'If short stories are your thing, you will cherish this collection' Happy publication day to Bernard MacLaverty bernard maclaverty - his collection 'Blank Pages' Vintage Books Joe Pickering is included in Martin Chilton's pick of August's best books independent.co.uk/independentpre…

google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg… Well done to everyone Faber Books on an incredible piece of publishing. Everything about this makes me joyful: the success of a serious young writer, the fact it’s from an indie, how good it is for bookshops. Oh & also this review is pure pleasure. Bravo!

PubPerspectives and here's the brilliant Jo Prior! Fantastic news for female leadership in publishing and for the industry as a whole 👏👏👏

Congratulations, @raucousguffaw! #NobelPrizeLiterature

Huge congratulations to Merlin Sheldrake for winning this year's The Royal Society Science Book Prize for his book 'Entangled Life', praised by judges as an "important, rigorous, and entertaining account of the surreal world of fungi"🍄 #SciBooks Brian Cox

Should you wish to ride the 1941 Tour of Spain with me this Christmas, which let's face it you definitely do, you can get my latest book, VUELTA SKELTER, for just 99p in a Kindle Daily Deal today: bit.ly/vueltaskelterk…

There are two types of people in this world: those who think today’s Wordle was easy, and right-thinking people.

That Heathrow Live from the Paddock vid is what we all needed after yesterday’s Wordle. #StormEunice

Wonderful first review in the FT for Homesickness 🙏🙏🙏 Homesickness by Colin Barrett — small-town shadows | Financial Times ft.com/content/8a90f6…

A new study by Aberystwyth University University will explore how writers’ pay can be made fairer and establish benchmarks for different kinds of author incomes, with help from Literature Wales. Discover more here: bit.ly/3yCSBPd

Happy new Bluey day, everyone!

Happy publication day Richard Askwith. This may be his best book yet. I totally loved it. Age-graded results suddenly have a whole new world of meaning ... a highly recommended read, and not just for the "late-life" runner ...

reality of a human body inside a block of stone, this book is for you. Patrick Bringley spent ten years working as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, a job he took when his brother died. All the Beauty in the World is an account of his time among some of

🔊 A free 30 min extract from the ATTACK WARNING RED audiobook. Please jump in and see if you enjoy it. No registering, no ads, no fee, no hassle: just me and nuclear war. pod.fo/e/171982

I was happy to be in the Today programme - the show I wake up to every morning - to talk about Attack Warning Red. Of course, nerds will know Today has a rumoured role in nuclear war planning...

The story goes that if Britain is destroyed in a nuclear attack, and no-one is left to communicate with the submarine captain, one of the tests he'll use to make sure Britain has indeed *gone* is three days' consecutive silence on the airwaves from the Today programme.

It's 8 years since we lost Dan. Anniversaries are hard but I try to meet them by celebrating his memory. This year I've gone big: I've written a book about him, me and sport. It's out on 3rd August, and here's the cover. I hope it spreads far and wide how brilliant Dan was. x

How does one make sense of something as vast and intricate as the universe? Andrew Pontzen introduces his look at computers, codes and cosmic simulations, The Universe in a Box, out today: bit.ly/3PaEJUv

Our baby boy Rycroft died at Great Ormond Street last month. The thread that follows is a little bit about who he was, and how you can help other children like him. We would love any help you can give to get Rycroft's story to as many people as possible ❤️

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