Octavia Stocker

We’re absolutely delighted that The Queer Thing About Sin by Harry Tanner has been shortlisted for Foyles Book of the Year! 🎉

The Queer Thing About Sin

Over breakfast one day (honestly, they all blur into one) - we got to hear Harry Tanner talk about his book The Queer Thing About Sin

He held the room in the palm of his hand. An extraordinary speaker and I can't wait to read this.

This one's available tomorrow!
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Soft by Ferdinand Mount — in praise of sentimentality A highly readable history of culture and society’s emotional side calls for more sympathetic attitudes today

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The Queer Thing About Sin by Harry Tanner

Super interesting book by my friend Harry Tanner about queer love and the rise of homophobia in western culture, all the way back to the Sumerians. Out in September.

Very honoured to be shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize for 'Russia Starts Here'! Along with other amazing authors @lucyaash.bsky.social, @radchenko.bsky.social, @benjaminnathans.bsky.social, Donald Rayfield and even Alexei Navalny: www.pushkinhouse.org/projects/boo...

We're thrilled to be publishing Sarah's brilliant book - a must read for anyone fed up of arguing in circles about politics! Preorder your copy now. #BookSky #donttalkaboutpolitics

Russia Starts Here — ordinary lives on the edge of Putin’s empire [FREE TO READ] In up-close encounters with Russians on the western border with the EU, Howard Amos seeks out human stories behind the headlines

"Compelling stories of real lives, shaped by hardship, loss and painful contradictions" - a very kind first review for my forthcoming book 'Russia Starts Here' in the Financial Times today: on.ft.com/4gNKphe

you will be entertained you will be shocked you will be enlightened -- working on this book has completely changed the way I think about politics, and I can't wait for readers to discover the genius of Sarah Stein Lubrano

never thought I’d see blurb deproliferation in my lifetime

I’ve many thoughts on this but as an editor it’s a real buzz when an established author offers to read & write a thoughtful blurb for a debut they don’t know — always feels like the coup of the century

wish someone would do a Mamma Mia but using only John Berryman's Dream Songs

In one passage Howard Amos explains the importance of 'kraevedenie' (roughly, the study of local history): "In a country where history has been erased, manipulated and marginalized, kraevedenie is a powerful bulwark against forgetting."

And that's 100% part of the wonder of his book (out Feb!)

What is the gravest ecological challenge? Global heating, mass extinction, pollution? My new book, ‘Just Earth’, published by Bloomsbury Books & which is out in March, suggests it’s actually social inequalities.

‘I’m stuck. Get me outta here!’ 24 hours in the UK’s lift alarms call centre

Aidan Tulloch on lift alarm call centres — funny and generous

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Italian artists Carla Lonzi, Carla Accardi, Luciano Fabro, Luciano Pistoi and Giulio Paolini mucking around in 1965

Italian artists Carla Lonzi, Carla Accardi, Luciano Fabro, Luciano Pistoi and Giulio Paolini mucking around in 1965

Very fun selection!!

look at this beauty of a book -- Elise has curated a fascinating list of artworks all of which have stories have tell, impatient for my copy to arrive

Eva Frankfurther, Gluck and Claude Cahun 💖 love this series

Barbara Pym

You're at the church bazaar in your second-best brown dress but then the handsome new curate asks if you could proofread his monograph. You need a sherry.

Loved working on this book, we just don't know enough about Goethe in the UK -- like how whenever he went to the theatre he insisted on bringing his own big personal bowl of punch

that one bookshop in Shetland now the focus of all my desire

So pleased to see the final version of Hetta Howes' Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife! It's a beaut.

essays like this are why my subscription will outlive me