Diversify your bookshelf with the UK’s only book box focused on diversity.
Enjoy new diverse stories written by talented female writers.
A brilliantly bookish subscription service
We’re the book box for feminists and changemakers who want to diversify their reading. With Heady Mix’s handpicked selection of the very best in female writing, our subscription book box makes it fast and easy for you to discover exciting new fiction.
Heady Mix will help you:
Be a better ally
By reading differently you’ll help spotlight female writers that aren’t getting the bookshelf space they deserve.
Broaden your entertainment
You’ll enjoy a unique reading experience immersed in a heady mix of diverse awe-inspiring stories.
Enter a fun, new world of reading
Discover new people, places and perspectives that mainstream bookshops ignore. No more of the same boring books.
The Heady Mix book box is recommended by:
If you want to refresh your reading list or need a thoughtful gift for the bibliophile in your life, allow Heady Mix to do the work for you
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Heady Mix book club unboxing
Heady Mix member, Rosie Talbot, took to Instagram to share her review and unbox our Earth and Afrofuturism collections which were released earlier in 2020. Click the video on the left 👈🏾 to see the review and check out how Heady Mix works.
“This is a book box I have since discovered and decided I absolutely need in my life”.
“They are the perfect book box to diversify your reading… so, awesomeness”.
“Each collection came with an in-depth welcome letter”.
“That unique thing I mentioned that they do, they publish their own collections of flash fiction, short stories and essays and I have not seen that in a single book box before … I think it’s a fantastic way to deepen understanding of the two novels they send with the Quarterly subscription, which is what I have”.
Thanks Rosie for being a member and for your unboxing!
Featured book club authors
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn, the author of Here Comes the Sun, talks to Heady Mix about growing up in Jamaica and how her formative years influenced the narrative of her novel, along with her concern with the disparity between local life and the face of tourism in Caribbean nations. ⠀
Click the red button for our interview and an exclusive reading.
Here Comes the Sun featured in Heady’s Mix Section 28 collection that showcased writing about the LGBTIQ+ community.
Sara Novic
Sara Novic, the author of Girl at War, talks to Heady Mix about strong female protagonists.
Click the red button to check out the interview and an exclusive reading. Since Sara is Deaf – she used American Sign Language to communicate her answers.
Girl at War was featured in Heady’s Mix Feminist Fairytales collection that showcased a different kind of fairy tale, one where women choose their own ‘happily ever after’.
Past book box collections
Every one of the collections in our book subscription box membership is focused on diversity; we spotlight the people, places or perspectives that don’t have enough representation in Western culture. You will always learn something new with us.
Loud Silence
California Dreaming
Section 28
The aim of our collections
By reading the diverse stories contained with the Heady Mix book book subscription box, you’ll not only enjoy new ways to view and understand the world and those in it, but you’ll also become a better ally to these underrepresented groups.
Book reviews, articles and short films
Not only do we offer the UK’s only book subscription box focused on diversity, we have a wide-ranging online library featuring articles, author guest posts, short films and documentaries to help you more deeply explore each season’s theme and become a better ally to underrepresented groups.
Absent speech does not mean absent thought: a glimpse into Autistic expression
My mind is forever swaying this way and that. Naoki Higashida Naoki Higashida is a Japanese author who, aged just 13, began narrating his experience as someone who sees the world through the lens of Autism. This body of work culminated in the publication of ‘The...
An Africa with her own narrative: an interview with author Masande Ntshanga Part I
Earlier this year, we sat down to talk over Zoom with award-winning South African writer Masande Ntshanga. Masande’s second work of fiction Triangulum featured in a Heady Mix collection back in September 2019, titled Afrofuturism. The thematic context behind this book...
Earth Day: the young women fighting for our planet
Earth Day is a global event created to fire up the next generation of changemakers by bringing together environmental activists. This year's theme - Restore Our Earth™ - aims to provoke opposition to 'business as usual' after the pandemic, an impetus for...
Colouring in: how gender bias impacts the diagnosis of autistic girls
Our next series, of thought-provoking short films, comes from filmmakers, trailblazers and creatives exploring what it is to be autistic. The following bodies of work, which will be shared over the coming months, each present their own unique depiction surrounding the...
Clare: Autism and Female Gender Roles
As one of the contributors to this season’s collection, Dazzling Colours of Calm, where I talk about my son Alex’s difference from neurotypical norms and his path to ASD diagnosis, I found myself wanting to say much more – about other autistic children I have come to...
‘Stand up for your rights’: music as a political force in Windrush Britain
Migrant Sound is a youthful celebration of migration and its impact on the UK’s music and culture. Combining broad societal stories with personal family anecdotal histories, this series permits emotional storytelling mixed with vibrant visuals of migrant culture, told...
