🗞️ @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!

#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #BookReview: The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada @pushkinpress.com #TheTokyoZodiacMurders #damppebbles ➡️ buff.ly/42wJ8WA #whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation

This week's #bookreview: Seishi Yokomizo's The Devil's Flute Murders, a twisty #whodunnit set in post-World War II Japan. A man seen alive months after his suicide, dark family secrets, and mysterious music seeming to come from nowhere. @pushkinpress.com talking-about-books.com/2025/07/19/t...

We're thrilled at the announcement of this prize in honour of our very own Pushkin Press Publisher and Managing Director, Adam Freudenheim. Now open for applications!

And a wonderful Jamie Buxton review for The Man Who Died Seven Times, the 'brilliantly intricate mystery [that] has it all', out 14 August! www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

A beautiful review by Sally Morris for the 'devastatingly moving' classic Salt Water by Charles Simmons, available now! www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Today in the ARB: @alisonfincher.bsky.social reviews “Someone to Watch Over You” by Kumi Kimura tr fm Japanese by Yuki Tejima @pushkinpress.com asianreviewofbooks.com/someone-to-w...

Lulu Miller's "Why Fish Don't Exist" (@pushkinpress.com) is @blackwells.bsky.social non-fiction pick for July. #Booksky www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2025/07/why-...

The wait is FINALLY over! Strange Houses, the followup to Uketsu’s international phenomenon Strange Pictures, is out TODAY! An unforgettable mystery where houses hide the darkest of secrets. Get ready to never see floorpans the same way again 🔪 www.waterstones.com/book/strange...

Are you obsessed with RightMove? Love a floor plan? Me too! Strange Houses by Uketsu #bookreview #bookblog #uketsu ishouldreadthat.co.uk/2025/07/02/s... Thank you @pushkinpress.com for sending me a copy of this book!

Introducing Pushkin Children’s Classics! Reading is never more ✨magical✨ than in childhood. That’s why we’re bringing you the most thrilling and inspiring children’s stories from around the world. Stay tuned for the six beloved titles we’re publishing on July 3rd 🥳

Paperboy by @callummcsorley.bsky.social - an 'energetic novel from a rising star of crime, full of black comedy, gore, slapstick and street slang', the perfect summer read @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #BookReview: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses) @pushkinpress.com #TenderIsTheFlesh #damppebbles ➡️ buff.ly/47ZK86R #whattoread #bookish #BookSky #skybrarians #bookrecs #bookrecommendation

Huge thanks to @JakeKerridge for including PAPERBOY in his round up of the best new crime and thriller books of 2025! "a vision of Glasgow as a technicolor hellhole of corruption, reminiscent of James Ellroy’s Los Angeles" - that really made my day! share.google/8u6nrtLhy3uR...

From the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, this is The Hour of the Predator. How do you defend democracy when the rules have changed? October 2025 | @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/book/the-hou...

Pushkin Press is set to publish a non-fiction book following the "behind-the-scenes journey through the troubled political world" from The Wizard of the Kremlin author Giuliano da Empoli, to be translated by Sam Taylor 👇 #BookSky

The immensely talented Polina Barskova, author of Living Pictures, is part of two unmissable Pushkin House events this week, one TONIGHT! pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve... www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/eve...

Translated by Ann Goldstein! 💫 Alba de Céspedes is a favourite of ours, too. @pushkinpress.com

Our phenomenal author @londonbessie.bsky.social is running an unmissable FREE online workshop on writing children's fiction!! Perfect for aspiring authors 📚📚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-ch...

THRILLED that The No-Girlfriend Rule by @bycrandall.bsky.social is included in the CBI Read with Pride guide 🏳️‍🌈 'This charming LGBTQ+ coming of age story shows us that we can discover the most about ourselves in the unlikeliest of places' 🌈 More Pushkin pride coming soon! @pushkinpress.com

Novel set mainly in later 20th Century CAIRO What I Know About You by Eric Chacour TR: Pablo Strauss www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-ma... "..a beautifully written, character-driven novel that has a rich feel of time as the story unfolds.." #booksky @pushkinpress.com

Lovely visit from @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social to sign The Unworthy from @pushkinpress.com , all the way from Argentina! #books #livres

🚨There are @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social signed copies of The Unworthy, Tender, and Nineteen Claws in @dauntbooks.bsky.social Marylebone, @waterstones.bsky.social Tottenham Court Rd & Covent Garden, @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing Cross, @hatchards.bsky.social Piccadilly - RUN DON'T WALK 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

This book has absolutely broken my heart and turned me inside out. You should definitely read it, you'll love it. (Thank you, @pushkinpress.com )

[1] My new book #THIRST will be published by @pushkinpress.com on 11 Sept. It's a teen folk horror about a malevolent river worshipped for generations by the village of Maimsbury. I can't wait for you all to get swept away with Gorse and Faye. This gorgeous cover's by Natalie Smillie. ->