We lucky folk are hosting the UK launch of the brand new @tolkajournal.bsky.social on November 27th. Readings & discussion from Polly Barton, Ralf Webb, Chloé Duane and Liam Harrison. Step this way for tickets: hdfst.uk/e141326
We lucky folk are hosting the UK launch of the brand new @tolkajournal.bsky.social on November 27th. Readings & discussion from Polly Barton, Ralf Webb, Chloé Duane and Liam Harrison. Step this way for tickets: hdfst.uk/e141326
thanks for popping in, Sophie!
big thanks for coming to us for it!
The 'Into being' book tour continues, with events in Penzance and Bristol (@gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social) this week, and @ink84books.bsky.social London next.
Further events in Durham, Liverpool, London and Oxford to come, head to our Events page for more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/
Announcement of this year's Nobel Prize for literature to László Krasznahorkai. With a black and white drawing of the author.
Congrats to all his translators, including into English @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social & @georgeszirtes.bsky.social
#booksky #xl8 #literarytranslation
Wonderful news to see Lászlo Krasznahorkai, International Booker Prize 2015 winner, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today.
Find out more about the author and his work: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel prize in literature.
In our archive, from 2014:
‘My name is Róbert Valzer and I like walking, not that I have anything to do with the famous Robert Walser, nor do I think it strange that walking should be my favourite hobby.’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
a massive favourite here at GRB! very excited about this gem
INTO BEING: A reading list
We asked author @lilydunn.bsky.social to compile a list of books by the authors she interviewed for her new book, 'Into being'.
Full list on our Blog now, and you can also shop the full list on @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social' @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page now.
Really looking forward to hosting the great @lilydunn.bsky.social in conversation with @mariannebrooker.bsky.social. October 16th, tickets this way---> www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bos...
To celebrate the imminent release of @lilydunn.bsky.social's 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform' in October, Lily has compiled a fascinating list of the authors she interviewed for the book for her local @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social:
Pre-order a SIGNED & DEDICATED copy of @lilydunn.bsky.social's forthcoming book, 'Into Being: The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform', publishing 7th October 2025.
Available from @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social here: gloucesterroadbooks.com/product/9781...
#choosebookshops
#booksky
The deadline for our Poetry in Translation Prize is tonight. Enter here:
fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/the-p...
Thanks for the invite!
let's make Bartleball a thing
Can you imagine the anger of a badger after eating a spicy crisp? Absolutely furious.
My favourite of all the Nancy strips are the ones that employ a humour that is somehow both visual and linguistic. Prime example ❤️
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
This is hateful and dystopian. I was just on holiday in Kent. Nice to know how welcome queer people (esp children) are there eh? Please, Kent locals, write to your councillors and resist this grossness. #KidLitUK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No book in the history of the world has made a child gay or straight or trans or cis. But they have provided hope and a future for those that already are. But of course, under Reform, all hope must be crushed.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
yes but it does so more efficiently
Maybe hats are just a young man's game
This is indeed excellent. We were lucky enough to have Camilla Grudova here a couple of years ago, and she was great then too.
Everybody start paying writers on time. Or else.
DEAR READER---PLEASE FORGIVE MY APPEARANCE, BUT THIS HOT WEATHER HAS TAKEN THE STARCH OUT OF ME NANCY IS LAYING ON THE SIDEWALK AND LOOKS FLAT AS A PANCAKE
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM NANCY…
The world is just wild is it not
We’re delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2026 judging panel for the 10th anniversary of the prize in its current form.
Natasha Brown will act as chair and will be joined by Marcus du Sautoy, Sophie Hughes, Troy Onyango and Nilanjana S. Roy.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Gotta just take that stain as a mark of pride
Thrilled to announce Canongate will be publishing
WORDS ARE MY MATTER by Pulitzer Prize winner by Ursula K. Le Guin. A manual investigating the depth, breadth and importance of contemporary fiction.
canongate.co.uk/news/canonga...
Good Helen Garner day today
