@callummcsorley.bsky.social McSorley and McCoist are BACK with Rat Race, a new dark, gritty and hilarious Glasgow thriller from the McIlvanney Prize-winning author. Publishing 7th MAY - catch up on the series with the NEW paperback of Paperboy, OUT NOW!

@thetimes.com bestseller list is looking strange again!! 🏚️🏚️

New Uketsu has landed, Strange Buildings is here

Massive thanks to @callummcsorley.bsky.social and @pushkinpress.com for sending me a proof of RAT RACE, the latest in his award-winning series of Glasgow-set crime thrillers. I dipped into it last night and it’s an absolute hoot. Out on 7th May!

And congratulations to the runners-up: Gwendolyn Harper and editors John Siciliano and Rory Williamson for a translation from Spanish of A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel (Pushkin Press) #TranslationPrizes

And congratulations to the runner-up: Bryan Karetnyk for a translation of The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (Pushkin Press) #TranslationPrizes

We're so delighted that Agnes Broomé, amazing translator of Collected Works by Lydia Sandgren, has won the Bernard Shaw Prize!

Presenting our Monthly Spotlight pick for February: At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop 🔗 Tap the link below to discover an interview, reading guide, competition and more. https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/lhtpxoyxam

Uketsu has never been hotter www.thebookseller.com/bestsellers/... 🔥

A London Blue Plaque for Stefan Zweig! www.standard.co.uk/culture/film...

Translator Lesley Chamberlain on Thomas Mann's Death in Venice for the Dublin Review of Books - read now drb.ie/articles/asc...

Huge congratulations to the titles that have made the shortlist for the inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize, presented in partnership with @thetls.bsky.social! Explore the shortlist and join us for a free online event on 12 Feb to celebrate the winner: shorturl.at/9XeYf

Calling all Thomas Mann fans! The incredible Lesley Chamberlain is speaking on Wednesday 28th January at Waterstones Hampstead about her latest stunning translations of his work www.waterstones.com/events/lesle...

We're hiring an assistant editor/editor (parental leave fixed term contract)! We'd love to welcome you to our team, please apply 📚 jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28584...

White Moss by Anna Nerkagi, translated by Irina Sadovina, is @blackwells.bsky.social's Fiction Book of the Month! A poetic and fiercely moving Indigenous novel of tradition, change, and thwarted desire - your perfect January read 🥳

Thank you so much @pushkinpress.com , very yummy. We love selling your books and eating your doughnuts.

"A masterclass in the art of translation... Poignant, and at times breathtakingly honest, IN FARTHEST SEAS joins a select group of narratives that help us cope with the death of a loved one" Quite a rich review by @andrewmartino.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com readingintranslation.com/2025/12/01/l...

The Hour of the Predator by Giuliano da Empoli is @thetimes.com's Current Affairs Book of the Year, and @theobserveruk.bsky.social's Philippe Sands recommends the 'devastatingly lucid' read - the perfect Christmas present for the politics buff in your life!

@societyofauthors.bsky.social Huge congratulations to all those nominated for The Society of Authors' Translation Prizes! Translator Agnes Broomé is nominated for the Bernard Shaw Prize for Collected Works (cont.)

So pleased @ronanhession.bsky.social has included Lalla Romano's In Farthest Seas in the Irish Times' Books of the Year 2025! Rónán also reviewed the book in September, calling it "Autofiction at its most elegant" and a "beautiful translation" 🙌 @pushkinpress.com

Giuliano da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is 'Machiavelli's The Prince for our times' according to James Ball in @thespectator1828.bsky.social! Read more: www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

Time to explore the longlist for our inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize! Celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, the prize is our most ambitious award yet, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage readers worldwide. shorturl.at/vUltg

Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year

Have you ever cried looking at a painting? Then best-selling art historian Katy Hessel thinks Stefan Zweig's books are for you @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

🗞️ @thetimes.com dive deep into The Hour of the Predator with author Giuliano da Empoli: t.co/pSgg2Bu5vQ

“People like Trump and Putin are not politicians; they are artists who create alternate realities,” our columnist David Brooks writes.

And it's still getting stranger... Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! We're so thrilled and so grateful 🎉

'There is plenty that is irresistible about 'The Hour of the Predator'' - The Economist

🤯Holy Smokes! I'm so lucky to have been part of bringing Uketsu's books to English reading audiences. How wonderful it is that people are enjoying them!

👻What a STRANGE phenomenon! We are SO delighted to be able to share this news: Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @waterstones.bsky.social #BookoftheYear !! www.waterstones.com/book/strange...

Don't miss Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, author of Untold Lessons, and Mikołaj Łoziński, author of My Name is Stramer, at Storylines Europe, 22nd November, Dublin! Tickets are FREE eventbrite.ie/e/storylines...

Cheers to Last Acts being shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 🥂 ‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes ‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders

@TheBookerPrizes we're so excited about the announcement of the Children's Booker Prize! We can't wait for children's books to be recognised for the amazing works of art they are 🥳

2026 is going to be an unmissable year for Pushkin Press - preorder our future bestsellers with 25% off at Watertones.com now! @waterstones.bsky.social

Michael Ignatieff, a staunch defender of liberal democracy, author of Blood and Belonging and The Needs of Strangers, lecturing on 'Donald Trump and the Angel of History' on Tuesday 28th October, at St Martin in the Fields www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/her...

Giuliano da Empoli in conversation with Rod Liddle, defining our modern-day predators - The Hour of the Predator is OUT NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIW1...

🌚🌞🌗🌿 4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.

French President Emmanuel Macron is on first-name terms with him and quotes him in his speeches. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has a direct line to him. His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.

@financialtimes.com How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power, according to Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Hour of the Predator www.ft.com/content/85ee...

Praise for Mahesh Rao’s HALF LIGHT: ‘Tender yet piercing’ @service95 ‘Rao writes with great sensitivity’ @irishtimes.com ‘Intelligent, keenly observed’ @thetls.bsky.social ‘A gentle exquisite portrait of lives lived in half light’ @dailymail.co.uk

Pushkin Press' @Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year include sapphic vampiric cult classic Carmilla, political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, Uketsu's unforgettable Strange Pictures, and Yokomizo's thriller of the month, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe! Perfect for gifting season 🎁

THRILLED to see A. E. Goldin's Murder in Constantinople longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2025! Huge congratulations 🥳 @historia-hwa.bsky.social

🐈‍⬛ @waterstones.bsky.social THRILLER OF THE MONTH 🐈‍⬛ Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 🔪A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime 💎 Your perfect next spooky season read is OUT NOW🚨

‘A novel like no other.’ – Eimear McBride It’s paperback publication day for EDITH HOLLER by Edward Carey! Out now from @pushkinpress.com.🎭 ‪It’s said that if Edith leaves the theatre, she’ll bring about its ruin… uk.bookshop.org/p/books/edit...

Chat, how do I understand modern politics? @anneapplebaum A gripping new work of political non-fiction by the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest Giuliano da Empoli book The Hour of the Predator is coming this October. Available for preorder now 📚

'Read this book and you will understand the Russian mind-f**k'- John Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin www.waterstones.com/book/the-wiz...

Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year! Details in the @thebookseller.com - www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...

Edith Holler by Edward Carey is 'an enjoyably uncategorisable and atmospheric book, a richly dark and idiosyncratic fairytale for grownups' - out in paperback 28th August! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Japanese fiction now outsells all other translated languages in the UK—and it’s not just Murakami anymore. From cats to cannibalism, @susiemesure.bsky.social explores the literary boom that began with CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and shows no signs of slowing down. www.prospectmagazine...

Been eyeing our upcoming releases? Use the code SUMMER25 online at Waterstones.com and on the app for 25% off when preordering The Man Who Died Seven Times, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe, What Fury Brings, and The Hour of the Predator!