Book Fairies to hide debut titles in public to champion new authors

The Book Fairies, an organisation that urges readers to share their favourite books by leaving them in public spaces to be discovered, is to celebrate debut authors by "hiding" 500 books around the UK this weekend (Saturday 10th April).

The company will be working with publishers including Merky Books, HarperCollins, Headline and Little Tiger, to distribute titles by authors such as Hafsa Zayyan, Louise Sharland and Sara Jafari. The event is part of a series championing new authors (#DebutBookFairies), set to continue throughout 2021.

The first line-up features a medley of fiction, non-fiction and children's books, which will be featured in social media posts across the day.

The full list of titles:

We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan (Merky Books, Penguin UK)

The Girl on the Platform by Bryony Pearce (Avon Books, Harper Collins)

The Lake by Louise Sharland (Avon Books, Harper Collins)

Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth (Headline Books)

The Secret Diary of a British Muslim aged 13 ¾ by Tez Ilyas (Little, Brown Book Group)

The Mismatch by Sara Jafari (Arrow Publishing, Penguin UK)

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller (Viking Books, Penguin UK)

Fragile Monsters by Catherine Menon (Viking Books, Penguin UK)

Be Your Best Self by Danielle Brown (Button Books)

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint (Headline Books)

The Boy I Am by K L Kettle (Little Tiger Books)

The Push by Ashley Audrain (Michael Joseph, Penguin UK)

The Black Friend: on Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph (Walker Books)

An Alien in the Jam Factory by Chrissie Sains (Walker Books)

Saving Missy by Beth Morrey (Harper Fiction, HarperCollins)

The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird (Borough Press, HarperCollins)

How to be a Hero by Cat Weldon (Macmillan Children’s Books)

The Accidental Diary of B.U.G. by Jen Carney

The Book Fairies launched in 2017, spearheaded by Cordelia Oxley. It has distributed over 250,000 books, and its hashtag has been used over 90,000 times. Actor Emma Watson endorsed its campaign in the run up to "Little Women", in which she played Meg, and hid copies of Louisa May Alcott's novel around London.