Federico Andornino

Hachette Careers

We are looking for an editorial assistant to join @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

You will be responsible for a wide range of administrative and editorial tasks and you will also play a supportive but active role in helping us shape the future of the imprint.

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So completely beside myself to be working on this gorge gorge gorgeeee book next year! And look at that COVER 🤩 complete with bespoke painting by Ariel Lee, and put together by cover designer extraordinaire Lucy Scholes 🏞

#DreamState
#BookSky 📚💙

Ann Patchett/Claire Lombardo/Jonathan Franzen/Ann Napolitano girlies: where you at?

Today is my last day in the office: ask now if you want a proof and enjoy this gem over Christmas.

Dream State by Eric Puchner.
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social 2025.

Love this book - coming in March from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

A proof copy of Rapture by Emily Maguire

What an amazing book, by Emily Maguire - the story of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to enter a monastery, every sentence is utterly gorgeous and it's bursting with earthy and visionary life. Thank you @mrfeditor.bsky.social for the proof! Out March 2025 from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Pretty major.

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SHORTLISTED for the 2025 Viking Fiction with a Sense of Place Award, ‘You Are Here’ by David Nicholls @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @hodderfiction.bsky.social
Set in: England, the Coast to Coast Path
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SHORTLISTED for the 2025 Viking Fiction with a Sense of Place Award, ‘The Ministry of Time’
by Kaliane Bradley, Sceptre @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @hodderbooks.bsky.social
Set in : A near future London
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Sceptre wins five-way auction for queer Italian classic Separate Rooms Sceptre has won a five-way auction for the queer Italian classic Separate Rooms, which will soon be adapted into a new film directed by Luca Guadagnino.

‘An Italian novel of imperfect love and urgent grief’
NY TIMES

‘A novel of dignified beauty’ OBSERVER

‘A masterly piece of writing’
GAY TIMES

‘I want everyone to read it’
ANDREW SEAN GREER

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Extremely proud to be bringing Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s SEPARATE ROOMS to English language readers for the first time since the 90s. Complete with stunning Radek Husak artwork and new André Aciman intro.

Oh and keep going with this thread to see the best author pic ever.

Hit me up for a proof.

Toby Lloyd' FERVOUR: longlisted for @thewingateprize.bsky.social

'That a young British novelist should have so effectively taken up a gauntlet laid down by the greatest American novelist of an era [Toni Morrison] might seem surprising... A lasting allegory of our dark historical time' NY Times

It’s official.

Extremely proud of dream author Kaliane Bradley and magic team @sceptrebooks.bsky.social (especially PR queen @mariagluc.bsky.social)

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The Gold From The Stone Foundation

Every year, GS provides Christmas Dinner for people who have been in the care system who may not have anywhere else to go on a day when family can be thin on the ground. Christmas Dinners are held around the country and they always needs funds, support and help. Details below. Please share.

If you live in London and would like to work with books, we have a vacancy for a passionate book lover who also loves working with people.
Come and join our team.

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness Set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, this story of two marriages brilliantly evokes the legacy of the second world war

I always get a kick when a reviewer manages to distil a book so skilfully. This is brilliant by Rachel Seiffert on The Land in Winter by "the master of nuance, expert at exploring the various chambers of the human heart", Andrew Miller:
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

IT REALLY REALLY WAS

Wicked magic.

i’m on the reading panel for this competition… any women writers interested in applying, read more here!

Archive - Subtraction Full archive of all the posts from Subtraction.

Writers & artists, I've decided to remove the paywall on my eight essays on the creative process, written between January and September this year. My newsletter is called SUBTRACTION and you can find it here.

Feeling autumnal.

Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate Exclusive: Group of more than 90 including writers Tim Winton and Charlotte Wood have paid for every federal senator and MP to receive curated package

An excellent, inspiring idea. Proud of you and your colleagues, @charlottewood.bsky.social

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Bumping this up from a few days ago because I want loads of writers to apply so we can select a super duper group! March retreat, Bali.

Goodbye London! Thank you for a week of blue sky (!!), beauty, terror, excitement, relief and overwhelming joy. Heading home now to the quiet life and back to writing my new novel. ✈️🎉