The most wonderful pre-launch tonight for Andrew North’s WAR & PEACE & WAR, thronged with Afghans, foreign correspondents from all over the world, and a truly great speech from Sarah Braybrooke at the new Ithaka Press at Bonnier UK. Out 1st August, but selling very fast already

Big day tomorrow that will change Britain forever! 🖊️ Yes that's right - it's the official publication date of MY BOOK. It's already started appearing in the wild (spotted here in a key natural habitat, Waterstones), but you can order it online here 👉 geni.us/NationalParksO…

I picked my five most beautiful UK national parks for BBC Travel. A tough ask, with so much to consider, but in the end I plumped for four classics and one curveball. What would yours be? Thanks to Graeme Green for a great interview and article. bbc.com/travel/article…

Excellent news for translators, readers and translation publishers!

“I can’t see a culture function and survive without women, and girls in schools”. Zarghuna Kargar interviewing Andrew North about his brilliant book on 20 years in Afghanistan, WAR & PEACE & WAR, featuring his drawings, at the British Library. Coming from Ithaka 1st of August

A delightful morning touring London bookshops with @NorthAndrew as he signs copies of War & Peace & War. I loved editing Andrew’s deep dive into Afghanistan. Read it to understand this amazing, complex country, on the anniversary of the West’s withdrawal from Kabul.

It was a pleasure to take part in this panel on translation and publishing today!

“Will you write anything about being here?” “Maybe,” I said. “Write good things about us.” An extremely gripping extract from War & Peace & War which details @NorthAndrew's kidnapping by the Taliban economist.com/1843/2024/08/0…

Huge congratulations to Ernest Scheyder, author of The War Below, on being long listed for the Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2024

Just finished @NorthAndrew‘s War&Peace&War (lots of parallels there to what and how is happening now everywhere from Ukraine to Georgia), and next between Gary Shteyngart‘s Absurdistan and Yaroslav Trofimov’s Our Enemies Will Vanish chose the latter. Sorry, Gary!

'A British colonial army was defeated in the region in 1880. More than 120 years later, few officials in London knew anything about that history. Why was Britain going back?' @NorthAndrew on Helmand in openDemocracy, from War & Peace & War bit.ly/3AwJ9jf

What’s happening in Gaza, the fact it goes on and on, day after day, massacre after massacre, ًis so horrific it’s hard to put into words, a world-changing crime against humanity facilitated and enabled by global leaders who should have fought with every last breath to stop it

‘Few memoirs in Westminster have been as anticipated … Refreshingly honest’ the first review for Kingmaker by Graham Brady is in, Christopher Hope📝 gives it four stars in The Telegraph

Delighted that Ithaka Press has its first ST bestseller this weekend with Sir Graham Brady’s unputdownable Westminster tell-all Kingmaker

I loved working on this book - eye-opening, entertaining and a really fresh perspective on scientific ideas

Two important new books on conflict to come next year: How Wars End and The Art of War and Peace thebookseller.com/rights/ithaka-…

Delighted to see that Graham Brady’s Kingmaker is a Times Books Politics Book of the Year; ‘Essential’ thetimes.com/culture/books/…

I can’t wait to publish this astonishing book next year

Very excited to publish this beautiful book next week Ithaka Press

Intertidal by M.Yuvan is out today, with a foreword by Robert Macfarlane! This spellbinding read from a leading Indian ecological activist, writer and educator is a deep observation of coast and wetland, climate and self.