We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2024 shortlist! Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🥳🎉

So pleased to be sharing this news today. Proofs coming soon!

The 40th Anniversary Issue of Wasafiri remembers Gboyega Odubanjo & Benjamin Zephaniah through elegiac poems from Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬, Dzifa Afi Benson, Malika Booker, and 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus. I urge you to read this special feature: wasafiri.org/issues/wasafir…

'Her poetry stands unsurpassed in its popularity and technical accomplishment . . . and in the wit, acuity and seriousness of purpose with which she shows us what it is to be human.' Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 on Wendy Cope's new Collected Poems Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…

Every day this week, listen as Andrew O’Hagan turns his clear eye on human relationships for BBC Radio 4. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

'Every sentence in Parade seems to grapple with an idea. People die, perspective shifts, scenery changes, and yet there remains a clear, sharp line of thought that holds the reader.' (Sara Baume) Find out more 👉 gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-pri… #GoldsmithsPrize2024

We are delighted to announce the winner of the #GoldsmithsPrize2024! Congratulations Rachel 🎉👏🎉

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'Addictively enjoyable.' Guardian 'A masterpiece.'⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Extraordinary.' Marina Hyde 'A gripping, clever story.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Introducing the paperback cover for Andrew O'Hagan's Sunday Times bestselling novel, Caledonian Road. Coming February 2025. linktr.ee/caledonianroad…

Introducing A Barrister for the Earth. Pioneering barrister Monica Feria-Tinta advocates not only for the people fighting for their homes and livelihoods, but also for those who have no voice: for rivers, forests and endangered species. Out in April 2025: linktr.ee/earthbarrister

The brilliant Gwen Adshead addresses 'Four Questions about Violence' for this year's BBC Reith Lectures. First episode available now: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

This week’s poet in focus in our newsletter is Gboyega Odubanjo, shortlisted for his book Adam. Read now at us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=c21b7b88da4… to find a featured poem, readers’ notes, & an exclusive review by critic John Field. Faber Books

'Don't let them tame you!' Isadora Duncan The story of modern dance is a story of subversion. Meet the extraordinary women who drove the movement in Wild Grace by Sara Veale. Out 30 January 2025: linktr.ee/wildgracebook

‘It can take you to some very unexpected places of personal reflection.’ Sara Veale on Start the Week discusses the experience of watching dance. Her book, Wild Grace explores the extraordinary women who were pioneers of modern dance. Out next week. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The brilliant Monica Feria-Tinta talks to Zing Tsjeng for British Vogue ahead of publication of her new book A Barrister for the Earth (24.4.25)

'For years I had no sound but his sweetness, his lye. Thus I go slow. I song last. Least. The lower. That which I had nor sound I may still song.' Richard Scott's Second Collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is out today. faber.co.uk/product/978057…

Last week saw Andrew O'Hagan's bestseller Caledonian Road arrive in paperback and to celebrate we played host to a fascinating conversation about character connections, real life and mapping the state of the nation. Enjoy the latest #WaterstonesPodcast: waterstones.com/blog/the-water…

Introducing Helm, Sarah Hall's rich, wild and vital new novel. Published 28 August, it features a stunning cover design by Henry Petrides. Pre-order it now Bookshop.org using code HELM10. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/helm-s…

This World Poetry Day, introducing Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, a new gathering of African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora voices on nature. Edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf, Nature Matters is out in May 2025 and available to pre-order now.

The one thing fiction can do is make people live an experience. I’d love to just be able to give somebody that experience of a natural phenomenon in some capacity and have them think about it, says Sarah Hall on her new novel, Helm 👇 thebookseller.com/author-intervi…