Alison Hennessey

Publishing Director of Raven Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world.

[Alison Hennessey @Alison_Edits]

Briefly logging back into this account to say I have been made me aware that someone out there is impersonating me and contacting aspiring authors. This is not me. I can confirm I have not and would not send unsolicited emails to authors asking them to discuss projects with me.

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@JaniceHallett @ViperBooks @AtriaBooks @sheilland Argh - so exciting!

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@amandareynoldsj @k_faulkner Amanda, I'm so sorry I am only acknowledging this now. I have defected to Bluesky so only check this account sporadically but I am so delighted to see this! May I use it as a quote?

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@LivKiernan @k_faulkner @BloomsburyRaven Hello! I don't check twitter very often any more but WHAT A JOY to see this! Thank you so much. Would you be happy with me using your wonderful words as an official endorsement?

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Have, like so many of you migrated to Bluesky after setting up an account many many moons ago just in case, so please do come and say hello if you are on there. So nice to see so many familiar faces on there! I feel like links get downplayed here but I am under Alison.Hennessey

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@jane313 @JanetEmson I was the same and I can't bear to see it happen to him!

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Book people - those who haven't fled - do you have any good recommendations for picture books about Christmas that don't show snow? My 3 year old currently believes that Christmas Day will bring snow automatically and every picture book we have does show snowy Christmasses.

[Alison Hennessey @Alison_Edits]

In our office today for a meeting, and the building is almost empty. I'm pretty sure it's currently me, our receptionist, one of our facilities team tending to the plants in our little courtyard and the mice. I'm going to pretend I am CEO and make some big decisions.

[Alison Hennessey @Alison_Edits]

Excited to have spent my lunchtime moving all my clothes into carrier bags and doing an express emergency order of killer moth repellent and storage bags. Turns out that sometimes the nice natural way of doing things is not so successful. RIP most of my jumpers & my fancy gloves.

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@naomikelsey_ Oh excellent! I will hunt you down on Insta

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@naomikelsey_ Oh Naomi, I am so thrilled you enjoyed it! Thank you so much. May I use your lovely words as a quote?

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If you don't have a proof and would like a chance to read in advance of publication, it's available on Netgalley here: https://t.co/I3h0A1dZWi

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What an amazing quote for the brilliant House of Barbary! Thank you so much @naomikelsey_ for your fantastic endorsement 🗡️🐻🗡️🐻🗡️🐻🗡️🐻

[Naomi Kelsey @naomikelsey_]

If you crossed The Miniaturist with Promising Young Woman, you’d get The House of Barbary by @BelleSchuler - a blazing feminist roar of a novel set in C17th Bern. Twists abound in this gripping tale: it’s a thrilling, visceral follow-up to the very brilliant Lady Macbethad.

[Alison Hennessey @Alison_Edits]

I saw Small Things Like These last night; the film makers and especially Cillian Murphy as the lead, do an incredible job of translating Claire Keegan's masterpiece for the cinema. I thoroughly recommend for a very not festive yet Christmas set film.

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@SavidgeReads Simon! How cool.

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Just more reasons why Katherine Rundell is a very special author https://t.co/uxZ45bOeaQ

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Was so happy to bump into our Head of Indie Bookshops at Bloomsbury yesterday and hear how much booksellers are falling for Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village and then to see it for myself happily sitting by Hatchard's tills (next to George Orwell).

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Huge congratulations to Samantha Harvey and the whole @jonathancape team for last night's Booker triumph. This was the first book from the longlist I bought and the bookseller at Waterstones was so passionate about it when I picked it up. Booksellers, they know what's good...

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@essiefox @DMan1504 @BloomsburyRaven @BloomsburyBooks @MushensEnt Also Essie, you were one of the very first quotes we received for it so I shall always be so grateful

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@essiefox @DMan1504 @BloomsburyRaven @BloomsburyBooks @MushensEnt I am DELIGHTED to confirm that the new book is as creepy and as compulsive