Anne Charnock

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The 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction longlist! Join us as we reveal the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist on Wednesday 4 March at 2pm GMT.

We are thrilled to reveal the 2026 #WomensPrize for Fiction longlist. 16 titles that showcase the profound force, resonance and scale of fiction writing: from tackling turbulent global issues to examining the intensely intimate. Discover the longlist here: youtu.be/fyPfDaHddLg

Two days to go…

The 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist will be revealed at 2pm GMT this Wednesday 4 March.

Will we be seeing you there?

#WomensPrize #WomensPrizeforFiction

Congratulations, Emma!

When There Are Wolves Again is a BSFA finalist! 🐺 Utterly delighted and in amazing company too. Congratulations to all the finalists!

www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

Oh thanks!

Fab to be working with you, Una! 📚

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I’m a big fan of Sandra Newman’s novel The Heavens with its time slip from noughties New York to Elizabethan England. So, I’m pretty overwhelmed to read this early response.
Coming: September 2026
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Not helpful!

Sorry to hear, and sympathies! 💤

Luna Welcomes Tade Thompson’s Historical Fiction novel, Antara. We are delighted to welcome Tade Thompson to the Luna family, and the superb Antara, an historical fiction novel, on the pre-Islamic warrior poet of renown. We have acquired WEL rights from Alexander ...

Welcome @tadethompson.bsky.social and the superb Antara, an historical fiction novel, on the pre-Islamic warrior poet of renown 😍 Big thanks to Alexander Cochran at @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social! Antara will be out in 2027. Cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social. @publishingscotland.bsky.social

@eastmad.bsky.social 🙂 likewise!

Likewise, Lindz! And congratulations 🙂

So chuffed to have my climate short story in this anthology’s wonderful lineup! Life in far-future biodomes saving temperate ecosystems 🙂 Thanks to editor @wishusdonna.bsky.social and NewCon Press.

What a joy, to have been even a small part of this! It’s all been a lark.

Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ education

‘…the neo-classical school of economics had come to dominate universities “like Catholic theology in medieval Europe … a doctrine that fundamentally defines the way humanity sees the world”.’

An opened box containing multiple copies of the hardback edition of Paul McAuley's novel Loss Protocol.

I began to write LOSS PROTOCOL in 2023, and here at last is a box of copies of the finished book. Published, in the UK, on February 12th.

Photo of the described owl art. It looks like muddy scratch marks on a mottled brown cave wall. The head is very round with two upright lines for ears and a line in the center for a beak. Numerous parallel lines suggest plumage on the wings.

The oldest known image of an owl:

More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
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Congrats, George!

Spent today in an archive of 19th-century diaries. I know people have commented on how the frequency of mail in e.g. 19th-century London made letters like emails, bouncing back & forth multiple times per day. But I realized today that they were actually more like social media posts, because
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Artwork showing ancient humans wearing thick furs trekking across a river delta, with what looks like a volcanic plume in the distance. Everything is shades of orange, brown and yellow. Big white text reads "Our Human Story".

Every month in Our Human Story, I explore archaeology and human evolution, and try to make sense of all the latest findings.

Sign up now, in time to get the next edition. @newscientist.com

https://www.newscientist.com/sign-up/our-human-story/

Stormzy calls reading a ‘superpower’ as he backs accessible books campaign The musician is championing the annual Quick Reads initiative, which will release six short, digestible titles for ‘nonreaders and lapsed readers’ in April for £1 each

“Music and books are both about finding your voice. We are all made of stories – they define who we are.”

South Wales council to buy and demolish homes prone to flooding Residents of 16 houses on Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl express relief after repeated floods caused by climate crisis

“You only get a few months of rest in the summer. When the winter comes, you’re just waiting for disaster. He said his insurance was “astronomical”, but that he was lucky to get any cover at all.

Spring Tree No. 1, 1945 #georgiaokeeffe #precisionism

My last @backlisted.bsky.social (for the moment!) and I think it’s an absolute belter. Ian Patterson is just incredible; I could listen to him talk about books all day. The rest of us are pretty good too.

So pleased to see ALSTON MOOR on this great list. Many of the recs on my own TBR! 📚📚📚
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‘I’m the product of a smashed-up family’: how Sean Scully became the greatest abstract painter alive He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive...

I’m a big fan of Sean Scully. Fascinating interview. “Abstract painting goes straight into your soul. So I think it has to believe in some kind of spiritual power. I mean, that’s its function, because it’s pre-verbal, isn’t it? It goes bang, straight inside.”

A set I’m chuffed to be included in 📚

Grey and yellow/gold colours, cover showing sketch of a moorland ruin and a curlew, spine in yellow with detail image of cover's line drawing

I’m thrilled to reveal the stunning cover art for my novel, ALSTON MOOR. Coming 29 September! I’m so grateful to cover designer Heather Ryerson and the team at @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social. 📚@unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social

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