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Charlotte Seymour

@charlotteseymour.bsky.social

Literary Agent at Johnson & Alcock Champion of writers and cats https://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/charlotte-seymour

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Delighted to announce PARADISE, the stunning new novel by @bentufnell.bsky.social – an uncategorisable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.

PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.

19.08.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie πŸ“… UK Tour: 5th – 18th June πŸ“š Genre: Historical β€’ Romance β€’ Scottish β€’ Saga β€’ Literary Fiction πŸ“– Page Count: 445 🏷️ Publisher: Embla Books Have you ever wondered about all the people who lived in your house before you?25 Library Terrace in Edinburgh is a house where lives are changed.

Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion

25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie πŸ“… UK Tour: 5th – 18th June πŸ“š Genre: Historical β€’ Romance β€’ Scottish β€’ Saga β€’ Literary Fiction πŸ“– Page Count:…

04.06.2025 06:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fit by Sammy Wright | Waterstones Buy Fit by Sammy Wright from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over Β£25.

It seems about time I shouted a bit about this book. It came out 4years ago, and has done me proud - getting me picked up by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social and then Bodley Head. But more and more the themes of it seem to hit a nerve right now. 1/

www.waterstones.com/book/fit/sam...

21.04.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Johnson & Alcock to deliver new award as part of the Northern Writers' Awards - New Writing North Literary agency Johnson & Alcock will support a new award – the Great Northern Read Award – for debut writers...

We are thrilled to be working with Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency on the Great Northern Read Award, for unpublished writers of commercial, genre and book club fiction πŸ“š

Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards.

Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...

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Footnote Press acquires Tina Makereti’s 'exploration of people, prejudice and power'

Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired The Mires by Tina Makereti, which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. πŸ‘‡ #BookSky

08.04.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I spy Rozie Kelly’s brilliant debut in the Telegraph this week!

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Opinion | Self-Deportation Taught Me What I Know About This Country My decision to leave the U.S. seemed crazy. I believed then that America is exceptional, the only nation capable of caring for its people.

Jill Damatac in the New York Times ahead of her memoir, Dirty Kitchen, publishing this May… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...

08.03.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How gorgeous is this! The UK cover for Masashi Matsuie’s prizewinning Japanese debut, finally coming to UK readers in July from Indigo Press.

12.02.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilling to see my author Tina Makereti longlisted for a second time, for her latest novel THE MIRES!

29.01.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Obsessed with the paperback cover for @aetwigg.bsky.social’s SPOILT CREATURES, coming this March…

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Robert Elms - Poppy Delbridge, 'The Small Museum' and Nicci French - BBC Sounds Tapping expert Poppy Delbridge becomes Robert's 'Listed Londoner'.

Great to hear Jody Cooksley talking about her gothic novel THE SMALL MUSEUM on BBC Radio London with Robert Elms this morning (from 38 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The buzz is building for Rozie Kelly’s debut novel KINGFISHER, out @saraband-books.bsky.social in April… She’s even on the cover of this week’s @the-bookseller.bsky.social!

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A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a β€˜second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived

Book of the week! @drmattmorgan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

12.01.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A thrill to see Rozie Kelly’s debut KINGFISHER among @the-bookseller.bsky.social’s top ten for April! @saraband-books.bsky.social

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What I learned from my near-death experience In a Second Act, Matt Morgan, an intensive care doctor, explores how people rescued from the brink of death have been changed

First review out for @drmattmorgan.bsky.social’s new book, A SECOND ACT! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

06.01.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Final read of 2024

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2024 in books from my brilliant authors (missing one or two) - and that’s a wrap!

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Proofs for @jilldamatac.bsky.social’s DIRTY KITCHEN! Coming May 2025 from One Signal/Atria in the US…

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I spy Sarah Pearse and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in the Express’s Best Books of 2024! πŸ₯³

12.12.2024 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading in bed: a constant battle

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2024 in books: J&A authors features β€” Johnson & Alcock It’s been a fantastic year for our authors, and we’re so pleased to see their work featured in roundups of the best books of 2024. Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum’s second work, Why Animals Talk , was ...

A treat spotting our authors in the end of year roundups 🍾 @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social @aetwigg.bsky.social www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/news/2024/12...

10.12.2024 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In his inspiring new book, out in January, @drmattmorgan.bsky.social introduces us to patients who’ve come back from the dead thanks to intensive care, and shares the lessons they’ve learned…

04.12.2024 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you like your Christmas reading on the gothic side…

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The Ten Best History Books of 2024 Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today

Thrilling to see Sophie Shorland’s debut historical biography, THE LOST QUEEN, on this list! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

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Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg #SpoiltCreatures @aetwigg @TinderPress #BookReview They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women. A remote farm tucked away in the Kent Dow...

Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg @aetwigg.bsky.social #SpoiltCreatures #BookReview @tinderpress.bsky.social

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I can’t wait for readers to discover Rozie Kelly’s extraordinary, surprising literary debut, KINGFISHER!
@saraband-books.bsky.social

22.11.2024 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Image of crime thriller Unsolved - a line woman in the Scottish mountains

Image of crime thriller Unsolved - a line woman in the Scottish mountains

The ebook of UNSOLVED - my Bloody Scotland shortlisted debut - is currently 99p in Amazon’s Black Friday deals…

This is the first in the Cal Lovett series about a true crime podcaster investigating cold cases of missing and murdered people in Scotland.

amzn.eu/d/05Msv3W

21.11.2024 11:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Introducing my two plump, very bookish assistants…

20.11.2024 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A treat to see two of our Johnson & Alcock authors, William Trevor and Elizabeth Taylor, here!
@teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social

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For the new crowd, hello, I'm Amy and I wrote SPOILT CREATURES. If you like books about female desire, rage and the filthy patriarchy, I got you: linktr.ee/spoiltcreatures

18.11.2024 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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