What a night ⁦Southbank Centre⁩ with the ⁦Rough Trade Books⁩ crew…

Rough Trade Books thanks for last night.

“Our problems in this country are not arriving on a beach in Kent from France.
They’re arriving because of the oligarchs and the billionaires that run our society.”

'The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.'

James Baldwin.

The best books of 2024 — this year’s new must-reads include Kaveh Akbar’s ‘Martyr!’; ‘Help Wanted,’ by Adelle Waldman; and ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write.’ trib.al/yZMcdVp

To write about the employees of a big-box store in upstate New York, Adelle Waldman spent months working at one herself, unloading trucks of merchandise at 4am.

While this may sound dreary, her new novel, “Help Wanted” is a lively, humane book econ.st/3PZ9tY5 👇

This Saturday! Rough Trade Books, QEH Southbank Centre What a line up! See you all there!

Completely appalling. It should be getting far more media attention than it has. These crimes must be fully investigated. But right now Western governments could stop arming Israel and insist that aid flows in.

Bodies in mass graves had hands tied says UN
thetimes.co.uk/article/gaza-m…

What a brilliant way to spend a Sunday afternoon - with our first in store with the fantastic Bobby Lee. Thanks to everyone who came and to the band who sound incredible and are also such lovely people to hang out with. ✨🧡

Last few tickets to see this wonderful bunch on Saturday Southbank Centre here…

southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

Join us at Foyles Bookshop on 2nd May to launch 'All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art' by Orlando Whitfield, where the author will be in conversation with Russell Tovey:
foyles.co.uk/events/orlando…

Proud to be included in the 2024 #TIME100 list; weepy at the write-up by my beloved Ann Patchett. Thanks, TIME and Ann and the whole family at The Lynx. We will work hard to make Gainesville and Florida proud. See the full list here: time.com/time100

.#Merky Books has signed journalist's Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi’s Briticó: Nigerians in Modern Britain, the Story of Migration and the Shaping of a Nation in an exclusive submission 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/merky-b…

We’re throwing a launch party for GOODLORD at The Social 18th June and you’re all invited 🎈✨🥂dice.fm/event/gv2m2-go… Rough Trade Books

Love to see Goodlord by Ella Frears on Gillian Stern TBR pile…

Coming to ‘the village’ this Sunday… with pints King&Queen Wendover after…

for The Paris Review, Anne Carson and I discussed the nature of translation, her contract with the light, and making time stop. theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…

As a user of #Goodlord , I'm very excited for my next read. Ella Frears Rough Trade Books

Counter-cultural publishing house, Rough Trade Books, presents an evening of eclectic authors, artists and musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, Sheena Patel and Musa Okwonga. Book now!

'His story was emblematic of everything that I felt was bad about the art market'

Orlando Whitfield for Guardian Books on the corruption of the art market, the return of Inigo Philbrick, & the writing of ALL THAT GLITTERS, out 2nd May with Profile Books:
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…