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We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
October 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Reading -or not reading-in bed with HarryInterruptor. Loving it. @grantabooks.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Reading -or not reading-in bed with HarryInterruptor. Loving it. @grantabooks.bsky.social
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The first story in this collection genuinely ruined my day and I mean that as a compliment
‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
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‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
July 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The first story in this collection genuinely ruined my day and I mean that as a compliment
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It’s crazy how good this book is. I know it sounds OTT but it’s the arrival of a writer for all-time I think
‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
July 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
It’s crazy how good this book is. I know it sounds OTT but it’s the arrival of a writer for all-time I think
‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
July 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
‘A properly exciting writer… one of the most powerful things I’ve read in recent years’ - Max Porter
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
‘Astonishing... It feels genuinely new’ - Sunday Times
Every One Still Here is out today!
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
‘Autocorrect isn’t so much a book as a library of tiny books, from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story’ - @questingvole.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Autocorrect by Etgar Keret review – endlessly inventive short stories
Alien spaceships, parallel worlds… the Israeli writer’s seventh collection is vast in reach, yet grounded in the bewildering absurdity of modern life
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
‘Autocorrect isn’t so much a book as a library of tiny books, from an author who conveys as well as any I can think of just how much fun you can have with a short story’ - @questingvole.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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3 really strong first short story collections from Irish writers pub. this year:
Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social & @grantabooks.bsky.social
Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social
Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social & @grantabooks.bsky.social
Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
3 really strong first short story collections from Irish writers pub. this year:
Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social & @grantabooks.bsky.social
Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social
Liadan Ní Chuinn, Every One Still Here @stingingfly.bsky.social & @grantabooks.bsky.social
Dave Tynan, We Used to Dance Here @grantabooks.bsky.social
Shane Tivenan, To Avenge a Dead Glacier @lilliputpress.bsky.social
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Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Listen now to my chat on Radio 4's #TakeFourBooks with Madeleine Thien about her new, time-warping @grantabooks.bsky.social novel of war, exile and refugees, 'The Book of Records' - and her three influences, including the evergreen 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Waiting in line for eternity can be a colossal bore. Read 'Present Perfect', a hilarious take on protocols and shifting time in the afterlife, from Etgar Keret's new collection #Autocorrect. Out now from @grantabooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/present-perf...
Present perfect
Standing in line to enter the next world, a recently deceased hedge-fund analyst queries the protocol of the afterlife. From Autocorrect by Etgar Keret.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Waiting in line for eternity can be a colossal bore. Read 'Present Perfect', a hilarious take on protocols and shifting time in the afterlife, from Etgar Keret's new collection #Autocorrect. Out now from @grantabooks.bsky.social bookanista.com/present-perf...
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The short stories in Dave Tynan’s first collection, ‘We Used to Dance Here’, are strong true painful loving stuff, with a fine line in comedy, in which worlds you might know but don’t find much in fiction are brought to life on the page. Published July @grantabooks.bsky.social.
June 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The short stories in Dave Tynan’s first collection, ‘We Used to Dance Here’, are strong true painful loving stuff, with a fine line in comedy, in which worlds you might know but don’t find much in fiction are brought to life on the page. Published July @grantabooks.bsky.social.
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our copy arrived faulty, half the book was upside down
Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
June 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
our copy arrived faulty, half the book was upside down
Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
June 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Out today ➰ THE MÖBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
A genre-hybrid work that is both non-fiction and fiction with no beginning and no ending. A story about a sudden, devastating break-up from one of America’s most inventive and daring writers working today.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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just wait till you get a read of this
'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?'
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird
www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird
www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker | Waterstones
Buy TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
just wait till you get a read of this
'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?'
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird
www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird
www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker | Waterstones
Buy TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'Is this honest? Are we all being honest here?'
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird
www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
A simple question, but one that turns characters' lives upside down in the dazzling new novel from Nicola Barker, TONYINTERRUPTOR. And here is its fabulous cover, designed by Luke Bird
www.waterstones.com/book/tonyint...
'The very best kind of nonfiction'
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Read here
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Read here
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The story of China’s banished children | The Observer
Through the story of two families, Barbara Demick reveals how children forcibly taken from their parents were then put forward for ‘rescue’ in the west
observer.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'The very best kind of nonfiction'
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Read here
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
A glowing write up of DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Read here
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
'In my search for a different kind of self, I found kink — or perhaps decided, as the known world around me was collapsing, to finally face the fact that I’ve always been drawn to it'
Anastasiia Fedorova, author of SECOND SKIN, for Cosmopolitan
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
Anastasiia Fedorova, author of SECOND SKIN, for Cosmopolitan
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
‘How exploring kinks, fetishes, and BDSM helped me manage my anxiety’
As writer and curator Anastasiia Fedorova publishes her book about sexual fetishists, Second Skin, she reflects on how embracing her desires finally made her feel comfortable in her own skin
www.cosmopolitan.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
'In my search for a different kind of self, I found kink — or perhaps decided, as the known world around me was collapsing, to finally face the fact that I’ve always been drawn to it'
Anastasiia Fedorova, author of SECOND SKIN, for Cosmopolitan
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
Anastasiia Fedorova, author of SECOND SKIN, for Cosmopolitan
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
Today is publication day for these three brilliant new titles 💥
I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARDS DARKNESS by Irene Sola (tr. Mara Faye Lethem)
SECOND SKIN by Anastasiia Fedorova
DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick
Happy reading 🎊
I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARDS DARKNESS by Irene Sola (tr. Mara Faye Lethem)
SECOND SKIN by Anastasiia Fedorova
DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick
Happy reading 🎊
June 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Today is publication day for these three brilliant new titles 💥
I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARDS DARKNESS by Irene Sola (tr. Mara Faye Lethem)
SECOND SKIN by Anastasiia Fedorova
DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick
Happy reading 🎊
I GAVE YOU EYES AND YOU LOOKED TOWARDS DARKNESS by Irene Sola (tr. Mara Faye Lethem)
SECOND SKIN by Anastasiia Fedorova
DAUGHTERS OF THE BAMBOO GROVE by Barbara Demick
Happy reading 🎊
Tonight in Bristol! Anastasiia Fedorova and Polly Barton in-conversation at @bookhaus.bsky.social
Tickets here 👇
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
Tickets here 👇
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
Second Skin launch with Anastasiia Fedorova at Bookhaus
The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists.
In 21st century commodity culture, we are all intimately involved ...
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Tonight in Bristol! Anastasiia Fedorova and Polly Barton in-conversation at @bookhaus.bsky.social
Tickets here 👇
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
Tickets here 👇
www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
'You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships'
THE MOBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social, reviewed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
THE MOBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social, reviewed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey review – beyond the bounds of fiction
You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
'You can read it from either end, and go round again, as memoir collides with invention in a brilliant interrogation of art, faith and relationships'
THE MOBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social, reviewed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
THE MOBIUS BOOK by @catherinelacey.bsky.social, reviewed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Tonight at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh with Madeleine Thien! Last minute tickets still available 👇
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records on 28th May, at The Portobello Bookshop
www.theportobellobookshop.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Tonight at @portybooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh with Madeleine Thien! Last minute tickets still available 👇
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
Edinburgh readers - get down to @portybooks.bsky.social next week to catch Madeleine Thien speak about THE BOOK OF RECORDS ✨
'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian
Wednesday 28 May
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian
Wednesday 28 May
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for Madeleine Thien - The Book of Records on 28th May, at The Portobello Bookshop
www.theportobellobookshop.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Edinburgh readers - get down to @portybooks.bsky.social next week to catch Madeleine Thien speak about THE BOOK OF RECORDS ✨
'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian
Wednesday 28 May
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
'A rich and beautiful novel' Guardian
Wednesday 28 May
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
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The advance praise for @benpester.bsky.social's THE EXPANSION PROJECT is coming in thick & fast. Here's the latest:
‘A slippery jewel of a novel that refracts received notions on work and family...This is a luminous and startling novel from a unique new voice' @fishersam.bsky.social
‘A slippery jewel of a novel that refracts received notions on work and family...This is a luminous and startling novel from a unique new voice' @fishersam.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The advance praise for @benpester.bsky.social's THE EXPANSION PROJECT is coming in thick & fast. Here's the latest:
‘A slippery jewel of a novel that refracts received notions on work and family...This is a luminous and startling novel from a unique new voice' @fishersam.bsky.social
‘A slippery jewel of a novel that refracts received notions on work and family...This is a luminous and startling novel from a unique new voice' @fishersam.bsky.social
The brilliant @barbarademick.bsky.social in-conversation with @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Marylebone ✨ 9 June, 7pm
Get your tickets here
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
Get your tickets here
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
Barbara Demick in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum
Buy tickets for the event with Barbara Demick in conversation with Lindsey Hilsum at Daunt Books Marylebone from Daunt Books today.
dauntbooks.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The brilliant @barbarademick.bsky.social in-conversation with @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Marylebone ✨ 9 June, 7pm
Get your tickets here
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
Get your tickets here
dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...
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🧵 #1 We gave you some of our children’s highlights, so here are some highlights from our #SIGNED fiction
First up, we have THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien @grantabooks.bsky.social - a work of huge originality, which shows the Booker-shortlisted writer at her most ambitious
#BookSky📚💙 👇🏻
First up, we have THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien @grantabooks.bsky.social - a work of huge originality, which shows the Booker-shortlisted writer at her most ambitious
#BookSky📚💙 👇🏻
May 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🧵 #1 We gave you some of our children’s highlights, so here are some highlights from our #SIGNED fiction
First up, we have THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien @grantabooks.bsky.social - a work of huge originality, which shows the Booker-shortlisted writer at her most ambitious
#BookSky📚💙 👇🏻
First up, we have THE BOOK OF RECORDS by Madeleine Thien @grantabooks.bsky.social - a work of huge originality, which shows the Booker-shortlisted writer at her most ambitious
#BookSky📚💙 👇🏻