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For Real This Time
  • Published: 19 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241712900
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $19.99

For Real This Time

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19 May 2026
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26 Feb 2026
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Do You Ship It 2 is a heartfelt romcom about opening yourself up to new possibilities and falling in love with what’s real, perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Holly Bourne and Lynn Painter.

Love, rivarly...orcs?

Misfit and hardcore fangirl Anissa is finally coming out of her shell. She’s leading a tabletop role-play game with friends, is officially part of the group chat with the girls from college, and she’s managed to bag work experience on the set of her favourite TV show, ‘Of Wrath and Rune’. Things couldn’t be going better. . .

That’s until she meets Callum, the hot new actor behind her favourite character on OWAR, and gets totally starstruck. Only Callum writes her off as an obsessive fangirl and now working on set is about to be very awkward. So much for meet your heroes - now he’s her worst enemy.

Battling her newfound friendships, her rivalry-turned-maybe-something-more with Callum, and the occasional fictional orc, Anissa’s about to realise that sometimes getting lost in the fantasy isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be...

For Real This Time is a heartfelt romcom about opening yourself up to new possibilities and falling in love with what’s real, perfect for fans of Rainbow Rowell, Holly Bourne and Lynn Painter.
  • Published: 19 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241712900
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Beth Reekles

Beth Reekles penned her novel The Kissing Booth when she was fifteen and began uploading it to story-sharing platform Wattpad, where it accumulated over 19 million reads. She was signed by Random House UK at the age of seventeen, and offered a three-book deal whilst studying for her A Levels. Beth is now a Physics graduate from Exeter University and working in IT, and has had three books published with Random House: The Kissing Booth (which was made into a Netflix film in 2017), Rolling Dice, and Out of Tune. Beth is still writing and regularly blogs about writing advice and being a twenty-something. She has been shortlisted for the Women of the Future Young Star Award 2013, the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2014, and the Queen of Teen Awards 2014. She was named one of Time magazine’s 16 Most Influential Teenagers 2013, and in August 2014 she was listed in The Times at No.6 on their 'Top 20 under 25' list.
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Also by Beth Reekles

Out of Tune
Rolling Dice
The Kissing Booth
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