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Hermione Thompson

@HermThompson

Editor, cinephile, keen bean, smooth operator. She/her. Views my own.

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Ayanna Lloyd Banwo(@AyaRoots) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy Italian Pub Day! šŸ‡®šŸ‡¹šŸ‡¹šŸ‡¹When We Were Birds is now out in Italian with Einaudi editore. Translated by Monica Pareschi with a beautiful new cover featuring art by Elisa TalentinošŸ’™einaudi.it/catalogo-libriā€¦

Happy Italian Pub Day! šŸ‡®šŸ‡¹šŸ‡¹šŸ‡¹When We Were Birds is now out in Italian with @Einaudieditore. Translated by @MonicaPareschi with a beautiful new cover featuring art by Elisa TalentinošŸ’™einaudi.it/catalogo-libriā€¦
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Ahmed Masoud(@masoud_ahmed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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 šŸ’•
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Thank you @michaelmagee__ for dedicating the Nero Book Award prize to me, my mother and Palestine. This is incredible touching. I am in tears šŸ’• irishtimes.com/culture/books/ā€¦
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Gloucester Road Books(@G_Rd_Books) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Enormous congratulations to Michael Magee for winning the Debut Fiction category Nero Book Awards for

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.

Enormous congratulations to @michaelmagee__ for winning the Debut Fiction category @nerobookawards 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.
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David Coates(@OziasMidwinter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

Thrilled to reveal that the winner of the inaugural @nerobookawards 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 @FernBrady, @bethatintervals & @michaelmagee__!
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Hermione Thompson(@HermThompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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 šŸŒŸ

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Martin Doyle(@MartinDoyleIT) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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 Saturdayā€™s pages and round-up of the latest news

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Hermione Thompson(@HermThompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

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Hermione Thompson(@HermThompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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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Hermione Thompson(@HermThompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'See a freight train pulling itself out of the horizon like a conjurorā€™s endless scarf. The train traces the top of the level land, wagon by coloured wagon, until the whole distance is trimmed with its purpose.'

Gorgeous writing on place & what it does to us by Noreen Masud --

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Hermione Thompson(@HermThompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brilliantly bolshy bound proof of Orla Mackeyā€™s sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued debut novel MOUTHING ā€” an unsentimental and uncensored (!) love letter to village life and to several generations of rural working class Ireland. Out at the end of May from Hamish Hamilton.

Brilliantly bolshy bound proof of Orla Mackeyā€™s sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued debut novel MOUTHING ā€” an unsentimental and uncensored (!) love letter to village life and to several generations of rural working class Ireland. Out at the end of May from Hamish Hamilton.
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Simon Prosser(@HamishH1931) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New in Penguin paperback ā€” HAN KANGā€™s Greek Lessons, publishing next month:

ā€˜Han Kang widens the sky of feelingā€™ ā€” Max Porter

New in Penguin paperback ā€” HAN KANGā€™s Greek Lessons, publishing next month: ā€˜Han Kang widens the sky of feelingā€™ ā€” Max Porter
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Hermione Thompson(@HermThompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Delighted for Paul Murray and Zadie Smith! And very pleased to have the artist formerly known as the Folio Prize back in a fresh new form šŸŒ±

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Martina Durac(@MartinaDox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We canā€™t 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 donā€™t want to let out of your sight, a main character you grow to love, a life that feels as real as your own. Beautiful.

We canā€™t wait to welcome ā¦ā¦@michaelmagee__ā© to the Ennis Book Club Festival in March. His debut novel Close to Home hits hard. A book you donā€™t want to let out of your sight, a main character you grow to love, a life that feels as real as your own. Beautiful.
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Johanna Thomas-Corr(@JohannaTC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It was a tough choice but the book that gave me the most pleasure this year was Paul Murrayā€™s The Bee Sting.

It was a tough choice but the book that gave me the most pleasure this year was Paul Murrayā€™s The Bee Sting.
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