Charlotte Seymour
@charlotteseymour.bsky.social
Literary Agent at Johnson & Alcock
Champion of writers and cats
https://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/charlotte-seymour
Champion of writers and cats
https://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/charlotte-seymour
Thrilled to see historian Misha Ewen on this incredible shortlist
Six incredible writers working across memoir, history and fiction make up the shortlist for the 2026 Eccles Institute and @hayfestival.bsky.social Writer’s Award:
Carmen Ávila
Jacqueline Crooks
Misha Ewen
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Maddie Mortimer
Vanessa Londoño
Carmen Ávila
Jacqueline Crooks
Misha Ewen
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Maddie Mortimer
Vanessa Londoño
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Thrilled to see historian Misha Ewen on this incredible shortlist
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Delighted to announce PARADISE, the stunning new novel by @bentufnell.bsky.social – an uncategorisable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.
PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
August 19, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Delighted to announce PARADISE, the stunning new novel by @bentufnell.bsky.social – an uncategorisable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.
PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
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Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion
25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count:…
25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count:…
Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion
25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count: 445 🏷️ Publisher: Embla Books Have you ever wondered about all the people who lived in your house before you?25 Library Terrace in Edinburgh is a house where lives are changed.
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June 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion
25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count:…
25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count:…
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It seems about time I shouted a bit about this book. It came out 4years ago, and has done me proud - getting me picked up by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social and then Bodley Head. But more and more the themes of it seem to hit a nerve right now. 1/
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Fit by Sammy Wright | Waterstones
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April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It seems about time I shouted a bit about this book. It came out 4years ago, and has done me proud - getting me picked up by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social and then Bodley Head. But more and more the themes of it seem to hit a nerve right now. 1/
www.waterstones.com/book/fit/sam...
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We are thrilled to be working with Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency on the Great Northern Read Award, for unpublished writers of commercial, genre and book club fiction 📚
Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards.
Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...
Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards.
Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...
Johnson & Alcock to deliver new award as part of the Northern Writers' Awards - New Writing North
Literary agency Johnson & Alcock will support a new award – the Great Northern Read Award – for debut writers...
newwritingnorth.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
We are thrilled to be working with Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency on the Great Northern Read Award, for unpublished writers of commercial, genre and book club fiction 📚
Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards.
Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...
Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards.
Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...
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Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired The Mires by Tina Makereti, which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 👇 #BookSky
Footnote Press acquires Tina Makereti’s 'exploration of people, prejudice and power'
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April 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired The Mires by Tina Makereti, which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 👇 #BookSky
I spy Rozie Kelly’s brilliant debut in the Telegraph this week!
April 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I spy Rozie Kelly’s brilliant debut in the Telegraph this week!
Jill Damatac in the New York Times ahead of her memoir, Dirty Kitchen, publishing this May… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...
Opinion | Self-Deportation Taught Me What I Know About This Country
My decision to leave the U.S. seemed crazy. I believed then that America is exceptional, the only nation capable of caring for its people.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Jill Damatac in the New York Times ahead of her memoir, Dirty Kitchen, publishing this May… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...
How gorgeous is this! The UK cover for Masashi Matsuie’s prizewinning Japanese debut, finally coming to UK readers in July from Indigo Press.
February 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
How gorgeous is this! The UK cover for Masashi Matsuie’s prizewinning Japanese debut, finally coming to UK readers in July from Indigo Press.
Thrilling to see my author Tina Makereti longlisted for a second time, for her latest novel THE MIRES!
It’s here! All the books longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
It’s here! All the books longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Four categories, 43 books, many thoughts and feelings....
thespinoff.co.nz
January 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thrilling to see my author Tina Makereti longlisted for a second time, for her latest novel THE MIRES!
Obsessed with the paperback cover for @aetwigg.bsky.social’s SPOILT CREATURES, coming this March…
January 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Obsessed with the paperback cover for @aetwigg.bsky.social’s SPOILT CREATURES, coming this March…
Great to hear Jody Cooksley talking about her gothic novel THE SMALL MUSEUM on BBC Radio London with Robert Elms this morning (from 38 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Robert Elms - Poppy Delbridge, 'The Small Museum' and Nicci French - BBC Sounds
Tapping expert Poppy Delbridge becomes Robert's 'Listed Londoner'.
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January 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Great to hear Jody Cooksley talking about her gothic novel THE SMALL MUSEUM on BBC Radio London with Robert Elms this morning (from 38 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The buzz is building for Rozie Kelly’s debut novel KINGFISHER, out @saraband-books.bsky.social in April… She’s even on the cover of this week’s @the-bookseller.bsky.social!
January 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The buzz is building for Rozie Kelly’s debut novel KINGFISHER, out @saraband-books.bsky.social in April… She’s even on the cover of this week’s @the-bookseller.bsky.social!
Book of the week! @drmattmorgan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living
In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Book of the week! @drmattmorgan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
A thrill to see Rozie Kelly’s debut KINGFISHER among @the-bookseller.bsky.social’s top ten for April! @saraband-books.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A thrill to see Rozie Kelly’s debut KINGFISHER among @the-bookseller.bsky.social’s top ten for April! @saraband-books.bsky.social
First review out for @drmattmorgan.bsky.social’s new book, A SECOND ACT! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
What I learned from my near-death experience
In a Second Act, Matt Morgan, an intensive care doctor, explores how people rescued from the brink of death have been changed
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January 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
First review out for @drmattmorgan.bsky.social’s new book, A SECOND ACT! www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Final read of 2024
December 31, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Final read of 2024
2024 in books from my brilliant authors (missing one or two) - and that’s a wrap!
December 19, 2024 at 4:25 PM
2024 in books from my brilliant authors (missing one or two) - and that’s a wrap!
Proofs for @jilldamatac.bsky.social’s DIRTY KITCHEN! Coming May 2025 from One Signal/Atria in the US…
December 18, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Proofs for @jilldamatac.bsky.social’s DIRTY KITCHEN! Coming May 2025 from One Signal/Atria in the US…
I spy Sarah Pearse and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in the Express’s Best Books of 2024! 🥳
December 12, 2024 at 9:31 PM
I spy Sarah Pearse and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in the Express’s Best Books of 2024! 🥳
Reading in bed: a constant battle
December 11, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Reading in bed: a constant battle
A treat spotting our authors in the end of year roundups 🍾 @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social @aetwigg.bsky.social www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/news/2024/12...
2024 in books: J&A authors features — Johnson & Alcock
It’s been a fantastic year for our authors, and we’re so pleased to see their work featured in roundups of the best books of 2024. Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum’s second work, Why Animals Talk , was ...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:37 PM
A treat spotting our authors in the end of year roundups 🍾 @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social @aetwigg.bsky.social www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/news/2024/12...
In his inspiring new book, out in January, @drmattmorgan.bsky.social introduces us to patients who’ve come back from the dead thanks to intensive care, and shares the lessons they’ve learned…
December 4, 2024 at 10:34 PM
In his inspiring new book, out in January, @drmattmorgan.bsky.social introduces us to patients who’ve come back from the dead thanks to intensive care, and shares the lessons they’ve learned…
If you like your Christmas reading on the gothic side…
Celebrating so many new followers with a giveaway. Win a signed hb of my 'weird, astonishing' debut, THE NORTH SHORE, limited edition ON MIRRORS (Nightjar) and DISSOLUTION (The Aleph). To enter - like, follow and repost. I'll draw a winner on 8 Dec. Good luck!
#booksky #weirdfiction #folkhorror
#booksky #weirdfiction #folkhorror
December 2, 2024 at 6:16 PM
If you like your Christmas reading on the gothic side…
Thrilling to see Sophie Shorland’s debut historical biography, THE LOST QUEEN, on this list! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
The Ten Best History Books of 2024
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today
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November 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Thrilling to see Sophie Shorland’s debut historical biography, THE LOST QUEEN, on this list! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...