Looking forward to chatting to @malikalnasir.bsky.social about our books #Heiresses and Searching for My Slave Roots in #Glasgow next Tuesday!

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Holocaust Museum in LA posted a graphic about Never Again… a humane gesture by an institution tasked with reminding us of the inhumanities of the past. They had to remove it & applogise because some thought this Never Again means Palestinians too! They mistakenly thought Palestinians are humans…

Fabulous event this evening discussing Political Fiction with debut authors roisinmcd.bsky.social (A Line You Have Traced) & Kaliane Bradley‬⁩ (The Ministry of Time), in conversation with Nish Kumar @Waterstones.bsky.social Islington. ⁦‪@Oneworldbooks.bsky.social‬⁩

Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing

Listen to Melissa Lucashenko w/ jdcrawf.bsky.social on #TakeFourBooks, @BBCRadio4, re her latest novel 'Edenglassie' and 3 influences including Keri Hulme and Sebastian Barry - recorded, with guest @rodgeglass & live audience, at @edbookfest @Oneworldbooks.bsky.social! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is going to be great! Hope to see you at the Festival of #BlackHistory @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social on Saturday 6th September. Book your FREE ticket here: billetto.co.uk/e/festival-o...

I'm excited to announce my #Heiresses UK 2025 Book Tour Dates! Venues including @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social @bookhaus.bsky.social @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social @crer-scotland.bsky.social & The Georgian House @n-t-s.bsky.social 1/2

Lovely review in Prima of this fabulous Irish debut, Sugartown by Caragh Maxwell! Thank you Nina Pottell @matineegirl1.bsky.social 'Such a strong book; I’m keen to see what comes next from this Irish author... Sugartown is a book about outgrowing where you thought you belonged.'

James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience

Anything written by @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social is worth reading, and she wrote this!

I absolutely LOVED loved loved EDENHLASSIE & can't believe I'm missing the amazing Melissa Lucashenko in Edinburgh AND London! Pls go to these events so I can have FOMO...

Melissa Lucashenko, a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage, & Anishinaabe-Canadian journalist @TanyaTalaga discuss the unhealed wounds of the past and reclaiming narratives for a collective future in "Illuminating the Nations", chaired by Katucha Bento. @edbookfest.

We asked the question everyone always wants to know: what inspired your Booker-longlisted book? Read our interviews with the authors longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. ⤵️ thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Excited to say I'll be asking Samanta Schweblin ('Fever Dream', 'Little Eyes' et al) about her new collection 'Good and Evil and Other Stories' at Foyles, Charing Cross Road next Friday 22 August. Come down! www.foyles.co.uk/events/saman...

Coming to your screens this autumn. Yes, it's landing. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Popped into the wonderful @lighthousebks.bsky.social in Edinburgh with Australian Aboriginal author Melissa Lucashenko to sign copies of her multi-award-winning novel EDENGLASSIE. 3 chances to catch her @edbookfest this week, plus one in London on Sept 2nd: oneworld-publications.com/2025/07/08/m...

Thrilled that Ends of the Earth by Neil Shubin has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2025! Huge congratulations to @NeilShubin and the other nominees! 👏👏

To celebrate the launch of her multi-award-winning new novel, Edenglassie, Aboriginal author Melissa Lucashenko is coming to the U.K. on tour! There's still time to buy tickets for her London and Edinburgh International Book Festival events. For tickets, head over ➡️https://tinyurl.com/yez6xawe

Two brilliant YA novels from Rock the Boat on this wide-ranging recommended reading list for 16-yr-olds: Happy Head by Josh Silver and The Heart of the World by Amie Kaufman! @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

The VS Pritchett Prize for an unpublished short story closes on 25th August. £1000 first prize and a great boost to your confidence. My lovely friend Lisa Blower won it last year and it was wonderful to behold. Details in link. Please share :)

As Bookbanks new Ambassador I’d like to spread the word about this brilliant charity giving books with food at food banks. Please share and support if you’re able :) www.bookbanks.co.uk

Call it the Colbert Test: how healthy a democracy is can be measured by whether its comedians are allowed to make fun of its leaders or not. The US just failed. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

📣 THIS THURSDAY! 📣 Don't miss @roisinmcd.bsky.social, author of #ALineYouHaveTraced, & #Saraswati author Gurnaik Johal discussing climate, social instability and literature at @burleyfisher.bsky.social this Thursday. TICKETS: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/con...

ICYMI: To put it simply, reading is the great win. If we all did more of it, we would all benefit, as would society, says Philip Jones in this week's editor's letter 👇 #BookSky

Oneworld has bought a book on ’the conspiracy trial that divided America’ by writer and historian Arvin Alaigh. Double-Crossed is scheduled to publish for summer 2027 👇 #BookSky

Join Booker Prize-winner Paul Lynch in conversation with Paula Shields as he explores his acclaimed novel Prophet Song - a chilling, urgent novel of radical empathy and resistance. 📅Saturday 26th July 🕒7.30pm 📍The Helicon Book your tickets now > tinyurl.com/yc79m3mj @paulashields.bsky.social

Bletchley Riddle by ⁦‪@RutaSepetys‬⁩ & ⁦‪⁦‪@SteveSheinkin‬⁩ was Highly Commended for 11-13s. The Historical Association's ‘Young Quills’ are for historical fiction that are a ‘good read’, engage the imagination of readers & have good historical content & factual info. @rocktheboatnews.bsky.social

And on it goes. Israeli politicians using UK media to stoke up outrage around Bob Vylan & Kneecap must be laughing their heads off at how easy it all is. I think this brings the Palestinian death toll *since the Glastonbury performance* in to triple figures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack alleges that Israeli forces targeted hospitals and healthcare workers, and the BBC feared the film could lead to accusations of ‘partiality’ ⬇️

This week's issue of The Bookseller is out now! ⭐ Read the issue here 👉 www.thebookseller.com/editi...

The Black publishing issue of The Bookseller offers a moment to reflect on the books, voices and visions shaping Black British publishing today says Natasha Onwuemezi👇

“Just because horror is scary and intense doesn’t mean that it can’t be life-affirming” Read our interview with Jack Mackay on his debut horror story for nine to 12-year-old readers 👇

“Early in my career, I would call every Black woman that I heard had gotten a book deal and talk to her for at least an hour” Read our interview with Tayari Jones 👇

Last night we celebrated 10 years of Rock the Boat in the beautiful Phoenix Gardens, a hidden gem in the heart of Soho. It was a fabulous (sunny) evening of celebration, magic, food, drink and chatter! Thanks to all who came and cheers to 10 more years of Rock the Boat!💙🥂@oneworldbooks.bsky.social

It’s MIDSUMMER’S DAY!! So of course it’s raining. But this evening the sun will be shining, the drinks will be on ice, Ottolenghi canapés are ready... Magic is about to happen! This must mean that Rock the Boat's 10th Birthday Party is TODAY! @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

"25 Palestinians were killed that morning waiting for aid trucks. Hamza brought Hatem’s body back to Gaza City & buried him beside their mother, who was killed by an Israeli sniper in Aug 2024. Their brother, Khalid, 21, died in a Jan airstrike while evacuating wounded civilians on his horse cart."

"The ease with which Israel was able to cut off virtually all movement in and out of Palestinian towns and cities, thanks to an apparatus of control that includes nearly 900 checkpoints and gates, highlights the extent of the occupation’s footprint in the West Bank." www.972mag.com/west-bank-lo...

“She may be a totemic figure for the Iranian opposition, an agitator amongst striking workers in a key industry in Iran, and one of the bravest individuals in a generation of brave Iranian activists…A powerful testament to the ongoing dissident life.” www.workersliberty.org/index.php/st...

The @WomensPrize.bsky.social fiction shortlist - and the winner is The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, with chair of judges @kitdewaal.bsky.social.

A fabulous event at the Women’s Prize Live! in sunny Bedford Square with @tayari.bsky.social interviewed by Naga Munchetty. A wonderful discussion, much laughter and great questions. @womensprize.bsky.social @oneworldbooks.bsky.social

I stole this from Substack.

The past is never really past—especially when memory, myth, and history collide... Join @roisinmcd.bsky.social, Nicholas Binge and Adam Oyebanji at @cymerafestival.co.uk in Edinburgh on 7th June! Buy your tickets here ⬇️ ww.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-eve...

Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour. Please share :) mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/

Israel has made its choice; it is Britain that has a choice

Writers from around the world can submit scripts for BBC Audio Drama with cash prize, and attendance at an award ceremony in the UK to participate in the recording of their dramas for a world premiere. Flight and accommodation expenses are covered by the BBC. Details in link. Please share :)

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Our new research highlights how the role of reading and sharing stories evolves across the early years. From supporting bonding with babies to developing toddlers' imagination, find out more in our report, based on longitudinal research with families: www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi...

Do please pass the post above on to your favourite local independent Irish bookshop or tag them in comments here if they are on Bluesky. They can apply here - docs.google.com/forms/d/163s... Applications close on Sunday...