Better Words
Michelle, Michelle Gately, Caitlin TooheyWhat we've loved watching, reading and listening to – and why you might like it too.
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What we loved: April 2026
April has flown by with all the short weeks and long weekends, you’d think that would make it relaxing but, for me at least, it was very busy. So much content though, I went to the cinema four times in April! I borrowed library books, saw t...
What we loved: March 2026
Michelle here! March was a huge month of books for me – mainly because I spent a week helping to set up a new bookstore in Gainsborough. It’s a fairly small town and we were building the first bookstore they’ve had in many years. There is r...
What we loved: February 2026
February feels like the year has really kicked into gear now. Chances are you know that Lunar New Year was on the 17th, and if your internet algorithm is anything like mine you saw lots of content about the Fire Horse charging off! I find i...
What we loved: January 2026
'Hello, hello! You might have (but probably didn’t) notice we skipped a monthly newsletter. There are a few reasons for that…
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Work was crazy for Caitlin before she arrived in the UK, it was crazy afterwards for Michelle
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We were...
What we loved: November 2025
It seems Me and Michelle have both had deep-dive Novembers, and when you flip that around you get Wicked and Wings. (I hope if you’re reading this you get the Michelle Yeoh MM to WW meme) Michelle’s been consumed by the new Beatles doco and...
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Bookseller. Obsessive reader. Sometimes writer. Co-host of Better Words Podcast
Writing words and selling stories for a living. Reading stories and talking about them for fun. One half of Better Words Podcast. I love a hardback, listen to way too many true crime podcasts and my tea of choice is Yorkshire.
Reader, podcaster, theatre kid, Swiftie
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