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We're looking for a new Editorial Assistant @JonathanCape. Please apply if you think that might be you - happy to answer any questions. (Deadline is 25 June) jobsearch.createyourowncaree…
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Join us on 13 June for an evening of readings fundraising for Palestinian writers displaced in Egypt
At SET Social, Peckham - from @eseapn, @TiltedAxisPress, @FitzcarraldoEds, in association with @PalFest, + @EseaSisters will present on ESEA-Palestine solidarity teach-in events
🍉 WRITERS FOR PALESTINE 🍉
We're proud to be partnering with our friends @TiltedAxisPress @FitzcarraldoEds @PalFest @EseaSisters to bring an evening of readings and political teaching to @set_set_set_set on June 13
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So, so happy to see BLACKOUTS here! An ace list, as ever.
Congratulations to our eight finalists for The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2024!
"Every work here is testament to the power of blazing imagination and patient craft in our complex times." - @alexhharris, Chair of Judges
Explore the shortlists: orwellfoundation.com/the-orw…
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We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #InternationalBooker2024 is Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
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Time is flying by and we now only have one week left to go until the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize deadline!
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Faber is hiring an Editorial Assistant. The purpose of this role is to support Alex Bowler, Faber’s publisher. Apply by 11 April 2024.
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✍🏼 A fortnight left until the 2024 Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize deadline! Still plenty of time to craft your story, give it a good look over, and get in to us for a chance of winning £1,000 and being published in our annual anthology!
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✨ Meet the judges of the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2024
🦉 We're thrilled to have a team with wonderful reading and writing wisdom at the helm of the decision making process.
📖 This year we're joined by author @onwuemezi , editor @dbirdan , and agent @agent_luck
Couldn’t be happier to be welcoming @MonaOjedaF to @GrantaBooks for her new novel. ELECTRIC SHAMANS is a trip.
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Late to the party, but v excited about this. A tour through different sexual fetishes, SECOND SKIN will be playful and disruptive, deeply considered and definitely a little smutty. Couldn’t be happier to be working with @anastasiia_f and @jessleebot
.@GrantaBooks has acquired Second Skin by Anastasiia Fedorova (@anastasiia_f) 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/gra…
V excited to be judging the @BrickLaneBooks Short Story Prize this year. Submissions open tomorrow!
⏰ Set your alarms! The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2024 will open for submissions tomorrow! ✍🏽🔥
🧑🏾⚖️ We are thrilled to be joined this year by judges @vanessa_onwuemezi (author, 'Dark Neighbourhood'), @dbirdan (editor @GrantaBooks) and @agent_luck (agent @CWAgencyUK).
'Hugely ambitious... it builds into a rich, poetic reclamation of cultural inheritance'
Great to see Justin Torres' BLACKOUTS included in @GuardianBooks' autumn preview: amp.theguardian.com/books/20…
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Come home my darling friend. I love you. Gboyega Odubanjo since 26th Aug please get in touch with Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. He’s been missing since Shambala.
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BLACKOUTS, Justin Torres’ first novel since We The Animals, is ‘shapeshifting and ambitious’ (Niven Govinden), ‘a dexterous, searing exploration of queer lives’ (@IrenosenOkojie) that’s ‘full of a kind of daring that winks as it passes’ (@alexanderchee). V excited for it to land.
BLACKOUTS, the new novel from Justin Torres and his first since #WeTheAnimals, is publishing in November.
An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men - young and old - reckon with queer histories and their place within them.
Pre-order here
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@akblakemore has written a monstrously brilliant, beautiful, brutal novel!
This is what historical fiction should be - writing that throws you into the viscera of the past in all its strangeness & intensity.
Amy is a true original & I can’t wait for everyone to read this.
Huge! V excited for THE GLUTTON to enter the world. It’s depraved and debased in all the best ways — a sweeping, sensory gem on which to gorge.
'The hunger is all he is... and the whole world and everything in it, the things that should make Tarare happy – a sunset, a kitten, a psalm remembered – make him hungry instead.'
Introducing THE GLUTTON, the incredible second novel from @akblakemore!
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It’s my face! Gassed to be acquiring for the list (across fic and non-fic), and equally thrilled for my utterly ace colleagues
"I’m delighted to have such a talented, experienced and passionate team in place ahead of what promises to be a stellar 2023 for Granta."
At @GrantaBooks, @prowlandson, @LamornaElmer, @izzydepiazzi and @dbirdan have all been promoted.
Read here: buff.ly/3ZVHL25
ALT Daniel Bird smiling at the camera. He is wearing round glasses and a white checked shirt, and is in front of a white wall with a pink print hanging up.
ALT Isabella Depiazzi smiling at the camera. She is wearing a white shirt with polka dots and a pink cardigan. She is in front of a white wall with a bookshelf that has some books on display, slightly blurred in the background.
So great to see @holeandweasel in Foyles’ top 10 — and in such esteemed company ✨
Showtime! It's this week's Charing Cross Road top ten, featuring:
Liberation Day by George Saunders @BloomsburyBooks
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls @FitzcarraldoEds
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan @faberbooks
ALT The Charing Cross Road top ten, 14th November 2022