PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 25% off (My new book THE VANISHING EARTH coming out September ‘26!) www.waterstones.com/book/the-van...
18.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨COVER REVEAL! 🚨
Several years in the writing, my new book, THE VANISHING EARTH is an odyssey to the frontiers of extraction & to the radical alternatives emerging just as we threaten to exhaust the earth's natural resources... OUT AUG/SEP
@scribepub.bsky.social & @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
17.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
It’s excellent isn’t it! Delighted the Andrew Miller episode has given you such reading pleasure!
16.02.2026 16:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Listen now to my BBCRadio4 chat with Ali Smith about new novel GLYPH & 3 influences, including a novel about a magic donkey hide (by Balzac!), a book of nonsense & Leo Tolstoy! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
25.01.2026 17:19 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks Jeff! Really appreciate you saying that
12.01.2026 19:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today on #TakeFourBooks on BBC R4 I'm talking to Makenna Goodman about her new @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social novel HELEN OF NOWHERE & her 3 influences: Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees", Bell Hooks' "All About Love" & the plays of Pulitzer-winner Annie Baker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
11.01.2026 15:33 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Enjoy!
25.12.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Christmas fantasy reading inspired by @jdcrawf.bsky.social Take Four Books episode with Katherine Rundell. Starting with the first in Rundell’s ‘Impossible Creatures’ series and then a re-read of the wonderful ‘Wizard of Earthsea’
24.12.2025 17:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Salman Rushdie was the latest guest on Take Four Books - talking to @jdcrawf.bsky.social about his new short story collection - The Eleventh Hour….catch up here…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#books
16.12.2025 12:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ooh, interesting!
16.12.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with Salman Rushdie about new work THE ELEVENTH HOUR and his 3 picks of influences, including E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel Amerika & the Pied Piper of Hamelin! #TakeFourBooks www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
14.12.2025 16:17 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This - Take Four Books - always worth listening to.
07.12.2025 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Listen now to my BBCR4 chat with Jo Nesbø about latest novel WOLF HOUR, “saving the cat” vs “killing the cat”, taxidermy, & 3 influences including Jim Thompson, Knut Hamsun and Brett Easton Ellis #TakeFourBooks
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
07.12.2025 16:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Listen now to my BBC R4 chat with @mccallsmith.bsky.social about new novel THE PRIVATE SIDE OF FRIENDSHIP and 3 influences, including W.H. Auden on unrequited love, Robin Dunbar’s “Friends”, and Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
30.11.2025 17:00 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I was very restrained at the bookshop this morning but excited to read both of these. One inspired by last week’s conversation between Katherine Randell and @jdcrawf.bsky.social and the other a delightful discovery ready for Advent.
17.11.2025 13:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Loved having brill @olgaravn.bsky.social on BBCR4’s #TakeFourBooks today - talking about her new novel THE WAX CHILD & 3 influences inc M.R. James and a book of southern Italian spells! 📚📻🎧https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m96r
16.11.2025 20:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Take Four Books - David Szalay - BBC Sounds
David Szalay talks about his new novel and the three other works that helped to shape it.
Listen again to this year’s Booker Prize winning author, David Szalay, on Take Four Books on #BBCRadio4 - talking about Flesh and the three other books that inspired its creation! @thebookerprizes.com #BookerPrize2025 #DavidSzalay
10.11.2025 22:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Books on Podcasts: fantasy reigns, Katherine Rundell and Rebecca Kuang on their latest work
This week in Books on Podcasts, a special Waterstones episode featured Rebecca Kuang and Samantha Shannon, while Take Four Books featured its first children’s book with Katherine Rundell’s The Poisoned King 👇 #BookSky
13.11.2025 14:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Loved this episode exploring the importance of fantasy, storytelling an imagination. ‘The Prince Caspian’ choice reminded me of Jem Bloomfield’s book ‘Gold on the Horizon’ which follows the Take Four books USP by tracing Lewis’ literary influences in Caspian and Dawn Treader.
10.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
love this series
a relief to have focus on one book and its origins
poking behind the scenes is great
10.11.2025 11:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you are interested in books, reading and the power of story, then listen to this BBC R4 chat I had with the brilliant Katherine Rundell. We're talking about her new @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social novel The Poisoned King, but much more too, from Hamlet to Le Guin! 📚👇🎧
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
09.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Take Four Books - Andrew Miller - BBC Sounds
Andrew Miller on his new book, The Land in Winter, and its links to three other works.
I read The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller after listening to Take Four Books presented by @jdcrawf.bsky.social & I’ve listened again. TFB is an excellent concept & excellent in reality! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
30.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Founded by Christopher MacLehose, OBP specialises in publishing literary fiction, non fiction and crime fiction from around the world exclusively in English translation.
A small independent bookshop in the historic Borders town of Melrose, Roxburghshire, focusing on Scottish writing and the best new books around. Sister bookshop of @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social in Stow, Selkirkshire. Welcome!
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Scientist. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
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I co-edited an anthology called 22 FICTIONS:
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Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
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Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
creator of an ongoing artwork - Sea Library - one thousand books about the sea, by the sea, for everyone to borrow and read
writing a book for Facet Publishing / represented by Stimola Literary Studio
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Non quel vincenzo, l'altro.
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Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social.
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Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
Film writer/director. BIFA and BAFTA New Talent nominated. P/T Filmmaking lecturer at UWS.
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Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
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Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains. Don't have access to DMs.
Content Editor for BBC Audio (Scotland & Northern Ireland). Books & Factual Podcasts. Radio 4/World Service/Sounds.
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
