What a happy launch to celebrate ⁦Penelope Slocombe⁩ and her brilliant novel SUNBIRDS ⁦Stanfords⁩ ⁦John Murray Press⁩ Congratulations Penelope! X

"If we want to survive in a liveable future, we need to consider, deeply, not only what kind of stories we tell, but how we tell them." Are Western narratives of individualistic heroism leading us astray? Absolutely love this piece from @ambermb. thebookseller.com/comment/beyond…

🚨🥳📖 WHY ANIMALS TALK is published today in the USA! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726952/w… Do you want to know what's really going on when animals talk? What do they have to say? And WHY? Why do some animals say very little, but others have hugely complex communication? FIND OUT HERE

Applications are now once again open for Page One, our annual online mentoring scheme. Seeking candidates from backgrounds which are currently underrepresented in publishing, we want to demystify the industry and give your career a kickstart: johnsonandalcock.co.uk/page-one

Happy publication day to Anita Cleare Anita Cleare! #HowtoGetYourTeenagerOutofTheirBedroom is out today from Watkins Publishing, an invaluable guide to modern parenting

What a wonderful, gloriously sunny few days at the fantastic Budleigh Literary Festival. 🥰 ☀️ A real honour to be one of this year’s Hilary Mantel Emerging Writers and to chat all things writing with @catrentzenbrink and @tom_lamont_journalist.

And so you should be! Congratulations @ambermb

What really happened to Daisy Mason? 👀 We are SO thrilled to be revealing the cover for #MakingAKilling, the brand new gripping thriller from Cara Hunter Coming soon in February 2025 and available to pre-order here: smarturl.it/MakingAKilling… #coverreveal #newbook

We’re hiring! Seeking a translation rights assistant to join our team, with full details below. Applications are open until October 31st: jobs.thebookseller.com/job/johnsonand… #jobsinbooks #publishingjobs

Thrilled to see this news out! This will be such an important new history, and alpana sajip Picador Books couldn't be a more perfect publisher for it thebookseller.com/rights/alpana-…

A stirring extract from Amber Massie-Blomfield’s book Acts of Resistance in ⁦Literary Hub⁩ today ⁦W. W. Norton & Company⁩ Just what the doctor ordered… lithub.com/but-can-it-cha…

We are pleased to announce The Creative Writing Prize in partnership with Johnson & Alcock literary agency: brunelwriter.com/2024/11/13/the… #brunelwriter #MAcreativewriting #postgraduatestudy

🎁Looking for a gift idea? 📚 "The best ideas books of 2024" from The @Guardian . Including "Why Animals Talk"! theguardian.com/books/2024/dec…

"We all once lived in the landscape. We worked and loved, slept and dreamed inside it. We observed change in the seasons, the incremental growth of plants and flowers, the sudden movement of wind and rain." Brilliant Bonnie Lander Johnson on our relationship with plants. April 2025 🌱

We can’t wait for readers to discover the brilliant mind that is Rose Keating! #Oddbody is coming July 2025 from Canongate (has left) and Simon & Schuster thebookseller.com/rights/canonga…

Absolutely thrilled to be in today's The Times and The Sunday Times crime round-up! HarperFiction PR HarperFiction William Morrow

Downing Fellow, Bonnie Lander Johnson, will be discussing her new book Vanishing Landscapes Heffers Bookshop on April 10th (6-7pm). The book describes seven plants we once lived among and the seven social and economic changes that separated us from them. More here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanishing-la…

We are thrilled to be working with Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency on the Great Northern Read Award, for unpublished writers of commercial, genre and book club fiction 📚 Applications will open in November 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards. Find out more 👇 newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alcock…

Great evening Heffers Bookshop in #Cambridge with Bonnie Lander Johnson talking about her wonderful book, #VanishingLandscapes

I've made a brand-new book! The first 200 people who buy it will get an exclusive signed and numbered copy! AND if you’re one of the first 100, you’ll get a lovely, limited-edition noticing notepad too! 📔✍️📚👏🎉💃 Pre-order your copy here: tinyurl.com/ycwdfphn