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"People feel – wrongly in my view – that their history is being undermined by my history. But my history isn’t a threat to your history. My history is part of your history.”
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Congratulations to
@Doug_D_Stuart
who tonight won the
#BookerPrize2020
with his blisteringly beautiful debut SHUGGIE BAIN 🎉
Thanks to everyone on
#TeamShuggie
(particularly
@CamillaElworthy
) who shared their heartful enthusiasm for this remarkable book! ❤️
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Delighted to show off our new TV tie-in covers for Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose series, featuring a rather dapper Benedict Cumberbatch
Patrick Melrose airs on
@skyatlantic
on 13 May.
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Announcing: TO PARADISE, the new novel from Hanya Yanagihara, million-copy bestselling author of
#ALittleLife
.
Paradise is for some. Paradise is not for all. TO PARADISE is coming January 2022, pre-order your copy here:
#ToParadise
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We are proud to reveal the cover for
#YoungMungo
by
@Doug_D_Stuart
!
The cover image is Wolfgang Tillmans's 2002 photograph 'The Cock (kiss)' and cover design is by Stuart Wilson.
Pre-order signed copies here: or from your local independent bookshop.
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🐙 Calling all fans of
#saltslow
by
@JuliaArmfield
! 🌊
We are publishing Julia Armfield's debut novel OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA in March 2022.
Here's the first line..."The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness."
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We've been sending out these book bundles and have 1 to give away, just RT to enter! UK only (sorry) – full T&Cs:
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Airport cashier: ‘Have a safe flight’.
Me: ‘You too’.
I can never come back here again.
Tap to listen to an exclusive excerpt of ‘Awkwardness Brings Us Together’, from
#Broken
the new book by Jenny Lawson
@TheBloggess
out 15 April
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Finished copies of ASTRO POETS by
@poetastrologers
are here! Let them be your guides...the only astrology primer you’ll ever need is out on 🌘👻HALLOWEEN💀🎃
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Independent bookshops grow for second year after 20-year decline
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Here is the beautiful cover for Sarah Moss’s new novel SUMMERWATER, coming this August. Described as ‘Sharp, searching, thoroughly imagined and utterly of the moment’ by Hilary Mantel, it is a devastating story told over 24 hours in the Scottish highlands.
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We are so excited to be publishing Michelle Zauner (AKA
@Jbrekkie
)'s incredible memoir CRYING IN H MART - a deeply affecting account of growing up mixed-race, grief, forging an identity, and Korean food - SO much Korean food! 🖤
5 August 2021
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Women. Monsters. Goddesses.
A very unique set of cards inspired by
@officialnhaynes
' forthcoming book, Divine Might. Which goddess do you identify with? DM us if you'd like a set!
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🚨 Competition Time 🚨
We're giving away 3 beautiful proof packages, including cognac, chocolate and an advance proof of
@wscharer
's The Age of Light. All you need to do is retweet and follow for a chance to win!
18+ & UK only. Terms & Conditions Apply:
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Want to support your local indie bookstore AND get your hands on some great new books? 📚📚📚
We're giving away three £50 National Book Tokens
@book_tokens
for you to spend with your favourite indie.
Enter our giveaway now for the chance to win!
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'Moving, poetic, as rousing as Orwell'
@CashCarraway
'A story that desperately needs to be told'
@michaelsheen
@MaeveMCC
deserves to win more awards for this expose'
@CaroSanderson
NO FIXED ABODE: Life and death among the UK's forgotten homeless
17/09
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'When times are hard, cling to your books like a life raft.'
#WednesdayWisdom
from
@CathyReadsBooks
:
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We're incredibly excited to be be publishing an essay collection by Sinéad Gleeson in Spring 2019.
Find out more:
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Picador is sad to announce the death of Cormac McCarthy.
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We're thrilled to reveal this beautiful cover for THE DANCE TREE - the gripping new novel from bestselling author
@Kiran_MH
. This is a story of lust, family secrets and women under the eye of the Church.
Cover by Katie Tooke
@panmacartdept
Read more:
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Young Mungo, the new novel from
@Doug_D_Stuart
, Booker Prize-winning author of
#ShuggieBain
, is coming next year! As heart-wrenching and beautiful as Stuart's debut, Young Mungo is a powerful, queer love story set in 1980's Glasgow.
Signed copies here:
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Every year, NHS staff work long shifts whilst the rest of us are sleeping off our festive lunches. Head down to
@WaterstonesPicc
this weekend to visit the pop-up hospital ward on the third floor, in celebration of
@amateuradam
’s new book, and leave a thank you note for the NHS
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We are delighted to reveal the beautiful cover for Jessie Burton's
#TheHouseOfFortune
- the spellbinding sequel to her million-copy bestselling The Miniaturist. Design, model making and 📸 by
@AndersenMStudio
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Did you know: Michael Jackson owned over 10,000 books?
'10 famous book hoarders', via
@lithub
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Benedict Cumberbatch considers Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels to be “the most exquisite achievements in 21st-century prose”
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Listen to the story and music choices of
@DavidOlusoga
on
#DesertIslandDiscs
with
@laurenlaverne
@BBCRadio4
🎧 👉
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🚨 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT 🚨
If you're looking to join the world of publishing, working alongside fantastic authors and editors (yes, even Kris 👇), here's all the information you need:
✔️ Closing date: 9th March 2020
✔️ Salary: £23,000
Full details:
Job alert:
@picadorbooks
are looking for an Editorial Assistant!
You would have to put up with me, but everyone else is really nice, so it’s probably worth it in the end. And the books & writers are truly great.
Details here:
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We're very excited to reveal the gorgeous cover of Natalie Haynes' new book 🎉
Out in October,
#PandorasJar
seeks to present the women of Greek mythology where they rightly should be—the forefront!
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IMPRINT OF THE YEAR!
Huge thank you to everyone who has supported us this year! Here's to you, from us (and Leo) 🍾
A touching acceptance speech from
@picadorbooks
reinforcing yet again that behind every great book is a great team. Well done to Imprint of the Year, Picador Books 👏
#Nibbies
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Announcing: the sequel to the million copy bestseller The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, coming July 2022.
Where will the story take us next? Head to
@Waterstones
to hear more from Jessie, and pre-order your copy here:
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*Breaking news*
Lush proofs just in for
@wscharer
’s stunning debut novel,
#TheAgeOfLight
. Inspired by Lee Miller and her passionate affair with Man Ray, this has it all:
• Paris
• A powerful love story
• A woman ahead of her time
• Richly historical
• Addictive page-turner
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We are *delighted* to announce the acquisition of a novel and a work of non-fiction from the brilliant prize-winning writer
@olivialanguage
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Come and work with us! We're looking for an Editorial Assistant to join our brilliant, inventive, and friendly editorial team here at
@picadorbooks
🤗
📚 Salary : £23,000
📚 Closing Date: 23rd December 2020
Apply here 👉
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'This is Not the Poem that I Had Hoped to Write'
by
@brian_bilston
(read by
@ActualBenMiller
)
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Who else will be tuning in to the new series of A House Through Time tonight? 👀 📺
New series starts of September 7, the book of the series published yesterday.
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It's here: the cover for
#ToParadise
, the bold, brilliant new novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment from Hanya Yanagihara, author of
#ALittleLife
, coming January 2022.
Signed copies are available here: .
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We are delighted to introduce the Picador New Voices - eight incredible female writers and the rising stars of our list who we are proud to be publishing in 2019.
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'It’s in the nature of songwriting to leave something to the imagination, whereas with memoir, you have a narrative responsibility. You really have to guide the reader very directly. You have no choice but to expose yourself.'
@Jbrekkie
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'Nevada is a book that changed my life'
@torreypeters
Introducing
@imogenbinnie
's NEVADA - the cult classic that inspired a new wave of transgender fiction – published in the UK for the first time.
Available to pre-order now:
Out 9 June 2022
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Congrats to
@amateuradam
as
#ThisIsGoingToHurt
is now officially a Sunday Times hardback non-fic bestseller – in at no.3!
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'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read [...] I want to see this book become a bestseller, I want to see it in every staffroom'
@PhilipPullman
has no faint praise for
@KateClanchy1
's newest book
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'[The] role of black people in the British story was all too often ignored completely or else reduced to footnotes. When black figures did appear they were often mute & passive, the victims of slavery or the beneficiaries of abolition.'
@DavidOlusoga
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We are excited to be sharing the amazing cover for
@mieko_kawakami
's sensational new novel Heaven🌥️
Heaven is a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying which questions the fate of the meek in a society that favours the strong.
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As
#BridgetJones
’s Diary turns 20,
@caitlinmoran
explains why she still loves this classic:
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Is that the new book by
@esmacneal
making its way to readers?
#CircusofWonders
is the stunning new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of
#TheDollFactory
, set in an extraordinary Victorian circus...
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Dear Mrs Bird,
We received some rather beautiful finished copies of this book today, and we're very much in love with them. We don't know whether we should selfishly keep them to ourselves or release them. Please help!
Yours,
Picador
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In 2020
#BlackLivesMatter
protests focused the world's attention on the rights of black people. But will this be a moment of real change and why has black history been at the centre of this moment?
Hear
@DavidOlusoga
speak at
@otsfestival
29 OCT:
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Congratulations to
@StonexEmma
!
#TheLamplighters
will officially be a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller this Sunday. Thank you to all of the booksellers who have created such beautiful displays and windows and to everyone who has raved about this brilliant novel.
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We are delighted to welcome
@HarryJosieGiles
to Picador!
Their exceptional new poetry collection, Deep Wheel Orcadia, is an ingenious first: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect of Scots.
Coming in October, 2021. ☄️
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In A House Through Time, the paperback tie-in to the acclaimed BBC television series presented by historian
@DavidOlusoga
, we find it is ordinary homes, not grand public buildings or the mansions of the rich, that have all the best stories . . .
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We’re proud to be the UK publisher of
@Pen_int
honorary fellow
@BehrouzBoochani
’s powerful account of his illegal detention by the Australian gov.
Written via WhatsApp, it shines devastating light on the plight of refugees as borders close around the world
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The acceptance speech from our Publisher, Paul Baggaley for the Imprint of the Year Award.
Thank you to our authors, and all the booksellers who get their books into the hands of readers. We wouldn’t be here without you.
#Nibbies
🖋
Actress and author Ruth Jones presents the Imprint of the Year award—sponsored by
@Claysltd
—to
@picadorbooks
. Congratulations!
#Nibbies
✒️📚🏆
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We're so excited to be announcing SEA OF TRANQUILITY, the next novel from
@EmilyMandel
, author of Station Eleven & The Glass Hotel!
This beautiful, time-bending story of parallel worlds & possibilities is coming next April.
(Cover by
@book_covers_etc
)
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A first look at Benedict Cumberbatch as
#PatrickMelrose
, coming to
@skyatlantic
in 2018!
Get one step ahead and read the brilliant original novels by Edward St Aubyn, collected together in this
#PicadorClassic
edition...
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Beautiful cover finishes for an extraordinary book: The River of Consciousness is a remarkable culmination of a lifetime's research into the way the brain works, by the late, great neurologist Oliver Sacks
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Announcing: the
#PicadorCollection
, a new backlist series scheduled to launch in February 2022, Picador's 50th anniversary year.
Inspired by fifty years of Picador publishing, the Collection will bring iconic, boundary-pushing literature to a new generation of readers.
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This is a seriously beautiful book...
Foiled paperbacks of
@HannahFKent
's The Good People, available 7 September 😍
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We're *delighted* to have acquired a collection of essays by Muslim women, edited by the brilliant
@helloiammariam
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This Autumn, let the
@poetastrologers
be your guide to the zodiac and find out why that Scorpio isn't texting you back. Astro Poets is out in October. Pre-order it here:
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We are excited to reveal the cover for
@meganfnhunter
's new novel
#TheHarpy
. Megan's first novel
#TheEndWeStartFrom
was loved by readers everywhere including Naomi Alderman and Tracy Chevalier. Out on 11 June,
#TheHarpy
is a dazzling, dark tale of love, betrayal and revenge.
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We're very excited to reveal the brand new cover for
@amateuradam
's THIS IS GOING TO HURT, the multi-million bestseller now a BBC series starring Ben Whishaw.
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We can’t wait for tonight's
#PicadorShowcase
!
Who will be joining us to discover some of the incredible books we will publish in 2021? . . . and beyond 👀
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They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets...here is the beautiful cover for
@StonexEmma
's
#TheLamplighters
, an eerie mystery about a remote Cornish lighthouse and three missing keepers. Find out more:
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🛒 "Ever since my mom died, I cry in H Mart."
🛒 "Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
CRYING IN H MART. The New York Times bestseller by Michelle Zauner AKA Japanese Breakfast (
@Jbrekkie
). Out this Thursday.
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Absolutely thrilled to have been named Imprint of the Year at the
#BBIA2016
- thank you everyone for your kind words! 🍾
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We at Picador and Pan Macmillan condemn Emma Nicholson's views on same sex marriage and LGBTQ+ rights. We stand alongside our writers and readers in celebrating and supporting LGBTQ+ art
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A chance for debate and discussion
@DavidOlusoga
@intelligence2
tomorrow evening - Statues, Slavery and the Struggle for Equality with David Olusoga and Dawn Butler
REGISTER NOW:
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This Sunday, at 11.15 am on
@BBCRadio4
, the inimitable
@official_jcc
will be sharing the soundtrack of his life with
@laurenlaverne
on Desert Island Discs.
We can't wait to learn about the records which inspired The Bard of Salford 📻
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Happy
#NationalPoetryDay
! Write a poem, read a poem or share a poem today and help spread the joy and power of
#poetry
.
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A chance to hear
@DavidOlusoga
and
@HouseHistorian
talk about the BBC TV series and their new book on 23 July
@tortoise
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We are thrilled to announce that two new novels from Cormac McCarthy will publish this autumn. THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS tell one grand story of siblings Bobby and Alicia Western.
Learn more about these two captivating stories novels:
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We’re delighted to partner with
@influxpress
and
@burleyfisher
to launch ‘Short Stories for Strange Times’, a series of virtual events to highlight some brilliant short story writers and their work.
Watch this space for more info and get involved with
#ShortStoriesStrangeTimes
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The rumours are true – proofs of the new novel from Alan Hollinghurst have arrived!
#TheSparsholtAffair
, coming 5 October 2017.
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clarification for tweet sent by
@LRBbookshop
at 1:31 pm on 15 Apr 2024
apologies. we are not actually smoking a zoot at the picador garden party. this was a scheduled tweet from 2017(!) - we thought when hootsuite died any tweets we had scheduled on hootsuite would die with it. it seems we were misinformed
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These have really brightened up Monday...
Gorgeous foiled paperbacks of
@HannahFKent
's The Good People, available 7 September 😍
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Seen these beauties yet?
Gold foiled paperbacks of
@HannahFKent
's The Good People, in bookshops from 7 September 😍
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Tickets are now LIVE -
#ALittleLifePlay
, based on Hanya Yanagihara's mesmerizing novel, is coming to the
@HPinterTheatre
in 2023.
Book your tickets now:
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If you haven't read
@jonronson
's incredible interview with
@MonicaLewinsky
yet, we can't recommend it highly enough:
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We are thrilled to welcome brilliant educator and writer
@jeffreykboakye
to Picador.
'I Heard What You Said' is a brilliant and vital book which investigates, and has the power to dismantle, racism in our education system.
- via
@thebookseller
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Happy publication day to
@NeemaMShah
🎉
💐 'Devastatingly beautiful'
@nktgill
💐 'Utterly heartbreaking and so moving'
@HalehAgar
💐 'A searing, timely, and beautifully written tale'
@stephaniewscott
💐
@nikeshshukla
KOLOLO HILL is OUT TODAY 📚
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Welcome to THE CENTRE, the darkly comic debut novel from
@tweetingayesha
about an immersive language school which boasts complete fluency in just 10 days – but at a secret, sinister cost.
Trust us, you'll never be the same.
Pre-order here:
#thecentre
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"Dickens, Shakespeare, Austen: they were not interested in difficulty. They were interested in popularity."
@Baddiel
argues that our fascination with 'difficult' literature impairs our ability to discern true literary merit
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A vividly readable history of the British city, packed with remarkable human stories.
A House Through Time, the paperback tie-in to the acclaimed BBC television series, by
@DavidOlusoga
and
@HouseHistorian
.
2 September 2021
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These Mark Kermode quotes on film posters have us crying with laughter
http://t.co/sJnoQSGGmf
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"A simple tale will unravel &, by its conclusion, have encompassed colonialism & feminism & what, exactly, it means to be a person living in the world that we live in."
@djdaisyjohnson
on Helen Oyeyemi being the writer you should revisit again and again
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🎉 It's official!
#CircusofWonders
by
@esmacneal
will be number four in the Sunday Times bestseller charts this weekend! 🎉
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Happy publication day to
@helloiammariam
,
@monaeltahawy
,
@cocobyname
,
@sufiyaahmed
,
@Nafisa_Bakkar
,
@EduAfs_
,
@JamillaTweets
,
@AGlasgowGirl
,
@yassmin_a
,
@afshandl
,
@its_me_salma
,
@ainakhanlondon
,
@SaimaMir
,
@RaifaRafiq
,
@MaliaBouattia
,
@nadineaishaj
&
@writtenbysalma
🎉
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Money. Power. Intimacy.
Incredibly excited to share the beautiful proofs for Hernan Diaz’s TRUST – an exhilarating new novel that explores the line between fiction and history.
Find out more:
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Drumroll, please! Behold this beautiful cover for
@esmacneal
's astonishing new novel CIRCUS OF WONDERS. Fans of THE DOLL FACTORY, form an orderly queue - you can pre-order your copy at
@Waterstones
now:
🎨 Cover design: Katie Tooke
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Happy publication day to
@officialnhaynes
🎉
Shortlisted for the
@WomensPrize
and out in stunning paperback today,
#AThousandShips
is feminist retelling of the Trojan War – giving voices to the women the myths forgot . . .
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'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a founding fable for our time.' 🌊 💦
@philipwhale
on the Ancient Mariner Big Read, an inspired digital project bringing together voices from
@IggyPop
to
@Wintersonworld
.
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Here are our two physical tie-ins: Volume 1 includes Never Mind, Bad News & Some Hope and Volume 2 includes Mother's Milk and At Last. These physical books are available to pre-order now:
Volume 1:
Volume 2:
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We are incredibly proud of our utterly brilliant author
@olivialanguage
who has won a life-changing
@WindhamCampbell
prize. Congratulations Olivia!
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An abandoned lighthouse, an unsolved mystery and three missing keepers never to return. They say we'll never know what happened to those men. They say the sea keeps its secrets...
#TheLamplighters
by
@StonexEmma
is available to request on
@NetGalley
now:
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