'Admirably even-handed' A strong review of @marcdavidbaer1.bsky.social's history of Jewish-Muslim relations, #ChildrenOfAbraham, out today.

From the plague pit to grave-robbery, consecrated ground to the hangman's drop, cycles of death and dying are part of the fabric of our society. A vibrant social history of death, #NoOrdinaryDeaths by @mollyconisbee.bsky.social is out today in paperback ☠️ profilebooks.com/work/no-ordi...

Discover the man behind the double-helix... Join author of #Crick @matthewcobb.bsky.social at @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social festival next month. Details below! 📍 Cidermill Theatre, Chipping Campden 📅 Monday 4th May 🕑️ 2pm 🎟️ Via link: tinyurl.com/mwtd63yh

'Describes brilliantly the battle between hackers to prevent cyberattacks... the revelations are so good' #WeKnowYouCanPayAMillion by Anja Shortland reviewed in The Times. This nail-biting expose of the multibillion-dollar hacking and industry is out tomorrow 💻 www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Listen to @marcdavidbaer1.bsky.social discussing the history of Jewish-Muslim relations on Times Radio with Hugo Rifkind. Baer's new book #ChildrenOfAbraham publishes this week.

Calling all fans of Alan Bennett to a chance writing a card to the British playwriter! Collect &return it back to #WakefieldLibrary Have a look at our display of Alan Bennett's collection of diaries and prose #EnoughSaid @profilebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @readingagency.bsky.social

My new book out April 2

We're so thrilled to share that #WeSurvivedTheNight by Julian Brave NoiseCat has been shortlisted for the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize, an annual award for an imaginative work that crosses the borders between artistic disciplines, genres, subject matter and cultures. Read more here: tinyurl.com/35pv8bad

OUT NOW! With the launch of his new book, 'The Unfragile Mind: Making Sense of Mental Health', Dr. Gavin Francis takes on one of the biggest crises facing the world today. But Britain faces an even bigger one - our health service at-large. Available wherever you get your podcasts!

'Sharing conservation success stories, our history in the woods & spotlighting the many species that rely on this vital habitat.' 🌳✨️ Thanks @profilebooks.bsky.social for the #gifted review copy! 💚 Tap the link for my full review 📚 www.instagram.com/p/DWHZRsWiHT...

Ahead of the Easter weekend, take a trip around Britain's most spectacular medieval church art with stonemason and author @old-church-going.bsky.social ⛪

Join @jacriding.bsky.social for an evening of Charlie Chaplin. Jacqueline will be discussing her book #HardStreets along with archival footage of Chaplin in London. ⏰ 7pm, 9th April 📍 The Cinema Museum, London SE11 cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/bo...

'Without maths the human race would still be living in caves' A brilliant interview with #ReachingForTheExtreme author Ian Stewart with Pop Science Books (@brianclegg.bsky.social).

Come along to an Evening with Charlie Chaplin at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival @jacriding.bsky.social will be talking about her book #HardStreets, along with a screening of The Immigrant and music from Meg Morley 🎹 ⏰ 7:30pm, 6th May chippingcampden.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Calling all @history-hit.bsky.social fans! Join After Dark presenters @maddypelling.bsky.social and Anthony Delaney at @conwayhall.bsky.social next month to discuss Madeleine's new book #Hoax. 📍 Conway Hall 📅 Thurs 7th May 🕖 7–8:30pm 🎟️ Via the link below! tinyurl.com/HoaxConwayHall

A Ghost, a Witch, and a Princess in the Age of Enlightenment 7 May 2026 Join @history-hit.bsky.social's @maddypelling.bsky.social & Anthony Delaney discussing Maddy's new 'Hoax'. @conwayhall.bsky.social May contain Cock Lane ghost. conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/eve... @profilebooks.bsky.social

I do hope people appreciate the joke! For my new book (partly reflecting on a career in Classics, partly asking 'WHY study the deep past?', 'What do we get out of it?'), I chose an 'author photo' taken by my friend Di, 50+ years ago. Book details: tinyurl.com/fktznv5c

Need a distraction from the imminent local elections? Then join me and the fab @megster.bsky.social talking about Charlie Chaplin and the #HardStreets of Lambeth @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social on Wed 6 May! Music, laughter and tears guaranteed 🥸 🥹 #booksky @profilebooks.bsky.social

The Nerve weekend dish: Ben Benton’s masala fish pie with spiced pea thoran The chef and podcaster describes the genesis of a new recipe, inspired by his travels in search of Britain’s best food for his forthcoming book @profilebooks.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...

Dinner inspiration from #AllYouCanEat author Ben Benton with this delicious masala fish pie recipe, inspired by his gastronomic journey around the British Isles 🍽️ Via @thenerve.news 👇

'A fascinating picture of a fast-evolving criminal industry' #WeKnowYouCanPayAMillion by Anja Shortland is the Guardian's book of the day! A startling expose of the multibillion-dollar hacking and ransomware industry, out in April 💻 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

How can these 450 species of animals survive up to 80 million years by cloning? The secret? Horizontal gene transfer. youtube.com/watch?v=4Dbi...

From London to the Lake District, forester and author of #Ancient Luke Barley presents the five trees that made Britain🌳 Read now for @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

So excited to see this pre-publication copy land on my desk - the absolutely brilliant AGE OF ALCHEMY by Kit Chapman and published by @profilebooks.bsky.social It's already sold in several international territories, and is out in the UK 30 April. @watsonlittle.bsky.social

We are delighted to be publishing Alan Bennett’s #EnoughSaid today, in partnership with @faberbooks.bsky.social A book for the bedside, this is Alan Bennett at his very best, as he records life both personal and political in his most distinct of voices 📚 profilebooks.com/work/enough-...

'If you're interested in what we really eat, read this' Felicity Cloake 🍽️ 'Ben writes about food in Britain with love, curiosity and joy' Max Halley 🍽️ Join chef and food writer Ben Benton on a gastronomic tour around Britain. #AllYouCanEat is out today 🐟️ 🍟 tinyurl.com/AllYouCanEatBenBenton

'I’ve not always found people easy to talk to. But I’ve found it easy to talk to myself, which is what a diary is' A brilliant @financialtimes.com interview with Alan Bennett, ahead of the publication of his latest set of diaries #EnoughSaid.

'Here he is, 91, still skewering Britain and its institutions, still catching the details of unexamined lives, with the same sharp eye he trains upon himself, cataracts notwithstanding' A great @the-independent.com review for #EnoughSaid by Alan Bennett, out this week.

Catch @jacriding.bsky.social on the latest episode of the History Extra podcast, discussing her new book #HardStreets 🎧 Life on the mean streets of 19th-century London 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2H7R...

'Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper has covered every tournament since Italia ‘90 and is thus a qualified guide through editions past ahead of an alternative, expanded World Cup this summer' #WorldCupFever by @simonkuper.bsky.social is a must-read sports books in @the-independent.com!

How far would you go in your search for certainty? #Proof by bestselling author and mathematician Adam Kucharski is out today in paperback. Ranging across science, politics, philosophy and economics, Proof explores how truth emerges and why it falters. profilebooks.com/work/proof/

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social's #ExtractiveCapitalism is a must-read for understanding the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, oil as a weapon, and the Iranian Revolution. For more, listen back to Laleh on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk podcast in conversation with @davidwearing.bsky.social 👇

'Barley successfully skewers the romantic notion of untouched ancient woodland and pleads for measured intervention to keep our woods alive with the sound of birdsong and children’s play' 🌳 Wonderful to read this @financialtimes.com review for #Ancient by forester Luke Barley, out now!

AI companies build their products by copying millions of books without permission or payment. We are urging the UK government to rule out legalising this large-scale theft. We – along with almost 10,000 authors – are supporting #DontStealThisBook. Find out more here: www.dontstealthisbook.com/

‘We are left with the bracing consolation of a mind that has never stopped doubting, never stopped observing, never stopped quietly, stubbornly climbing the stairs' A brilliant review in @thetimes.com for Alan Bennett's latest diary collection #EnoughSaid, publishing next week.

'I feel I am not yet grown up ... What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age' Read a @theguardian.com extract from Alan Bennett's #EnoughSaid.

‘A tribute to stubborn resilience in the face of hardship as well as the creative spark, comedy and community' #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social is a Shortlist best non-fiction book to read this World Book Day! www.shortlist.com/books/10-mus...

'Jacqueline Riding evokes late 19th-century London with an artist’s eye' Read a review of #HardStreets by @jacriding.bsky.social in the Mail Online and learn more about the working-class streets of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin. www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

'Mesmerising ... Ancient is imbued with a powerful sense of community. Britain's woods are for people, because people, whether they know it or not, are the woods' lifeblood' A beautiful review in @thespectator1828.bsky.social for #Ancient by Luke Barley, published today 🌳

Let's talk about Sex! Not boring human sex, but the endlessly fascinating and complex forms of reproduction found in the natural world 🧬 #OnTheOriginOfSex by @lixingsun.bsky.social explores the spectacular science of sex, from frogs to funghi, out today! profilebooks.com/work/on-the-...

Catch @jacriding.bsky.social on The Big Smoke Variety Show podcast, discussing her latest book #HardStreets and the working-class neighbourhoods of Edwardian London that shaped Charlie Chaplin 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7MK9...

'A wonderful ramble beneath the boughs' – @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Step into the woods with forester Luke Barley as he explores the past, present and future of Britain's ancient woodland 🌳 #Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain publishes today! tinyurl.com/AncientLukeBarley

The Times' review on the UK edition of On the Origin of Sex, avaible on March 5. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

'I’ve been to the last nine men’s soccer World Cups, and the dominant mood is almost always international friendship ... That is not the spirit of the United States under the Trump administration' A great @nytimes.com piece from #WorldCupFever author @simonkuper.bsky.social ⚽🏆

Join @wmarybeard.bsky.social at the British Museum as part of her #TalkingClassics tour as she discusses ancient history and its enduring relevance, from politics to pop culture. 📍 The British Museum 📅 Friday 1st May 🕡 6:30–7:30pm 🎟️ Via link below

Check out our interactive map for #AllYouCanEat by Ben Benton, featuring restaurants, cafés and bakeries featured in the book! www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

This week is the publication of #Ancient, Luke Barley's beautiful contemplation on Britain's ancient woodland. To celebrate, we're giving Waterstones Plus members a chance to win a National Trust membership, a signed copy of the book, and more! 🌳 Enter now: tinyurl.com/AncientWaterstonesPrizeDraw

We are delighted that #Abundance by @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social is Blackwell's non-fiction book of the month for March! An urgent polemic, calling for a move away from scarcity politics and towards an abundant future. Out now in paperback 🌍️ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

'Luke Barley sets out to tell a more complex and fascinating tale of our forests and the people that have lived with and made use of them' #Ancient by forester Luke Barley is the @theguardian.com's Book of the Day! Step into the woods and discover the trees that made Britain 🌳

#Abundance by @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social is out today in paperback 🌍️ International bestseller, Obama book of the year and shortlisted for FT Business Book of the Year, Abundance is an urgent polemic for our future. 'A must-read' Barack Obama profilebooks.com/work/abundan...