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Wonderful to see MAY DAY longlisted in the #SaltireBookAwards Poetry category! Congratulations to @JackieKayPoet and the other longlisted authors 👏

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Congratulations to the #SaltireBookAwards longlisted authors 2024 in the Poetry category! This year our Poetry longlist features 12 books.

See the link for more information: https://t.co/qufigZcyN7

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A huge congratulations to Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi @tweetingayesha whose novel The Centre has been shortlisted for the #NotaBenePrize ! #InfluentialFiction @notabeneprize 🎉🥂

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Introducing the new novel from @csestanovich, coming January 2025. For fans of Sally Rooney and Lily King, Ask Me Again is a nuanced, beautifully observed story about two young people, whose platonic love exposes the alchemy of the friendships that can define who we become.

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We are thrilled to announce a new audiobook edition of Colm Tóibín’s bestselling Brooklyn, read by Saoirse Ronan, star of the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated film adaptation.

We cannot wait for you to hear it. Landing 17th October and available to pre-order now.

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Sound on to hear about one of the most exciting debuts of 2025 ♠️ ❤️ 🔷 ♣️

Abigail and her brother Benjamin have always been close. The morning after his annual birthday celebration, everyone wakes up – except Benjamin. And so our story begins...

https://t.co/TiOrCcRDFc

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The longlists have been announced for the National Book Awards in America and congratulations to Kaveh Akbar and Percival Everett who have been nominated for the Fiction Award!

For more info on all of the awards and longlisted titles:
https://t.co/mPU3kz4nlw

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📢Paperback copies of OUT THERE SCREAMING have arrived to @picadorbooks HQ. All new, chilling stories of Black horror, from an all-star cast. Curated and introduced by GET OUT, NOPE and US director @JordanPeele. 👀

Out Oct 3. Preorder now. https://t.co/RmpdeXtNFh

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Introducing Signs, Music. Written & performed by @RaymondAntrobus ✨

Charting the ways parenthood disrupts the poet’s sense of self, and how the pain of the past triggers fears of ‘fatherly failure’, this is a staggeringly profound new collection https://t.co/rhaCS80WN6...

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Join Picador Poetry Presents for a night of performance and spoken-word at The Social, Soho on Weds 16th October - with three of the most dynamic poets working today: Raymond Antrobus, Harry Josephine Giles, and Jackie Kay.

Tickets available here: https://t.co/pWzKORMeWk

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We are thrilled to have the inimitable @GarthGreenwell here in the UK to celebrate publication of Small Rain this September. Find out all the details you need below 👇

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A WEEK TODAY!

We are absolutely thrilled to be welcoming @GarthGreenwell to Manchester on Tues 17th Sept for the launch of SMALL RAIN - his deeply affecting new novel exploring art, love, beauty and the human condition. Garth will be in conversation with @AMcMillanPoet.

🎫👇🏻

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This Thursday, Marvin Rees will be in conversation at @ToppingsBath about his incredible new memoir LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS - a moving story of his fall and rise to political success and tenure as the Mayor of Bristol.

Tickets available here: https://t.co/BPiMNGsOX7

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The one and only Patrick Radden Keefe (author of Rogues, Say Nothing and Empire of Pain) is in London this month for an event with the Irish Cultural Centre.

Thurs 19 September
7pm

For tickets and more info:
https://t.co/R6UllgAaWA

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Jack Parlett introduces the work of literary great, Alan Hollinghurst, from his Booker-winning novel, The Line of Beauty, to his latest work, Our Evenings. https://t.co/eonNykpuBM

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How Was It For You? by Eve Smith received a negative review in @thetimes recently. Eve is anonymous, and doesn't have her own social channels, so we wanted to give her the opportunity to respond 👇

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Introducing The Boy From the Sea! Get ready to fall in love with Ambrose Bonnar: more comfortable at sea than on land, full of love but unsure how to show it… this is Picador’s lead debut of 2025 🌊 🌊 🌊

Available to pre-order now @Waterstones

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The longlist for the 2024 @BGPrize has been revealed, and we're thrilled to publish two of the brilliant titles featured!

Judgement at Tokyo
Everyone Who is Gone is Here

Find out more about both books here https://t.co/0kRYFP5U9S

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We’re thrilled to have two books on the brilliant #BGPrize2024 longlist. Congratulations to all the authors featured 👏👏👏

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We are delighted to announce the #BGPrize2024 longlist. Read more here: https://t.co/sZEImDeuRj #longlist #nonfiction @isabelhilton @newsbrook @alisonflood @pghoskin @tomowolade

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From the bestselling author of THE NIX, Nathan Hill's 'dazzlingly detailed state-of-the-nation satire' WELLNESS reimagines the love story with healthy doses of insight, irony and heart 💊

Out today in paperback 💊

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'Greenwell has created something so rich, so important, so brutally honest that it acts as a new landmark in gay literature.'

Pan Mac staff make the case for their favourite books. This month: What Belongs to You. https://t.co/reImk6HAQH