⌛Solvej Balle on Time, Wonder, & Writing the Impossible⏳
On this week's podcast Solvej Balle returns to the bookshop she once called home to discuss her monumental "On the Calculation of Volume".
🎧: pod.fo/e/2c6094
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
We're delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist – a feast of fiction from around the world that offers ‘a miraculous lens through which to view human experience’.
➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Copy of the book Hunchback written by Saou Ichikawa and translated by Polly Barton, on a table in a cafè
Finished reading this, and what to say? This would be a great winner for the International Booker Prize.
Good news this morning – Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo has been shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards @thebookseller.com
From fresh voices to a fifth-time nominee, here's everything you need to know about the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
thebookerprizes.com/IBP2025longl...
Copies of the book The Lamb before the event with Lucy Rose and Eliza Clark
Eliza Clark and Lucy Rose
First page of the book The Lamb signed by Lucy Rose
Great event the other night with Eliza Clark in conversation with @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social at Bàrd Books to celebrate The Lamb 🥩
#GirlDinner
Eimear McBride event about The City Changes Its Face at the Southbank Centre
Yesterday's event 📖
Just don't let them see your Dead Ink tattoo!
In all seriousness though, we helped facilitate this and are super happy for Lucie. Night Babies is incredible and you are all going to love it.
January wrap up: Lo Straniero, Strange Pictures, L'amica Geniale, Poetics of Work and The Edges
January wrap up 📚
Yes, maybe we were a bit more prepared and probably some people in the audience didn't realise how intense that bit would have been?
The same happened when I went! Like 4 or 5 people passed out and they had to stop the performance for a good 15 minutes.
My book is officially out in the world today 🥺🥹❤️
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
This was North London just a couple of weekends ago! Perfect background matching the cover design! ❄️❄️
Copy of the book The Edges written by Angelo Tijssens and translated by Michele Hutchinson
A very good start of 2025 which this incredible debut. A tender story about the human connections that makes us and that break us.
Written by @angelotijssens.bsky.social and translated by @michehut.bsky.social ( @dauntbookspub.bsky.social )
Can't wait!!!
I can't wait to watch it!! I have really high expectations about it!
Books I've read in December: The Shakespeare Company Book of Interviews, Oster boy by Tim Burton, Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adèle Rosenfeld and The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk.
December Wrap Up 📚
painting of Mary Shelley by Rothwell. It shows a white woman with sloping shoulders, dark hair and gold glasses
Frontispiece of Frankenstein’s first edition without any author’s name on it.
It's ALIVE!
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
If you don’t want to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein together by lantern light in a seaside cottage during a full moon, then please don’t refer to yourself as “the one.”
Stack of italian books: Lo straniero by Camus, Tigre Triste by Neige Sinno, La Malcarne by Beatrice Salvioni and Atti Umani by Han Kang.
Christmas and books 🎄📚✨️
Pelicot is seen smiling as she walks past women who are applauding her. They look emotional and one holds a sign up saying Merci Gisele
Photo of the Day, if not the Year.
Solidarity and admiration.
📸This brilliant photo of Gisele Pelicot, leaving court for the final time yesterday, was taken by Arnold Jerocki for Getty Images.
Pile of my favourite books of 2024
Time to share the best books I've read this year 📚
Un paperback a 17€? Ma siamo seri? 😭
Why are books so expensive in Italy??
Front photo of the Indie edition of the book She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark
Side photo of the Indie edition of the book She's Always Hungry by Eliza Clark, showing sprayed edges
Photo of the first page of the book She's Always Hungry signed by the author
This edition is so pretty.
Proof copy of Universality by Natasha Brown
Also, this beauty is coming out in March.
It's a really nice read!
Photo of the book Jellyfish Have No Ears by Adèle Rosenfeld and translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Just finished. A deep reflection on langauge and the worlds we create to shelter ourselves.
