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MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTLEPIECE optioned by Alexandre Jouan

Posted on 26/11/2018

MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTLEPIECE by Annabel Pitcher has been optioned by Alexandre Jouan of Green Mill Way.

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We spy THE PROMISE in @wimblestones’ stack of Bo

We spy THE PROMISE in @wimblestones’ stack of Booker shortlisted titles 📚

If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, then who better to recommend it than judge @chigozieobiomaauthor who says:

‘The Promise is an expansive family novel that explores the interconnected relationships between members of one family through the sequential lens of multiple funerals. Death assumes here both a closing but also an opening into lives lived.

It is an unusual narrative style that balances Faulknerian exuberance with Nabokovian precision, pushes boundaries, and is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century.

In The Promise, Damon Galgut makes a strong, unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself that can best be summed up in the question: does true justice exist in this world? The novel’s way of tackling this question is what makes it an accomplishment and truly deserving of its place on the shortlist.’

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Fresh out the afternoon post is this breathtakingl

Fresh out the afternoon post is this breathtakingly beautiful paperback of OCTOBER, OCTOBER by Katya Balen. Published on the 30th of September from @bloomsburychildrens 🍁✨

A classic in the making for anyone who ever longed to be wild. October and her dad live in the woods. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that’s the way it is.

Until the year October turns eleven. That’s the year October rescues a baby owl. It’s the year Dad falls out of the biggest tree in their wood. The year the woman who calls herself October’s mother comes back. The year everything changes.

Written in Katya Balen’s heart-stoppingly beautiful style, this book is a feast for the senses, filled with the woodsmoke smell of crisp autumn mornings and the sound of wellies squelching in river mud. And, as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos beyond the woods, it is also a feast for the soul.

We are so pleased to see that Everybody Needs Beau

We are so pleased to see that Everybody Needs Beauty by @samlwalton is @nanprize’s BOOK OF THE WEEK 🌻🍃🌸💐

‘We loved this multidisciplinary and groundbreaking investigation into the origins of the nature cure. With an intersectional lens, the author explores who is able to access nature and the dangers of the wellness industry’

Thanks so much for your support @nanprize ✨

We couldn’t resist snapping this picture of #The

We couldn’t resist snapping this picture of #ThePromise on a weekend jaunt to @blackwelloxford yesterday. The Promise is a tale of family drama, depicting the downfall of a white South African whose promise to their black housekeeper - of her own property, her own land - remains unfulfilled. It is Galgut’s third novel to be nominated for the Booker Prize, showcasing his talent for deft and innovative narration.

We highly recommend reading the interview up on @penguinukbooks’ website with the author himself. Galgut expands on the origins of his latest work, from family dynamics to the ‘cinematic’ inspiration behind the novel’s narrator - not to mention the importance of ‘ambushing’ your audience. Link in our bio!

Photo courtesy of the wonderful @bloomsburychildre

Photo courtesy of the wonderful @bloomsburychildrens 🦜🦚🦅🦩

Yesterday was publication day for What It’s Like to be a Bird. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be able to fly or live high in the tree tops, this is the dream book for you. Learn all about why ravens love playing games, sledging down snow-covered rooftops on their bellies, and the sneaky method partridges use to trick hungry foxes.

With fascinating factual detail from ornithologist Tim Birkhead and vibrant, personality-filled illustrations from Catherine Rayner, this is an indispensable guide to what it’s like to be a bird ✨

Happy publication day to A Winter War by Tim Leach

Happy publication day to A Winter War by Tim Leach ❄️⚔️

In A Winter War, a disgraced warrior must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Roman Empire, in the first of a new trilogy set in the second century AD, from the author of Smile of the Wolf.

We were chuffed to see A Winter War included in @thetimes’ list of ‘The best new historical fiction for August 2021’, who call it a ‘cracker’ with characters that ‘feel rounded and real’ @headofzeus

We are over the moon that THE PROMISE is long list

We are over the moon that THE PROMISE is long listed for the #2021BookerPrize. Bravo Damon and all the other longlisted authors for earning a spot in this incredible stack 💫🎉🎊

Damon was previously shortlisted in 2006 for THE GOOD DOCTOR and in 2010 for IN A STRANGE ROOM. The judges comment that:

‘The Promise is a testament to the flourishing of the novel in the 21st century. Here, nothing is as it seems. The standard narrative logic of an omniscient narrator is here expanded and reinvented to create an eye so intrusive its gaze is totally untrammelled. It is through these eyes that the fate or a white South African family burdened with old lives, old wounds, crimes against humanity, dark history, and misreckonings, become, cumulatively, the fate of South Africa itself.’

We are so proud to represent these two joyous book

We are so proud to represent these two joyous books on the healing power of nature 🍃

🌾 Everybody Needs Beauty by @samlwalton is published by @bloomsburypublishing today! This lucid and thoughtful exploration of the valuable effects of the natural world on health will change the way you think about ‘the nature cure’. Lara Maiklem, author of Mudlarking, calls it ‘impeccably researched’ and ‘a call to us all to find a place within the simplicity and complexity of nature’.

🌾 The Well Gardened Mind by @suestuartsmith came out in paperback in April and is published by @harpercollinsuk. It was named a Times Best Book of 2020 for its uplifting and fascinating look at how our mental health is affected by the natural world. Combing contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind is a gardening book like no other.

Both these titles are available to buy on @bookshop_org_uk.

We adore this photo from @toppingsedin of their fa

We adore this photo from @toppingsedin of their favourite recent new arrivals, featuring #Moth keeping very good company alongside Natasha Brown’s Assembly 📚✨ We very much wish we could be paying a visit to this gorgeous, independent bookshop right this second, but in the meantime browsing their website for literary goodies will have to do!

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