In our latest issue of The Bookseller, we explore the best of Black British publishing in this year's edition of The Black Issue. Read the issue 👉content.yudu.com/web/1vcls/0A1x…

Lorde and Charli working it out on the remix:

“you walk like a Bitch”

charli: i don’t know if you like me lorde:

‘brat summer’ I wimper, as I struggle to make it to a 10am in person meeting

I’ve started a substack to share thoughts, musings and whatever else spills out. First post on wasps & writing is up now open.substack.com/pub/williamray…

🌞 ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING DAYS EVER!!! so gagged to reveal the cover of SUNSTRUCK by William Rayfet Hunter - a glossy, dazzling story of love and power. out with @merkybooks in may 2025 🌞

Cover reveal! You preorder your copy of my debut novel Sunstruck from Waterstones now!

BREAKING: Today, more than 1000 authors are launching a mass boycott of Israeli publishers who are complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This declaration amounts to the largest cultural boycott of Israeli institutions in history. lithub.com/hundreds-of-au…

Very proud to be a signatory to this open letter. We refuse to be complicit in the ongoing displacement, apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people.

the vet said i’m actually a completely normal weight and size for my breed

Honoured to be including in issue 15. Launch event 17.12.24

blurbs starting to come in for the blazing, addictive SUNSTRUCK by William Rayfet Hunter, out next may. thank you so much Soula Emmanuel for the generous quote. couldn’t have said it better myself @merkybooks @kat_aitken 🌞

The The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025 has announced its Seminar Programme highlights, including David Shelley Hachette Book Group Hachette UK, James Daunt Waterstones Barnes & Noble, William Rayfet Hunter & taylor-dior rumble from #Merky Books, while The Reading Agency is the Charity of the Year! #LBF25 midaspr.co.uk/news/lbf25-rev…

this is the closest i’ll get to feeling like a proud mother until i actually have children . . . because William Rayfet Hunter is one of the observer’s best new novelists 2025 with SUNSTRUCK! out in may from merky books. what a GAG 🌞🌞🌞 theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

Congrats to William Rayfet Hunter who’s been named in The Observer New Review Best New Novelists 2025! SUNSTRUCK “a love letter to the fierceness/confusion of your early 20s, when you don’t know who you are or what your place in the world is” out 15 May ☀️ #Merky Books 📚💥 theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

Issue 23 Is Here 🦈 With writing from Leo Robson, Róisín Lanigan, The author, Séamas O'Reilly, Jimmy McIntosh, William Rayfet Hunter, Louis Staples, David Whitehouse, Emma Magnus, Ciaran Thapar & more the-fence.com/shop

When she gets back, let’s all pretend to be asleep