We're logging off now for our winter break! We hope you have a wonderful festive holiday and we'll be back in the new year ✨

#NinettesWar by John Jay is a @newyorker.com Best Book of 2025. We publish in paperback next month📖 www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

'Combines Agatha Christie-style storytelling with interactive logic puzzles' #MerryMurdle by @gtkarber.bsky.social in the Observer's list of witty books. This ‍festive edition of the bestselling puzzle series contains 25 mysteries to find a missing Santa Claus 🎅 observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Get your signed and dedicated edition of GP and bestselling author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social's upcoming book #TheUnfragileMind: Making Sense of Mental Health when you pre-order through @portybooks.bsky.social now 🧡 Find out more: tinyurl.com/TheUnfragileMindPortyBooks

We are incredibly proud that #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the @hatchards.bsky.social and Biographers' Club First Biography Prize! Take a look at the full shortlist below ⬇️

'Digging down the core of Paris’s culinary greatness proves a quixotic task, but Newens, a fine and perceptive writer, unearths a trove of good stories along the way' #MoveableFeasts by Chris Newens is an Observer best food book of 2025. Bon appétit! 🍽️

'Alwyn Turner is the master of funny, engaging social history' Struggling to find a present for the dad in your life? The Sunday Times suggests #LittleEnglanders by @alwynturner.bsky.social as the perfect gift to adorn his history shelf! Out now in paperback 📚 www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Fascinating festive reading from stonemason and author of #ChurchGoing @old-church-going.bsky.social in @thetimes.com this weekend ✨

History fans, discover your new favourite books in audio! 🎧 We're delighted to see #EmperorOfRome by @wmarybeard.bsky.social and #ShiftingSands by Judith Scheele in this list of the top 12 history audiobooks from the @irishtimes.com.

I'm both over the moon and a bit nervous to be chairing the Booker judges for 2026. These are the people I'm going to be getting to know rather well #BookerPrize2026 @thebookerprizes.com

Exciting to see our author, the Queen of Classics @wmarybeard.bsky.social, chairing the Booker Prize judging panel for next year!

'I’ve never had such an emotional reaction to reading about rocks, but the prose is beautiful, and the passion of the author pours off every page' #TheMeteorites by @helenlpgordon.bsky.social is a Scientific American book of the year! ☄️✨ www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#LittleEnglanders by @alwynturner.bsky.social is a Times book of the year! An authoritative history of the Edwardian age, out now in paperback. 'Alwyn Turner has a knack for making the past pop to life... all human life is crammed into this rollicking account' tinyurl.com/y9tz2v8p

@gregkarber's new Murdle Junior novel, from the bestselling puzzle series, is coming in May 2026 🕵️🔍 Help junior detective Olivia to figure out whodunnit, with puzzles to solve along the way. Can you crack the case? ✏️ www.waterstones.com/book/murdle-...

Travel back to Italia '90 this lunchtime with #WorldCupFever author @simonkuper.bsky.social on @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social's Talk 90s to Me podcast 🇮🇹⚽️

#MerryMurdle by G. T. Karber is available to buy on Amazon for just £5.21 until 10th December while stock lasts ✨ Order your copy here: www.amazon.co.uk/Merry-Murdle...

We're so excited to be publishing #EscapingBabylon by Jesse Bernard in May 2026. #EscapingBabylon takes a deep dive into the history of Black British music to celebrate its richness, heritage and towering legacy. Pre-order your copy now: profilebooks.com/profile-books/

Democracy is in crisis, but how did this happen? And where do we go from here? Today we publish the paperback of #TheChallengesofDemocracy by bestselling author and former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption. Get your copy here: tinyurl.com/w2z7v97d

'No Christmas book list is complete, of course, without a doorstopper biography – and, in Crick, Matthew Cobb gives us the definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science' #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social is on @theguardian.com's best science books of 2026 list.

This evening, the winner of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 will be announced live! Join us in celebrating outstanding history. We will be posting live from the winner ceremony, so make sure you're following @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social and #WolfsonHistoryPrize for live updates throughout the night.

It's wonderful to see #Abundance by @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social named as one of the Guardian's best history and politics books of the year, stating 'its confidence feels like a tonic'. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

'In this polemic, the two journalists reimagine American liberalism away from bureaucratic red tape' #Abundance by @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social is the political book of the moment, reviewed here in the New York Times. Get your copy now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/b...

The Meteorites by Helen Gordon In 2021 a fast-moving fireball was tracked across the skies of several countries...An ancient meteorite had landed on a suburban driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire uk.bookshop.org/a/133/978180...

'An immersive and richly textured history of the native nations of North America' #NativeNations by Kathleen DuVal, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for History, is a Church Times' best book of 2025. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social's bestseller #Abundance gets a mention in this New Statesman piece on the latest Budget. Abundance lays out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance – out now. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Football fans, don't miss @simonkuper.bsky.social's brilliant #WorldCupFever feature in the @financialtimes.com ahead of next week's 2026 draw ⚽️🏆

Are you looking for Christmas present ideas? Check out @churchtimes.bsky.social's bookish recommendations, including the biography of the great scientist #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social and Chris Newens' gastronomic journey around Parisian cuisine #MoveableFeasts 📚🎁

'Into the Dream Lab ... that makes the reader think' A stellar review in @thetls.bsky.social for Michelle Carr's #IntoTheDreamLab: The New Science of Dreams and Nightmares ☁️

Visit Pompeii with the one and only @wmarybeard.bsky.social...! To celebrate the upcoming publication of #TalkingClassics, we're giving you the chance to win this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Simply pre-order through @waterstones.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassicsWaterstonesComp

"How do you hold those huge swathes of grey in the stories that you tell about the past, and how do you tell them well?" Eleanor Barraclough explains the nuance behind 'Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age' #WolfsonHistoryPrize. @profilebooks.bsky.social

So great to see #Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson included in '100 Notable Books of 2025' by @nytimes.com! View the full piece below: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

'An impressive work of research and scholarship' A brilliant @theguardian.com review for #Crick, @matthewcobb.bsky.social's biography of the man who helped to discover the structure of DNA 🧬

Absolutely thrilled to be part of this tour! Join us in #Monmouth 22nd April www.ticketsource.co.uk/rossiterbook...

Join acclaimed writer & broadcaster, and Gladstone's Library Writer in Residence, David Hendy for a masterclass on using sound to enrich your writing. 📅 Sat 17 Jan '26 🕑 10:30AM-3PM 🎟️ £70 📍 Gladstone’s Library 1/2 @davidhendy.bsky.social @unitedagents.bsky.social @profilebooks.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce that @wmarybeard.bsky.social is going on tour next spring with her brilliant new book #TalkingClassics ⚡️ Get your tickets via the links below! 🧵

Start the week with #Crick author @matthewcobb.bsky.social as he discusses the history and future of genetic science 🧬

Just a reminder about this Friday’s (28th) event. We are incredibly grateful to have Professor @helenking.bsky.social speaking about “Uncovering the History of Women’s Bodies” at 1:30 pm in the Learning Centre (Room 00.018), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. We are looking forward to seeing you!

What's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we care about the distant past? @wmarybeard.bsky.social returns with #TalkingClassics out April 2026. Pre-order your signed edition here: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassicsWaterstones

'A lively, lucid discussion of what companies are, and what they are for' #TheCorporationInTheTwentyFirstCentury by @profjohnkay.bsky.social is an Economist best book of 2025! This radical reappraisal of business is out now in paperback. www.economist.com/culture/2025...

'Nightmares serve as helpful indicators of when we are struggling to deal with certain emotional issues, and if we pay attention ... we can learn to overcome the underlying issues, too' Check out #IntoTheDreamLab author Michelle Carr's @bpsofficial.bsky.social interview.

'Kucharski explains how we know things and to what level of certainty, and how to hone our own decision-making. Engaging and uncondescending' #Proof by Adam Kucharski is a Financial Times best book of 2025. The bestselling author asks how we know what is true, out now. www.ft.com/content/5f6f...

#Abundance by @ezraklein.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social is a Financial Times best book of 2025! The number one New York Times bestseller makes the case for a future defined not by fear, but by abundance. Out now. www.ft.com/content/c44a...

Tonight! 7pm for 7.30pm, £3 on door. Our last event of the year, do join us! @old-church-going.bsky.social @profilebooks.bsky.social

first near-freezing temps of the season in #Paris tonight ❄️ perfect time to read a tiny #book of #cat #crime #fiction, n’est-ce paws 🧐😸 @profilebooks.bsky.social

'Gordon’s deep dive into these extraterrestrial visitations and the people who orbit them is lively and endlessly fascinating' #TheMeteorites by Helen Gordon has been picked by the iPaper as one of the best paperbacks out in November ☄️ inews.co.uk/culture/book...

'If you are interested in how DNA’s structure was discovered and what happened next, this is the book to read … Gripping' A brilliant @newscientist.com review for #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social 🧬

Discover the power, confidence and purpose that come with courage! #CourageIsCalling by Ryan Holiday is available on Audible today for £3.99! www.audible.co.uk/pd/Courage-I...

GP and bestselling author @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social returns with a deeply human and compassionate re-evaluation of mental illness. #TheUnfragileMind publishes February 2026, in partnership with @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ✨ Find out more here: tinyurl.com/TheUnfragileMind

'You must understand the World Cup is a kind of religious feast that includes the whole world ... Whereas Easter is only for Christians, the World Cup is for everyone' A fascinating interview with #WorldCupFever author @simonkuper.bsky.social for Football Makes History ⚽️

🎧 Essential listening for Classics fans! 🎧 Don't miss #Sparta author Andrew Bayliss discussing the rise and fall of this ancient superpower on the History with Jackson podcast below! 🔗 historywithjackson.co.uk/podcast