Hearty congratulations to Helen Garner who has won the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction with her collected diaries, How to End a Story. A glorious book - confession, analysis, memory store, comedy - which shows all the things words can do: often on the same page. AND it’s mega good value.

Really enjoyed discussing THE TIGER'S SHARE with @jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social on the #TOIBookmark podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6LIF...

🌏 The Asia Stage at #fbm25 highlights the diversity of Asian publishing! From textbooks & censorship to romance, comics, and closing ceremonies – join us Oct 17–19 for inspiring talks & creative perspectives. 📚✨ 👉 Full program via link in the comments. #AsiaStage #fbm25

🔊 Listen up: Frankfurt Audio Highlights At #fbm25 the world of the spoken word awaits you: discover exciting audiobooks and podcasts, innovative audio services and software in 📍Hall 3.1. 🌟 Get excited for these Audio Highlights: www.buchmesse.de/en/highlight...

✨ Highlights aus dem #fbm25 Forum Bildung Programm📍Halle 3.1 Stand D12. Alle Infos www.buchmesse.de/bildung Bildungspolitik, Didaktik und Impulse für den Unterricht: hier wird diskutiert, inspiriert und vernetzt. #OnlyAtFbm #Bildung #Schule #LehrenUndLernen #Unterricht #Pädagogik #ZukunftGestalten

*New* podcast about APPLE IN CHINA with Jaya Bhattacharji Rose for the The Times Of India: open.spotify.com/episode/0A1o... @jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social

A little late, but this week, but here is the 100th (!) issue of Words for Worlds, the F-SF newsletter with an Indian slant: gautambhatia.substack.com/p/words-for-... feat. books on the Spanish and Vietnamese revolutions, Argentine SF, & updates on the IF Anthology of New Indian Science Fiction.

Breaking News: Nvidia said the U.S. government had approved sales of A.I. chips to China, three months after the Trump administration had shut them down.

Andrew Miller has won the 2025 #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction with THE LAND IN WINTER ( @sceptrebooks.bsky.social ), his novel set in a remote English community during the long, hard winter of 1962/63. #TheLandinWinter #AndrewMiller

.Here is an incredible article that my mother, Dr. Shobhana Bhattacharji, wrote in 2010 about her maternal grandmother Constance Prem Nath Dass (1886-1971). An eminent educator, a single mother, a widow, a college principal during WW2 etc. Read on. www.jayabhattacharjirose.com/a-christian-...

On Jacobin radio on the links between the neoliberal order and the rise of the Hindu right.

“Atmo-terrorism” captures how elemental substances like air are changed by lethal elements like gas in the epoch of the Anthropocene. @amitbaishya.bsky.social discusses how the new novel by @siddharthadeb.bsky.social captures a quotidian index of slow violence.

Did you dig One to One: John & Yoko, the new documentary about the duo's early '70s escapades? Then you might also enjoy this @eggpod.bsky.social on their grievously underrated double album Some Time In New York City (1972). We're all water, brothers and sisters! iamtheeggpod.com/2022/12/08/s...

Human book illustrators/artists, I run an interview series on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog and had 14 people join in so far. Would you like to take part? If so go to the site and answer at least six of the questions and we can get you on ASAP www.bigbeardedbookseller.com/2022/12/31/q...

This is a tremendous honour. My warm congratulations to all writers and translators on this list!

This is always a terrifically interesting award, especially for those of us who love East and Central European fiction.

. #debutnovelist #BhavikaGovil #HotWater Thank you, #HarperCollinsIndia, for this package, including the delicious aam papad. Look forward to reading the book. #PontasAgency

"My story appears today in the Sydney Morning Herald. On the front page: ‘A new story from Helen Garner, plus how to avoid cholesterol.’" I hardly ever buy new-new books these days, but couldn't resist this:

I mean, as I understand it Patterson takes an active role in plotting the books, and then the editing after. He's the showrunner in a book packaging concern, basically (to mix entertainment metaphors). He's not the only one doing that out there, just the most successful.

This coming bank holiday weekend the column in the @independent.ie is going to be about my lifelong obsession with second-hand books and the places I find them in. My presumption has always been that you either love or hate them. Are they a part of your reading life?

'Rich in historical examples and scientific research, this groundbreaking book highlights insidious sociopolitical factors that have impacted the ways women and girls have been excluded from or minimized by sport' 📌 buff.ly/1pEBt1I [£] 📚 buff.ly/405LJpC

Hodder & Stoughton’s communications director Francesca Russell has announced a new structure for the PR team. 👇 #BookSky

.It is my honour to be the literary director of the prestitious awards for #womenwriters, @AutherAwards. @timesofindia @JKPaperIndia. In Season 6 we have an incredible lineup of jurors. Longlist: 8 March & Winners: 21 March #Debut jury

.It is my honour to be the literary director of the prestitious awards for #womenwriters, @AutherAwards. @timesofindia @JKPaperIndia. In Season 6 we have an incredible lineup of jurors. Longlist: 8 March & Winners: 21 March #ChildrensLiterature jury

.It is my honour to be the literary director of the prestitious awards for #womenwriters, @AutherAwards. @timesofindia @JKPaperIndia. In Season 6 we have an incredible lineup of jurors. Longlist: 8 March & Winners: 21 March #Fiction jury

.It is my honour to be the literary director of the prestitious awards for #womenwriters, @AutherAwards. @timesofindia @JKPaperIndia. In Season 6 we have an incredible lineup of jurors. Longlist: 8 March & Winners: 21 March #NonFiction jury Prof. Devy, Shrayana Bhattacharya, Manu Pillai

I'm delighted to be sending The Best of Everything out into the world on April 10th. If you would like to preorder I will put the link in the comments. Thank you!

RIP Pat Ingoldsby a much loved poet. Connected with people of all ages. Probably the first real life poet many of us saw as kids on TV or on the streets of Dublin selling his poetry collections.

Lovely night for our authors at Nielsen Book Awards. Congrats to David Nicholls, Bonnie Garmus, Lucy Foley, Dolly Alderton, Stanley Tucci.

Tried to be sensible

The mother of a jailed British Egyptian activist has been hospitalized and is at risk of sudden death, a doctor has said, as her hunger strike to demand her son’s release reached 151 days.

alright. because you are all so brilliant: I'm doing a short book of my Information Crisis series. If you liked it: is there anything that I really ought to have read/thought about that I didn't? Or anything where you really wanted to hear more? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

. < Bestselling authors at the MC Global Wealth Summit 2025> moneycontrol.com : #Moneycontrol Global Wealth Summit 2025! 7 March 2025, Mumbai, India #HowardMarks, #MarkCoombs, #MorganHousel, #DanielPink, and #ChristopherMayer Get your passes today!🔗 lnkd.in/dwgUTUEs #GlobalWealthSummit #MCGWS2025

Nvidia's much-awaited results — seen as a barometer of AI chip demand — could prove to be an inflection point for artificial intelligence stocks that have fueled the market's rally in the last two years reut.rs/41i2FcT

This film, based on Bono’s memoir is mesmerising. Watch out for it if you have Apple (and read the book!). #Bono #U2 #memoir appleworld.today/2025/02/appl...

We had so much fun!

I can highly recommend these podcasts with @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Hitler sent researchers to investigate Jim Crow miscegenation laws but decided they were "too extreme" to use as a model. www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/25... www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/21...

The Faber Children’s team is looking for a Project Editor to work on children’s titles from picture books up to YA. The successful candidate will be a meticulous, with a keen eye for detail and great communication skills. https://faber.co.uk/careers/childrens-project-editor-maternity-cover/

One week until the brilliant Russia Starts Here by @howardamos.bsky.social is out - a book that penetrates to the marrow of Russian living memory, and beautifully written too (I can officially say nice things because it's not me publishing it)

A chapter from MY HEAD FOR A TREE, the Bishnoi versus Bollywood and the megastar Salman Khan ... a remarkable and sustained episode in their fight for Nature. www.moneycontrol.com/books/book-e... @jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social

Peter Spiegel, Financial Times US managing editor and former news editor in London, has been named managing editor of The Washington Post overseeing its national and local newsroom departments

Don't miss this corker of a reading from the always-brilliant @isabeltranslates.bsky.social, from THE TRUE WAY OUT (CEEOLPress, 2024), #Czech journalist and musician Patrik Banga's raw and open account of growing up in 1990s Prague as part of the #Roma community.

Trevor Noah is hosting the Grammys for the fifth time in a row, on top being a producer and a nominee. Here’s how to tune in to watch the 2025 Grammys.

The greatest film on The Holocaust- Shoah- is on BBC4. (It may be the finest film ever made). Claude Lanzmann’s masterpiece tells the story in painstaking detail without a single image from the time. Rudi Vrba’s story is included, told brilliantly in @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social The Escape Artist.

Currently reading the savage, visceral, hypnotic “Dengue Boy“ by Michel Nieva in a dazzling translation by Rahul Bery. Published in February by @serpents-tail.bsky.social

Honoured that Hagstone is longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award (nominated by libraries worldwide). Great showing for Irish writers too. @4thestatebooks.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The latest offering from @hurstpublishers.bsky.social, reviewed in the Sunday Times by Jason Cowley, the former editor of the New Statesman. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Some news. Thanks to @shelf-awareness.com for sharing this. ❤️