Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week. Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music. First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am. You can listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It's publication week for Robert Macfarlane's IS A RIVER ALIVE? and the press has started to run - first off, this mega serial in @theguardian.com IS A RIVER ALIVE? is out on Thursday! 🌊🌳 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Tune into this morning's Woman's Hour to listen to author of You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip, Kelsey McKinney talk about the culutal implications of gossip and where this ancient art origiated. Such an interesting convo, book out now! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hello—in May I will be talking about & reading from Is A River Alive? Dates & places below. I actually can’t wait. Please come along! Summer & autumn dates to follow, including Scotland in August.

. @thetimes.com sums up #Hunchback perfectly: 'A disabled virgin with a secret life as a porn writer has to decide whether to give up her inheritance for sex...A brilliant, riveting book.' Read the full review here: @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

'Gloriously transgressive...Ichikawa uses the vantage point of her disability for a particular insight into human nature.' @guardianbooks.bsky.social on Saou Ichikawa's International Booker Prize longlisted Hunchback. @thebookerprizes.bsky.social 🌸Out now! 🌸 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

I am thrilled to see HUNCHBACK on the International Booker Longlist! It's been a real highlight of the year working on this incredibly special and important novel. Congratulations to Saou Ichikawa and her translator Polly Barton! @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social 💻💖🌸

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Catherine Airey is an Observer Top Ten Debut Novelist for 2025! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

The news that a debut novel had a six-way auction gives me mixed feelings, so how does Catherine Airey's Confessions stand up? A novel of dropping acid as the Twin Towers fall, of randy professors, of the olden days when computer games came on cassette tapes, and of impression ambition. My verdict👇

A rave in the @financialtimes.com: 'Confessions is a messy, bold, beautiful book, and already builds anticipation for Airey’s next move.' @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/5cc3...

👼🏻 January in Lisbon 👼🏻

4pm, BBC Radio4, I'm talking to @jonathancoe.bsky.social about his new novel THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE alongside @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com exploring cosy crime, dark academia and 3 influences, including the 'requiem for the detective novel' that is THE PLEDGE 📚🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Subtle, symphonic and satisfying’ @john-self.bsky.social on Adam Haslett’s Mothers & Sons publishing next month. www.ft.com/content/b802...

Fantastic to see two brilliant books I’m working on included in this list: Confessions by Catherine Airey (23 Jan) and Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback (March) Thanks AnOther magazine! www.anothermag.com/design-livin...

Gerald Durrell's Myself & Other Animals is 'Book of the Day' in the @theguardian.com. 'Truly there is magic here.' @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d....

Some #35mm film scans from rural Belgium in September shot on #KodakPortra on a #canonae1.

Early Christmas gift coming 5 December to Waterstones Piccadilly. Get your copy of Stanley Tucci's What I Ate in One Year signed by the man himself just in time Christmas! Details below: @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/water...

Back to where it all began! @jonathancoe.bsky.social talks nostalgia and his new novel The Proof of My Innocence at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge this evening.