'Progress is about resistance': I interviewed Riz Ahmed about Defiance – a must-watch 3-part documentary on South Asian resistance to the far-right during the Thatcher era that starts tonight on C4 theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Congratulations to all the authors longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Oondatje Prize 2024. Particularly to Women’s Prize authors for Fiction #IsabellaHammad Cecile Pin and Non-Fiction Laura Cumming Noreen Masud #AliceAlbinia

📢The 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize longlist is here🎇

For 20 years, the Prize has awarded £10,000 to a book that evokes the spirit of a place.

Huge congratulations to the 14 longlisted titles, chosen by judges Jan Carson, Xialou Guo, and Francis Spufford (also a past RSL Ondaatje…

Essential reading that encapsulates powerfully the disaster that is the privatisation of England’s water - and other things that humans need

Hurrah to Madhumita Murgia and Picador on a double triumph: a wonderful book launch tonight at Waterstones Trafalgar Square for CODE DEPENDENT, and the additional joy of launching off the back of shortlisting for the Women’s Prize for Non Fiction

Congratulations Madhumita Murgia !

“We see with everything that we are”.

Overjoyed to see Laura Cumming’s THUNDERCLAP shortlisted just now for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non Fiction.

HUGE and utterly deserved congratulations to Laura Cumming

“No one writes art like Laura Cumming” Philip Hoare

I feel sad for Alice Albinia that her BRITANNIAS isn’t here but this is such a great shortlist!

This is such a astute and beautifully written review. Thank you!

Could not love the James Baldwin cover of the Penguin Press UK autumn/winter catalogue more - also announcing the August publication of NO NAME IN THE STREET.

Many congratulations to the Baldwin family, to Ayesha Pande and Margaret Halton, and all at Allen Lane

On my way to the announcement of the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year for which Alice Albinia shortlisted (THE BRITANNIAS). Have just caught up with the lovely conversation about islands that Alice had on Suzannah Lipscomb's NOT JUST THE TUDORS podcast. Well worth a listen!

We're featuring Alice Albinia's desk on the RCL website today, ahead of the announcement of the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year!

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