Rebecca Carter

Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40

Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits

Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature — Rebecca Carter Literary The prize celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40

RCL author Ferdia Lennon wins the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40!

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I’m looking forward to developing a book on the theme of this TED talk (over the coming year): VIBRANT EARTH

Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter novels on Blackwells and Foyles ‘Books of the Year’ shortlists — Rebecca Carter Literary The Silver Book (published this week) and Nova Scotia House receive further acclaim

Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK and Charlie Porter's NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE on Blackwell's and Foyles ‘Books of the Year’ shortlists

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‘How to measure the planet’s heartbeat’ introduces themes of new RCL client @ymalhi.bsky.social's debut book VIBRANT EARTH

www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ted-talk-by-new-client-yadvinder-malhi

Ilkley Literature Festival | 18 October
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A very interesting run of events coming up for author Terry Stiastny, centring around her book Believable Lies: The Misfits Who Fought Churchill's Secret Propaganda War.

Imperial War Museum | 25 September
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Lucky Hare Books | 9 October
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A brilliant review of Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK by Kirkus!

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In Olivia’s words, ‘The Silver Book is a novel in love with cinema’ - and therefore it makes perfect sense for it to be launched with a series of three events at the Barbican Centre, Cinema 1.

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RCL authors at the Edinburgh Festival — Rebecca Carter Literary Still to come, appearances by Elly Griffiths and Xiaolu Guo

We're coming up to halfway through the Edinburgh International Book Festival (9 to 24 August) and it's a good moment to catch up with what's been going on for RCL authors and what's to come!

Read on the RCL website: www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/rcl-aut...

UK Kindle edition of HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON is cheap today!

Happy Publication to THE ORIGINAL — Rebecca Carter Literary Rave reviews for Nell Stevens’ novel since publication on 19 June

More on the RCL website:

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Nell Stevens' The Original was launched in the UK (by Scribner) on 19 June, and in the US (by Norton) on 1 July.

The UK launch was accompanied by a very special ‘in conversation’ between Nell and Olivia Laing at the LRB Bookshop.

BBC Radio 4 - Beautiful Strangeness by Rebecca Stott, Episode 1: Daydreaming Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.

Highly recommend Rebecca Stott’s new radio series starting on Monday. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Happy Publication Day Elly!

Big Day for Elly Griffiths — Rebecca Carter Literary On the day that The Frozen People is published in the US, Elly is awarded Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award

On the day that The Frozen People is published in the US, @ellygriffiths.bsky.social is awarded Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award!

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Political neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the ideological brain in our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime now.

Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

Calling all Spanish language publishers ...

Thank you for this wonderful piece and it's call for a Spanish-language publisher to come forward and publish Dom Phillip's important book HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON, published in the English language and in Brazilian Portuguese this week!

Going to Extremes: The Science of Susceptible Minds | Cheltenham Festivals Extreme groups like Anti-Vaxxers and Neo-Nazis have started to enter the mainstream. Why is disinformation on the rise, and why are some brains more suscep

And @leorzmigrod.bsky.social is appearing with Dr Julia Ebner in a sold out event at the Cheltenham Science Festival this evening which promises to be really interesting for the lucky people with tickets. www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/going...

I thought @leorzmigrod.bsky.social was brilliant at encapsulating her research into brain flexibility and dogmatism on the Today programme on Tuesday 3 June. You can listen at 2 hours 20 mins into the programme.

Mit nur 29 Jahren begründet @leorzmigrod.bsky.social ein neues Forschungsfeld: die politische Neurobiologie. In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt die preisgekrönte Wissenschaftlerin, wie Denkmuster unsere politische Haltung formen und wer für extreme Positionen anfällig ist: shrk.vg/Ideologische...

I bring you amazing news of the Duck-Rabbit which went viral after being drawn in 1892. (From a new book by Leor Zmigrod) @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

🧠 🧪 How does our #brain influence our political stance - and vice versa? Neuroresearcher @leorzmigrod.bsky.social presents her #book "Das ideologische Gehirn" on June 10 | 6 pm at Campus Westend, Cas. 1.801. Event on EN. | 🔗 www.suhrkamp.de/buchpraesent...

I spy below @timcoulson.bsky.social who on 9 May did a brilliant presentation for us covering 13 billion years in 45 minutes! He said he’d enjoyed himself enormously so thank you, Tim 👍

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Tim Coulson on how predators shape ecosystems and evolution Professor Tim Coulson on how the wolves of Yellowstone National Park shape the ecosystem.

And Tim has also just appeared on BBC Radio 4's ‘The Life Scientific’.

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Science Of The Times Do you want to learn a little more about topical science findings? Do many of the science stories you hear leave you with unanswered questions? Syma and Tim will discuss in non-technical language and ...

I’m loving Tim's new podcast ‘The Science of the Times’ with @sykhalid.bsky.social!

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Happy paperback publication day to Tim Coulson — Rebecca Carter Literary To mark publication, Tim has just appeared on Radio 4’s ‘The Life Scientific’, and has started a podcast

Professor @timcoulson.bsky.social’s The Universal History of Us is now out in paperback from Penguin under a new title – A Little History of Everything: From the Big Bang to You.

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UK publication of @nellstevens.bsky.social's second novel THE ORIGINAL is on the horizon (Scribner, 19 June), as witnessed by this signing of 400 copies for independent publishers.

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