Juliet Mabey

Well said. All the best to Louisa and everyone at the mighty @booksupstairs.bsky.social

George Orwell

Bloody hell.

Love this! ❤️

YouTube video by Southbank Centre The Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist Announcement: Live Stream

📣 It's Booker Prize 2025 shortlist day!!!

A reminder to join our livestream from 7:30pm BST / 2:30pm EDT / 12am IST using this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...

Laila Soueif, Alaa Abd el-Fattah and Sanaa Seif embrace at home, surrounded by friends, following Alaa's release from prison.

We're incredibly relieved that Alaa Abd el-Fattah has finally been released from prison. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported Alaa and his family over these difficult years.
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Looking forward to chatting to @malikalnasir.bsky.social about our books #Heiresses and Searching for My Slave Roots in #Glasgow next Tuesday!

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Privatisation at its worst is simply the act of removing costs from the government’s budget and transferring them to the public, so allowing them to balance the books without increasing unpopular taxes.

Can we see the government’s “workings” on this? Seems very unlikely an unbiased expert would to reach a conclusion like this.

Holocaust Museum in LA posted a graphic about Never Again… a humane gesture by an institution tasked with reminding us of the inhumanities of the past.

They had to remove it & applogise because some thought this Never Again means Palestinians too!

They mistakenly thought Palestinians are humans…

Fabulous event this evening discussing Political Fiction with debut authors roisinmcd.bsky.social (A Line You Have Traced) & Kaliane Bradley‬⁩ (The Ministry of Time), in conversation with Nish Kumar @Waterstones.bsky.social Islington. ⁦‪@Oneworldbooks.bsky.social‬⁩

Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population. The Washington Post published on Sunday a leaked prospectus for the plan, which would see the forced displacement of Gaza’s entire population of 2 million people, and put the territory into a US trusteeship for at least a decade. Continue reading...

Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing

Listen to Melissa Lucashenko w/ jdcrawf.bsky.social on #TakeFourBooks, @BBCRadio4, re her latest novel 'Edenglassie' and 3 influences including Keri Hulme and Sebastian Barry - recorded, with guest @rodgeglass & live audience, at @edbookfest @Oneworldbooks.bsky.social!
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This is going to be great! Hope to see you at the Festival of #BlackHistory @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on Saturday 6th September. Book your FREE ticket here: billetto.co.uk/e/festival-o...

I'm excited to announce my #Heiresses UK 2025 Book Tour Dates!

Venues including @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social
@bookhaus.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social
@crer-scotland.bsky.social & The Georgian House @n-t-s.bsky.social
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Lovely review in Prima of this fabulous Irish debut, Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell! Thank you Nina Pottell @matineegirl1.bsky.social

'Such a strong book; I’m keen to see what comes next from this Irish author... Sugartown is a book about outgrowing where you thought you belonged.'

James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience It is more than a century since Joyce crossed Europe by rail but there is still inspiration to be found on the overland journey to Trieste

James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience

Anything written by @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social is worth reading, and she wrote this!

You can listen to Melissa live on BBC Radio 4, ‘Take Four Books, 4pm this Thursday, talking to @Jdcrawf: bbc.in/3Hn8IXW

I absolutely LOVED loved loved EDENHLASSIE & can't believe I'm missing the amazing Melissa Lucashenko in Edinburgh AND London! Pls go to these events so I can have FOMO...

Melissa Lucashenko, a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage, & Anishinaabe-Canadian journalist @TanyaTalaga discuss the unhealed wounds of the past and reclaiming narratives for a collective future in "Illuminating the Nations", chaired by Katucha Bento. @edbookfest.

Get to know the authors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes We asked the authors nominated for this year’s Booker Prize about the inspirations behind their longlisted works, their favourite books, and where and when they most like to write

We asked the question everyone always wants to know: what inspired your Booker-longlisted book?

Read our interviews with the authors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. ⤵️
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Excited to say I'll be asking Samanta Schweblin ('Fever Dream', 'Little Eyes' et al) about her new collection 'Good and Evil and Other Stories' at Foyles, Charing Cross Road next Friday 22 August. Come down!
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Leonard and Hungry Paul - first look images and further casting details revealed The new comedy drama starrng Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell will be coming soon to BBC iPlayer, BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland

Coming to your screens this autumn.

Yes, it's landing.

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Popped into the wonderful @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh with Australian Aboriginal author Melissa Lucashenko to sign copies of her multi-award-winning novel EDENGLASSIE. 3 chances to catch her @edbookfest this week, plus one in London on Sept 2nd: oneworld-publications.com/2025/07/08/m...

Thrilled that Ends of the Earth by Neil Shubin has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2025!

Huge congratulations to @NeilShubin and the other nominees! 👏👏

To celebrate the launch of her multi-award-winning new novel, Edenglassie, Aboriginal author Melissa Lucashenko is coming to the U.K. on tour! There's still time to buy tickets for her London and Edinburgh International Book Festival events.

For tickets, head over ➡️https://tinyurl.com/yez6xawe

Two brilliant YA novels from Rock the Boat on this wide-ranging recommended reading list for 16-yr-olds: Happy Head by Josh Silver and The Heart of the World by Amie Kaufman! @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize - Royal Society of Literature A £1,000 Prize for the best unpublished short story of the year. We are grateful to ALCS for their support of the Prize.The 2026 Prize The RSL V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize seeks to find the best u...

The VS Pritchett Prize for an unpublished short story closes on 25th August. £1000 first prize and a great boost to your confidence. My lovely friend Lisa Blower won it last year and it was wonderful to behold.

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