Publishing Director of Raven Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world.
South East London
Joined October 2011
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Briefly logging back into this account to say I have been made me aware that someone out there is impersonating me and contacting aspiring authors. This is not me. I can confirm I have not and would not send unsolicited emails to authors asking them to discuss projects with me.
Have, like so many of you migrated to Bluesky after setting up an account many many moons ago just in case, so please do come and say hello if you are on there. So nice to see so many familiar faces on there! I feel like links get downplayed here but I am under Alison.Hennessey
Book people - those who haven't fled - do you have any good recommendations for picture books about Christmas that don't show snow? My 3 year old currently believes that Christmas Day will bring snow automatically and every picture book we have does show snowy Christmasses.
In our office today for a meeting, and the building is almost empty. I'm pretty sure it's currently me, our receptionist, one of our facilities team tending to the plants in our little courtyard and the mice. I'm going to pretend I am CEO and make some big decisions.
Excited to have spent my lunchtime moving all my clothes into carrier bags and doing an express emergency order of killer moth repellent and storage bags. Turns out that sometimes the nice natural way of doing things is not so successful. RIP most of my jumpers & my fancy gloves.
What an amazing quote for the brilliant House of Barbary! Thank you so much @naomikelsey_ for your fantastic endorsement 🗡️🐻🗡️🐻🗡️🐻🗡️🐻
If you crossed The Miniaturist with Promising Young Woman, you’d get The House of Barbary by @BelleSchuler - a blazing feminist roar of a novel set in C17th Bern. Twists abound in this gripping tale: it’s a thrilling, visceral follow-up to the very brilliant Lady Macbethad.
If you don't have a proof and would like a chance to read in advance of publication, it's available on Netgalley here: netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book…
I saw Small Things Like These last night; the film makers and especially Cillian Murphy as the lead, do an incredible job of translating Claire Keegan's masterpiece for the cinema. I thoroughly recommend for a very not festive yet Christmas set film.
Just more reasons why Katherine Rundell is a very special author theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
Was so happy to bump into our Head of Indie Bookshops at Bloomsbury yesterday and hear how much booksellers are falling for Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village and then to see it for myself happily sitting by Hatchard's tills (next to George Orwell).
Huge congratulations to Samantha Harvey and the whole @jonathancape team for last night's Booker triumph. This was the first book from the longlist I bought and the bookseller at Waterstones was so passionate about it when I picked it up. Booksellers, they know what's good...
Sad to reveal that fireworks did not go down well with my 3 year old. 'Mummy, they are TOO LOUD'. I look forward to revisiting this in many years time.
There are lots of incredibly impressive people on this list - big up to our own @EKellingley, our Accessibility Manager and the person behind our dyslexia friendly editions of books including @BloomsburyRaven 's own The Last Murder at the End of the World thebookseller.com/news/bloom…
Thirty nine companies, projects, and individuals have been shortlisted for the #FutureBook Awards 🏆
Meet our wonderful shortlistees in the thread below 👇
ALT A navy blue background with an outline of a book in green. The FutureBook Awards logo is in the top left corner and there is an outline of a stack of books in the bottom left in yellow. White text reads: introducing the FutureBook Awards Shortlist
The world is a bin fire but today I have been working on edits for Laura Purcell's new book - set in the world of The Silent Companions! SO good - and just had a great editorial call with a brand new author, so thank you to those things for giving me much needed cheer.
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On the gloomy Scottish coast, legend has it that if one hears the howling of a spectral hound nearby, their death will quickly follow...
Get ready to dive into #TheUnrecovered, the eerie new novel from @RWStrachan1977, out February 2025!
I mean, I can't disagree with this
So…in the spirit in cheering ourselves up, what’s better than a book?
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