Patrick Charnley wrote about his experience of cardiac arrest, coma, open heart surgery and how this inspired him to write his first novel, This, My Second Life, out on Thursday. The book is so beautiful, and ideal to read at this time of year. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

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.