Once again they have deleted Lubna's account. She is less than $500 away from her goal. Can you please help her? I really dont know what else to do, can you commit to supporting someone regularly? Lubna is exhausted and donations have evaporated, she needs love and support

The #RadicalBookFair is as much about community as it is about books - a space for connection, for learning, for taking action. So Sunday we host stalls from grassroots groups, local initiatives, bookish collaborators & activist campaigns, come meet the people making change on your doorstep!

Longshot, but does anyone know how we should get this bit of paper out of the printer? We think we need to call a screwdriver into service but maybe there's an easier way?!

Lovely surprise in the post today, a gorgeous proof of @dauntbookspub.bsky.social reissue of THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING. So great to see Beryl Bainbridge prepped to find a new audience. Big thanks @marigoldatkey.bsky.social this is right up my alley!

love this - 'I am interested always in working at that membrane between the realities of what is happening, what has just happened, & what I perceive of all of this. Am I at work, or am I pretending to be at work?' - & he is great on AI, the perfect foil to Nigel Newton's depressing thoughts

Eli is the brilliant person who set up the rolling #hungerstrikeforgaza that I am part of (and that anyone can join! You can just do 24hrs, you don't have to do 48. You don't have to be a writer, or in publishing!!). This is such a great piece by her:

What a list to be on! Very happy about this. @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social

We’re heartbroken by the death of dear Jon. Many have asked how to help. Please consider supporting our effort to honor his legacy at Bookseller Crow. Share and donate if you can. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/bookseller...

Israeli President Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired into Gaza He’s been named in the ICJ order which found Palestinians at “imminent risk” of genocide Today Starmer is rolling out the red carpet for him - instead he should be arrested for war crimes

Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA

It honestly might be my favourite Elisa Shua Dusapin? So elegant, melancholic and layered:

Anuradha Roy's CALLED BY THE HILLS: A HOME IN THE HIMALAYA is out in January. Sophy Roberts is also a fan, writing: 'Elegant, witty, literary and humane. This is a portrait of a place that will touch your soul.’

are we all placing bets on Amol Rajan getting the Bragg job then

publisher is my name, ops, royalties, and screaming into the void is my game

who would have thought that so much of my life would be spreadsheets eh

whoops meant to quote: the New Yorker captured this v charmingly too www.newyorker.com/culture/podc...

bawling along with Winner Takes It All as I bash through royalty hell, I'm fine, this is fine

it's SPINSTER TIME!! Anita Brookner is our queen, sorry, I don't make the rules, but my god she keeps killer company:

You don’t say.

In the articles I have read in the mainstream press Jon Boyne has been giving space to share his feelings, his human response to this, which is exactly as it should be. But the 14 authors, and one judge are not afforded the same space. /8

In an article about authors opting out of a literary prize, you have included a statement from only one of those authors. On the other hand, you have chosen to include the words of two other major gender critical voices, neither of whom were in any way affiliated with the prize. 2/

absolutely with @krishk.com and Lord Dubs - Robert Jenrick *was* being xenophobic. Current @teamlabouruk.bsky.social continue to find new ways to disappoint, anger and depress us www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Dead Ink Books launches Outsider Classics republishing forgotten masterpieces and once-censored provocations to open the debate about the canon - who gets to create it, who gets excluded from it – and show that it is a malleable and changeable thing. @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Brilliant.

this will be SO GOOOOD - Tamás's 'Strangers', with the wonderful Makina, was brilliant:

Team, has anyone found a fail-safe way to send books to Ireland? I fill in the customs sticker AND I fill in all the info required by the customs portal on the royal mail site, yet am still having books returned to me. Am I going to have to give up all hope of getting books to Ireland?

Catapult's covers NEVER FAIL!! (see last year's 'The Coin' - a delight)

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

New Writers Prize for 5,000 word short story. Prize is £3K and scholarship for MA at Brunel University, runner up prizes too. Details in link. Please share :)

oh good, another week of seeing that we have zero stock available at HarperCollins, because the actual stock is still being moved; so no sales being made. Delightful!! Teething problems teeeeeeeeeeeeeeethiiiiiiiiing problemmmmmsssss oh charlie redmayne you little scamp

loved this:

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

THRILLED for this brilliant, astute and original novel, one that explores the power of language and the burden on the interpretor, and the legacy of trauma, in families and country:

Great piece generally, but I also love @justinejordan.bsky.social's elegant dispatch of the idea that men aren't published anymore: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

I'm coming up to hour 20 of my 48-hr fast, raising money for exactly THIS brilliant charity - do donate if you can, or share the below with others:

Katy is one of the best managing editors I've ever worked with - any author or commissioning editor with her on their team is SO lucky. Managing editors are indispensible to the bigger houses, &I'm so proud to have been one & to have that experience now, it 100% makes me a better publisher.

Hard to imagine but the strategy of Israel's IDF even more murderous. British doctor reports it confiscating formula feed. Only purpose can be to kill babies.

Please read The Expansion Project. It is so achingly, absurdly good in intricate ways you need to discover for yourself. Honestly, if you do not love it I will gladly meet you anywhere of your choosing for a full out square go (UK & Ireland only)

Next Thursday and Friday, I'm doing a 48-hr fast to raise money for Translating Falasteen, in collaboration with The Sameer Project, funding aid from existing products, rather than aid that will need to be brought through the borders: chuffed.org/project/help...

Help @bookhaus.bsky.social - Bristol's radical home - survive and thrive !! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

Peter Kyle whiffling on about the evils of social media for kids. Not a word about AI harms or his government’s bonkers approach to big tech generally. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

PREACH!!!

Enjoying these from @dauntbookspub.bsky.social and @scratchbooks.bsky.social 🌓Joe Brainard - ‘I remember peach coloured evenings just before dark’

anyway, I cannot make today's march (AGAIN, fgs) so I'm donating to PSC as these marches cost the most enormous amount to put on palestinecampaign.org/events/natio...

And Keir Starmer still won't say it's a genocide! We continue to fund Israel!! It's a cliché, but I cannot help wondering how the hell he sleeps at night, how he reconciles his past career with his present cowardice and complicity

A kind of temporary victory? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm going to give this a go

goddddammmmiiiiiit!! Yet another company I'll have to add to my blacklist:

BREAKING: Israel has just killed Dr. Marwan Sultan in Gaza. They dropped a bomb on his home, murdering him, his wife, and their children. He wasn’t a combatant. He was a doctor who devoted his life to saving others.

MIND YOU, & cc @anakinsella.bsky.social, I almost wept the other eve hearing a dad congratulate his lil son for his bravery skateboarding & for carrying on after a fall. This was no patronising pat on the head: the quiet RESPECT and DUES he was paying his son?? All I aim for in life, tbh (ahem 🐐)