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Baz Pitch is an overworked uni student who -- between his heavy course load and his shifts at his aunt's bookstore -- is stressed all the time. There are expectations on him to follow the family footsteps, and he doesn't want to deal with that right now. His aunt Fiona's bookstore is his one oasis in this (except for on poetry slam nights) and he's glad to have her -- even if she does come with her own brand of crazy.
But when Simon Snow, a lit student with a short temper who's trying to distance himself from his bad history, starts working at the bookstore, Baz's life gets infinitely more stressful. Amidst bad poetry slams, author signings, getting locked in storerooms and gaining a (unwanted) roommate, Baz comes to realise that Simon Snow is so much more than he's prepared to take on.
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- Part 1 of Take On Me
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13 Sep 2025
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“I didn’t mean to wake you,” he says, reaching a hand out to brush through my curls absentmindedly before resuming his typing.
“When did you get here?” I mutter, shifting myself so I can press a kiss to the cool thigh next to my head. I don’t think he brought pyjamas, because he’s just in his pants and a jumper, which is not even close to his usual sleepwear.
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- Part 1 of just for a moment, let's be still
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02 Sep 2025
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His hand finds mine on the gear shift and he gives my fingers a light squeeze. Out of the corner of my vision I can see him silently mouthing the words. His eyes flick to me and he smiles again.
Keep driving, the smile says.
So I do.
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- Part 2 of just for a moment, let's be still
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02 Sep 2025
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“I glance at the cup before I raise it to my lips, and one eyebrow goes up when I see what ridiculous insult he’s written on the cup today.”
Every day Baz comes in to get coffee, and every day he finds a new insult on his cup.
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27 Aug 2025
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"It wasn’t that he didn’t love Pitch Manor. He did. He loved it terribly, viciously, horribly, with a wriggling possessiveness deep down in his belly. He was a Pitch, and the Manor was his. He was a Pitch, and he was the Manor’s."
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Baz is twenty-three and weighed down by the responsibility of fixing up Pitch Manor. He's rattling around in a large house in the country with only a dog and a mean housekeeper for company. Simon is chasing down his family, starting in Watford. He has only his motorcycle, his name, and the blanket he was left with as a baby. And the answers to his life questions may reside in the crumbling manor at the edge of the New Forest.
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27 Aug 2025