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Seasonal reader, Comyns head, spinsterlit, midcentury women writers, heritage publishing and secondhand bookshopping #spinsterseptember 🇮🇪 Dublin
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Celebrating #WorldBookDay with the arrival of our first print copies of 'The Rarest Fruit'! From #InternationalBooker2025 longlisted author & translators, we're excited to bring Gaëlle Bélem's second novel to your bookshelf this May. Read an extract & pre-order: bullaunpress.com/books/the-ra...

With #IWD2025 on the horizon, I’ve written about some of my favourite books by WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION, highlighting titles from across the globe. Featuring books by Natalia Ginzburg, Mariana Enriquez, Yūko Tsushima, Annie Ernaux & many more. Enjoy! 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/w...

In our new episode we’re kicking off a fun new project! @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I talk about reading groups and introduce the M&G Novella Reading Group. First book in April—come join us! The link is in the show notes, and I’ll also share it in a reply here. open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

Some group predictions from our shadow group. IBP longlist tomorrow! @stujallen.bsky.social @fulcherkim.bsky.social @davidheb.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @jeremykoenig.bsky.social shadowingtheibp.substack.com/p/some-predi...

Time to say goodbye to my chunky friend, it’s been real 👋 #nyrbwomen25

Let's go! #TwinPeaksDay

Exciting news - the cover of our next title in translation, The Rarest Fruit, has arrived! Design by @hitoneie.bsky.social #booksky 📚

Who should star in the TV adaptation of All Fours? These are our picks:

Our IBP shadow panel is gathering our process and thoughts in a Substack this year. Join us? @stujallen.bsky.social @davidheb.bsky.social @fulcherkim.bsky.social @jeremykoenig.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social shadowingtheibp.substack.com?r=atko7&utm_...

Currently reading 💭 #nyrbwomen25 #proust2025 #booksky

celebrated my successful book buying restriction last month by.. buying new books 🤪 #BookSky💙📚

Pull up a chair and join us for the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist on 25 February, 2pm GMT.

new Annie Ernaux coming in October in the US from Seven Stories Press and September in the UK from Fitzcarraldo Editions!

"Even though I’ve stripped myself of so many memories, the pain is still there, starker and more brutal on its empty stage with all the spotlights focused on it." #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/a...

#nyrbwomen25

"A graphic, acerbic work of satirical science fiction unlike anything you’re likely to have ever read." First 5 star review for THE NATIONAL TELEPATHY by Roque Larraquy (tr. @terribleman.com)! Thanks to @theskinnymag and @louis_cammell. Book out next Tues! www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...

We are excited to announce our 2025 Annual Subscriptions! Don't miss out on your chance to save on this year's titles. For the first time, we have introduced an annual subscription specifically designed for North America! www.tiltedaxispress.com/store/2025-uk-print-subscription

Book mail! The second volume of Proust for the #proust2025 readalong (obsessed with the mad collage-y cover design by Christian Lacroix 😍) and the first book of my @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social sub 💙 #booksky

Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante and Alba de Céspedes are the best-known (but certainly not only) women writers who lived and worked during the Fascist regime. Judith Thurman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dayna Tortorici, and Ann Goldstein will talk about de Céspedes first novel on 2/19 @92ndstreety.bsky.social

Really interesting story and nice to see the translation by Ros Schwartz discussed in depth. Her point about the difference in register in English between Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words is really useful to keep in mind in both directions too

2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Small Press Prize, UK & Ireland #booksky #literature #smallpresses #prizes 📚💙

I ranked 10 books by Daphne du Maurier - do you agree?

This is the year to celebrate Mary Shelley afresh: a new film - ‘Frankenstein’ - by @realgdt.bsky.social, an adaptation of ‘The Bride!’ (of Frankenstein) by Maggie Gyllenhaal … and of course our new book ‘Mary Shelley in Bath’. Bring on the Gothic 🖤 #booksky #frankenstein #maryshelley

My new blog post on Celia Dale's wonderfully unsettling novel of devotion and deception, A SPRING OF LOVE. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/a...

Cover reveal!! Calling all Celia Dale fans: this may be her most fun book yet (but we'll let you be the judge of that) OTHER PEOPLE is a compelling coming-of-age tale told with Dale's trademark wit and observation, deliciously dark and surprising, and a fun cover to boot; we love this one!

A book, a link, and a blog post...