Editors don't have favourite authors; it's against editorial law. But I ADORE Natalie Haynes' books and this one is a doozy. Look at the spredges on that indie edition, just look at them! Words pretty bloody marvellous too. Happy happy pb pub day!

“The way a government treats its refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”
- Tony Benn
#Rwanda #Rwanda Bill

A riveting evening Backstory | London bookshop listening to Jeremy Bowen talk about #TheMakingoftheModernMiddleEast , mostly, unsurprisingly, about the unremittingly grim war between Israel and Gaza. #proudandluckypublisher

iPhone found on a Piccadilly line train at Kings Cross Saint Pancras station last night (around 4am this morning!) Phone was dead so it’s currently charging. Please retweet so I can return to owner

Returned home to this absolute treat! Thank you George Morley and Picador Books, it’s gorgeous!

Out 25th April, pre-order here: panmacmillan.com/authors/agnes-…

Watching the 1 o'clock news while eating lunch. Dear god, but it's unremittingly grim. I know this is not news, but every damn day we see something grimmer than the day before.

The Angela Rayner 🌹 saga. I get it. Attack dog attacked. Karma.
But really?
A police investigation into whether she was registered at wrong address?
Is that it?
Not that she voted twice, no act of personation.
It seems petty beyond belief and a total waste of police time

And it's going to be bloody marvellous. #gusandgwen

Almost at the end of our week in Paris and how perfect to get back to the hotel after an excellent dinner and find that Pierrot le Fou is on the telly. Yes we are a walking cliché but …

I worry deeply about how long it’s taking the mainstream consensus to reach a point of calling for a ceasefire.

How many Palestinian deaths is ‘enough’ for basic humanity to kick in?

How long can a genocide be reframed as a justifiable war?

Quite.

Thinking of you and #Matriarcha Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes here in the #MuseedeSainteCroix in Poitiers.

…”in this enthralling book”…

“…this revelatory account”…

“… her wonderful writing”..,

“What shines through is a kind of exasperated love”…

Kathryn Hughes reviews Catherine Nixey’s brilliant new book, HERESY, in today Guardian.

“As Catherine Nixey notes in this arrestingly vivid book, scholars now talk not of ‘early Christianity’ but ‘early Christianities’”.

John Gray in the New Statesman, reviewing Catherine Nixey’s HERESY, just out from Picador.

Rites of Passage by Judith Flanders book review – a brilliant account of Victorian Britain in mourning theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

Marvellous news, dear Laura Cumming - quite right too!

It is an absolute pleasure to be publishing Jenny Kleeman's The Price of Life today! A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, called 'morbidly fascinating and essential' by The New Statesman, this deep dive into how we calculate the incalculable is a real must-read... buff.ly/3PhVuwc

James O'Brien Peter Kay They were careless people, The Tories — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that held them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…' F. Scott Fitzgerald

NOSTALGIA campaign officially kicked off with this morning’s brilliant discussion on BBC Radio 4 ‘s Start the Week! 🧠