Fig Tree

The home of great writing and storytelling: beautiful books that entertain, delight and provoke. Part of Penguin General @PenguinUKBooks.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

This week in the media, Blank Canvas (@FigTreePenguin) by Grace Murray was reviewed in the Guardian by Rebecca Wait, who praised this “witty, assured debut” 👇 https://t.co/k6fCzQO80I

[Fig Tree @FigTreePenguin]

They knew they were changing history.
They didn’t know they would change each other 👩‍🎓

Set in Oxford in 1920, #TheEights by @JoannaMAuthor follows the friendship of four of the first women students at the world-famous university - and it's just 99p today!
https://t.co/0cvYdU7CHh

[Viking Books UK @VikingBooksUK]

Catch @SusanKBarker , author of Old Soul, at ESEA Lit Fest on 19th July 2025 as she discusses political histories and the spectral.

Tickets: https://t.co/8Wqs4324PW

[Stephen Keeler @stephenkeeler]

@yearsofreading @FigTreePenguin I read this pre-publication and will recommend it to ANYONE who can read, it is a delightful, poignant, often painful, funny and well-crafted novel very much for our times. Superb writing; great translation.

[Years Of Reading Selfishly @yearsofreading]

Thank you so much to Savreet and @FigTreePenguin for my copy of #BloodyAwfulinDifferentWays by #AndrewWalden which is out on 14th August.

This is Andrev’s story, and how he has seven fathers over seven years, and it sounds brilliant!

[susannacrossman @crossmansusanna]

Writers, join us for my life stories course - online & in-person- on situation & story, memory enhancement, social history & archives, French auto-fiction & the tricky questions of ethics & truth, & my memoir #homeiswherewestart @FigTreePenguin !

Info: https://t.co/vYbXQabYzw

[Fig Tree @FigTreePenguin]

Introducing the cover design for #WantsAndNeeds, the brilliant second novel by As Young as This author @RoxanaDunn !

Coming January 2026
https://t.co/aYqbifQmYd

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

Lovely to get my copy of @EnableMagazine! It was great to talk about Who Wants Normal? and many other things too.

On newsstands now.

[dylanthomprize @dylanthomprize]

🎧 OUT NOW! Hear an exclusive interview with
Ferdia Lennon, author of 'Glorious Exploits', previously shortlisted for 2025 prize. Lennon is in conversation with @swanseauni English Literature students Alec Taylor and Freya Slatter.

▶️ https://t.co/eRRRmvQqGx #SUDTP25

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

It was such a pleasure to speak to @EnableMagazine for their May/June issue.

We chatted about why I wrote Who Wants Normal?, my tips on challenging inequality, and finding hope in the future during shitstorm times.

On newsstands now.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Glorious Exploits, written by Ferdia Lennon, has won the @AuthorsClub Best First Novel Award. Novelist Tracy Chevalier presented Lennon’s publisher with £2,500 at a reception at the National Liberal Club in London on 21st May 👇 https://t.co/79cylAL4e7

[Lucy Popescu @lucyjpop]

Delighted to announce the winner of the @AuthorsClub Best First Novel Award 2025, chosen by #TracyChevalier from our shortlist of six, is #FerdiaLennon for Glorious Exploits publ by @FigTreePenguin: https://t.co/BHKai3NEEW

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Clare Pollard has won the Tadeusz Bradecki Prize for The Modern Fairies (@FigTreePenguin) for its “history and magic, novelistic depth and sharpness of fable” 👇 https://t.co/LA5cglxmHn

[Fig Tree @FigTreePenguin]

@randallwrites Hi Lee, please be in touch with Elise Harvey and Juliet Dudley. Do DM us if you need their email addresses!

[Ella @ellamharold]

So proud to be publishing this beautiful, one-of-a-kind memoir 🐋🐳🌊

[Viking Books UK @VikingBooksUK]

‘Phenomenal and powerful’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Girls who Grew Big by @leilamottley is a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town.

Pre-order signed copy: https://t.co/1EacPQIH6d
Netgalley: https://t.co/apfCNjooGa

[Fig Tree @FigTreePenguin]

We're hiring!
We're looking for a brilliant editorial assistant to work across our wonderful list of literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, and cookery books. If you're super organised, an avid reader, and bursting with ideas, we'd love to hear from you.

https://t.co/4iALXULQyG

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Congratulations to Stanley Tucci for winning Book of the Year: Non-Fiction Lifestyle & Illustrated for What I Ate in One Year (@PenguinUKBooks @FigTreePenguin) ✨

Our judges agreed that this was an example of "fun" and "quirky" publishing #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

[Viking Books UK @VikingBooksUK]

Thrilled to see Rosie Jones supporting Who Wants Normal? by @DrFrancisRyan – a groundbreaking memoir about what it means to be a disabled woman in Britain today.

@FigTreePenguin @DrFrancesRyan #WhoWantsNormal

[Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks]

#4 Then we have #SIGNED copies of ALBION by Anna Hope @FigTreePenguin - of which Jonathan Coe says: “Superb… engages head on with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today…” 👇🏻