'In Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears, Andrew Turvil shows how the UK’s restaurant scene popped to life — from gastropubs to Wagamama ... A valuable historical contribution. More importantly... a delightful read.' @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/article/4894... #BloodSweatAndAsparagusSpears

Congratulations to @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social, whose book #TheInventionOfBritishArt has been longlisted for the Saltire Books of the Year Awards! 🎉

Do you know your east end boys from your west end girls? Test your #80sMusic knowledge with #IntoTheGroove by @whenisbirths.bsky.social, which includes a quiz that will test the most avid 80s fan... Try it out in this extract in @thesun.co.uk: www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz... #80s #Music #Eighties

It's got everyone in it from Paul Young to Young Marble Giants, and from Salt-N-Pepa to Chas & Dave. #IntoTheGroove, my new book, the month-by-month story of 1980s pop, out on Thurs 2 Oct from @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order from everywhere and anywhere, eg: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...

Out in just 16 days: my month-by-month guide to the 1980s in pop, from Run-DMC to Mel & Kim, and from Haircut 100 to 808 State. It's called #IntoTheGroove, it's published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social, and you can buy it from all sorts of places, like here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/into...

#TheCompanyOfOwls is a starred book on @lovereadinguk.bsky.social! 'Stimulating and heartening, The Company of Owls is a highly recommended step into the secrets of the tawny owl.' Read the review here: www.lovereading.co.uk/book/9781783... The Company of #Owls is out in paperback on 16 October!

John Suchet chats to Liz Nicholls about #Beethoven and his deeply personal journey in the footsteps of his problematic hero. John will be discussing his latest book #InSearchOfBeethoven at Marlborough Lit Fest on 25 September! Read more here: roundandabout.co.uk/in-search-of... #ClassicalMusic

How the small boats crisis convulsed Britain - #AnywhereButHere author @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social writes for @newstatesman.com on how the victims of our broken asylum system are being forgotten: www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

Broadcaster and author of #InSearchOfBeethoven John Suchet shares his typical Saturday routine with @telegraphnews.bsky.social - his love of snooker, strong breakfast game and why he refuses to watch shows about murder! John Suchet's 'My Saturday': www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

'Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire is a superbly crafted biography that will delight aviation enthusiasts and the uninitiated alike' Aspects of History aspectsofhistory.com/book_reviews... #NonFiction #History #Biography #Spitfire #WW2 #BattleOfBritain #BattleOfBritainDay #Aviation #Mitchell

To mark #BattleOfBritainDay, Paul Beaver (author of Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire) speaks to @thesun.co.uk about how two men created the #Spitfire from a quiet home in Southampton by sketching designs on a tablecloth. Read more: www.thesun.co.uk/news/3668546... #History #WW2 #BattleOfBritain

#IntoTheGroove by Justin Lewis is an epic collection of stories & trivia from the #80s music scene. ‘Like a treasure chest of pop riches ... I loved this book!’ Samira Ahmed 📖Pre-order: bit.ly/4gfLG24 🎵Listen to Justin's ultimate 80s playlist on Spotify here: bit.ly/4mVnIeV #80sMusic #Music #Pop

📚 Happy Publication Day to #TheWritersRoom by @kdclewin.bsky.social! Discover the hidden worlds that shape the books we love… This is a book about #creativity, space and the many forms that a #writing life can take. Order your copy @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3VHSkoe #Woolf #CreativeWriting

#NatureNeedsYou by @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social is included in @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social's Nature Reading Guide! Order from your local bookshop here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature... #Nature #Swifts #Birds #NatureWriting #Conservation #SaveTheSwifts

Blood, Sweat and Asparagus Spears by @andrewturvil.bsky.social has been included in @scotsman.com's round-up of ‘6 of the best food and drink books for autumn’! ‘Interesting reading for any foodie’ www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/fo... #90s #Restaurant #NonFiction #Foodies #FoodSpot #Chef #YesChef

Paul Beaver, author of #Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire, speaks with Aspects of History about the designer who changed the course of the Second World War, and the genesis for the Supermarine Spitfire: Read the Q&A here: bit.ly/42h51dl #Spitfire #Aviation #History #WW2 #NonFiction #Biography

🎧 Listen to Robert Winder talk about his new travelogue #ThreeRivers on The Author Archive podcast: davidjohnfreeman.podbean.com/e/robert-win... 'This book will change the way you see rivers' Matt Gaw #NonFiction #TravelWriting #Europe #Rivers #Podcast #AuthorInterview #Rhone #Rhine #history

Thank you to Hatchards for spotlighting Robert Winder's #ThreeRivers in store! 'An insightful and elegant excursion into western European history.' Copies available @hatchards.bsky.social: bit.ly/461nrjy #TravelWriting #Rivers #Europe #Travelogue #France #Italy #Germany #NonFiction

An important discussion at #EdBookFest as Nicola Kelly, author of #AnywhereButHere and Surekha Davies (author of Humans) spoke to Yassmin Abdel-Magied about the toxic rhetoric humans apply to one another in order to exclude. How can we repair the polarisation of our fractured world? bit.ly/4nAZQxt

The starter-pack playlist for my month-by-month 1980s pop history book, #IntoTheGroove, out in exactly four weeks on 2 October! @eandtbooks.bsky.social

Happy publication date to Paul Beaver on the release of #Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire! This is the story of a man who changed the course of history. Order your signed copy from Tea Leaves & Reads bookshop: bit.ly/42fSeb8 #Aviation #History #Spitfire #BattleOfBritain #bookshop #NonFiction

I spy... ⭐Anywhere But Here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social ⭐Mother Animal by @helenjukes.bsky.social ⭐Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You by Candice Chung All at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh! 😍

Ctrl+Alt+Chaos by BBC cyber correspondent @joetidy.bsky.social has been chosen by @nature.com for their round-up of the best science picks! www.nature.com/articles/d41... #CtrlAltChaos #Technology #hacker #hackers #CyberSecurity #NonFiction

#HearthOfDarkness by Matt Blake is a @netgalley.bsky.social Book of the Month! 'This chilling slice of supernatural true crime sees journalist Matt Blake investigate the history of his new house. It is supposed to be a refuge, but it turns out to be the former home of a notorious killer' #TrueCrime

The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore published 23 October 2025 by @eandtbooks.bsky.social eandtbooks.com/books/the-ca... #cats #fairytales #folklore

🐈 Meow! Mew-mew-mew! Mew-mew trrrill-mew, mew-mew, mrrrp-mew-mew! Purrrrr😻 The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore by @charliecreed.bsky.social is available to pre-order now: bit.ly/47j7hEx #Folklore #Feline #Cat #CatLover #Cats #Fairytales #fairytale #CuteCat #CatLady #Kittens

Some brilliant photos from #EdBookFest's 'Food is Life' panel with Candice Chung and Katie Goh! In their memoirs, #ChineseParentsDontSayILoveYou and #ForeignFruit, Chung and Goh unpick family dynamics and the rituals of dining together, and how #food informs our understanding of the world. #Memoir

Elliott & Thompson's Spring 2026 catalogue is now available! 🎉 Follow the link to read more about the brilliant books we'll be publishing between January-June 2026: bit.ly/4p1KnYt #Publisher #NewBooks #NewPublishing #NonFiction #Fiction #Publishing #Bookshops #Booksellers

🔊Summer's over. Back to work. Upcoming "Rogue Agent" events in Cheshire, London and the Isle of Wight #history #historybookchat 🗃️📝💙📚✏️

The first copy of #IntoTheGroove is here! I am so delighted with it. Thanks to my supportive, generous first readers: @quantick.bsky.social, @davidstubbs.bsky.social, @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, @wadeywade.bsky.social and @juderogers.bsky.social. Out in the UK on Thur 2 Oct. @eandtbooks.bsky.social

We have 3 copies of Robert Winder's 'Three Rivers' to give away on this afternoon's newsletter, kind courtesy of @eandtbooks.bsky.social. Make sure you're subscribed to our mailing list for entry details!

Five weeks to publication day! Exciting! Pre-order and sample the 40-track 80s playlist for my book #IntoTheGroove from here.

My review of Three Rivers by Robert Winder, published by @eandtbooks.bsky.social‬ is on my website to read now: tomasstanger.com/three-rivers #Booksky #writingcommunity #bookreviews #Travel #NonFiction #History

Happy Publication Day to #ThreeRivers by Robert Winder! ‘The book’s elegant premise is that the Rhine, the Rhône and the Po gave rise to the three great national cultures — and in doing so helped unify Europe’ @financialtimes.com Out now @waterstones.bsky.social: bit.ly/3JCBCnF #Travel #Rivers

Who do you picture when you imagine hikers? @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social (Pathfinding) and Roger Clough (Oldenland) had a fascinating discussion at #EdBookFest about how walking and writing can inform a way forward for life, whether you're in your older years, or in the maelstrom of motherhood.

Listen to music aficionado and author @whenisbirths.bsky.social's 80s playlist ahead of the release of his new book! #IntoTheGroove is an epic month-by-month compendium of stories and trivia from the #80sMusic scene. 📖Pre-order: bit.ly/4204MmX 🎧Listen: bit.ly/46gK0RB #Music #80s #Prince #Madonna

'How Beethoven taught me to overcome whatever life throws at you' - John Suchet writes for @the-independent.com about his lifelong fascination with #LudwigVanBeethoven, and the lessons we can all learn from a composer who kept going, even when he became deaf... www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Listen to Clémence Michallon talk about her new psychological thriller, #OurLastResort, on the @rnib.bsky.social podcast here: www.rnib.org.uk/connect-radi... 🎧 Our Last Resort is out in #audiobook now! #Fiction #audio #CrimeFiction #Thriller #BeachRead #SummerReads #BeachReads #HolidayReading

Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Edinburgh West End! @juleshoward.bsky.social's #InfiniteLife: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth ‘Insightful and evocative history of evolution and the crucial role played in it by the egg.’ Thank you Waterstones! 😍 #Bookshop #Edinburgh #EdBookFest #Science

A new review from the @financialtimes.com for Robert Winder's new book, #ThreeRivers! 'The book’s elegant premise is that the Rhine, the Rhône and the Po gave rise to the three great national cultures — and in doing so helped unify Europe' Financial Times ft.com/content/25f5... #Travel #NonFiction

🎶Out in paperback today! #InSearchOfBeethoven is John Suchet’s latest and most personal book dedicated to the life of the great composer, #LudwigVanBeethoven. ✨ ‘This personal account of his life-long passion has an appealing light touch’ - @financialtimes.com, Best Books of the Year #Beethoven

We're so excited to welcome @joelucbarnes.bsky.social to the E&T list! Joe's political travelogue #FarewellToRussia: A Journey through the Former USSR will be publishing on 5 March. Read more @bookbrunch.bsky.social: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article... #NonFiction #USSR #TravelWriting #Politics

Paul Beaver will be signing copies of his new book Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire at the Tea Leaves & Reads Bookshop (Andover) at 10:30am on 2 Sept. Pop along or pre-order your signed copy here: www.tealeavesandreads.co.uk/product/mitc... #Spitfire #AviationCommunity #History #BattleOfBritain

Award-winning historian Paul French has arrived in #Edinburgh for #EdBookFest! He'll be talking to Isabel Hilton about his new book #WallisSimpson: Her Lotus Year in 1920s China TOMORROW at 15:30. Get your tickets here: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #History #Royals #NonFiction #Bookshop

Tim Marshall, author of #PrisonersOfGeography, writes on Trump, Putin, and the hidden power of the Bering Strait for @thespectator1828.bsky.social: thespectator.com/topic/trump-... #Politics #Geopolitics #Economics #Alaska #Trump #NonFiction #PoliticsBooks

🥂Huge congratulations to @edwardfishman.bsky.social, whose book #Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War has been longlisted for the @financialtimes.com and Schroder Business Book of the Year Award! www.ft.com/content/b642... #NonFiction #economics #BBYA25 #Sanctions #Award

Thrilled and terrified in equal measure to receive a finished copy of my book, out on 11/9/2025 from @eandtbooks.bsky.social

What are animals trying to say to us - and how can we learn to listen? Amelia Thomas's new book #WhatSheepThinkAboutTheWeather is out on 13 November! 🔊 SOUND UP to meet Amelia and the adorable animals on her farm in Nova Scotia. Pre-order @blackwellbooks.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Hwc7DR

#OurLastResort by Clémence Michallon in the @dailymail.co.uk's list of ‘the best Psychological Thrillers out now’! 'Every sentence reeks of good writing. The storytelling is spare and tense and it is literary without being pretentious ... Compelling.' DAILY MAIL www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

👀 Just announced! Don't miss these brilliant E&T authors at #CheltLitFest this October! ⭐Nicola Kelly #AnywhereButHere ⭐Tim Marshall #PrisonersOfGeography ⭐Dharshini David #Environomics ⭐Susie Ashfield #JustFingSayIt ⭐Kerri Andrews #Pathfinding 🎟️on sale 4 Sept www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on