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Rebecca Carter
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Rebecca Carter Literary, an independent literary agency. (she/her)
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Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Glorious Exploits
The €10,000 prize, awarded annually since 1976, celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
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November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
RCL author Ferdia Lennon wins the 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, which celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40!

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Ferdia Lennon wins 2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature — Rebecca Carter Literary
The prize celebrates an outstanding body of work by an emerging Irish writer under 40
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November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I’m looking forward to developing a book on the theme of this TED talk (over the coming year): VIBRANT EARTH
‘How to measure the planet’s heartbeat’ introduces themes of new RCL client @ymalhi.bsky.social's debut book VIBRANT EARTH

www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ted-talk-by-new-client-yadvinder-malhi
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK and Charlie Porter's NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE on Blackwell's and Foyles ‘Books of the Year’ shortlists

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Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter novels on Blackwells and Foyles ‘Books of the Year’ shortlists — Rebecca Carter Literary
The Silver Book (published this week) and Nova Scotia House receive further acclaim
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October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
‘How to measure the planet’s heartbeat’ introduces themes of new RCL client @ymalhi.bsky.social's debut book VIBRANT EARTH

www.rebeccacarterliterary.com/news/ted-talk-by-new-client-yadvinder-malhi
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A very interesting run of events coming up for author Terry Stiastny, centring around her book Believable Lies: The Misfits Who Fought Churchill's Secret Propaganda War.

Imperial War Museum | 25 September
iwm.org.uk/events/my-iw...

Lucky Hare Books | 9 October
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September 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A brilliant review of Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK by Kirkus!

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
August 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In Olivia’s words, ‘The Silver Book is a novel in love with cinema’ - and therefore it makes perfect sense for it to be launched with a series of three events at the Barbican Centre, Cinema 1.

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August 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We're coming up to halfway through the Edinburgh International Book Festival (9 to 24 August) and it's a good moment to catch up with what's been going on for RCL authors and what's to come!

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RCL authors at the Edinburgh Festival — Rebecca Carter Literary
Still to come, appearances by Elly Griffiths and Xiaolu Guo
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August 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
UK Kindle edition of HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON is cheap today!
July 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Nell Stevens' The Original was launched in the UK (by Scribner) on 19 June, and in the US (by Norton) on 1 July.

The UK launch was accompanied by a very special ‘in conversation’ between Nell and Olivia Laing at the LRB Bookshop.
July 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Highly recommend Rebecca Stott’s new radio series starting on Monday. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Beautiful Strangeness by Rebecca Stott, Episode 1: Daydreaming
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
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July 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
On the day that The Frozen People is published in the US, @ellygriffiths.bsky.social is awarded Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award!

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Big Day for Elly Griffiths — Rebecca Carter Literary
On the day that The Frozen People is published in the US, Elly is awarded Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award
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July 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Political neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the ideological brain in our free film of the week on Hay Festival Anytime now.

Enjoy! www.hayfestival.org/anytime
June 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Calling all Spanish language publishers ...
O livro "Como Salvar a Amazônia" é lançado três anos após a morte do repórter britânico, em 2022, assassinado ao lado do indigenista Bruno Pereira.

https://latamjournalismreview.org/pt-br/articles/como-os-amigos-do-jornalista-assassinado-dom-phillips-terminaram-seu-livro-sobre-a-amazonia/
June 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thank you for this wonderful piece and it's call for a Spanish-language publisher to come forward and publish Dom Phillip's important book HOW TO SAVE THE AMAZON, published in the English language and in Brazilian Portuguese this week!
June 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I thought @leorzmigrod.bsky.social was brilliant at encapsulating her research into brain flexibility and dogmatism on the Today programme on Tuesday 3 June. You can listen at 2 hours 20 mins into the programme.
On BBC’s Radio 4 Today programme talking about my book THE IDEOLOGICAL BRAIN with Nick Robinson and Julia Ebner about how we - as individuals - can cultivate resilience to extreme ideologies 🧠
June 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Mit nur 29 Jahren begründet @leorzmigrod.bsky.social ein neues Forschungsfeld: die politische Neurobiologie. In ihrem neuen Buch zeigt die preisgekrönte Wissenschaftlerin, wie Denkmuster unsere politische Haltung formen und wer für extreme Positionen anfällig ist: shrk.vg/Ideologische...
June 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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I bring you amazing news of the Duck-Rabbit which went viral after being drawn in 1892. (From a new book by Leor Zmigrod) @nigelwarburton.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🧠 🧪 How does our #brain influence our political stance - and vice versa? Neuroresearcher @leorzmigrod.bsky.social presents her #book "Das ideologische Gehirn" on June 10 | 6 pm at Campus Westend, Cas. 1.801. Event on EN. | 🔗 www.suhrkamp.de/buchpraesent...
June 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I spy below @timcoulson.bsky.social who on 9 May did a brilliant presentation for us covering 13 billion years in 45 minutes! He said he’d enjoyed himself enormously so thank you, Tim 👍
June 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Professor @timcoulson.bsky.social’s The Universal History of Us is now out in paperback from Penguin under a new title – A Little History of Everything: From the Big Bang to You.

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Happy paperback publication day to Tim Coulson — Rebecca Carter Literary
To mark publication, Tim has just appeared on Radio 4’s ‘The Life Scientific’, and has started a podcast
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June 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
UK publication of @nellstevens.bsky.social's second novel THE ORIGINAL is on the horizon (Scribner, 19 June), as witnessed by this signing of 400 copies for independent publishers.

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May 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Happy Publication Day Dom 💚
May 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM