🛡️ Jill Burke (@jillburke.bsky.social), professor of Renaissance visual and material cultures, reflects on the extraordinary life of Caterina Sforza—warrior, alchemist, and Renaissance icon. #History #PLPEXPeditions @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @profilebooks.bsky.social

#ImpossibleCity by @simonkuper.bsky.social is one of @waterstones.bsky.social's #PaperbacksOfTheYear 📖 Get your copy – perfect for gifting! – here: tinyurl.com/ImpossibleCi...

To celebrate the publication of #Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower, author Andrew Bayliss has put together a @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social list of his favourite page turners on the ancient world. Check out his list here: tinyurl.com/2mkeh2fh

'If you read one book on the Spartans make it this one' – Steven Pressfield Happy Publication Day to #Sparta: The Ride and Fall of an Ancient Superpower by Andrew Bayliss! 🏺🏺 Grab your copy here: tinyurl.com/SpartaAndrew...

Calling all football fans! ⚽️ #WorldCupFever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments by @simonkuper.bsky.social is available in audiobook on NetGalley now. Request here: tinyurl.com/WorldCupFeverNetGalley

This week we publish Andrew Bayliss' definitive and original history of Sparta, from warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war. Let's strip away the legends to unmask the real Spartans. #Sparta by Andrew Bayliss is out this week. Find out more: tinyurl.com/SpartaAndrewBayliss

I’m greatly enjoying the meticulously researched new Crick biography by @matthewcobb.bsky.social published by @profilebooks.bsky.social in November, which I am reviewing for @science.org. It’s set to become the definitive biography of the mercurial, enigmatic and brilliant Francis Crick.

Join #HolyPlaces author @drkathrynhurlock.bsky.social next month at this fascinating @westminsterabbey.bsky.social talk about pilgrimage and its shaping of our world. Details below ⬇️ 📍 St Margaret's Church, Westminster 📅 Weds 8th Oct 🕐 1–1:50pm 🎟️ £5, via 🔗

The Society of Authors (@societyofauthors.bsky.social) have noticed more cases of author impersonation online. If you’re following writers, agents and publishers, do remember to check that social media accounts are official. The SoA has plenty of advice here:

Why do we dream, and how can we learn to control them? ☁️ Catch Dr Michelle Carr – dream engineer and author of #IntoTheDreamLab – on this @intelligence2.bsky.social podcast.

This is Sparta! Essential lunchtime listening for classical history fans – check out this interview with #Sparta author Andrew Bayliss on the @thespectator1828.bsky.social Book Club podcast with @questingvole.bsky.social.

Now reading Church Going by Andrew Ziminski. Good to see Knowlton to get a mention in the first handful of pages @profilebooks.bsky.social

To booksellers everywhere. You really need to read this. Hilarious... #Service #JohnTottenham @profilebooks.bsky.social #booksellers #books #BookSky 💙📚

🎧 Delicious lunchtime listening 🎧 Don't miss author Chris Newens on @gillysmith.bsky.social's #CookingTheBooks podcast, live from the legendary Belleville bistrot Le Mistral, talking about his delectable deep dive into Parisian cuisine #MoveableFeasts 🍽

Can you cure your nightmares? 💤 A fascinating and enlightening review for Dr Michelle Carr's new book #IntoTheDreamLab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares ☁️

'Anyone can be taught how to have more lucidity and agency in their dreams' Learn how to control your dreams with dream engineer and author of #IntoTheDreamLab Dr Michelle Carr. Don't miss this introduction in the Telegraph ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitne...

We are saddened to hear the news of George Raveling's death this week. George was a beloved mentor, a groundbreaking coach and an inspiring leader.

Unlock the secrets of the sleeping mind... 💤 Join Dream Engineer Michelle Carr as she explores why we dream, and teaches us both to problem solve in our sleep and harness the power of our dreams ☁️ #IntoTheDreamLab publishes today: tinyurl.com/IntoTheDreamLab

Profile Books and @faberbooks.bsky.social are delighted to be publishing Alan Bennett’s #EnoughSaid, his fourth collection of diaries and prose. Read the announcement in @thebookseller.com here: tinyurl.com/4txuv7h9

Chris Newens has captured the French capital in all its bewildering variety. A culinary quest through Paris | @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/reviews/a-cu...

'Food is one of the most immediate languages any place speaks' Check out this @irishexaminer.bsky.social interview with #MoveableFeasts author Chris Newens about Paris' culinary scene and how he came to write this gastronomic adventure around the French capital 🥐🍽️

here, for those who asked, is the Apple link to Instant Classics. we do answer the Trump/emperor question but in the way you might expect ! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Join in the conversation on viral food trends and whether our tastes are really our own when Ruby Tandoh comes to Ilkley on Sun 19 October: tinyurl.com/27jze78n 🎟️ #ILF25 @profilebooks.bsky.social @serpents-tail.bsky.social

The prize-winning portrait of the master of Realpolitik, #HenryKissinger by Jérémie Gallon, publishes today! Order your copy here: tinyurl.com/yrkz9u23

'Refreshens and deepens appreciation of Augustine’s thought' #AugustineTheAfrican by Catherine Conybeare reviewed in the Spectator. Out now, this portrait of one of theology's greatest thinkers places Africa at the centre of Augustine's story. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

New podcast from two women with a shared intellectual project: classics from the ancient world to now…theatre, architecture, history, film, you name it

We're pleased to announce that next year we will be publishing a new book from doctor and bestselling author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social. #TheUnfragileMind is a powerful diagnosis of why mental health is so little understood, and what can be done to help, out Feb. @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

#Abundance: How We Build A Better Future by @ezraklein.bsky.social and Derek Thompson has been longlisted for the @financialtimes.com and Schroders Business Book of the Year! 🌍 #BBYA25 Announcement here: tinyurl.com/BBYA2025

We're so proud to see #Abundance: How We Build a Better Future longlisted for the @financialtimes.com and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025! Congratulations to our authors @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social 🌍

If you're struggling to get to grips with Donald Trump's policy approaches, be sure to check out our latest blog post from Philip Coggan, author of #TheEconomicConsequencesOfMrTrump. Read the full piece here: tinyurl.com/388whea3

'Fascinating ... much of the two decades’ worth of admirable research on which it is based would simply not be possible today' A brilliant review in @thetls.bsky.social for #ShiftingSands: A Human History of the Sahara by Judith Scheele.

I won these two books from @profilebooks.bsky.social Thank you!

Take a journey with geographer Maxim Samson to explore the world's unseen boundaries, from the Malaria Belt to Tornado Alley... 🗺️ #InvisibleLines publishes in paperback today: tinyurl.com/InvisibleLinesPB

Our geography is not set in stone. This is the story of how we reshaped our world 🗺️ #EarthShapers by Maxim Samson publishes today: tinyurl.com/EarthShapers

'This wonderfully original and eye-opening study will transform your attitude towards the medieval period.' Brilliant to see #TheGreenAges by Annette Kehnel included in @theguardian.com's paperback picks this month! 🌿 Read the full piece here: tinyurl.com/mrcckkmy

📣 All aboard 📣 #ToTheSeaByTrain by Andrew Martin is taking a ride on the Sunday Times bestseller list! We're so proud to be #6 in this week's non-fiction chart 🚂 Find out more about this charming history of the British seaside holiday by train here: tinyurl.com/ToTheSeaByTrain

We are delighted that #TheAccidentalGarden by Richard Mabey is shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing 🍃 In Richard Mabey's Norfolk garden, nature is an equal partner. profilebooks.com/work/the-acc... #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect @wainwrightprize.bsky.social

Journey back to the heyday of the British seaside holiday, in this stellar @financialtimes.com review for #ToTheSeaByTrain by Andrew Martin 🚂🏖️

#WhatWereReading : Joe found Maxim Samson's Earth Shapers absolutely fascinating, out in hardback from @profilebooks.bsky.social , & his Invisible Lines hits paperback. If you loved The Power of Geography, these are for you. #books #livres

🎧 Delicious commuter listening 🎧 Don't miss #MoveableFeasts author Chris Newens' discuss Paris' defining dishes on Monocle Radio 🍽️

'Beautifully written, thoroughly engaging and highly recommended' #AugustineTheAfrican by Catherine Conybeare reviewed in the Literary Review. A groundbreaking reassessment of one of Christianity's foundational thinkers, out 21st August. Read the full review: literaryreview.co.uk/out-of-algeria

If you're interested in learning more about Donald Trump's policy approaches, check out our new blog post from Philip Coggan, author of #TheEconomicConsequencesOfMrTrump. Read the full piece here: tinyurl.com/388whea3

'Abundance is Rachel Reeves’s summer beach read, and with its optimistic ideas about energy and housing, it shows the left a possible way forward' #Abundance by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social & @dkthomp.bsky.social covered by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'What could be more Parisian than a Parisian bistro? ... Yet it, and so many places like it, also tell a story about historic and modern migration to the French capital' Don't miss this piece by #MoveableFeasts author Chris Newens for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social.

#AmuseBouche author @carolynboyd.bsky.social gives you the best –and most delicious – self-catering advice for your upcoming French holiday in this piece for @theipaper.com 🍽️

From steams trains to salt air, this book is a love letter to Britain's coastal holidays and the golden age of rail 🏖️ Happy Publication Day to #ToTheSeaByTrain by Andrew Martin! 🚂 Order your copy here: tinyurl.com/ToTheSeaByTrain

A deal you will not want to miss! Get 25% off any of the titles below, when you pre-order from @Waterstones until July 31st and use code: SUMMER25 Pre-order here, or search your chosen title on the @waterstones.bsky.social's website: tinyurl.com/5xd4ujsk

'Charming and unashamedly trainspotterish' A stellar @thespectator1828.bsky.social review for Andrew Martin's #ToTheSeaByTrain, out next week 🚂

'From swingers’ clubs to restaurants solidaires, Moveable Feasts is unassuming, full of authenticity and homeliness' A delectable @newstatesman.com review for #MoveableFeasts by Chris Newens 🍽️

How will Trump’s tariff war impact the global economy? Don't miss Philip Coggan on the @intelligence2.bsky.social podcast, where he examines the far-reaching consequences of Donald Trump’s trade war. Listen here: tinyurl.com/nsz8a466