Hermione Thompson
@HermThompson
Editor, cinephile, keen bean, smooth operator. She/her. Views my own.
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22-08-2013 15:05:35
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When you read the most perfect first chapter of a new book.
I just know this one is going to be an absolute belter.
#Mouthing Orla Mackey Hermione Thompson #HamishHamilton
Happy Italian Pub Day! š®š¹š¹š¹When We Were Birds is now out in Italian with Einaudi editore. Translated by Monica Pareschi with a beautiful new cover featuring art by Elisa Talentinošeinaudi.it/catalogo-libriā¦
Thank you Michael Magee for dedicating the Nero Book Award prize to me, my mother and Palestine. This is incredible touching. I am in tears š
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Enormous congratulations to Michael Magee for winning the Debut Fiction category Nero Book Awards for #ClosetoHome
Delighted that these two brilliant people and I could give it this bit of recognition, it deserves every bit it receives.
If you haven't read it, READ IT.
Thrilled to reveal that the winner of the inaugural Nero Book Awards Fiction Award is THE BEE STING by Paul Murray! An incredible book which all three of us judges absolutely adored. Congratulations also to the other category winners Fern Brady, beth lincoln (updates only) & Michael Magee!
The best of news ā a jig of delight for Michael Magee and Paul Murray! And thank you to Nero Book Awards for supporting our literary culture with this suite of new prizes š
Magee and Morris on Dylan Thomas Prize longlist; Nolan and Carroll on Gordon Burn Prize shortlist; Bernie McGill wins Edge Hill story prize. A good day/week for Irish writing. Books newsletter: a preview of Saturdayās pages and round-up of the latest news
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Absolutely delighted to see CLOSE TO HOME on the Dylan Thomas Prize longlist in excellent company - congratulations Michael Magee and chapeau to twelve very fine writers!
Lubaina Himid - WHAT an icon. Four decades of dynamic, witty, humane, immersive, transformative and wildly inventive painting, curating, community-building. We're so thrilled to welcome her to Hamish Hamilton to write her first memoir of a life in art:
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Thank you so much to Hermione Thompson and Hamish Hamilton for my proof copy of #Mouthing by Orla Mackey.
Itās out in May and looks fabulous!
Happy paperback publication day to Sophie Mackintosh' seductive and unsettling third novel, the Women's Prize-longlisted CURSED BREAD š§Ŗ
We canāt wait to welcome ā¦ā¦Michael Mageeā© to the Ennis Book Club Festival in March. His debut novel Close to Home hits hard. A book you donāt want to let out of your sight, a main character you grow to love, a life that feels as real as your own. Beautiful.