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Our latest Cat Corner contains no surprises. Eliot was a famous felinophile! But what, exactly, is a Jellicle cat? 😺😸😻

“Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.” Jean Rhys died #OnThisDay in 1979 #ReadMoreWomen

As The Beat Museum prepares to re-open in the coming weeks we invite you to join our mailing list to stay apprised of our progress. Photo copyright Dennis Hearne. kerouac.com

"Every single person of colour working in publishing today is standing on the shoulders of this amazing woman", The London Book Fair, 10-12 March 2026 has announced that Margaret Busby will be awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award this year! More here: bit.ly/3bFuovm

Check out this virtual event with prior guest Urmila Seshagiri (Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts)! It's on her preparations of an updated and improved edition of Virginia Woolf's “Sketch of the Past". calendar.utk.edu/event/ut_human…

Interrupting our hiatus to post this photo of a very sleepy Hopkins, the bat-panther you heard in our season finale's Cat Corner 🦇🐈‍⬛

Congratulations to Margaret Busby for all her huge achievements and her much deserved new honour as CBE. An inspiration to all of us and such a support over several decades at Wasafiri.Wasafiri QMUL English & Drama Royal Society of Literature Bernardine Evaristo

💎 ANNA AKHMATOVA Born on this day, in 1889 “You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.”

All the congratulations to superstar MARGARET BUSBY, winner of this year’s London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award, presented today by ⁦Bernardine Evaristo⁩