‘Are all novels doll’s houses really? (…) And: in our age of politics as performance: Is child’s play the thing/ In which to catch the conscience of the not-a-king?’ open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

‘We can steer our kids in the right direction, but at the same time, they’re going to be who they’re going to be. You can do all the right things – and it may not be enough.’ www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sadly, also true.

True story

Sensational word-of-mouth behind The Names by Florence Knapp. Top of the charts this weekend and edging close to a million copies sold. Congratulations, Florence!

‘A page-turner,’ says The Irish Times about London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe ‘we are fortunate to have him pounding the pavement to expose real-life darkness’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We are a very happy number two again, with a staggering 24,000 copies sold in one week. The Names by @florenceknapp.bsky.social is out in paperback and I cannot recommend this beautiful,moving and thought-provoking novel enough!

A Sunday Times bestseller - SISTERS IN YELLOW by Mieko Kawakami, a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties. 🍋

Out on 7th April. Book a night in. London Falling by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social

What Philippa Perry did next! ‘A joy! Cosy crime with a side order of psychological insight’ says Jennie Godfrey. ‘Wickedly witty, with delightful, quirky characters and a cracking plot’ says Jacqueline Wilson - out 7th May

Book Bar presents an evening with Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Jesse Armstrong www.bookbaruk.com/event-detail...

‘With Sisters in Yellow she proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today’ says The Times of Mieko Kawakami and SISTERS IN YELLOW - a rave! ‘This is not the Japan you find in novels about cats, cafés and bookshops.’ www.thetimes.com/article/9203...

Indispensable

The UK government has today published a Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report outlining that it is moving away from the proposed copyright exception for AI training, widely rejected by the creative industries. Read more 👇

‘Do you think he’ll call me back? Will he send flowers? Is he really a psychopath? (…) Be still, my beating heart!’ Margaret Atwood talks to Claude substack.com/@margaretatw...

‘Disability, she says, shouldn’t be seen as something removed from the everyday, or a separate category of personhood…. ‘We are one in four’. Poet and novelist Daisy Lafarge on pain and art. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Philosopher Michael Sandel calls for moral and spiritual values in public discourse, urging us to pursue the moral impulses we are moved by. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/b...

Recommend! @praddenkeefe.bsky.social has found an extraordinary story with an incredible cast of characters that really encapsulates the weirdness of how London has changed these past decades. It's gripping and published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Writers, beware - these literary scams have mushroomed in recent months. The scammers are very patient and their messages can be fairly sophisticated. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Mary Magdalene, painted in 17th Century by Artemisia Gentileschi, freed from male gaze, exists for no one but herself - Katy Hessel www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Tunnel 29 creator Helena Merriman excels at revisiting modern history in a fresh way and shaping it into a breathtaking story. Here she does it again with Putin ad the Apartment Bombs - if you are looking for something gripping. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

How to Win a Trade War by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown is your essential and friendly guide to unfriendly times. Everything you need to know and more.

Margaret Atwood on the evolutionary underpinnings of storytelling. We are hard-wired to tell them (what the Maddaddam trilogy is partly about: our need for stories and our need for beliefs). www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

Siri Hustvedt reflects on over forty years of love and life with Paul Auster - GHOST STORIES: A MEMOIR @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

‘Preston captures the fractured legacy of British Intelligence and the ghosts it leaves behind with haunting precision. I was captivated from start to finish.’ Peter Frankopan A STRANGER IN CORFU is out today @alexpreston.bsky.social

An unforgettable love story and a state-of-the-nation thriller that asks universal questions about desire, complicity, and what happens when your sense of self collapses with the world around you. MY ONLY BOY by Rosa Rankin-Gee

Wayne McGregor’s ballet Woolf Works reaches the kind of emotional and intellectual intensity that leaves you stunned. Impossible not to respond to its beauty. Sold out now but you can see it live in cinemas and it’s worth it. www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-... Based on the works of Virginia Woolf.

How I became an agent, in praise of working for the best in the industry and what publishing could do better www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

For the month of February the best charity pairs up with the best bookshop. @bookshop.org @booktrust.org.uk Read it forward.

The Sunday Times on the crisis in non-fiction - we lost 17million non-fiction book sales in just over half a decade - with some good contributions from Mark Richards and my colleague John Ash. A) we have been here before B) non-fiction needs to be the best it’s been www.thetimes.com/article/d1be...

Congratulations to @oliverbullough.bsky.social as Everybody Loves Our Dollars is a Sunday Times bestseller! Review in the same paper calls his investigations ‘eye-opening’, his writing ‘fine’ and ends with a memorable ‘The man has balls’. www.thetimes.com/article/3044...

‘Until I thought, what if I just tell the truth? And then it fell out of me - it didn’t even pour, it fell.’ Fatima Bhutto on her remarkable new memoir www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Paapa Essiedu, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Bryan Cranston in Ivo van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is the best thing out there right now. Refreshingly gimmick-free. Just great performances. www.wyndhamstheatre.co.uk/whats-on/all...

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood 8th April, Disney Plus @margaretatwood.bsky.social

Fatima’s most personal and moving book yet. Visceral and intelligent. It will speak to anyone who has loved. I am so taken by Jay Griffith’s beautiful description: ‘A tender and exquisite story of love held in the safekeeping of a dog’s vast heart.’ @dauntbooks.bsky.social

Thanks to the Guardian for publishing this extract from my new book. It's about one of the many very bleak aspects of the global anti-money laundering system.

Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough, ‘one of Britain’s finest investigative reporters,’ says @theguardian.com is a ‘much needed exposé’ and ‘jaw-dropping’. A rave. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... @oliverbullough.bsky.social

A gorgeous children’s edition of The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

For the National Year of Reading, Sarah Perry chooses THE WEIRSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN by Alan Garner. I am struck by her perfect description of writing that gives children the dignity and honour to demand as much beauty and strangeness as adult readers do. (1h 52min in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Debut authors at CAA!

The Times chooses 58 books to look out for in 2026. Two of the most anticipated ones: Everybody Loves Our Dollars by Oliver Bullough and London Falling by Patrick Radden-Keefe - two superb journalists

Not agents’ job to take centre stage, but it’s been three years, we’ve had the best time and it’s a cause for celebration, so thank you @thebookseller.com for the nod though it should be a group one. Most of all, thank you to the writers who trusted us. Bring on the next three years!

Coming in 2026! Blackwell’s most anticipated titles. @oliverbullough.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social (or should it be ‘Blackwell’s’ most anticipated books’? 🤯)

Congratulations to Rochelle Dowden-Lord on her shortlisting for the Nero Book Awards! LUSH - a heady and intoxicating debut: four people arrive at a French vineyard for a transformative experience. nerobookawards.com/nero-book-aw...

Outstanding shortlist, magnificent winner. FLESH is extraordinarily good and a major literary achievement.

From the author of The Story of Art Without Men, a book for every day of the year that will help you pay attention to what matters and see the world anew. Out next week!

The Names has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Excellence in Fiction. Congratulations, [email protected]

For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation. Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children

Absolutely worth the wait! A new book from Harriet Lane, author of Alys, Always and Her @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social