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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · 6d

Well spotted :) glad you like it!

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · 13d

Our '25 judges, @simonokotie.bsky.social Amy Sackville (Chair) & Mark Haddon together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to decide this year's shortlist! Megan Nolan joining virtually.

Announcement next Thursday, 2nd October around 9pm! 🔥

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · 19d

well spotted...

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · 19d

My new novel, AS IF, has a cover. Out from Hamish Hamilton on 26th Feb 2026, and later in the year from FSG in the US.

As of now you can preorder via your usual bookshop or your library—thank you! x

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 23d

And to say once again: Maureen is co-responsible for the existence of both PLR & ALCS, so every writer in the UK & Ireland should give her 💐💐💐. And read her books!

Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social · 23d

The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

91-year-old author Maureen Duffy wins Pioneer prize launched by Bernardine Evaristo

The RSL president has set up a new literary award for female writers over 60 using the £100,000 she herself won through the Women’s prize

www.theguardian.com

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · 28d

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JP @jpa6.bsky.social · 29d

Why did I wait so long to read this? So good. I can’t for the next book from @waidner.bsky.social : As If. Preordered.
#booksky

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Cipher Press @cipherpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

'The realest fiction I've read in a long time,' says Sterling Karat Gold author @waidner.bsky.social of Terry Dactyl, the propulsive new novel from @mbsycamore.bsky.social. Published by us in November 2025! www.cipherpress.co.uk/terry-dactyl

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Nathalie Olah @nrolah.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’ll be at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on the 23rd Sept to discuss and launch ‘Amateurs!’ by @badaude.bsky.social. Expect discussions on art and labour, the legacy of postinternet art, platform decay and aesthetics in general. Tickets can be bought here: burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

Launch: Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh w/ Natalie Olah

Tuesday 23rd September 2025 6.30-9pm Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to v...

burleyfisherbooks.com

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · Aug 29

We are delighted to announce that Claire-Louise Bennett will be at the Bookshop for a special event on 17 September in advance of the publication of BIG KISS, BYE-BYE

Tickets now available! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/claire-lou...

Many thanks to @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social for their help with this

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 22

it'll happen quite naturally 😂

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 22

skip large parts

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 22

read some of it

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...

New Isabel Waidner novel for Hamish Hamilton

As If, coming next February, is 'surreal and slyly poignant, suffused with ironic melancholia, a parable for the twenty-first century everyman'

www.bookbrunch.co.uk

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nicola Barker & @waidner.bsky.social discussing TonyInterruptor tonight at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social. Wonderful event.

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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social · Aug 18

Very happy to tell you that my novel Dooneen will be published next June by Fitzcarraldo Editions (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and New Directions (@ndbooks.bsky.social). Many thanks to Jacques and Barbara - both of whom say lovely things here - and to superagent @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social.

Fitzcarraldo Editions to publish Keith Ridgway's DOONEEN | Fitzcarraldo Editions

Fitzcarraldo Editions publisher Jacques Testard has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights excluding Canada, with exclusivity in Europe, to Keith Ridgway’s novel Dooneen from Laurence Laluyaux at RCW. Ridg...

fitzcarraldoeditions.com

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · Aug 19

We are very excited to announce that @tricialockwood.bsky.social will be talking about her upcoming novel, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU, at Conway Hall on Tuesday 16 September, in her only UK event for the book.  

Buy your tickets now:

Patricia Lockwood: Will There Ever Be Another You

Patricia Lockwood’s only UK event for her latest novel Will There Ever Be Another You

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social · Aug 14

Two of my favourite books of the year being published today!

TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker
The Expansion Project by Ben Pester

*PersonalSuperThursday*

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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Author statement on the Polari Prize longlist

We are writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who stand in solidarity with the trans community. We are profoundly disappointed by the Polari Prize’s decision to include John Boyne on the longlis...

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 8

More info and pre-order links here. Ty! www.penguin.co.uk/books/472187...

As If

Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children;...

www.penguin.co.uk

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Aug 8

New novel — As If — coming in February 2026 with Hamish Hamilton/@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social!

And — in major news — with @fsgbooks.bsky.social to the US the following May.

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Isabel Waidner @waidner.bsky.social · Jul 23

ah thank you!

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