Happy publication day to Dur e Aziz Amna, whose mesmerising novel A SPLINTERING is out today. The narrator, Tara, had me hooked on p. 1 with the line: 'So let my story begin with rage...' www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Come and work with Duckworth! Excellent books and one of the nicest teams I've ever worked with! jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28001...

Look, I'm biased, but this really is one of the best books I've ever read about the natural world and the way we interact with it

Working on @elliechan.bsky.social's extraordinary DUET includes not only the joy of making of the book itself, but hearing music I thought I knew, and understanding it in an entirely different way...

Absolutely extraordinary piece in The Times, on the role of the 'Essential grandparent' www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

'My toddler is going through a phase of being very suspicious of the first mouthful of any food he is presented with, as though he is a medieval king who has heard rumours of a poisoning plot. I, his lowly jester, must therefore perform the dance of the seven spoons.'

A bookish weekend in Lewes: dropped into the Lewes Speaker's Festival to see Terri Apter's brilliant talk about GRANDPARENTING (& the queue for signed copies afterwards); walked round a Medieval Fayre with @elliechan.bsky.social talking all things DUET; & bumped in comics supremo Hannah Berry!

I've been obsessed with this brilliantly dark debut, since I read the opening lines at my desk a few days after after I started at Duckworth. Couldn't be prouder to be publishing @lcwinter.bsky.social next spring!

Frog maths. However you run the numbers, it turns out bad for the frogs.

Bound proofs are in for these two stunners. Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's brilliantly incisive take on modern parenthood, illustrated by Pia Bramley, and Eleanor Chan's extraordinary DUET, which will forever change the way you think about music

I am Very Excited about this one. I'LL BE THE MONSTER by the ludicrously talented Sean Gilbert, coming from Duckworth in time for Valentine's Day 2026: www.thebookseller.com/rights/duckw...

I haven't been able to stop thinking about WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN since I read it a month or so ago. An extraordinary book.

Happy publication day to @paulmmcooper.bsky.social, whose magisterial FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS is out in paperback today. Don't just take my word for it: ‘Cooper is a phenomenon’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times

“When all the books are gone, there will be nothing to remember but a single porch light at the far end of the road…” ‘As If From The End Times’ by John Burnside (from his forthcoming final book of poetry, The Empire of Forgetting)

'I don’t really run in spiritual circles... Broaching this subject at all had the whiff of something faintly embarrassing, a bit like publishing a sex manual while hanging out exclusively with prudes' Really enjoyed Abi Millar's latest substack. abimillar.substack.com/p/an-update

“This is the first abortion centre in democratic Poland.” It's been one of the strangenesses of my life to know that I've always had rights that my Polish cousins, whom I share so much with, haven't. Time for change... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A brilliant piece by Terri Apter about how 1 in 3 women (me included), have only been able to return to work after parental leave because of the childcare provided by grandparents. community.thefemalelead.com/p/grandparen...

En route to Manchester and, predictably, the sky is a pearly grey. Ah, the north, how I've missed you.

Back in Kyiv after three years, and sending a reminder of the reality: Maidan, earlier today.

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

If you're in the UK you'd like a pause from banging your head on the table in agonised despair & belief, there's this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Watched the full Zelensky/Trump exchange and I feel physically sick about what this means for Ukraine's safety and the future of Eastern Europe

Bookish hive mind: suggestions of books for my friend's clever, sensitive 9 yr old who has a reading age of 16? I was on a winning streak last year with Anne of Green Gables and sequels, but I tried a Katherine Rundell at the weekend but she's already read them all

Fantastic interview in @thetimes.com with Terri Apter today, on how not to fall out with your parents when you become a parent yourself www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Lovely piece by Abi Millar in this month's @womanandhome.bsky.social - tied in to publication of *The Spirituality Gap* @clarerbullock.bsky.social @mattcasbourne.bsky.social @angelampr.bsky.social

In 2026 I'm finally publishing the extraordinary CONVERSATIONS WITH AN EXECUTIONER by Kazimierz Moczarski, tr. the brilliant Sean Gasper Bye. Immensely grateful to @englishpen.bsky.social for supporting our translation. www.thebookseller.com/news/pen-tra...

There's some amazing writing about parenthood out there at the moment, but Rhiannon's witty, insightful column, The Republic of Parenthood, is something I've returned to time and again over the past few years. Absolutely thrilled to be publishing this in Aug. www.thebookseller.com/rights/septe...

Reflecting on the ludicrous ego trip that is editing: taking the ideas of someone who knows more about their subject and wields their words more skilfully than I ever could, and telling them how to make it better. Who the hell do I think I am??

Wasn't expecting first week back at work after the break to be so full of good things: the wonderful @villagebooks.bsky.social hosting an event for GRANDPARENTING with our amazing author Terri Apter in conversation with Julia Samuel. Cannot wait for this... www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Well, this is a nice way to start the year, with a shout-out to Andrew Ridker's brilliant HOPE in the Observer: 'Tragicomic, piercingly satirical and perceptive about the American dream' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

So incredibly proud to be publishing this wonderful book by the amazing Terri Apter in a few weeks. Julia Samuel called it 'Brilliant, warm, human and wise', which says it all, I think. Out on 13 Feb from September Publishing

It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

Pinching myself that I get to publish the brilliant Dur e Aziz Amna next autumn. This book! www.thebookseller.com/rights/duckw...