A paperback book held up against a brick wall. LOOKING TO SEA: WHAT COASTAL ART TELLS US ABOUT MODERN BRITAIN, by Lily Le Brun. "Remarkable and compelling" Edmund de Waal, "Elegant... Beautifully written" The Times
I'm sad not to be beside the sea but very happy that today marks paperback publication for LOOKING TO SEA.
Lily Le Brun is a wonderfully smart and elegant writer and in this beautiful book she considers ten coastal artworks that the define the long twentieth century in Britain.
Out now: read it! 🌊
24.04.2025 11:31 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tube billboard poster for THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley, published by Sceptre. "A clever, funny yarn that breathes fresh air into time-travel novels" Guardian
Spotted at Aldgate East!
THE MINISTRY OF TIME is out in paperback now. Catch it in one of four colourways (or get them all if you can, I guess?) 📚
16.04.2025 09:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WAIT... WAS SHAKESPEARE GAY?
The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think...
#StraightActing by @willtosh.bsky.social is a captivating & surprising exploration of queer culture in Shakespeare's England.
www.waterstones.com/book/straigh...
10.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries by Abigail Leonard
“The way societies support families is critical to how women experience motherhood,” journalist Leonard asserts in this by turns...
“The way societies support families is critical to how women experience motherhood,” journalist Abigail Leonard asserts in this by turns piercing and poignant debut. This is an enthralling and kaleidoscopic view of modern motherhood. @hachetteus.bsky.social
05.03.2025 23:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Four Mothers: A Year in Motherhood Around the World, by Abigail Leonard. A hardback book held in front of spring flowers.
"Absorbing, moving and beautifully composed" Elinor Cleghorn
🚨 Finished copy alert 🚨
Gorgeous advances of Abigail Leonard's intimate and gripping exploration of early parenting are just in.
FOUR MOTHERS follows four women in Japan, Kenya, Finland and the US as they navigate their domestic love and struggles in the face of varied social policies.
Out June 🎉
09.04.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
BONUS: Lovely @sceptrebooks.bsky.social representation!
BLOB in pride of place and *three* wonderful picks on the great Arts & Culture shelf – STRANGELAND, MONSTERS and LOOKING TO SEA (all excellent) 📚
22.03.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of the outside of a bookshop with customers sat at tables on the pavement outside
New bookshop just dropped!
I hope that Lala Books in Camberwell THRIVES 🎉
22.03.2025 15:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A friend's just sent me this recommendation in her local bookshop and it has genuinely made my day. Thanks Bard Books in Bow and thanks lovely @anyaryan.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @cmiscellany.bsky.social #wolfmoon #nicenails
01.03.2025 15:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This book will be wonderful! Selina is such a special writer 💙💚💙
26.02.2025 16:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A copy of The Decadence by Leon Craig
'Like a starved dog which only forgoes its owner's flesh in the hope of better treats to come, Holt House waited patiently...'
Introducing #TheDecadence, a gripping queer haunted house novel from Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells.
Out 25 September & available to pre-order: lnk.to/TheDecadence 💚
24.02.2025 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
James Hamilton's classic biography reissued in a beautiful new edition to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Turner's birth.
Turner is the definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest artists.
Find out more: www.waterstones.com/book/turner/...
13.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dredheza, Hope and Lemara introducing their inaugural readings at the South London Gallery
Three icons launching a brilliant new South London reading series! Proud to be at their inaugural event.
Learn more about SOUTH BY WORDS on Insta @southbywords www.instagram.com/southbywords... 📚
18.02.2025 21:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off.
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.”
Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work!
bit.ly/3X6h1fh
15.02.2025 12:49 — 👍 61 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 6
"Meet Britain's best young writers": Sunday Times Culture magazine spread ft the shortlist for the ST Young Writer Award – Harriet Baker, Moses McKenzie, Scott Preston and Ralf Webb
So proud to see Ralf Webb selected as one of Britain's best young writers!
STRANGE RELATIONS is shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer Award 🎉🎉🎉
All four authors are interviewed in @thetimes.com today: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
16.02.2025 15:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond excited for this book!
Romantic fiction getting its due from the heavenly Ella 💜🩷💜
15.02.2025 10:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder about this job!
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14.02.2025 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉🎉🎉
13.02.2025 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Woohoo my new book, Wolf Moon, in its first (proof) incarnation. Even I haven't got my hands on it yet but am incredibly excited to do so. Published by @sceptrebooks.bsky.social with the help of brilliant @cmiscellany.bsky.social on 3 July. Whoop!
13.02.2025 11:28 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I will get you some imminently, I promise 🤣
13.02.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fab! I'll get one in the post
13.02.2025 08:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Such a great night and an embarrassment of riches 🎉
12.02.2025 23:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Should I send you a WOLF MOON, Polly? So good!
12.02.2025 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bound proofs for MAKING MATTERS by Clare Hunter, WOLF MOON by Arifa Akbar and FOUR MOTHERS by Abigail Leonard
It is the Sceptre Salon tonight and I have a gorgeous rainbow of @sceptrebooks.bsky.social proofs! So many brilliant books coming this year 📚
12.02.2025 16:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
HUK – Job Description
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🚨 Editorial assistant role 🚨
Please help spread the word: we are hiring an ed asst at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social!
Obv I'm biased but it is a great team with many wonderful books and not infrequent snacks...
Happy to answer any questions.
www.hachette.co.uk/landing-page...
07.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
Gosh, we really are treating you! Hbd! 🥳
06.02.2025 16:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hardback copy of BLOB sitting on a bench in the sunshine
Happy publication day @litmagreject.bsky.social 🎉
BLOB is out in the UK today from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social! The smartest, funniest, weirdest book about the messiness of becoming a real person.
I love it. You must read it: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/maggi...
06.02.2025 12:38 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
A Lonely 20-Something Finds Her Ideal Mate. It’s a Blob.
In Maggie Su’s funny debut novel, a Frankenstein-like monster turns on his flailing creator.
"A sharp, funny and poignant look at what it means to connect with another being, and yourself"
Love this @nytimes.com book review of BLOB by @litmagreject.bsky.social 💕 (Out in the UK 6 Feb)
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/b...
28.01.2025 20:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Publicising books while Rome burns @GrantaBooks
Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Associate Editor & #nonfiction previewer @thebookseller.com. Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow. Preorder my new book, "Listen With Father" out July '25 from @unbounders.bsky.social. Also on Substack: "What to Read Now"
📍 Contemporary art gallery in south London.
✨ We are free to visit & open Wed-Sun, come and say hello!
https://linktr.ee/southlondongallery
Culture Editor, The New Statesman
Thanks for making WCLF2025 so wonderful! Save the dates and join us in Bantry 10-17 July 2026. Sign up for our e-newsletter for programme alerts
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THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books/ Manifesto of Bliss zine
Book peddler, book reviewer, book hoarder, academic and freelance writer.
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Basic Nest Architecture
Much with Body
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Sitting on the sidelines is for Waldorf and Statler. Promoted by Tim Dexter on behalf of Labour both at 23 Orford Rd E17 9NL.
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
London Review Bookshop. 20,000 titles on two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town
14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL
📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Newswoman in Los Angeles. Formerly Slate, LA Times. Co-host, Slate Culture Gabfest.
