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Dax Cornwell
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Writer. Human. A Dax of All Trades.
Author of The Ambergris Trail 🐋📘💙

Physical copies are out on 28th October! 🫶✨

https://troubador.co.uk/bookshop/contemporary/the-ambergris-trail
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My debut novel, The Ambergris Trail, is now available from Troubador Publishing, Waterstones, Amazon, and me!
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"Don't make friends. They'll either kill you or die before they get the chance to finish."

- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘

#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #friendship #contemporaryfiction #literaryfiction #litfic #indieauthors #newbook #lgbtq+books #📚💙 #🌈📚
October 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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"We all suffer for our sins in the world of hospitality."

- Canyon, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘

#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #hospitality #litfic #literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction #📚💙 #🌈📚
October 5, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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"Everything stings inside. Not just the cutting remarks. It all hurts. Though you can wash away the sand, and the bruises will heal, the stigma of the outsider is indelible."

- Canyon, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #trauma #litfic #📚💙 #🌈📚
October 4, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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"My flaws and my claws only ever scratch inwards."

- Canyon, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘

#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #self-neglect #mentalhealth #litfic #literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction #mensmentalhealth #📚💙 #🌈📚
October 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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"I look haggard, darling - but that's what you get for trying and failing to follow your dreams."

- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘

#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #litfic #contemporaryfiction #literaryfiction #followyourdreams #indieauthors #newbook #📚💙 #🌈📚
October 2, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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#theambergristrail #kindle #booksky #booksofbluesky #amazon #newbookrelease #books#literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction #litfic #📚💙 #🌈📚
A poster advertising the novel The Ambergris Trail and its availability on Amazon. An image of the cover is in the centre. The QR codes to the links for physical copies and ebooks are on each side of the cover image.
October 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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"We muddle through somehow. Us lonely ones."

- Jackie, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘

#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #litfic #contemporaryfiction #literaryfiction #loneliness #indieauthors #newbook #📚💙 #🌈📚
September 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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"Beans on toast, and a disco wank for dinner?"

- Jerry, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘

#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #ukweekendplans #literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction #litfic #📚💙 #🌈📚
September 29, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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The countdown begins:
One month today until the official release date for my debut novel The Ambergris Trail! 🐋🌊📖

Out on Amazon and Waterstones from 28/10/2026!

Copies available here now:
troubador.co.uk/bookshop/con...

#🌈📚 #💙📚 #booksky #newrelease #booksofbluesky #indiebooks #litfic #lgbtbooks
The Ambergris Trail
“Hunting for ambergris... I think I’ve gone a little bit mad. You keep going back, hoping there’ll be more. How can you walk a trail when you know it has no...
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September 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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"You talk a lot for a man without any neurotransmitters in him."

- Jerry, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #self-published #lgbtq+books #mentalhealth #mensmentalhealth #contemporaryfiction #literaryfiction #litfic #📚💙 #🌈📚
September 27, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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"Relentlessness doesn't mean a thing if the person you're doing it for isn't seeing it, or it ends up consuming or destroying you."

- Roz, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #mentalhealth #contemporaryfiction #litfic #literaryfiction #📚💙 #🌈📚
September 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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"We're grumpiest when we're hungry."

- Jackie, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #hunger #self-care #mentalhealth #theambergristrail #books #litfic #literaryfiction #contemporaryfiction #hunger #newbook #indiebooks
September 25, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Calling all bibliophiles! 📢📚

If you're looking for a new book to read and want to support indie authors, please consider reading my debut novel The Ambergris Trail! 🌊🐋💙 Good vibes! 🫶✨🌈

#theambergristrail #debutnovel #booksky #booksofbluesky #self-published #lgbtq+books #norfolk #books #bibliophile
September 24, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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"Life is never like the films. We don't always get the closure we deserve."

- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘
#bookquotes #theambergristrail #quotes #booksky #booksofbluesky #life #grief #closure #mentalhealth #relationships #films
September 24, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Happy Bi Visibility Day! 🩷💜💙

If you're looking for something new to read, The Ambergris Trail is an LGBTQ+ novel about bisexuality, written by a bisexual.
It's got also got gay dads, gay bartenders, and angry gay chefs.
The cover's pretty bi, too 🐋📖🌊

#lgbtq+ #bivisibilityday #booksky #lgbtbooks
September 23, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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"Life needs more sprinkles."

- Canyon, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #book #self-published #life #sprinkles #positivity
September 23, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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Wishing all of you lovely humans a very happy Autumnal Equinox! ❤️🧡💛✨🍁🍂🔥

Hoping you are able to release the things that no longer serve you, and also take a moment to recognise the timeless beauty and kindness that exist within you 🫶✨🌈

Much love, luck, joy, and good vibes to you all ❤️

#equinox
September 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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Hey there, #Kindle readers!
If you would like to read a sample of my debut novel, The Ambergris Trail, you can find it here:
read.amazon.co.uk/sample/B0HJQ...

#kindle #ebook #newbooks #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #freesample #amazonbooks #self-published
Read a sample: “The Ambergris Trail”
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September 22, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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"I've never met a member of senior management who wasn't missing at least eighty per cent of their empathy and compassion."

- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #book #self-published #management #empathy #compassion #workplacedrama #conflict
September 22, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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"I'm your glorified sugar daddy. Or perhaps an agave uncle."

- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘
#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #sugardaddy #lgbtq+books #self-published #booksofbluesky
September 21, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Books gave me language for emotions I didn't know how to explain yet.

#books #amreading #readerscommunity
July 2, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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"I love the sea. I'm always thinking about her, you see. She's my most favourite thing in all the world, because she's got all of life inside her."

- Canyon, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #self-published #lgbtq+books #books #sea #life #Norfolk
September 20, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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"Some people only see what they want to see. No matter how much evidence you give to the contrary, or how many nice things you do for them to try and appease them."

- Roz, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #self-published #lgbtq+books #mentalhealth #books
September 20, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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"Guilt smeared on their faces like chocolate spread on a preschooler."

- Nigel, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📖

#quotes #bookquotes #booksky #theambergristrail #lgbtq+books #book #self-published #guilt #chocolatespread
September 20, 2026 at 6:35 AM
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"Everything ends. Sorry to piss on your birthday cake, champ.
But them's the facts, existential crisis or not."

- Roz, The Ambergris Trail 🐋💙📘
#quotes #bookquotes #theambergristrail #booksky #booksofbluesky #loss #grief #closure #existentialcrisis #mentalhealth
September 19, 2026 at 4:36 PM