I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Dooneen will be published next June, by Fitzcarraldo Editions here, and New Directions there. And this is the New Directions cover, by Paul Sahre, and I love it. @ndbooks.bsky.social

My review of the third part of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume - one of the most exciting things happening in fiction right now observer.co.uk/culture/book...

You can preorder As If the US version now. Out in June 2026 with FSG us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

it is my birthday today.

With Transgender Week of Awareness underway for 2025, we just wanted to make sure you are aware of us. We're here, we're trans, and we're ready to sling some books.

Completely 🦇🦇 that in two months this has gone from red pencil to actual book with French flaps! Happy / stupidly emotional launch day to the little book that for the longest time couldn't & then could. May that be a shift to remember for us all. BAD LANGUAGE, Peninsula Press, out now.

Just as I am thinking of writers who play and change things, here:

Bound proofs have arrived. Coming 26 Feb 2026.

Enjoyed this immensely. Such a sensual, subtle book. Beautifully puzzling at times, and the language always up to something. I am embarrassed to say that I fell slightly in love with Xavier. Awful man. From @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social of course, Peckham's finest.

NEW ON THE PODCAST 🎧 Lara Pawson and Jennifer Hodgson discuss Samuel Beckett’s fiction, in celebration of Faber’s new editions of 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘺, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘴 and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses, independent publishers urge in a recent open letter 👇 #BookSky

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist. Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Our '25 judges, @simonokotie.bsky.social Amy Sackville (Chair) & Mark Haddon together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to decide this year's shortlist! Megan Nolan joining virtually. Announcement next Thursday, 2nd October around 9pm! 🔥

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US. As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

And to say once again: Maureen is co-responsible for the existence of both PLR & ALCS, so every writer in the UK & Ireland should give her 💐💐💐. And read her books!

Why did I wait so long to read this? So good. I can’t for the next book from @waidner.bsky.social : As If. Preordered. #booksky

'The realest fiction I've read in a long time,' says Sterling Karat Gold author @waidner.bsky.social of Terry Dactyl, the propulsive new novel from @mbsycamore.bsky.social. Published by us in November 2025! www.cipherpress.co.uk/terry-dactyl

I’ll be at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on the 23rd Sept to discuss and launch ‘Amateurs!’ by @badaude.bsky.social. Expect discussions on art and labour, the legacy of postinternet art, platform decay and aesthetics in general. Tickets can be bought here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

We are delighted to announce that Claire-Louise Bennett will be at the Bookshop for a special event on 17 September in advance of the publication of BIG KISS, BYE-BYE Tickets now available! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/claire-lou... Many thanks to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for their help with this

Nicola Barker & @waidner.bsky.social discussing TonyInterruptor tonight at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Wonderful event.

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

We are very excited to announce that @tricialockwood.bsky.social will be talking about her upcoming novel, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, at Conway Hall on Tuesday 16 September, in her only UK event for the book.

 Buy your tickets now:

Two of my favourite books of the year being published today! TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker The Expansion Project by Ben Pester *PersonalSuperThursday*

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

New novel — As If — coming in February 2026 with Hamish Hamilton/@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! And — in major news — with @fsgbooks.bsky.social to the US the following May.

Special delivery! @waidner.bsky.social #booksky

thinking back to this time (1990s) -- I re-read the frieze essay by @waidner.bsky.social which I really like, and was glad to find is still open access. www.frieze.com/article/isab...

Congratulations Mike! Best news! @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow! @mjohnharrison.bsky.social

Best reread of the year! …and I’ve got Diamond Stuff on order. Life is good. @graywolfpress.bsky.social @waidner.bsky.social

Heads-up: this, in August @grantabooks.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicola-bar...

🚨You have just ONE WEEK LEFT to enter the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! Open to entries in Poetry, Fiction, and Life Writing, including translated work, this prize is awarded to individuals who have not yet published a book-length work in English. Submit your work:

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

Eight compulsory redundancies. Just how much do you hate your staff that you go through the trouble of destroying the livelihoods of these colleagues, for just *eight* salaries. What's that, in relation to the entire operating budget of the university? www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/s...

And today, this extraordinary conversation with the brilliant @catherinelacey.bsky.social... pod.fo/e/2e3d0b @grantabooks.bsky.social ♾️The Book That Refuses to End: Catherine Lacey on The Möbius Book♾️

Almost the present. Tomorrow evening @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social we'll be discussing the future if the novel. Fwiw I'd like to explode the idea of the term novel itself. See you there!

the thing about the edit is you can tell yourself "Finished!" so many, many times

We are excited to announce our new open call series, Satirical Strains, guest-edited by Holly Pester. We're looking to work with two emerging writers to develop original short books or equivalent. Full details and how to apply here: bookworks.org.uk/news/new-ope...

We believe the UK is now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights and we plan to ask the High Court for a declaration of incompatibility. We would be grateful for your help:

Join the Society of Authors as a Full Member by Wed 30 April so you can vote in this year's Management Committee elections. [4] For information on eligibility and to access financial support with joining fees, head here: linktr.ee/fossilfreebo...

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Whether these campaigners want to admit or not, they are absolutely perpetuating the kind of biological tyranny generations of racists and sexists have used to oppress others to uphold fundamentally grotesque forms of social control. Now it is up to the courts to reject this oppression.

Publishers, the deadline is now just 3 days away: this Friday at 5pm. ⛸️⛸️ on time!

On Wednesday the very lovely @waidner.bsky.social visited our undergraduate students. They read from ‘Corey Fah Does Social Mobility’, discussed the position of innovative fiction and queer texts in UK publishing, and the differences in working across mainstream and indie press

Been reading, dreaming, breathing Beckett. This evening @lrbbookshop.bsky.social Jen Hodgson & I will be in Trilogy conversation to mark @faberbooks.bsky.social new editions of Molloy, Malone Dies & (my fave) The Unnameable over 70 years after they were first published. Brave, brilliant writing.

“Increasingly, I was losing sight of who I was, and that’s saying something, given the extent to which I’d been in the dark in the first place.” – Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility