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👻What a STRANGE phenomenon! We are SO delighted to be able to share this news: Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @waterstones.bsky.social #BookoftheYear !!
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Giuliano da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is 'Machiavelli's The Prince for our times' according to James Ball in @thespectator1828.bsky.social! Read more: www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
The new power players running the world
At the opening of The Hour of the Predator, Giuliano da Empoli describes Spain’s conquest of the Aztec empire, its doomed ruler Moctezuma II’s response (ineffective vacillation, delaying any course of...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Giuliano da Empoli's The Hour of the Predator is 'Machiavelli's The Prince for our times' according to James Ball in @thespectator1828.bsky.social! Read more: www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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Time to explore the longlist for our inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize!
Celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, the prize is our most ambitious award yet, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage readers worldwide.
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Celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, the prize is our most ambitious award yet, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage readers worldwide.
shorturl.at/vUltg
November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Time to explore the longlist for our inaugural Freudenheim Translation Prize!
Celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, the prize is our most ambitious award yet, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage readers worldwide.
shorturl.at/vUltg
Celebrating excellence in translated fiction and non-fiction, the prize is our most ambitious award yet, highlighting the power of Jewish literature to engage readers worldwide.
shorturl.at/vUltg
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Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year
Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year
Uketsu’s horror-mystery novel Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Uketsu’s ‘Strange Pictures’ Shortlisted for Waterstones’ 2025 Book of the Year
Have you ever cried looking at a painting? Then best-selling art historian Katy Hessel thinks Stefan Zweig's books are for you @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Have you ever cried looking at a painting? Then read this book
The art historian Katy Hessel on the writer who inspired The Grand Budapest Hotel and a memoir by a great American photographer
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November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Have you ever cried looking at a painting? Then best-selling art historian Katy Hessel thinks Stefan Zweig's books are for you @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
🗞️ @thetimes.com dive deep into The Hour of the Predator with author Giuliano da Empoli:
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https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/i-saw-the-davos-world-order-up-close-now-its-age-of-the-predator-6zkj25db5
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November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🗞️ @thetimes.com dive deep into The Hour of the Predator with author Giuliano da Empoli:
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“People like Trump and Putin are not politicians; they are artists who create alternate realities,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
Opinion | Imagining What’s in Trump’s Brain
Inside the minds of authoritarians.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“People like Trump and Putin are not politicians; they are artists who create alternate realities,” our columnist David Brooks writes.
And it's still getting stranger... Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! We're so thrilled and so grateful 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
And it's still getting stranger... Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Book of the Year! We're so thrilled and so grateful 🎉
'There is plenty that is irresistible about 'The Hour of the Predator'' - The Economist
They share a reckless disregard for rules, as two books point out
Strongmen in politics and technology are changing the world
They share a reckless disregard for rules, as two books point out
econ.st
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
'There is plenty that is irresistible about 'The Hour of the Predator'' - The Economist
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🤯Holy Smokes!
I'm so lucky to have been part of bringing Uketsu's books to English reading audiences. How wonderful it is that people are enjoying them!
I'm so lucky to have been part of bringing Uketsu's books to English reading audiences. How wonderful it is that people are enjoying them!
💬Waterstones says: ‘Offering a reading experience that is as eerie as it is unique, this magnificently macabre and fiendishly clever interactive Japanese mystery revolves around nine bizarre pictures full of clues.’
Strange Pictures by Uketsu, tr. @jimrion.com
Strange Pictures by Uketsu, tr. @jimrion.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🤯Holy Smokes!
I'm so lucky to have been part of bringing Uketsu's books to English reading audiences. How wonderful it is that people are enjoying them!
I'm so lucky to have been part of bringing Uketsu's books to English reading audiences. How wonderful it is that people are enjoying them!
👻What a STRANGE phenomenon! We are SO delighted to be able to share this news: Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @waterstones.bsky.social #BookoftheYear !!
www.waterstones.com/book/strange...
www.waterstones.com/book/strange...
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
👻What a STRANGE phenomenon! We are SO delighted to be able to share this news: Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @waterstones.bsky.social #BookoftheYear !!
www.waterstones.com/book/strange...
www.waterstones.com/book/strange...
Don't miss Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, author of Untold Lessons, and Mikołaj Łoziński, author of My Name is Stramer, at Storylines Europe, 22nd November, Dublin! Tickets are FREE
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October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Don't miss Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, author of Untold Lessons, and Mikołaj Łoziński, author of My Name is Stramer, at Storylines Europe, 22nd November, Dublin! Tickets are FREE
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Cheers to Last Acts being shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 🥂
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Cheers to Last Acts being shortlisted for the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 🥂
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
‘A magnificently humane book about losers’ - @IrishTimes
‘A rare thing in fiction these days: genuine humour’ - George Saunders
@TheBookerPrizes we're so excited about the announcement of the Children's Booker Prize! We can't wait for children's books to be recognised for the amazing works of art they are 🥳
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
Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@TheBookerPrizes we're so excited about the announcement of the Children's Booker Prize! We can't wait for children's books to be recognised for the amazing works of art they are 🥳
2026 is going to be an unmissable year for Pushkin Press - preorder our future bestsellers with 25% off at Watertones.com now! @waterstones.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
2026 is going to be an unmissable year for Pushkin Press - preorder our future bestsellers with 25% off at Watertones.com now! @waterstones.bsky.social
Michael Ignatieff, a staunch defender of liberal democracy, author of Blood and Belonging and The Needs of Strangers, lecturing on 'Donald Trump and the Angel of History' on Tuesday 28th October, at St Martin in the Fields www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/her...
Here I Stand: Michael Ignatieff - St Martin-in-the-Fields
“Donald Trump and the Angel of History” In this lecture, distinguished Canadian academic, author, and former politician Michael Ignatieff examines the context and direction of the forces shaping today...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Michael Ignatieff, a staunch defender of liberal democracy, author of Blood and Belonging and The Needs of Strangers, lecturing on 'Donald Trump and the Angel of History' on Tuesday 28th October, at St Martin in the Fields www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/her...
Giuliano da Empoli in conversation with Rod Liddle, defining our modern-day predators - The Hour of the Predator is OUT NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIW1...
How Trump exerts ‘real power’ by acting brashly | Giuliano da Empoli
YouTube video by Times Radio
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October 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Giuliano da Empoli in conversation with Rod Liddle, defining our modern-day predators - The Hour of the Predator is OUT NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIW1...
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4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
October 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
4 years of work, writing, research & collaboration; a lifetime of thinking. ‘The Book of Mysteries: Wild Time and The Ritual Year’ final edits went off to @pushkinpress.com on Friday - feels like a birth and a death all at the same time! Which, honestly, is very apt.
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French President Emmanuel Macron is on first-name terms with him and quotes him in his speeches. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has a direct line to him.
His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.
His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.
Europe’s political class can’t stop reading Giuliano da Empoli
An Italian-Swiss writer specializing in top-level power games and autocrats is now essential reading for Europe’s political elite, particularly Emmanuel Macron.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
French President Emmanuel Macron is on first-name terms with him and quotes him in his speeches. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has a direct line to him.
His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.
His name is Giuliano da Empoli and his written works have become fashionable reading for those in Europe’s halls of power.
@financialtimes.com How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power, according to Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Hour of the Predator www.ft.com/content/85ee...
How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power
Digital moguls and strongman leaders are more than disrupters of the old liberal order. Together they seek to sweep it away, writes Giuliano da Empoli
www.ft.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
@financialtimes.com How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power, according to Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Wizard of the Kremlin and The Hour of the Predator www.ft.com/content/85ee...
Praise for Mahesh Rao’s HALF LIGHT:
‘Tender yet piercing’ @service95
‘Rao writes with great sensitivity’ @irishtimes.com
‘Intelligent, keenly observed’ @thetls.bsky.social
‘A gentle exquisite portrait of lives lived in half light’ @dailymail.co.uk
‘Tender yet piercing’ @service95
‘Rao writes with great sensitivity’ @irishtimes.com
‘Intelligent, keenly observed’ @thetls.bsky.social
‘A gentle exquisite portrait of lives lived in half light’ @dailymail.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Praise for Mahesh Rao’s HALF LIGHT:
‘Tender yet piercing’ @service95
‘Rao writes with great sensitivity’ @irishtimes.com
‘Intelligent, keenly observed’ @thetls.bsky.social
‘A gentle exquisite portrait of lives lived in half light’ @dailymail.co.uk
‘Tender yet piercing’ @service95
‘Rao writes with great sensitivity’ @irishtimes.com
‘Intelligent, keenly observed’ @thetls.bsky.social
‘A gentle exquisite portrait of lives lived in half light’ @dailymail.co.uk
Pushkin Press' @Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year include sapphic vampiric cult classic Carmilla, political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, Uketsu's unforgettable Strange Pictures, and Yokomizo's thriller of the month, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe! Perfect for gifting season 🎁
September 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Pushkin Press' @Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year include sapphic vampiric cult classic Carmilla, political thriller The Wizard of the Kremlin, Uketsu's unforgettable Strange Pictures, and Yokomizo's thriller of the month, Murder at the Black Cat Cafe! Perfect for gifting season 🎁
THRILLED to see A. E. Goldin's Murder in Constantinople longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2025! Huge congratulations 🥳 @historia-hwa.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
THRILLED to see A. E. Goldin's Murder in Constantinople longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2025! Huge congratulations 🥳 @historia-hwa.bsky.social
🐈⬛ @waterstones.bsky.social THRILLER OF THE MONTH 🐈⬛
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 🔪A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime 💎
Your perfect next spooky season read is OUT NOW🚨
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 🔪A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime 💎
Your perfect next spooky season read is OUT NOW🚨
September 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🐈⬛ @waterstones.bsky.social THRILLER OF THE MONTH 🐈⬛
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 🔪A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime 💎
Your perfect next spooky season read is OUT NOW🚨
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe is the latest book from the Japanese Agatha Christie, Seishi Yokomizo, translated by Bryan Karetnyk 🔪A dizzyingly clever rediscovered GEM of Japanese Golden Age crime 💎
Your perfect next spooky season read is OUT NOW🚨
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‘A novel like no other.’ – Eimear McBride
It’s paperback publication day for EDITH HOLLER by Edward Carey! Out now from @pushkinpress.com.🎭
It’s said that if Edith leaves the theatre, she’ll bring about its ruin…
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It’s paperback publication day for EDITH HOLLER by Edward Carey! Out now from @pushkinpress.com.🎭
It’s said that if Edith leaves the theatre, she’ll bring about its ruin…
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/edit...
August 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
‘A novel like no other.’ – Eimear McBride
It’s paperback publication day for EDITH HOLLER by Edward Carey! Out now from @pushkinpress.com.🎭
It’s said that if Edith leaves the theatre, she’ll bring about its ruin…
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/edit...
It’s paperback publication day for EDITH HOLLER by Edward Carey! Out now from @pushkinpress.com.🎭
It’s said that if Edith leaves the theatre, she’ll bring about its ruin…
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/edit...
Chat, how do I understand modern politics? @anneapplebaum
A gripping new work of political non-fiction by the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest Giuliano da Empoli book The Hour of the Predator is coming this October. Available for preorder now 📚
A gripping new work of political non-fiction by the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest Giuliano da Empoli book The Hour of the Predator is coming this October. Available for preorder now 📚
August 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Chat, how do I understand modern politics? @anneapplebaum
A gripping new work of political non-fiction by the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest Giuliano da Empoli book The Hour of the Predator is coming this October. Available for preorder now 📚
A gripping new work of political non-fiction by the bestselling author of The Wizard of the Kremlin, the latest Giuliano da Empoli book The Hour of the Predator is coming this October. Available for preorder now 📚