PSA: *do not* attempt to go on holiday this year without Michael Magee's CLOSE TO HOME and Paul Murray's THE BEE STING nestled in your suitcase 😎 For all your summer situations (poolside/seaside/chic cafe table on a sun-drenched piazza) these paperbacks are IT

We're so excited to be joining the fabulous line up at West Cork Literary Festival this July! Join Michael Magee for a live recording of Burning Books on July 15 as he tells Ruth McKee about the books which have marked his life 📕 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ booksirelandmagazine.com/burning-books-… via Books Ireland

‘Offbeat, dreamlike, artfully of-the-moment. Danger and farce tussle for dominance [against] the backdrop of an America cluttered with jettisoned dreams…' BEAUTIFUL DAYS reviewed in Observer New Review - thank you Hephzibah Anderson! theguardian.com/books/article/…

thanks to Sam for having me on Field Podcast and letting me talk about A FLAT PLACE and Fossil Free Books and read Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ‘City of Lights’, translated by Agha Shahid Ali. These days I always have Faiz in my head, drumming fieldramble.buzzsprout.com/2035293/153720…

Very proud to read Michael Magee and Mohsin Hamid in The Observer this weekend — calmly and clearly suggesting we demand more than the bare minimum

MOUTHING by Orla Mackey in the Irish Times' best books of 2024 so far! 'Startling, hilarious, heartbreaking, and oh-so-familiar to anyone who grew up in a small community' -- thank you Jan Carson Martin Doyle

Exhilaratingly inventive, emotionally subtle and wise, by turns desperately funny and desperately sad (often both at once) -- THE RENOVATION is an astonishing debut about grief & exile & memory & Europe. I'm so thrilled to welcome its author Kenan Orhan to Hamish Hamilton.

Congratulations Jessica J. Lee! Delighted to see DISPERSALS on the Wainwright list —

BEAUTIFUL DAYS by Zach Williams: dreamlike & beguiling, a collection of hyperreal tales from the mirror-world, already earning comparisons to George Saunders, Mariana Enriquez, Jennifer Egan, Carmen Maria Machado, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson… Out in the UK today 🔫

My The Bookseller October #nonfiction Book of the Month is the brutally honest & utterly courageous "Shattered" by Hanif Kureishi Simon Prosser

Delighted to see Michael Magee's CLOSE TO HOME on this longlist!

'Unnerving, surreal... Zach Williams pushes you slowly off into the night.' Delighted to read this review of BEAUTIFUL DAYS by Dwight Garner in today's The New York Times! nytimes.com/2024/08/05/boo…

'It is very hard to feel that those around you value book festivals more than doing anything possible to put a spanner in this poisoned system that kills and maims racialised children every single day' A 🔥 new Shelf Life today from Noreen Masud lunate.co.uk/features/noree…

Zach Williams' BEAUTIFUL DAYS on Barack Obama's books of the summer!! 😎

Beloved summer tradition: Ali Smith visits the office to speak about her forthcoming novel. This year we have GLIFF — a word that means glimpse, glance, trace, flash, scare, but can also mean almost anything else — a word that ‘opens like a meadow when you pay attention to it.’

The first hardback copy of Ekow Eshun’s THE STRANGERS. An astonishing book (see ‘life-changing’, ‘required reading for all’ and ‘genius’). One month to go till publication.

honoured to have written a blurb for this amazing book - Ekow Eshun's THE STRANGERS, out next week (19th September) with Simon Prosser Hermione Thompson

Delighted to be welcoming back Ali Smith to Southbank Centre to celebrate her new novel Gliff, which promises to be one of the highlights of our Winter Season. 10 Nov. Tickets on sale on Thurs. Thanks to Simon Prosser Anna Ridley for making it possible. southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ali-s…