ScribnerUK

A new literary imprint from Simon & Schuster UK. Scribner: where great writing lives.

[Young Writer Award @YoungWriterYear]

Introducing Readers on Writers – where our shadow judging panel interview our shortlisted authors📖✨

First up, Nic Marna (@bookbinch) speaks to Ben Brooks about his novel #TheGreatestPossibleGood (@scribneruk / @simonschusteruk).

Full interview online:
https://t.co/rKwucM7HEE

[Young Writer Award @YoungWriterYear]

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award! ✨

Read more here: https://t.co/XCdBsomiNh

Read in @thetimes : https://t.co/3KVnE6Zwb3

#YoungWriterAward

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Simon and Schuster UK’s @ScribnerUK imprint has acquired the “profoundly moving” Inheritance by Sarah Thomas in a pre-empt 👇 https://t.co/54VxI6nwH6

[Young Writer Award @YoungWriterYear]

This week we will be spotlighting the #YoungWriterAward shortlist! 📚

First up is Ben Brooks, shortlisted for #TheGreatestPossibleGood (@ScribnerUK/@simonschusterUK), an incisive, hilarious family saga and unflinchingly human debut novel.

Find out more: https://t.co/UQFGCQRMpV

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

.@ScribnerUK has won a five-way auction for Petty Intrigues, 'an effervescent, charismatic London novel about art, freedom and forging a truly big life', by Marlowe Granados

https://t.co/hnEcXisKDg (£)

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

.@ScribnerUK Editions has announced the 'formally inventive' RABBITBOX, by poet Wayne Holloway-Smith

https://t.co/BQcfCaRVD7 (£)

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Scribner Editions (@ScribnerUK) has acquired RABBITBOX, a lyrical, fragmented work by TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted Wayne Holloway-Smith. RABBITBOX will be published in all formats on 12th March 2026 👇 https://t.co/oMI2VdxNhH

[Years Of Reading Selfishly @yearsofreading]

If you are looking for some Summer Reading inspiration, here’s my latest #YearsofReadingSummer25 stack!

You can find out all about them here:

https://t.co/WqebOeI7Uf

[Sophie Frances Kemp @sophiefkemp]

Paradise Logic is out today in the UK via @ScribnerUK ❤️

[Books By Your Bedside @ByYourBedside]

I'm slowly making my way through the @WomensPrize Longlist and I've got 5 left.

My latest read is Roisin O'Donnell's Nesting. I'm really surprised it didn't make it to the shortlist. It's uncomfortable and tense and upsetting but oh so marvellously written.

@ScribnerUK

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

What We're Reading

Featuring Camilla Barnes (@ScribnerUK), @Tombenjaminsays (@LittleBrownUK), Gustave Flaubert (@PenguinClassics), Anne Tyler (@vintagebooks) and David Szalay (@JonathanCape)

https://t.co/ZkYtAf6pSE (Free to view)

[Paul Stevenson ❤️👻💙 @hauntedmagazine]

#BookReview #BooksWorthReading
#BookTwitter #BookReviews #BookRecommendation THE USUAL DESIRE TO KILL
by Camilla Barnes
Out April 2025

The Usual Desire to Kill perfectly captures that special kind of family madness where you simultaneously love and want to strangle your relatives—sometimes in the same breath. It’s sharp, chaotic, and painfully relatable, like being trapped in a house with people who know exactly how to push your buttons because they installed them.

Set in a crumbling French countryside home that’s somehow still standing (much like the family itself), the novel follows Miranda as she deals with her delightfully unhinged parents. Her father, a retired philosophy professor, can turn ordering a baguette into an existential crisis. At the same time, her mother lives in a nostalgia bubble so thick you’d need a chisel to break through it. Add in a couple of judgmental llamas and a freezer full of meat older than some world leaders, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for chaos.

Miranda spends most of the book playing referee between her parents, who have been married for 50 years yet still communicate like they’re speaking through faulty walkie-talkies. Her growing exasperation leads to what she calls “the usual desire to kill”—which, let’s be honest, is a feeling anyone who has spent more than 48 hours with family can understand on a spiritual level.

The writing is laugh-out-loud funny, packed with witty dialogue that feels so real, you’ll swear you’ve had the same arguments with your parents. But beneath all the absurdity, there’s real heart. Camilla captures the strange mix of love, frustration, and reluctant loyalty that holds families together—no matter how many times they drive each other up the wall.

Basically, if you’ve ever wanted to hug and throttle a family member simultaneously, this book is for you.

Available now to pre-order, try and support all the good and great indie bookshops out there if you can.

#CamillaBarnes #TheUsualDesireToKill

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

Dame Harriet Walter is set to narrate the audio edition of @ScribnerUK’s lead debut, The Usual Desire to Kill by Camilla Barnes

https://t.co/DAUaDVUUGH (£)

[Rebecca Carter @RebeccasBooks]

So great to read that @NicholasClee of @BookBrunch and @Laurenrbrown95 of @thebookseller have realised how brilliant Nell Stevens' THE ORIGINAL is.

I love Luke Bird's UK cover for the @ScribnerUK edition but the @wwnorton cover is also a delight. Finished copies arrived today 📚

[Rina_reads @ReadsRina]

Morning lovelies 😘 I have slight reviewers block but will have some reviews for you soon, hopefully! In the meantime, here's what I'm hoping to read for the rest of March! A real mix here, and I'm excited for them all! 😍 #BookTwitter

[Gill Hess Associates @GillHessLtd]

Why book Nesting is what everyone should be reading this summer - EVOKE - https://t.co/mH1mSosLhv #GoogleAlerts #Nesting @ScribnerUK

[BookBrunch @BookBrunch]

.@ScribnerUK has signed Frida Slattery As Herself by Ana Kinsella, after a 'hotly contested six-publisher auction'

https://t.co/coe2G2IkCV (£)

[Women's Prize @WomensPrize]

We’re delighted to introduce the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist! The 16 books on the list are genre-spanning, with many exploring the ramifications of global events in the past, present and future. We hope you enjoy every moment of the journey within their pages.

[Jenn (bookmarkonthewall) @bookmarkthewall]

The @WomensPrize longlist for fiction 2025 is here and what a stunning list it is 🤩 What do you think? What will you read first? Congrats to all authors/publishers 🥳 👏 #womensprize #BookTwitter #bookX #bookish #booklover #bookcommunity