Nicely done, algorithm -- I've read ALL of these!

Did you see him?! About 15 minutes in.

Thank you to Picador Books and Saraband Books for my copies of WHALE FALL (25 April) and HOW WE NAMED THE STARS (4 July). I've heard so much about these novels and I'm really looking forward to reading them! #bookpost

Oof, that's a bad auto-transcription error I just read in a podcast script: 'Maggio Farrell's.'

Happy publication day to Freya Sampson Zaffre Books for NOSY NEIGHBOURS, a cosy mystery featuring neighbours Kat and Dorothy (ages 25 and 77, respectively), who are sworn enemies but band together to save their historic home from demolition.

Six books unified by an originality of voice, accessible, insightful, each one a masterpiece. May we present the first ever #WomensPrize for #NonFiction shortlist sponsored by Findmypast.

Huge congratulations to the shortlisted authors and our heartfelt thanks to the judges!

Great #bookpost today! Thanks to Elliott & Thompson for a copy of IN ALL WEATHERS by Matt Gaw, out on Thursday; Profile Books for the new paperback (and postcards) of GEORGE by Frieda Hughes; and Fly on the Wall Press for IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS (2023) & AND I WILL MAKE OF YOU A VOWEL SOUND (24 May).

A few of my #WorldPoetryDay reads, with thanks to Carcanet Press, Jonathan Cape and Madville Publishing.

📚 THE 2024 SHORTLIST 📚

We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's stellar Swansea University (Swansea University) Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist!

Who will be crowned our winner on May 16th? 🏆 #SUDTP24

The winner of the 2023 #YoungWriterAward is...

Tom Crewe for #TheNewLife

Tom joins an illustrious list of writers for his daring novel of forbidden desire. Published by Chatto&Windus.

🎉 We are absolutely delighted to reveal that the winner of #writersprize2024 Book of the Year is Liz Berry for 'The Home Child'!

'The Wren, The Wren' by Anne Enright is Category Winner in #Fiction
'Thunderclap' by Laura Cumming is Category Winner in #Non -Fiction 👏 ✨ 👏

As part of the dylanthomprize longlist bloggers' celebration, I've reviewed DIVISIBLE BY ITSELF AND ONE by Kae Tempest: bookishbeck.com/2024/03/11/div… Thanks to Midas for my copy. #SUDTP24

I compose all my reviews on a secondhand, 20-year-old PC that doesn't connect to the Internet. The other day I had to teach the computer (well, the Word dictionary anyway) the words 'unhoused' and 'transphobic.'

🌟 The 2024 Longlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is here! Congratulations to all of the nominated authors and publishers. Learn more about each of the nominees by visiting bit.ly/436c9bI

Our Prize Award is generously presented by BMO Financial Group.

I correctly predicted, ahem, 1 (Enright) and have read 2 (Enright and Maroo). I'm heading to 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster next.

Yep. This (an excerpt from Fight Night by Miriam Toews) is why I don't have a lot of sympathy for people who never manage to read the book for my book club. Nor much tolerance for people questioning how I can read 300+ books each year.

I’m so excited to reveal our shortlist for the 2024 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year award. Four brilliant debut writers: Tom Crewe, Michael Magee, Momtaza Mehri and Noreen Masud.

Read all about them here:
thetimes.co.uk/article/young-…

'My life was for living, but now it’s time for dying. So, if you want to do something for me, please campaign for assisted dying to be law here.'

Sad to hear of Wendy's death; her books are such a valuable window into daily life with dementia.

Great #bookpost to cheer up this rainy day. Thanks to Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 and Fitzcarraldo Editions for the review copies of DEER ISLAND by Neil Ansell (a reissue) and INTERVALS by Marianne Brooker, from the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist.