Alex Hippisley-Cox
@ahippisleycox.bsky.social
PR working with Frankfurter Buchmesse, The Chalke History Festival, Pippa Funnell's Pony Tales, The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and Bitter Lemon Press.
Wonderful night at the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Congratulations to the winners:
Rosanna Pike for A Little Trickerie won the 2025 main prize
and Marina Lewycka was awarded (posthumously) the Vintage Bollinger Prize for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 🍾
Rosanna Pike for A Little Trickerie won the 2025 main prize
and Marina Lewycka was awarded (posthumously) the Vintage Bollinger Prize for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 🍾
December 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Wonderful night at the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Congratulations to the winners:
Rosanna Pike for A Little Trickerie won the 2025 main prize
and Marina Lewycka was awarded (posthumously) the Vintage Bollinger Prize for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 🍾
Rosanna Pike for A Little Trickerie won the 2025 main prize
and Marina Lewycka was awarded (posthumously) the Vintage Bollinger Prize for A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian 🍾
Ahead of his talk about Rasputin at next year's Oxford Literary Festival, Antony Beevor gives an interview to the Sunday Telegraph.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ahead of his talk about Rasputin at next year's Oxford Literary Festival, Antony Beevor gives an interview to the Sunday Telegraph.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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So excited to see that Joan Smith has chosen Red Water by Jurica Pavicic as one of the @thetimes.com Books of the Year for 2025! 🙌
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
So excited to see that Joan Smith has chosen Red Water by Jurica Pavicic as one of the @thetimes.com Books of the Year for 2025! 🙌
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Did you spot this interview in @FiveBooks.com with our Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize judge Stephanie Merritt? It’s one week until we announce our winner so it’s the perfect time to try a book from our shortlist!
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
#bewprize2025 #funnyfiction #bollingerchampagne
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
#bewprize2025 #funnyfiction #bollingerchampagne
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Did you spot this interview in @FiveBooks.com with our Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize judge Stephanie Merritt? It’s one week until we announce our winner so it’s the perfect time to try a book from our shortlist!
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
#bewprize2025 #funnyfiction #bollingerchampagne
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
#bewprize2025 #funnyfiction #bollingerchampagne
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📢 WE HAVE RIGHTS NEWS 📢 Check out our November newsletter where we give details about three exciting new novels that we've acquired for Bitter Lemon Press. Coming in 2026 and 2027!
More details to be found here 👉 bit.ly/4ifb0Gm
#CrimeFiction #newbooks #translation
More details to be found here 👉 bit.ly/4ifb0Gm
#CrimeFiction #newbooks #translation
Three new books for the Bitter Lemon list
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November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📢 WE HAVE RIGHTS NEWS 📢 Check out our November newsletter where we give details about three exciting new novels that we've acquired for Bitter Lemon Press. Coming in 2026 and 2027!
More details to be found here 👉 bit.ly/4ifb0Gm
#CrimeFiction #newbooks #translation
More details to be found here 👉 bit.ly/4ifb0Gm
#CrimeFiction #newbooks #translation
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We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the judges of the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the judges of the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Funniest Books of 2025
Every year, the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction draw up a shortlist of books that made them laugh out loud. We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the 2025…
fivebooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
NEW
We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the judges of the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the judges of the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
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Delighted that Red Water has been included in @financialtimes.com’s Best Books of Year 2025 by Adam LeBor! 🙌
November 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Delighted that Red Water has been included in @financialtimes.com’s Best Books of Year 2025 by Adam LeBor! 🙌
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As you all know, the Vintage Bollinger Prize will be awarded on 1 December alongside the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. This magnificent 'winner of winners' award will be chosen from our side-splitting past recipients.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
As you all know, the Vintage Bollinger Prize will be awarded on 1 December alongside the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. This magnificent 'winner of winners' award will be chosen from our side-splitting past recipients.
Celebrate the Vintage Bollinger Prize with us! Win all 24 past winners plus a bottle of Bollinger Special Cuvée, courtesy of LoveReading, Everyman's Library and Champagne Bollinger 🍾Details on how to win here:
bit.ly/4nQOdBW
bit.ly/4nQOdBW
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Celebrate the Vintage Bollinger Prize with us! Win all 24 past winners plus a bottle of Bollinger Special Cuvée, courtesy of LoveReading, Everyman's Library and Champagne Bollinger 🍾Details on how to win here:
bit.ly/4nQOdBW
bit.ly/4nQOdBW
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“the third novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini to be published by the excellent Bitter Lemon Press.. This handsome paperback is very welcome.”
An early review in The Critic Magazine for 'An Enigma by the Sea'.
bit.ly/47Eoqaj
English translation by
@gregorydowling.bsky.social
An early review in The Critic Magazine for 'An Enigma by the Sea'.
bit.ly/47Eoqaj
English translation by
@gregorydowling.bsky.social
Murders for November | Jeremy Black | The Critic Magazine
This is the season for Xmas thrills, or at least the cosiness of dark evenings, reading indoors, and thinking about the murder of others, although how will these stories appear with climate change…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“the third novel by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini to be published by the excellent Bitter Lemon Press.. This handsome paperback is very welcome.”
An early review in The Critic Magazine for 'An Enigma by the Sea'.
bit.ly/47Eoqaj
English translation by
@gregorydowling.bsky.social
An early review in The Critic Magazine for 'An Enigma by the Sea'.
bit.ly/47Eoqaj
English translation by
@gregorydowling.bsky.social
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Fancy something on the lighter side to read?
Check out the shortlisted titles on the Bollinger / Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025
www.wodehouseprize.com
#blueskybooks #booksky
Check out the shortlisted titles on the Bollinger / Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025
www.wodehouseprize.com
#blueskybooks #booksky
Wodehouse Prize | UK Literary Prize for Humour
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the UK’s leading literary competition for humour in literature.
www.wodehouseprize.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Fancy something on the lighter side to read?
Check out the shortlisted titles on the Bollinger / Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025
www.wodehouseprize.com
#blueskybooks #booksky
Check out the shortlisted titles on the Bollinger / Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025
www.wodehouseprize.com
#blueskybooks #booksky
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🥳 We have exciting NEWS! 🥳
'The End of the Sahara' by Saïd Khatibi has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Arab Literature Prize.
More details 👉 bit.ly/47DB1LT
Winner announced on 18 Nov. We publish in Feb (UK) and March (US). English translation by Alexander Elinson.
'The End of the Sahara' by Saïd Khatibi has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Arab Literature Prize.
More details 👉 bit.ly/47DB1LT
Winner announced on 18 Nov. We publish in Feb (UK) and March (US). English translation by Alexander Elinson.
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🥳 We have exciting NEWS! 🥳
'The End of the Sahara' by Saïd Khatibi has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Arab Literature Prize.
More details 👉 bit.ly/47DB1LT
Winner announced on 18 Nov. We publish in Feb (UK) and March (US). English translation by Alexander Elinson.
'The End of the Sahara' by Saïd Khatibi has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2025 Arab Literature Prize.
More details 👉 bit.ly/47DB1LT
Winner announced on 18 Nov. We publish in Feb (UK) and March (US). English translation by Alexander Elinson.
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📈Frankfurter Buchmesse continues to grow – and connect the world of literature!
The 77th edition was all about growth, global discourse, and a passion for reading across generations. 🤝
Read the full press release here:
www.buchmesse.de/en/press/pre...
#fbm25 #booksky
The 77th edition was all about growth, global discourse, and a passion for reading across generations. 🤝
Read the full press release here:
www.buchmesse.de/en/press/pre...
#fbm25 #booksky
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📈Frankfurter Buchmesse continues to grow – and connect the world of literature!
The 77th edition was all about growth, global discourse, and a passion for reading across generations. 🤝
Read the full press release here:
www.buchmesse.de/en/press/pre...
#fbm25 #booksky
The 77th edition was all about growth, global discourse, and a passion for reading across generations. 🤝
Read the full press release here:
www.buchmesse.de/en/press/pre...
#fbm25 #booksky
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🐕 OUR OCTOBER NEWSLETTER IS NOW OUT 🐕
This month we are focussing on Leonardo Padura, Cuba's most celebrated living writer and author of the brilliant novel 'The Man Who Loved Dogs'.
Plus, find out more about the critically acclaimed Havana Quartet #Cuba #fiction #crimefiction
bit.ly/4owDFJc
This month we are focussing on Leonardo Padura, Cuba's most celebrated living writer and author of the brilliant novel 'The Man Who Loved Dogs'.
Plus, find out more about the critically acclaimed Havana Quartet #Cuba #fiction #crimefiction
bit.ly/4owDFJc
October 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🐕 OUR OCTOBER NEWSLETTER IS NOW OUT 🐕
This month we are focussing on Leonardo Padura, Cuba's most celebrated living writer and author of the brilliant novel 'The Man Who Loved Dogs'.
Plus, find out more about the critically acclaimed Havana Quartet #Cuba #fiction #crimefiction
bit.ly/4owDFJc
This month we are focussing on Leonardo Padura, Cuba's most celebrated living writer and author of the brilliant novel 'The Man Who Loved Dogs'.
Plus, find out more about the critically acclaimed Havana Quartet #Cuba #fiction #crimefiction
bit.ly/4owDFJc
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Really interesting talk from Laura Summers of BookMachine, giving expert advice about resilience in the workplace, with a focus on emotional agility, adaptability, connection and sustainable stamina. Top tips too on getting enough sleeping, setting boundaries and getting away from screen! #fbm25
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Really interesting talk from Laura Summers of BookMachine, giving expert advice about resilience in the workplace, with a focus on emotional agility, adaptability, connection and sustainable stamina. Top tips too on getting enough sleeping, setting boundaries and getting away from screen! #fbm25
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‘How To Future Proof Your Publishing Career’ panel now on the Innovation Stage with Suzy Astbury, Sara Lloyd, Meru Gokhale and Suzanne Collier. Already getting into the hot topic of AI and how it’s disrupting the publishing industry #fbm25
October 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
‘How To Future Proof Your Publishing Career’ panel now on the Innovation Stage with Suzy Astbury, Sara Lloyd, Meru Gokhale and Suzanne Collier. Already getting into the hot topic of AI and how it’s disrupting the publishing industry #fbm25
At the Opening Press Conference at #fbm25
Vanina Colagiovanni (Publishing Director, Gog & Magog, Argentina), Mehar Anaokar (Editor, Serpent’s Tail Classics / Profile Books, UK), Karin Schmidt-Friderichs (Chairwoman of Börsenverein, German Publishers & Booksellers Association), Nora Haddada (author)
Vanina Colagiovanni (Publishing Director, Gog & Magog, Argentina), Mehar Anaokar (Editor, Serpent’s Tail Classics / Profile Books, UK), Karin Schmidt-Friderichs (Chairwoman of Börsenverein, German Publishers & Booksellers Association), Nora Haddada (author)
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
At the Opening Press Conference at #fbm25
Vanina Colagiovanni (Publishing Director, Gog & Magog, Argentina), Mehar Anaokar (Editor, Serpent’s Tail Classics / Profile Books, UK), Karin Schmidt-Friderichs (Chairwoman of Börsenverein, German Publishers & Booksellers Association), Nora Haddada (author)
Vanina Colagiovanni (Publishing Director, Gog & Magog, Argentina), Mehar Anaokar (Editor, Serpent’s Tail Classics / Profile Books, UK), Karin Schmidt-Friderichs (Chairwoman of Börsenverein, German Publishers & Booksellers Association), Nora Haddada (author)
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Thank you @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social for this very pretty copy of #AnEnigmaByTheSea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, tns by Gregory Dowling.
Coming 22nd Jan, this is the third Fruttero and Lucentini mystery to be published in English by this fab indie publisher.
I cannot wait! 💙📚
Coming 22nd Jan, this is the third Fruttero and Lucentini mystery to be published in English by this fab indie publisher.
I cannot wait! 💙📚
October 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Thank you @bitterlemonpress.bsky.social for this very pretty copy of #AnEnigmaByTheSea by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, tns by Gregory Dowling.
Coming 22nd Jan, this is the third Fruttero and Lucentini mystery to be published in English by this fab indie publisher.
I cannot wait! 💙📚
Coming 22nd Jan, this is the third Fruttero and Lucentini mystery to be published in English by this fab indie publisher.
I cannot wait! 💙📚
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We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Cesare De Michelis International Award for Publishing 2026 is Jonathan Galassi, Chairman Emeritus and Executive Editor at Farrar Straus & Giroux in New York.
Full announcement and details of book fair event to celebrate the winner 👉: bit.ly/4mWL5nU
Full announcement and details of book fair event to celebrate the winner 👉: bit.ly/4mWL5nU
October 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Cesare De Michelis International Award for Publishing 2026 is Jonathan Galassi, Chairman Emeritus and Executive Editor at Farrar Straus & Giroux in New York.
Full announcement and details of book fair event to celebrate the winner 👉: bit.ly/4mWL5nU
Full announcement and details of book fair event to celebrate the winner 👉: bit.ly/4mWL5nU
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If you’re off to the @buchmesse.de next week, I’m participating in events for both @bookcareers.bsky.social and PublisHer. If you’re an international publisher, I’m also running my first ever Careers Clinic at #FBF25 and have a signing session too. Full details www.bookcareers.com/frankfurter-...
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 - Bookcareers
www.bookcareers.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If you’re off to the @buchmesse.de next week, I’m participating in events for both @bookcareers.bsky.social and PublisHer. If you’re an international publisher, I’m also running my first ever Careers Clinic at #FBF25 and have a signing session too. Full details www.bookcareers.com/frankfurter-...
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Our brand new catalogue for 2026 is now out - so do check it out!
Tuscany, Algeria, the American South and Croatia are the settings for our wonderful line-up of novels coming out next year.
Any journalists interested in review copies, do please DM us.
#novels #travels #crimefiction #fiction
Tuscany, Algeria, the American South and Croatia are the settings for our wonderful line-up of novels coming out next year.
Any journalists interested in review copies, do please DM us.
#novels #travels #crimefiction #fiction
October 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Our brand new catalogue for 2026 is now out - so do check it out!
Tuscany, Algeria, the American South and Croatia are the settings for our wonderful line-up of novels coming out next year.
Any journalists interested in review copies, do please DM us.
#novels #travels #crimefiction #fiction
Tuscany, Algeria, the American South and Croatia are the settings for our wonderful line-up of novels coming out next year.
Any journalists interested in review copies, do please DM us.
#novels #travels #crimefiction #fiction
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🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 The Battle of Britain wasn’t won by one aircraft alone ✈️🔥. Aviation historian Paul Beaver sets the record straight about the Spitfire, the Hurricane, and the collective fight that saved Britain. 🎧
👉 Listen now: www.patreon.com/post...
👉 Listen now: www.patreon.com/post...
September 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 The Battle of Britain wasn’t won by one aircraft alone ✈️🔥. Aviation historian Paul Beaver sets the record straight about the Spitfire, the Hurricane, and the collective fight that saved Britain. 🎧
👉 Listen now: www.patreon.com/post...
👉 Listen now: www.patreon.com/post...
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Maura Regan, President of Licensing International, kicks off by saying that in 2024 they hit US$369.6 billion in sales of licensed products and services. Branded products outperformed non-branded products consistently. The challenge - how do you successfully connect with the consumer? #FRM25
September 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Maura Regan, President of Licensing International, kicks off by saying that in 2024 they hit US$369.6 billion in sales of licensed products and services. Branded products outperformed non-branded products consistently. The challenge - how do you successfully connect with the consumer? #FRM25
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These are our speakers for this afternoon's session at the Frankfurt Rights Meeting. Here are our speakers for this afternoon's webinar. We would like to thank our media partner @bookbrunch.bsky.social for supporting us again this year! #FRM25
September 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
These are our speakers for this afternoon's session at the Frankfurt Rights Meeting. Here are our speakers for this afternoon's webinar. We would like to thank our media partner @bookbrunch.bsky.social for supporting us again this year! #FRM25
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📣Providing a stage for global dialogue: Frankfurt Calling at #fbm25
📍 New this year: Centre Stage in Hall 4.1
👉Find out more about upcoming speakers and cooperation partners from a broad international network in our latest press release: www.buchmesse.de/presse/press...
📍 New this year: Centre Stage in Hall 4.1
👉Find out more about upcoming speakers and cooperation partners from a broad international network in our latest press release: www.buchmesse.de/presse/press...
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📣Providing a stage for global dialogue: Frankfurt Calling at #fbm25
📍 New this year: Centre Stage in Hall 4.1
👉Find out more about upcoming speakers and cooperation partners from a broad international network in our latest press release: www.buchmesse.de/presse/press...
📍 New this year: Centre Stage in Hall 4.1
👉Find out more about upcoming speakers and cooperation partners from a broad international network in our latest press release: www.buchmesse.de/presse/press...