My The Bookseller #nonfiction Book of the Month of July is this epic and illuminating, under-the-skin-of a-nation travelogue by @simonWIparker September Publishing

My The Bookseller #nonfiction Editor's Choices for July are books by Alexandra Fuller Jen Hadfield Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark Ben Masters Evie Muir Kathryn Faulke Ralf Webb & Mina Smallman ( a few proofs missing)

A joy to have a pub date - 3.7.25 - for my memoir 'Listen With Father' Mattias Morrison. So grateful to everyone who has supported it thus far: also available for pre-order here: unbound.com/books/listen-w…. Now here's a photo of my Dad mowing the lawn in 1963

The first episodes of the #Nibbies podcast are live! Absolutely love these convos with Nibbies-shortlisted authors. Released daily ahead of the Awards and hosted by the wildly talented Hannah MacInnes

#BritishBookAwards

HUGE congratulations to the 10 authors whose stories wowed the Stroud Short Stories judges. The list is now on the SSS website stroudshortstories.blogspot.com They will read at our 27th event on 12/05. The list will be on here too as soon as my snipping assistant returns with a sourdough loaf

A privilege to speak to activist Nemonte Nenquimo of the Waorani people of the Amazon & her partner & co-writer @MitchNAnderso about her magnificent memoir, 'We Will Not Be Saved' from Wildfire Books in July. Interview next week The Bookseller

The Bathursts are up to their tricks again sneaking in the delayed gate charges on a Monday when they think no one will be looking... join the local group and exercise yr right to protest Right to Roam #righttoroam #Cirencester #Cotswolds #Gloucestershire

📣 UK-based Black journalists/writers - I’m looking to commission some interviews for The Bookseller’s 2024 black issue. Deets are in this article (just imagine it says “2024” where you read “2023”): thebookseller.com/news/submissio…

This was a great deal of work from a lot of Team Nibbies, as well as the authors, publicists, interviewer Hannah, plus Heavy Entertainment - and we hope you enjoy them all as much as we did making them

Happy #NationalSiblingsDay2024 ! Today we are celebrating siblings who have grown up with a disabled brother or sister. Join the conversation and tell us your #Itsasiblingthing Jo Whiley
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All the beautiful posts for #nationalsiblingsday Sibs are melting my heart. So here's my much-missed brother Richard...funny, kind, demon bowler, and a goldmine of sports stats

The award for the handsomest publisher catalogue for the autumn season goes to...

I missed out on seeing it for my previews so am now reading this marvel by Noreen Masud. Thrilling to see that inaugural Women's Prize #nonfiction sticker

When you're a book festival programmer and you don't do spreadsheets @bookstroud

Love the premise of this prize: some cracking #nonfiction contenders too

Onto August reading & top of the pile is this debut from Callum G Robinson which arrived with a delightful wee woodcut Doubleday

I loved this memoir, inspiring in its honesty; unforgettable in its blend of grit and vulnerability.

Today, #ReadingLessons makes its way out into the world! It’s about the books we read in school and the complicated relationships we have with them, and about my journey as a reader and teacher.

So I wandered into delightful The Book Corner in the Halifax Piece Hall and ran into Benjamin Myers author of the novel am currently reading #cuddy #bookworldserendipity

My April #nonfiction Book of the Month: the marvellous 'Reading Lessons' by Carol Atherton, out in 2 days!