted to celebrate our TENTH this summer with some truly incredible reads! This is just one of five hundred books being shared around the UK. This book fairy has hidden a copy of Transitional by Munroe Bergdorf for a lucky finder to discover :)

Book fairies around the world are encouraged to share some great LGBTQIA+ reads over the next few months.

About the book:

Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition – a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are.

As time goes on, we all develop as people. We all transition. It’s what unites us, not what separates us. In this life-affirming, heartfelt and intimate book, activist and model Munroe Bergdorf shares reflections from her own life to illustrate how transitioning is an essential part of all our lives.

 

05/06/2026

“She was a more vulnerable and precious child than I could ever have imagined having the privilege to know.”

Waiting in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama!

The Book Fairies are delighted to celebrate our TENTH this summer with some truly incredible reads! This is just one of five hundred books being shared around the UK. This book fairy has hidden a copy of Her Name Is Alice by Caroline Litman for a lucky finder to discover :)

Book fairies around the world are encouraged to share some great LGBTQIA+ reads over the next few months.

About the book:

Alice Litman died by su***de in May 2022, aged just twenty years old, having already waited almost three years for her first appointment at a gender identity clinic. In stunningly beautiful prose, Caroline Litman captures the realities of an often-messy journey navigating both her daughter’s transition and the days, weeks and months after Alice’s death. Searing, urgent and utterly unique, Her Name is Alice is the raw, human story of a mother’s love and grief for her child – and of a young trans woman who is impossible to forget and who must be remembered.

 

28/05/2026

“It’s all our fault.”

These copies have been hidden around Cardiff Bay!

The Book Fairies are sharing copies of Jolly Monster Town: The Party Pickle by Rong Rong across the UK today! What a great book to find during half term!

Who will be lucky enough to spot one?

About the book:

Twiggy the Log Monster is so excited for her sleepover party. She wants everything to be perfect. And she definitely doesn’t need anyone else’s help - or does she?

Join her in Jolly Monster Town for an adventure unlike any other!

This bright and colourful, illustrated colourful chapter book will delight lovers of comics and graphic novels, cosy colouring fans and children with big imaginations. In Jolly Monster Town, you will find wonderfully wacky characters, playful adventure, friendship and lots of monsterific mayhem.

28/05/2026

“The Storm Monster brothers are hiding behind the leaves. Their bodies are covered in frost.”

Hiding in Cardiff Bay!

The Book Fairies are sharing copies of Jolly Monster Town: The Party Pickle by Rong Rong across the UK today! What a great book to find during half term!

Who will be lucky enough to spot one?

About the book:

Twiggy the Log Monster is so excited for her sleepover party. She wants everything to be perfect. And she definitely doesn’t need anyone else’s help - or does she?

Join her in Jolly Monster Town for an adventure unlike any other!

This bright and colourful, illustrated colourful chapter book will delight lovers of comics and graphic novels, cosy colouring fans and children with big imaginations. In Jolly Monster Town, you will find wonderfully wacky characters, playful adventure, friendship and lots of monsterific mayhem.

20/05/2026

The Book Fairies are sharing copies of The Walking Cure by Annabel Streets across the UK! This book is a Waterstones Book of the Month :) so we've included a photo of the window of the Cardiff store

Who will be lucky enough to spot one on a trail this bank holiday Monday?

About the book:

In this inspirational book Annabel Streets explains the curative and therapeutic benefits of 20 easy-to-find landscapes, both rural and urban: from mountains to meadows, disused railway lines to rivers and coastal cliffs to city parks. Streets reveals not only the huge physiological benefits of walking, but also how these are exponentially enhanced by the particular routes we choose to walk. Streets investigates how different landscapes have proven abilities to change how we see, feel and experience ourselves and the world.

With warmth and wisdom, and using a compelling blend of anecdotal and scientific evidence, she identifies the perfect place to walk for over two dozen common states-of-mind, whether it be a canal path to spark creativity, a bustling city to allay boredom or the the shoreline to heal grief and insomnia. The Walking Cure celebrates the joy of walking and shares the extraordinary health benefits that landscape unlocks.

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20/05/2026

The Book Fairies are sharing copies of Brave and Bold by Nell Frizzell at swimming spots and more across the UK today!

Who will be BRAVE enough to go looking, and BOLD enough to take one home? This copy is also by the lake at Tredegar House .

About the book:

For a century, the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath has welcomed women from every walk of life: artists and activists, swimmers and sunbathers, friends and free spirits. As Britain’s most famous female open-air swimming spot, a pocket of wildness tucked away in the middle of the city, it has long attracted adventurous swimmers from all over the UK and the wider world.
Brave and Bold celebrates one hundred years of this beloved London landmark through the rhythm of a single swimming year, from frozen Januarys to sun-drenched midsummers; through friendships, feminist activism and the exhilaration of open water.

Created in collaboration with the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association and rich with previously unseen archive material and new interviews – from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era – this is far more than the story of one pond. It’s a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change, from suffragettes to soap stars, war to liberation, and shared flasks of tea to acts of quiet rebellion.

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20/05/2026

The Book Fairies are sharing copies of Brave and Bold by Nell Frizzell at swimming spots and more across the UK today!

Who will be BRAVE enough to go looking, and BOLD enough to take one home? This copy is at Tredegar House in Newport.

About the book:

For a century, the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath has welcomed women from every walk of life: artists and activists, swimmers and sunbathers, friends and free spirits. As Britain’s most famous female open-air swimming spot, a pocket of wildness tucked away in the middle of the city, it has long attracted adventurous swimmers from all over the UK and the wider world.
Brave and Bold celebrates one hundred years of this beloved London landmark through the rhythm of a single swimming year, from frozen Januarys to sun-drenched midsummers; through friendships, feminist activism and the exhilaration of open water.

Created in collaboration with the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association and rich with previously unseen archive material and new interviews – from Dolly Alderton and Amy Liptrot to lifelong swimmers of every era – this is far more than the story of one pond. It’s a story of community, women and wild water across a century of social and political change, from suffragettes to soap stars, war to liberation, and shared flasks of tea to acts of quiet rebellion.

GoingSwimmingly HarperNonFiction GoSwimming

13/05/2026

“Sometimes, she wondered if she’d lived too long.”

Waiting at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life 💚

The Book Fairies of the UK are sharing copies of Michelle Jabès Corpora’s new book She Knows All the Names paired with Corpora’s first book in the Throne of Khetara series His Face is the Sun!

Who will be lucky enough to spot this fantasy bundle today?

About She Knows All the Names by Michelle Jabès Corpora:

A merciless new king has ascended to the throne of Khetera and war threatens as rebellion against his rule grows. Hidden in the desert, far from the golden palace, Princess Sita must uncover the ancient secrets of a lost city and face an evil risen from the dead.

In a palace swarming with enemies, Priestess Neff secretly plots against the pharaoh’s reign of blood, studying the forbidden art of Heka magic. Can she trust an unexpected ally?

Along the banks of the Iteru River, Rae leads a group of rebels on a perilous mission. To succeed, she must earn the trust of the king’s closest advisor and place herself in the lion’s den.

And in the Red Lands, tomb robber Karim grapples with the new life he’s been given and his growing feelings for the sharp-witted princess. Will he face his destiny or run like a thief in the night?

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