Emma Inch
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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- So glad to hear it!
- 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
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View full threadKate 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.
- 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.
- 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
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- Really good to see you and to sample such great beer & food with you!
- 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 time for the first - and possibly only - time…
- 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.
- 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…’
- 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
- 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.
- 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…
- Thank you to @willhawkes.bsky.social & his @londonbeercity.bsky.social newsletter for drawing this wonderful film to my attention. It’s a fantastic snapshot - featuring some very familiar faces - of the excitement of the London brewing scene back in 2010. youtu.be/DggCEQoLnAs?...
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- The beer briefcase is back????
- What we did in school today. Here’s an amazing graphic summary, drawn by Rebecca Osborne as we talked, of today’s Pubs in the Community meeting @nottinghamtrentuni.bsky.social organised by @culturalclare.bsky.social
- I love that!
- 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
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View full threadMatt 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Just so you know, I fixed my printer this morning so I’m gonna have a go at world peace later. #NotAllHeroesWearCapes
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View full threadI’m currently away in my motorhome in Pembrokeshire & have been using @beerbreaks.bsky.social as a guide for St David’s & Tenby! We definitely need a UK motorhome / beer guide (commissions welcome!) My favourite beery place to stay is currently Edwardstone White Horse (home of Little Earth Project).
- *nowhere near York though!
- 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
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View full threadGreg Marshall - Leg: The Story of a Limb & the Boy Who Grew From It (2023) Wonderfully entertaining & incredibly intimate memoir of disability & queerness. Loved it.
- 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
- 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
- Joining in the national #CheersToBeer for #BeerDayBritain with these specially brewed beers from Vocation! [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
- Very shocked to hear this news earlier today. Martyn was a founder member of @britbeerwriters.bsky.social & his death will be a huge loss to beer writing.
- Pinch punch & all that. Here’s my regular round-up of all the books I’ve read this month - May 2025 #booksky
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- Very fair point; there was a lot. Loved the characters though; Jim is my absolute favourite.
- 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.
- 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 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
- Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000/2024) Part-memoir, part-best book about writing you’ll ever read. So much to learn here from one of the very best storytellers there is. @stephenking.bsky.social
- 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.
- Maxine Beneba Clarke - The Hate Race (2016). Really powerful memoir about growing up black in white, suburban Australia. An essential discussion of the impact racism has on a child. @maxinebenebaclarke.bsky.social
- And now it’s a Pulitzer Prize winner!
- Yes please. Thank you very much. @burningskybeer.bsky.social
- Yep. That's what I needed. youtu.be/s_21p14TAXM?...
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- Yes - creeps up on you. I thought I was fine until I stood up and realised my legs were made of jelly.
- I once got very worse for wear on mint juleps in Kentucky.
- "When I go to a pub it's not about the beer. Of course I like the beer but I go to be with the people, to feel that I'm doing something to make them happy, to make them proud. Work, home, then we go to a pub just for a beer or two beers and finish. This is our life." www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
- Massively pleased to open up my monthly email from @kemptownbookshop.bsky.social this morning & find this message at the top of it. Support your trans friends. And support your local bookshop.
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- Hopefully you’ve rectified your error in saying glass Marmite jars are better than squeezy ones.
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- I know. I’m so angry & upset for you and the rest of my trans siblings. Please know that you are loved & supported & we will stand together to fight all this. And, if you need to take a day or two to just switch it all off & get drunk, that’s a valid response & I absolutely do not blame you x
- Sending love, Caroline. Not surprised you’re feeing ground down. Take good care of yourself today x
- Moments before Brighton’s historic vote on school admissions, Alice challenged parents in privileged catchments—including herself—to support equity & fairness. Hear her powerful speech & discover what happened next: Search for Class Divide on podcast apps, or listen here: classdivide.co.uk/podcast
- Brilliant.
