I'm sad not to be beside the sea but very happy that today marks paperback publication for LOOKING TO SEA. Lily Le Brun is a wonderfully smart and elegant writer and in this beautiful book she considers ten coastal artworks that the define the long twentieth century in Britain. Out now: read it! 🌊

Spotted at Aldgate East! THE MINISTRY OF TIME is out in paperback now. Catch it in one of four colourways (or get them all if you can, I guess?) 📚

WAIT... WAS SHAKESPEARE GAY? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think... #StraightActing by @willtosh.bsky.social is a captivating & surprising exploration of queer culture in Shakespeare's England. www.waterstones.com/book/straigh...

“The way societies support families is critical to how women experience motherhood,” journalist Abigail Leonard asserts in this by turns piercing and poignant debut. This is an enthralling and kaleidoscopic view of modern motherhood. @hachetteus.bsky.social

🚨 Finished copy alert 🚨 Gorgeous advances of Abigail Leonard's intimate and gripping exploration of early parenting are just in. FOUR MOTHERS follows four women in Japan, Kenya, Finland and the US as they navigate their domestic love and struggles in the face of varied social policies. Out June 🎉

New bookshop just dropped! I hope that Lala Books in Camberwell THRIVES 🎉

A friend's just sent me this recommendation in her local bookshop and it has genuinely made my day. Thanks Bard Books in Bow and thanks lovely @anyaryan.bsky.social @sceptrebooks.bsky.social @cmiscellany.bsky.social #wolfmoon #nicenails

We're hiring!! Publishing assistant, hybrid home/office, £28K, come, join our team: jobs.thebookseller.com/career/27582...

This book will be wonderful! Selina is such a special writer 💙💚💙

'Like a starved dog which only forgoes its owner's flesh in the hope of better treats to come, Holt House waited patiently...' Introducing #TheDecadence, a gripping queer haunted house novel from Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells. Out 25 September & available to pre-order: lnk.to/TheDecadence 💚

Excited to spend an evening at the Barbican celebrating the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist on 17 March. Readings! Discussion of the four brilliant books! Zadie Smith hosting! Beautiful architecture! What more could you want? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

James Hamilton's classic biography reissued in a beautiful new edition to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Turner's birth. Turner is the definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest artists. Find out more: www.waterstones.com/book/turner/...

Three icons launching a brilliant new South London reading series! Proud to be at their inaugural event. Learn more about SOUTH BY WORDS on Insta @southbywords www.instagram.com/southbywords... 📚

“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” Thank you Alexandra Alter & @nytimes.com for spotlighting our work! bit.ly/3X6h1fh

So proud to see Ralf Webb selected as one of Britain's best young writers! STRANGE RELATIONS is shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer Award 🎉🎉🎉 All four authors are interviewed in @thetimes.com today: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Beyond excited for this book! Romantic fiction getting its due from the heavenly Ella 💜🩷💜

Reminder about this job! 👇👇👇

Woohoo my new book, Wolf Moon, in its first (proof) incarnation. Even I haven't got my hands on it yet but am incredibly excited to do so. Published by @sceptrebooks.bsky.social with the help of brilliant @cmiscellany.bsky.social on 3 July. Whoop!

Such a great night and an embarrassment of riches 🎉

It is the Sceptre Salon tonight and I have a gorgeous rainbow of @sceptrebooks.bsky.social proofs! So many brilliant books coming this year 📚

BLOB spotting! @thetimes.com popular fiction Book of the Month 💛🩷💛 www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

🚨 Editorial assistant role 🚨 Please help spread the word: we are hiring an ed asst at @sceptrebooks.bsky.social! Obv I'm biased but it is a great team with many wonderful books and not infrequent snacks... Happy to answer any questions. www.hachette.co.uk/landing-page...

Happy publication day @litmagreject.bsky.social 🎉 BLOB is out in the UK today from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social! The smartest, funniest, weirdest book about the messiness of becoming a real person. I love it. You must read it: www.hachette.co.uk/titles/maggi...

"A sharp, funny and poignant look at what it means to connect with another being, and yourself" Love this @nytimes.com book review of BLOB by @litmagreject.bsky.social 💕 (Out in the UK 6 Feb) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/b...

“Just as part of Jack will always remain at the Overlook, my shadow is still part of me.” @litmagreject.bsky.social on writing and self-loathing in The Shining.

As a journalist, I struggle to know where the line is when it comes to how plugged in I need to be. I appreciated this post that grapples with a similar question.

Struggling to “find the joy” today, then I saw this.

Finally some good news!

A landmark announcement from a prisons minister. Now it’s up to us to give him the political mandate to go even further. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

As a forever @scaachi.bsky.social fan, I enjoyed THE THIN LINE on Audible. A thoughtful consideration of the personal and social impact of GLP-1 drugs 🎧 www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0DQ9G3FM...

Four years ago I wrote my inaugural poem The Hill We Climb. Both when I wrote it and performed it, I did so while continuously reflecting on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Coretta Scott King’s legacy.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

To Do this week: Read BLOB by @litmagreject.bsky.social! Fun to see BLOB in the Culture Pages of @nymag.com this week (out in the UK 6 Feb) 💛🩷💛

Simon Parkin's Guardian long read about the brave scientist behind the Leningrad Plant Institute is now available on podcast! Listen and then read the brilliant FORBIDDEN GARDEN OF LENINGRAD 🎧 www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin review – the lost heroes of Soviet horticulture

"Fire, represented by its avatars, coal, oil and gas, is our superpower, and we can almost be forgiven for believing that we’ve mastered it. But we glossed over a crucial detail: we aren’t the only ones being supercharged . . ." theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #lafires #lafires2025

"Despite the fact that California is a famously flammable state, the residents of Los Angeles County... imagined that they might somehow magically be impervious to this." Journalist John Vaillant talks to Matt Frei. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/la-fire...

Obsessed with this BLOB pick in @literaryhub.bsky.social 2025 Most Anticipated: "Now *this* is art! *This* is literature! More books about women dating weird objects they found in the street, please. BLOB hive rise up" 👏👏👏

As authorities deal with the catastrophic wild fires in Los Angeles, many will have questions. In his Baillie Gifford Prize-winning book, Fire Weather, @johnvaillant.bsky.social explores the past and the future of our ever-hotter, more flammable world: www.waterstones.com/book/fire-we...

John Vaillant talking powerfully, as ever, about wild fire on the Today programme this morning. From 02:35:30 on catch-up: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If you're not immediately affected by the fires around LA and want to understand more about this age of fire that we seem to have entered, Fire Weather by John Vaillant, which is primarily about the Fort McMurray fires in 2016 but also about fire more broadly, was a mind-blowing book.

New year, new platform, new book! Advance copies of BLOB by @litmagreject.bsky.social have landed and they look *so* good. This weird and wonderful debut is out in the UK @sceptrebooks.bsky.social on 6 Feb so not much longer to wait...