From the bestselling author of the award-winning How Shostakovich Changed My Mind comes a new book about the cathartic power of music. Music Lessons: Seven Composers and What They Taught Me is available to pre-order: buff.ly/W8jCVQ1

Stephen Johnson explores seven composers and what their music reveals beyond sound—about attention, structure, and experience. Music Lessons is available to pre-order now: buff.ly/W8jCVQ1

What if play is the real engine of creativity? A beautiful piece by Emily Rapp Black - author of Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg - on imagination, curiosity, and making space to explore, on @lithub.com.web.brid.gy: lithub.com/jump-into-th...

'When I write stories I can try on different voices. It’s still an adventure' A beautiful piece by Xandra Bingley, author of Ways of Telling, in @bigissue.com : www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

'Xandra Bingley has enriched my life, and the lives of so many people who have known her. Now she is about to enrich yours, in this curious and intriguing collection.' @margaretatwood.bsky.social Get your copy of Ways of Telling by Xandra Bingley now: buff.ly/XNGtb4t

'Xandra Bingley has enriched my life, and the lives of so many people who have known her. Now she is about to enrich yours, in this curious and intriguing collection.' @margaretatwood.bsky.social Get your copy of Ways of Telling by Xandra Bingley now: buff.ly/XNGtb4t

‘The settings of these pieces are hugely varied but Bingley brings a penetrating eye and sharp wit to their many different milieus. . . Marvellous.’ @thespectator1828.bsky.social Ways of Telling is out now! Order your copy: buff.ly/XNGtb4t

‘The settings of these pieces are hugely varied but Bingley brings a penetrating eye and sharp wit to their many different milieus . . . As well as being inventively and compellingly written, the book is often darkly funny’ Read the full review in @thespectator1828.bsky.social :

‘As well as being inventively and compellingly written, the book is often darkly funny . . . Marvellous.’ @thespectator1828.bsky.social Ways of Telling by Xandra Bingley is published tomorrow! Pre-order your copy here:

Publishing on the 28th April, Ways of Telling is a remarkable collection of stories. Introduced by Margaret Atwood, Xandra Bingley’s vivid portraits of everyday experience remind us of the mysterious transience of life. Pre-order now: buff.ly/zj7Ux7v

Publishing on the 28th April, Ways of Telling is a remarkable collection of stories. Introduced by Margaret Atwood, Xandra Bingley’s vivid portraits of everyday experience remind us of the mysterious transience of life. Pre-order now: buff.ly/zj7Ux7v

‘Compact yet thought provoking ... It is heartening that at least one publisher in the English-speaking world has decided to mark the centenary of Bachmann’s birth this year.’ @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A wonderful review of The Threshold and the Ledger by Tom McCarthy: buff.ly/8c8Z9rF

Returns (on Bachmann): A Performance-Lecture by Tom McCarthy Join the Booker Prize-winning author for a performance-lecture on the 21st of April at the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, marking the centennial of the writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Learn more: buff.ly/QkRu6wK

Returns (on Bachmann): A Performance-Lecture by Tom McCarthy Join the Booker Prize-winning author for a performance-lecture on the 21st of April at the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, as part of the series of events marking the centennial of the writer Ingeborg Bachmann. Learn more:

Publishing on the 28th April, Ways of Telling is a remarkable collection of stories. Introduced by Margaret Atwood, Xandra Bingley’s vivid portraits of everyday experience remind us of the mysterious transience of life. Pre-order now: buff.ly/zj7Ux7v

‘Compact yet thought provoking ... It is heartening that at least one publisher in the English-speaking world has decided to mark the centenary of Bachmann’s birth this year.’ @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A wonderful review of The Threshold and the Ledger by Tom McCarthy: buff.ly/8c8Z9rF

On the 16th April, psychotherapist and author of On the Couch, Andrew Jamieson will be speaking at @brlsi.bsky.social delving into the minds of the likes of Picasso, Nelson Mandela and Vladimir Putin. Book tickets: www.brlsi.org/whatson/on-t...

Reading this amazing book about the power of music. @nottinghilleds.bsky.social

Currently reading: Beneath My Feet Writers on Walking edited by Duncan Minshull @nottinghilleds.bsky.social #booksky

‘Compact yet thought provoking’ @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A wonderful review of The Threshold and the Ledger by Tom McCarthy: lareviewofbooks.org/article/inge...

'Michael Collins – for as long as I keep reading him, and for a considerable while after – persuades me not only of [photography's] significance as an artform, but also of the beauty of individual photographs' Will Self Get your copy of Blind Corners: Essays on Photography now: buff.ly/nUD0Kxm

'What it means to have a home has been central to drama, poetry and the novel for millennia. It is explored with insight by Tom McCarthy in a scintillating piece of literary analysis called “The threshold and the ledger”.' Read the full review: theprisma.co.uk/2026/03/23/t...

This Wednesday, join us at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social for an event with psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson, author of On the Couch. The illustrated talk will be introduced by Dr Martin Gledhill who will then be in conversation with Andrew. Book your ticket here: buff.ly/25ifRw3

On the 16th April, psychotherapist and author of On the Couch, Andrew Jamieson will be speaking at @brlsi.bsky.social delving into the minds of the likes of Picasso, Nelson Mandela and Vladimir Putin. Book tickets:

Join us on the 1st April at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social for an event with psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson, author of On the Couch. The illustrated talk will be introduced by Dr Martin Gledhill who will then be in conversation with Andrew. Book your ticket here:

'When I write stories I can try on different voices. It’s still an adventure' A beautiful article by Xandra Bingley, author of the forthcoming Ways of Telling - an extraordinary new collection of unforgettable stories - in @bigissue.com :

Join us on the 1st April at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social for an event with psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson, author of On the Couch. The illustrated talk will be introduced by Dr Martin Gledhill who will then be in conversation with Andrew. Book your ticket here: www.freud.org.uk/event/freuds...

'Perceptive, highly intelligent ... Jamieson's summaries of psychoanalytic ideas are invaluable' We were delighted to see this review of On the Couch by Andrew Jamieson in The Mail on Sunday. Get your copy: buff.ly/nTfigCC

'When I write stories I can try on different voices. It’s still an adventure' A beautiful article by Xandra Bingley, author of the forthcoming Ways of Telling - an extraordinary new collection of unforgettable stories - in @bigissue.com: www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Join us on the 1st April at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social for an event with psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson, author of On the Couch. The illustrated talk will be introduced by Dr Martin Gledhill who will then be in conversation with Andrew. Book your ticket here:

'Perceptive, highly intelligent ... Jamieson's summaries of psychoanalytic ideas are invaluable' We were delighted to see this review of On the Couch by Andrew Jamieson in The Mail on Sunday. Get your copy: buff.ly/nTfigCC

'When I write stories I can try on different voices. It’s still an adventure' A beautiful article by Xandra Bingley, author of the forthcoming Ways of Telling - an extraordinary new collection of unforgettable stories - in @bigissue.com : www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson will be in conversation with our very own Rosalind Porter at the Oxford Literary Festival on the 22nd March, discussing his new book On the Couch: Twenty Extraodinary Personalities from Picasso to Putin. Get your ticket:

Psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson will be in conversation with our very own Rosalind Porter at the Oxford Literary Festival on the 22nd March, discussing his new book On the Couch: Twenty Extraodinary Personalities from Picasso to Putin. Get your ticket:

Join us on the 1st April at @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social for an event with psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson, author of On the Couch. The illustrated talk will be introduced by Dr Martin Gledhill who will then be in conversation with Andrew. Book your ticket here: www.freud.org.uk/event/freuds...

In his new book, On the Couch: Twenty Extraodinary Personalities from Picasso to Putin, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy’s most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty remarkable people. Order your copy: buff.ly/hHfECeD

Julian Barnes, imo, is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful and, frankly, under appreciated writers England has ever had. As I wait for his last (!) book to arrive, here’s his typically brilliant essay from last year. Book: @nottinghilleds.bsky.social Drink: 2024 Honeycomb Chardonnay

’All power to Notting Hill Editions for publishing this latest instalment of pieces by one of America's finest, wittiest and most scathing essayists.’ Geoff Dyer, The Guardian @meghandaum.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

The Lake Poets: An Anthology, intro by James Rebanks, out 4 November. "These were the punks of their day...They came together like teenagers creating a modern band." #WilliamWordsworth #DorothyWordsworth #SamuelTaylorColeridge #RobertSouthey #CharlesLamb

ONLY until 23:59 on Friday 17 October - our Spring 2026 titles can be pre-ordered with 25% off, exclusively from Waterstones online. Use code OCTOBER25 Find out more www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct... #WPreorder @yalerepresentation

ONLY until 23:59 on Friday 17 October - our Spring 2026 titles can be pre-ordered with 25% off, exclusively from Waterstones online. Use code OCTOBER25 Find out more www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct... #WPreorder @yalerepresentation

ONLY until 23:59 on Friday 17 October - our Spring 2026 titles can be pre-ordered with 25% off, exclusively from Waterstones online. Use code OCTOBER25 Find out more www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct... #WPreorder @yalerepresentation

We’re very pleased to announce that audio rights in Meghan Daum's #TheCatastropheHour (just announced as the winner of the Air Mail Tom Wolfe Literary Prize for Reportage) have been sold to Tantor Media. Congratulations Meghan! 29 s

Don't miss this conversation on 3rd September, Village Underground, New York.

‘A book I believe every photographer should own. Not just the pros. Not just the high end amateurs. But everybody who has ever raised a camera or a cell phone with the hope to create an image should at some point have this book...and carry it with them.’ readframes.com/to-consider-...

We're looking forward to Tom McCarthy talking to Deborah Levy about his new book #thethresholdandtheledger at Foyles Charing Cross Road 15 September. Book tickets here (£10) bit.ly/3GZPDLd. Find out more about the book here bit.ly/3IMDhGG

If you purchase tickets for Meghan Daum's event by August 1 you get them for $18 using promo code CATASTROPHE18. @meghandaum.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

"This book is a beautiful object, and so packable it can fit in a purse. What a delight it would be this summer to pull it out and engage in that now-radical act of reading a book in public." www.thefp.com/p/the-free-p... on Meghan Daum's The Catastrophe Hour

Join Travis Elborough for a tour of some of the West End buildings that caught Ian Nairn’s eye. Meet Sun 17 Aug 2.30pm The Blue Posts, Soho, W1F 0QA. Tickets available here: tinyurl.com/3tfzb4fw #IanNairn #Londonwalks @C20Society