I met the brilliant Noreen Masud tonight Women's Prize party. Proud to be on the same shortlist, introduced by Suzannah Lipscomb What a room full of women writers..!

Coming on 19th September from Hamish Hamilton, this beautiful book from a beautiful writer — powerful, subtle, immersive & affecting

Just done a lovely interview with one of our most important & original writers: Hanif Kureishi - on the Randy Cohen's joyful new stage version of The Buddha of Suburbia, revisiting the highs and lows of 70s Britain and so much more... You can hear it on Monday's BBC Front Row.

Excited for this —
⁦The RSC⁩ ⁦Hanif Kureishi⁩

A new colourway for ZADIE SMITH in paperback 🌞

In Jessica J. Lee's ‘Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging’, published this week by Simon Prosser, Emily Hasler finds the generosity and openness of a packet of seeds saved from one’s own garden caughtbytheriver.net/2024/04/disper…

Jean Seberg reading Melville

New in!
⁦Orla Mackey⁩’s excellent debut MOUTHING in the hands of editor ⁦Hermione Thompson⁩ —

Check out 'James Baldwin plaque unveiling: Black History Walks' eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-baldwi… @Eventbrite Hackney Libraries Elizabeth Pears Pearson Penguin Classics UK Jacaranda Books Hackney Council Hackney Gazette Hackney Empire Hackney CVS Hackney CVS Youth Simon Prosser UCL History Akala

New in!
Paperback ‘On Women’ by SUSAN SONTAG — in hands of cover designer ⁦Chris Bentham⁩
(Photo by Thomas Victor — Susan Sontag, New York City, 1978)

‘Writing, theatre, acting and music are really what we’re good at in this country. That’s our reason to be optimistic’ — HANIF KUREISHI in Guardian today — theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

BBC reveals first look pictures and cast joining Lennie James in Bernardine Evaristo’s MR LOVERMAN — bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

During Angela Davis' 1971 trial, the prosecution used Davis' library as evidence of her radicalism. Her trial support team needed copies of those books to prepare for the arguments Davis would face in court. Where did they turn? A radical bookstore: the Jefferson Bookshop

there’s me in the paper talking about how I’m definitely not a British novelist and also other things

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Just in! First paperback copy of DEVORAH BAUM’s wondrous On Marriage —

Cover art by Francois Truffaut 🎬

Fresh from the printers, the first advance copy of DEBORAH LEVY’s August Blue in paperback, in my happy hands —

It was a perfect day — a walk up to the river’s source at Nine Wells with Rob, where we shook hands with the springs and he handed me the manuscript of ‘Is a River Alive?’ as skylarks sung from above —