Highly Commended in the @Waterstones Best Hardback Fiction Campaign category is the incredible campaign for You Are Here -well done to @louisecc and @EmmaPublicity #PPCAwards25

The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award are hosting an evening of readings and discussion with the shortlisted authors, chaired by author and former winner, Zadie Smith.

📍 The Barbican
🕖 7pm
📅 Monday 17 March 2025

Get your ticket here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

We're absolutely delighted that THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller has been longlisted for the sixteenth #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction!

a dark room with chairs facing a screen which reads ‘welcome to Sceptre Salon 2025’ followed by social media handles and hashtags

Leah Davis sits across from Gabriel Flynn and Leon Craig in front of a screen bearing their names and pictures of their books, Poor Ghost! and The Decadence

Wendy Erskine stands in front of a screen bearing her name and a picture of her books, The Benefactors

Leah Davis sits across from James Cahill and Jenny Mustard in front of a screen bearing their names and pictures of their books, The Violet Hour and What a Time to Be Alive

pics from Sceptre Salon!

we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below:

@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social

@sceptrebooks.bsky.social

@reece-shearsmith.bsky.social and @sjpemberton.bsky.social are Very Silly Men who happen to be geniuses. loved Inside Number 9 at the Wyndham's yesterday

tonnes of fun was had this year at my annual event highlight, the Sceptre Salon, which is always worth the stress-dreams and last minute panic about where the tombola is

Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚

I'm loving this evening's #SceptreSalon25, packed with exciting books for the year ahead but also brilliant for programming a simple livestream for booksellers outside of London to watch too.

Thanks for tuning in!

In awe.

So completely beside myself to be working on this gorge gorge gorgeeee book next year! And look at that COVER 🤩 complete with bespoke painting by Ariel Lee, and put together by cover designer extraordinaire Lucy Scholes 🏞

#DreamState
#BookSky 📚💙

It was a really unfair curveball to throw at us the day after the Christmas party. 0/4 👎🏻

absolutely raging about today's NYT Connections

SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS, the debut novel by @cmgleeson.bsky.social is coming in April - from the first word to the last, this is such an accomplished & exquisitely sensitively-handled story of how a woman rebuilds her life after the most horrific of tragedies. Moving, devastating & ultimately hopeful

A picture of You Are Here in hardback, with the words 'Celebrating 100,000 hardbacks sold' above it.

Oh, hi Bluesky! We're very excited to be here, and to share news & updates on all of the literary delights we have to offer ✨

...and what better way to begin than by sharing the INCREDIBLE news that #YouAreHere by David Nicholls has just surpassed 100,000 hardback sales! 💛🗺

#BookSky

This is superb: multiple POVs in musical prose, moving, grim, funny... on inequality, hope, and how class impacts women's lives. Deftly deals with sexual assault (bleak reading it alongside McGr**g*r's court case). Brilliant work @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social. Out next June, @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

you wish is my command... and yes, agree with you on that one. there's a good piece to be written about UK vs US covers in general! I think we baffle each other

We publish Someone Like Us in the UK - would you like an early Christmas present? 🎄🎁☺️

lovely write up of Andrew Miller's 'incredibly satisfying', 'exquisite' 10th novel THE LAND IN WINTER in the Bookseller this morning

David Nicholls' You Are Here named Amazon Books' Best Book of the Year for 2024 David Nicholls’ You Are Here (Sceptre) has been awarded the title of Best Book of the Year for 2024 by the Amazon Books editorial team, who also take Amazon Charts data and customer review ratings int...

It is, my friends, the Year of David Nicholls! Lovely man, BRILLIANT book. Has anyone not read this yet?! www.thebookseller.com/news/david-n...

here's a tip: if a company is asking YOU to pay THEM to publish your book, that's a 🚩

it's lovely to see so many people discovering Samantha Harvey's writing. her novel The Western Wind introduced me to the word 'cropsick' which is a wonderful old term for a hangover

I missed my bedtime watching it!

adored this 3 part BBC series on Lucan - a really affecting story of obsession with so many twists and turns: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness Set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, this story of two marriages brilliantly evokes the legacy of the second world war

I always get a kick when a reviewer manages to distil a book so skilfully. This is brilliant by Rachel Seiffert on The Land in Winter by "the master of nuance, expert at exploring the various chambers of the human heart", Andrew Miller:
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

This is so heartening to see! literary fiction at the top of the charts!

New Stephen King book announced today! NEVER FLINCH coming 27 May 2025 #booksky

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Writers & artists, I've decided to remove the paywall on my eight essays on the creative process, written between January and September this year. My newsletter is called SUBTRACTION and you can find it here.

One of the most fun things about having kids is getting to reread books you loved as a child and realising they're probably a huge reason why you became the person you are