Away from all the other news, I am DELIGHTED to share this trailer for an amazingly atmospheric, deeply satisfying and twisty debut I am publishing this summer which is just perfect for fans of Broadchurch, Erin Kelly and Susie Steiner. The Summer We Lied is an absolute corker of a read.

A devastating event. Many versions of the truth. We’re thrilled to share the cover for #TheSummerWeLied, the clever, multi-voice, twist-after-twist debut from Rebecca Hardy. Coming July 2026. Available to pre-order now.

Hurray for @waterstones.bsky.social's 25% off books publishing very soon www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... not least because it features some of our cracking @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social authors including @richardstrachan.bsky.social's historical masterpiece, Night Fire

Truly brilliant review readers for The Good Listener - a brilliantly original thriller about a woman trying to identify her daughter's killer over an anonymous phone call - *and* I totally charmed a colleague's baby. Well done, Monday.

Not sure if this will get any traction here but has anyone taken a five year old to see My Neighbour Totoro on stage? I saw it last year and it was honestly one of the most magical things I have ever seen on stage. I'd love to take my little one as he loves the film, but is that *too* little...

🎉 Huge congratulations to our shortlisted authors for the 2026 Bloomsbury Mentorship Programme! Read more here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/b...

Watched the latest episode of Industry last night and had the weirdest, most stressful dreams as a result. This programme is amazing, but so very brutal.

It’s frankly insulting that the worlds worst people weren’t meeting in a command center in a volcano wearing ceremonial robes but were all emailing on Hotmail accounts like “want 2 atrosity? With wemen?”

The 10:12 train has left the station...🚆 Happy publication day to The 10:12 by Anna Maloney! The gripping 'what would you do' thriller with an unforgettable heroine. Perfect for fans of Sarah Vaughan, Catherine Ryan Howard and Ava Glass. Shop now: https://bit.ly/4t5LV5R

Good morning! I'm not remotely connected to this but it seems like a banging job so somebody cool please get it, thank you - Schools Engagement Lead, Children’s Booker Prize jobs.theguardian.com/job/10021632...

Almost sad I am not still on Twitter just to see the reactions to LBF moving to Excel next year. Hope Caroline Michel has been consulted on the carpet colour* *if you weren't around in publishing in 2006 this may mean nothing to you

Please can an agent find me a thriller to publish at @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social that replicates the experience of watching Industry?

My first proof of 2026! And it’s for an absolutely stunning debut - brilliantly atmospheric, smart suspense, truly one of the most satisfying mysteries I have read in a very long time. If you love Erin Kelly and Susie Steiner, you’ll love The Summer We Lied by Rebecca Hardy.

A still life in combating Blue Monday (or indeed Blue 2026.)

Harriet Tyce is doing fabulous things for crime writers the world over (unlike, perhaps, the police force...). Although I cannot believe the Traitors are going to let her stay in that castle for much longer.

Tiny snowflakes! Come on Central London, deliver me a blizzard for my first day back in the office.

SO delighted to see Harriet Tyce being excellent in The Traitors although I do worry she's now raised the bar for all other author campaigns: am anticipating anxious emails from debut authors asking if they also need to be on prime time tv unmasking pompous barristers.

Barrister vs Barrister is my favourite Godzilla movie. #TheTraitors #Traitors

The Bondi attacks are so horrific - what an awful, awful thing to happen to the Jewish community. Reading more of the news reports, so many people were so unbelievably brave in trying to confront the terrorists & protect not only their loved ones but people they didn't even know.

Oh agents, please - I beg of you. No more submissions now. We have no energy left, we have pretty much no acquisitions meetings left. Send us books in Jan when everyone is refreshed and ready and full iof New Year gusto so we can embrace your lovely books.

As we move into “foreigners are cancelling Christmas in the name of political correctness” season it’s worth remember that Christmas was indeed once banned in England, by Christians and the man who enforced the ban has a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament.

'If we assume that the annual rate of teaspoon loss per employee can be applied to the entire workforce of the city of Melbourne (about 2.5 million), an estimated 18 million teaspoons are going missing in Melbourne each year.'

Two of my authors were scheduled to deliver new drafts today. One then asked for (and received!) an extension so for now, I sit poised, with a cup of tea, ready - hopefully! - for a new draft. It feels like the perfect kind of cold, calm day for an edit...

I am starting to wonder whether there are more true crime podcasts or more novels that feature true crime podcasts. It definitely feels a lot of my subs now feature a true crime podcast.

NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems

Look at this beauty! Some of our most brilliant @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social authors have been joined by even more amazing authors to create a collection of stories inspired by the beasts that have stalked Britain. The most gorgeous gifty edition, whether that's a gift for you or someone else.

Ugh. How has my body forgotten the basic rule that you come back from the Frankfurt Book Fair with a cold, you don't go there with one. Apologies in advance to everyone I will see with streaming eyes and endless sneezing.

Gleefully delighted that several of the reviews on Amazon for @spookypurcell.bsky.social's House of Splinters have said it's even creepier than The Silent Companions, mwahahaha 👻👻 You can still buy the gorgeous @waterstones.bsky.social special edition here www.waterstones.com/book/house-o...

The happiest of book birthdays to the wonderful @spookypurcell.bsky.social! Her SIXTH novel with us, the brilliant House of Splinters is out today and is absolutely the kind of fun horror (ie lots of great scares, will not make you scared to go out in the dark) this season is calling out for 👻

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

I really wish Jess McDonald's memoir, No Comment, about the toxic culture inside the Met Police didn't continue to be so screamingly relevant www.waterstones.com/book/no-comm...

Yaaaaay! My beloved dark, unsettling, mad and truly wonderful The Unrecovered by @richardstrachan.bsky.social is the Scottish Book of the Month for @waterstones.bsky.social! Thank you so so much booksellers for championing such a brilliant book.

Honestly quite disappointed that Nigel Slater hasn't written 'A Thousand Ferrets' as my blurry sleep deprived eyes just read. 100% would buy.

Wondering how much time of my life I could save if I didn't have to constantly check Amazon to make sure they haven't randomly removed one of our authors' editions for no good reason.

Today I am enormously grateful for the joys/privileges of my job: I'm currently going through the new draft of a fantastic debut novel I am publishing next summer and then this evening I'm going to a special screening of The Woman in Cabin 10, one of the most fun books I've published.

Absolutely delighted for Richard Strachan, his exceptional novel The Unrecovered has been longlisted for the Scottish National Book Award for Fiction! www.thesaltires.org.uk

Sigh: 'The cache of files suggest that between October 2022 and May 2024, Johnson was paid approximately £5.1m for 34 speeches.'

Very sad to have lost one of South London's bookselling greats www.thebookseller.com/news/iconic-... I have bought a lot of books from that shop and seen them support a lot of my authors

My colleague is publishing a historical Arctic horror novel next year, and she just pitched it to everyone as 'Michelle Paver meets Sarah Waters' and I am SOLD.

Very much enjoying the Back to School vibes of September at Raven HQ - the leaves are falling, good clothes are on the horizon & we have some cracking books publishing this Autumn including a folk horror anthology, the new novel from @spookypurcell.bsky.social + Joey Batey's debut, It's Not a Cult.

Spending my last day before a holiday finishing the edit of a FANTASTIC debut publishing next year, reveling in some lovely news about one of my 2025 debuts and replying to excited emails from colleagues about the new book from one of my existing authors who has just smashed it out the park.

I've spent a good part of today's tea breaks scouring the internet for reviews of child bike seats after finally ordering a new bike after mine was stolen. I have never cycled with my small person on a bike with me so if anyone has any top tips I am here for them!

Why am I an editor with over twenty years experience in publishing and I still find myself having to google which is a metaphor and which a simile?

Coming up this evening, 7pm!

I went to see Born with Teeth last night, which was enormous fun. Edward Bluemel is great in it but oh my, Ncuti Gatwa has such CHARISMA. An unbelievably hot, sexy, arrogant Marlowe - just as you'd want. Also loved that Shakespeare is played as a nerd who just wants to work.

I am so excited that we have our first anthology coming from Raven Books this autumn! A collection of 9 short stories inspired by the monsters & mythical demons that have stalked Great Britain, from authors including the brilliant @janicehallett.bsky.social, @radiomukhers.bsky.social & Stuart Turton

I was very sad to hear news of the death of the extraordinary Dame Stella Rimington, whose spy novels we published here. She was one of the first authors I edited when I joined Bloomsbury, and I am pretty sure it'll be the only time I publish a former Director General of MI5.

Delighted to see, thanks to The Flip www.the-flip.co.uk, that my local library in Sydenham is now home to the Black Book Community Library www.instagram.com/p/DMrt5uYM_6...

Manchester streets speak back.

Not sure I quite appreciated the busker playing the Exorcist theme tune as I walked into work this Monday *shudders*