Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits

RCL author Ferdia Lennon wins the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40! www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ferdia-lennon-wins-2025-rooney-prize-for-irish-literature

I’m looking forward to developing a book on the theme of this TED talk (over the coming year): VIBRANT EARTH

Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK and Charlie Porter's NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE on Blackwell's and Foyles ‘Books of the Year’ shortlists www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/olivia-...

‘How to measure the planet’s heartbeat’ introduces themes of new RCL client @ymalhi.bsky.social's debut book VIBRANT EARTH www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ted-talk-by-new-client-yadvinder-malhi

A very interesting run of events coming up for author Terry Stiastny, centring around her book Believable Lies: The Misfits Who Fought Churchill's Secret Propaganda War. Imperial War Museum | 25 September iwm.org.uk/events/my-iw... Lucky Hare Books | 9 October eventbrite.com/e/believable...

A brilliant review of Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK by Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

In Olivia’s words, ‘The Silver Book is a novel in love with cinema’ - and therefore it makes perfect sense for it to be launched with a series of three events at the Barbican Centre, Cinema 1. www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/the-sil...

We're coming up to halfway through the Edinburgh International Book Festival (9 to 24 August) and it's a good moment to catch up with what's been going on for RCL authors and what's to come! Read on the RCL website: www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/rcl-aut...

UK Kindle edition of HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON is cheap today!

Nell Stevens' The Original was launched in the UK (by Scribner) on 19 June, and in the US (by Norton) on 1 July. The UK launch was accompanied by a very special ‘in conversation’ between Nell and Olivia Laing at the LRB Bookshop.

Highly recommend Rebecca Stott’s new radio series starting on Monday. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On the day that The Frozen People is published in the US, @ellygriffiths.bsky.social is awarded Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award! www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/big-day...

Political neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the ideological brain in our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime now. Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime

Calling all Spanish language publishers ...

Thank you for this wonderful piece and it's call for a Spanish-language publisher to come forward and publish Dom Phillip's important book HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON, published in the English language and in Brazilian Portuguese this week!

I thought @leorzmigrod.bsky.social was brilliant at encapsulating her research into brain flexibility and dogmatism on the Today programme on Tuesday 3 June. You can listen at 2 hours 20 mins into the programme.

Mit nur 29 Jahren begründet @leorzmigrod.bsky.social ein neues Forschungsfeld: die politische Neurobiologie. In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt die preisgekrönte Wissenschaftlerin, wie Denkmuster unsere politische Haltung formen und wer für extreme Positionen anfällig ist: shrk.vg/Ideologische...

I bring you amazing news of the Duck-Rabbit which went viral after being drawn in 1892. (From a new book by Leor Zmigrod) @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

🧠 🧪 How does our #brain influence our political stance - and vice versa? Neuroresearcher @leorzmigrod.bsky.social presents her #book "Das ideologische Gehirn" on June 10 | 6 pm at Campus Westend, Cas. 1.801. Event on EN. | 🔗 www.suhrkamp.de/buchpraesent...

I spy below @timcoulson.bsky.social who on 9 May did a brilliant presentation for us covering 13 billion years in 45 minutes! He said he’d enjoyed himself enormously so thank you, Tim 👍

Professor @timcoulson.bsky.social’s The Universal History of Us is now out in paperback from Penguin under a new title – A Little History of Everything: From the Big Bang to You. www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/the-uni...

UK publication of @nellstevens.bsky.social's second novel THE ORIGINAL is on the horizon (Scribner, 19 June), as witnessed by this signing of 400 copies for independent publishers. www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/400-signed-copies-of-the-original-nell-stevens

‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Happy Publication Day Dom 💚

'Como salvara a Amazônia', livro de Dom Phillips, será lançado em 27/5 e já está disponível em pré-venda portaldosjornalistas.com.br/livro-de-dom... via @portaljornalistas.bsky.social

Brilliant conversation @hayfestival.bsky.social today between @leorzmigrod.bsky.social and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com about her book THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN. Thanks to @ftweekend.com for sponsoring :)

I have several authors appearing @hayfestival.bsky.social this week starting with Kathy Willis author of GOOD NATURE at 7pm this evening and then @leorzmigrod.bsky.social on Sunday at 10am, then more …

I'm really looking forward to hearing reading responses to Terry Stiasny's Believable Lies when it is published by Ebury on 12 June. Read more on the RCL website: www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/believa...

Congratulations to Andrew Harding for being shortlisted for the 2025 Orwell Prize in the Journalism category. www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/andrew-...

It’s brilliant to see @ellygriffiths.bsky.social's THE LAST WORD on the longlist for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025, in excellent company! It’s Elly’s tenth time on the longlist, but she’s never won… and you could help make it happen by voting for the shortlist.

The London launch for Dom Phillips's HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON will be @foylesforbooks.bsky.social on 5 June, the third anniversary of Dom's murder, and that of Bruno Pereira. Swift booking advised.

There's a really fantastic first review of Dom Phillips's HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON by Patrick Wilcken in The Literary Review. literaryreview.co.uk/river-of-no-...

Murdered journalist Dom Phillips's book, completed by his friends and colleagues, is about to be published, with a series of launch events. Read more on the RCL website: www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/how-to-...

Really looking forward to interviewing @leorzmigrod.bsky.social on Saturday 11am about the Ideological Brain @blackwelloxford.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...

Charlie Porter’s debut novel has been embraced by booksellers and readers, and now has a US publisher, Nightboat. www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/nova-sc...

Tickets available here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/going... @leorzmigrod.bsky.social

Love this NYT interview with @leorzmigrod.bsky.social about her book THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...

There is a great and thoughtful review of @leorzmigrod.bsky.social THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN by @tomcalver.bsky.social in the Sunday Times

Happy US Publication day to @leorzmigrod.bsky.social whose THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN is out from the wonderful team @henryholtbooks.bsky.social today 💫

Publication Day Desk! (The desk at the Paris residency where @leorzmigrod.bsky.social finished writing THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN.) Many happy returns of the day, Leor! rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/publica... @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @penguinukbooks.bsky.social

Publication Day Desk! Many happy returns of the day to Xiaolu Guo. rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/publica... @penguinukbooks.bsky.social

I'm pleased to have placed Benjamin Teitelbaum's new book with Leo Hollis @versobooks.bsky.social for publication, hopefully, in 2026 if it can be written and edited fast enough. As with WAR FOR ETERNITY, Ben is determined to hone in on the heart of the matter.

Wonderful to see copies out in the wild! Looking forward to publication day on Thursday @leorzmigrod.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

Charlie Porter's NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE in Hatchards Piccadilly's Best New Books Coming Soon!

So great to read that Nicholas Clee of BookBrunch and Lauren Brown of The Bookseller have realised how brilliant Nell Stevens' THE ORIGINAL is. I love Luke Bird's UK cover for the Scribner UK edition but the Norton cover is also a delight. Finished copies arrived today 📚

🎞️ New short film just released about my research on what makes a mind susceptible to rigid and extreme ideologies by @uniofcam.bsky.social! 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOBI...

Just under two weeks until @leorzmigrod.bsky.social’s brilliant THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN is published by @penguinukbooks.bsky.social in the UK and Holt in the US.

Thanks to Anthony Cummins for this great interview in @guardian with Xiaolu Guo. CALL ME ISHMAELLE is published by Chatto on 20 March. Pre-ordering it would be appreciated!

Waterstones Piccadilly was in full bloom yesterday for the paperback publication of Olivia Laing's THE GARDEN AGAINST TIME 💐