Setting the bar high - my first read of 2024 - and a novel so pure, taut, and urgent. It’s rare for me to exclaim out loud at the beauty of certain sentences, but I did with this book. Oneworld Publications Paul Lynch The Booker Prizes

“…the best-selling author for 2023 for Hodges Figgis was Claire Keegan… she ‘was head and shoulders above anyone else’ with all her titles selling very strongly… ‘Claire Keegan has been phenomenal. We can’t keep her in stock.’”⁦ independent.ie/business/irish…

I can’t wait for this!

Writing fiction is like ‘sitting with ghosts in solitude’ - what a huge treat to see Ian McEwan interviewed by Ella Berthoud at the The London Library tonight - and to get a book signed! #IanMcEwan

Paula Hawkins’ fourth thriller is set on a Scottish tidal island and is due from Doubleday Books in 2024. Read more 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/paula-h…

I’m celebrating the first day of Spring with the arrival of this beautiful proof from ⁦W&N⁩ ⁦Orion Publishing⁩. I wish you could feel the embossing, but look at the silver lid! 💙🕊️🦡 🫖

We are thrilled to reveal the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist sponsored by Bailey Steinworth and Mark Kelso. 16 luminous novels to take you to different worlds, to share, recommend, love and pass on. Which ones are you excited to get your hands on? bit.ly/WPFiction

Just over 100 years ago, Jacques Lartigue photographed his partner ‘Bibi’ (Madeleine Messager), quietly reading in a sunlit corner at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Cap d’Antibes. She lives on reading here forever...

Thank you ALCS for my lovely secondary rights payment. Writers … if you’re not yet signed up, do so! It’s a wonderful authors’ organisation. ✍️ #ALCS

History writers! Short story writers! The HWA Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is open for entries. We're looking for stories of up to 3,500 words set 35 or more years in the past. More details: historicalwriters.org/awards/ddshwas… #HWADDSS24 Dorothy Dunnett Soc.

In particular, I loved Old God’s Time and Haven - both so captivating and beautifully written Dublin Literary Award

#ArtistStudios Gregory Crewdson "Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures."

Sunrise at Stonehenge today (1st May🔥) was at 5.38am, sunset is at 8.31pm #Beltane #MayDay

“A novel is the only place where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.” —Paul Auster theparisreview.org/interviews/121…

I loved Brooklyn and I can’t wait to read the sequel #LongIsland Picador Books … #ColmToibin

And it’s publication day for the new edition of my interiors book Beautifully Casual Home published by Ryland Peters & Small … ! #publicationday

Wonderful to hear Colm Toibin interviewed last night Picador Books … and that’s my weekend reading sorted! #LongIsland #ColmToibin

Good evening! This week's theme is Interiors. -------- 'Window in London Street', Fitzroy Street (1901) by Sir William Orpen (National Gallery of Ireland)

Absolutely loved The Tower - which I began reading whilst in Scotland - glorious evocative writing, beautifully realised female characters - 👏Flora Carr Hutchinson Heinemann

The Old English word for equinox is 'emniht', from 'efen' and 'niht', when night and day are evenly balanced. Today is the 'hærfestlice emniht', autumnal equinox; after this (says Byrhtferth of Ramsey) 'langað seo niht and wanað se dæg', 'the night lengthens and the day wanes'...