Emma Herdman

I like stories, archives and lichen. Publishing director @BloomsburyBooks

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

🎉 Huge congratulations to @franescahaigh on winning the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize (Best Published Novel) for SALTBLOOD! 🏴‍☠️

@Wilbur_Niso_Fdn #WilburSmith #AdventureWritingPrize

[Santa Montefiore @SantaMontefiore]

Just finished the proof of @daniheylon #ThePortraitArtist - wow! It’s an astonishingly good debut! Reads like a classic. Meticulously researched, beautifully written & masterfully plotted, with the aptitude of a bestselling author. I devoured it! 🥂🥰

[Emma Herdman @emduddingstone]

So happy to see the most collaborative and creative and fun and clever team win this! Congrats to @sarahmclean80, Hattie and all the international babes, pure joy to work with

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@BloomsburyBooks wins The British Book Award for Export (sponsored by @WoodlandGroup). Congratulations!

Our judges commended the team for setting "the export-standard".

#Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

[Waterstones @Waterstones]

Out now! Reimagining the life of groundbreaking 17th century pirate Mary Read, Francesca de Tores' SALTBLOOD entwines themes of gender and survival into a rollicking period adventure story: https://t.co/TvhLYDqWzN @FrancescaHaig

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

We are in love with this stunning painted window for @FrancescaHaig's SALTBLOOD at @Edgybooks, Penzance! 🌊 ☠️

[Emma Herdman @emduddingstone]

@matosman Fellow Bloomsbury ed sent me this, Kingsland Road! 🪶🪶🪶

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

@imranmahmood777 @forthygreatpain 🔵 Go Lightly – @BrydieLK

Go Lightly is a tribute to party girls who'd rather enjoy the present than fear the future or regret the past, and a love letter to the community you find when you're far from home.
Read more: https://t.co/VxydRtzi4a

[London Review Bookshop @LRBbookshop]

Our current bestsellers 🪦 https://t.co/BrstPQP5xA

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

🎨 Depression and creativity, love and family, books and music: this personal and vulnerable memoir by the iconic illustrator Henn Kim explores her life from the ages of seventeen to thirty-three through image, text and poetry.

I NEED ART: Reality Is Not Enough is out now.

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

📖 There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'

WELCOME TO THE HYUNAM-DONG BOOKSHOP by Hwang Bo-reum, publishing October https://t.co/nt8m68voDf

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

Just TWO WEEKS until we publish the stunning anniversary edition of @MillerMadeline's CIRCE, featuring a new foreword from Madeline ✨

Available to pre-order now 📕

[Alison Hennessey @Alison_Edits]

Calling all aspiring authors! So delighted the @BloomsburyBooks Mentorship Programme is open! https://t.co/XPoYogQUxN This is a development prize, so you only need to have written a synopsis and the first 2,000 words – and we can support you as you write the rest.

[shanna @heyimshanna]

Visited the very lovely @BloomsburyBooks office and met the amazing folks working on Hwang Bo-reum’s Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. And hehe got bookmarks + one more proof copy which I’m taking with me all around London 🤣. Missing @emduddingstone v much!

[Emma Herdman @emduddingstone]

@heyimshanna @BloomsburyBooks Shanna!!! I am so happy that you had a good time and so jealous to have missed out 😭 next time! These are such gorgeous pics of a gorgeous book 💫

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

From @FinancialTimes: ‘the nuance of Lioness’s portrait of a mid-life personal and political awakening is extremely seductive’.

#Lioness by Emily Perkins is out now!

Read the rest of this riveting review here: https://t.co/HhI4RYJXk0

[Zoe West @zoeannewest]

I still can't stop thinking about this book. Little has given me such comfort in the past year. The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop feels like a safe place and I would very much like to live within its walls, please. Fans of The Midnight Library will love it 💙📚

[Emma Herdman @emduddingstone]

💧Ada is coming! Proofs in imminently for @BrydieLK’s ‘sharp and funny and humane’ debut (don’t take my word for it! This quote is @monicaheisey, woman of impeccable taste!)💧

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

A funny and tender twenty-first century story of family, friendship, love – and how getting it wrong is sometimes the only way to get it right.

💧 GO LIGHTLY by @BrydieLK, publishing March 2024

Pre-order your copy now https://t.co/upWj9B3GnA

[FBA @FelicityBryan]

Job opportunity! 📚✨ We are looking for a new Agents' Assistant to join our friendly team in Oxford and work across our roster of brilliant authors. Deadline for applications is 5pm on the 13th of July 2023 ⏰. Full details on our website:
https://t.co/ttrMUaYDYx

[Foyles Bookshop @Foyles]

Therapy sessions shared, that explore mental health and offer comfort in dark times — #IWantToDieButIWantToEatTteokbokki by #BaekSehee and translated by @AntonHur @BloomsburyBooks

Shop here: https://t.co/g0ndY24tTO

[Sarah Crossan @SarahCrossan]

I absolutely devoured and loved this debut novel by Hwang Bo-Reum — so gentle and invigorating— from @BloomsburyBooks in Oct. Pre-order recommended 🌟