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Emma O’Bryen
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Book publicist, gardener, eco-anxious.
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"Using his vivid imagination, his artist's attention to detail, and his nearly 20 years of experience driving passenger and freight trains throughout France, Mattia Filice transmutes labor into literature...."

Excellent review of Driver by Eric Vanderwall in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
The Knight of the Railways | Los Angeles Review of Books
Eric Vanderwall takes a ride with French author Mattia Filice’s debut novel “Driver,” newly translated by Jacques Houis.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments—

An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
“Driver” by Mattia Fillice — The Dial
An excerpt.
www.thedial.world
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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ONLY until 23:59 on Friday 17 October - our Spring 2026 titles can be pre-ordered with 25% off, exclusively from Waterstones online.

Use code OCTOBER25

Find out more www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...
#WPreorder
@yalerepresentation
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Out now!

Happy publication day to Michael Collins, whose collection Blind Corners: Essays on Photography is published today. With a introduction by Will Self, these interlinked pieces celebrate the artform in many shapes, and invite everyone to rethink how we look at photos.

Shop: buff.ly/qFE72jV
May 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Last chance to nab a ticket for an evening with Julian Barnes at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social on the 18th March!

Join us for an evening of reflection and conversation, followed by a Q&A, and a chance to grab a copy of Changing My Mind on publication day.

Book your ticket: buff.ly/INdyENW
March 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Hooray!!
Coming back to work after a weekend to publicity of this caliber for one of our titles is simply mind-blowing for a small press like us!

Changing My Mind by Julian Barnes featured in the Observer over the weekend⬇️
March 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
On window watch #staffy #dogs #doublechins
February 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The story of putting Ian Nairn’s Outrage back into print - wonderful. I will be purchasing a copy.

@nottinghilleds.bsky.social
Outrage: Giving new life to an old masterpiece
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February 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thanks to all involved. It was fascinating and fun!
A brilliant event last night with @c20society.bsky.social to launch our 70th anniversary edition of Outrage by Ian Nairn, with @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social, @gmdarksky.bsky.social and Travis Elborough (also featuring @gardnergareth.bsky.social).

Always lovely to see a packed room!
February 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Loved this interview!
'Whether a story is true or not is not always the most interesting question we can ask of it, I think.'

A fantastic interview with Jennifer Fleetwood, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About crime, about our fascination for true crime stories:
Thinking Allowed - Crime Stories - BBC Sounds
Why do stories about true crime exercise such a grip on the popular imagination?
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January 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Friday chill. Where are all the dogs on Bluesky? Or maybe it’s just my feed…
January 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Our member charities are continuing to deliver vital aid to people in need across Gaza who have experienced unimaginable loss.

Please help. Donate today: www.dec.org.uk
January 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Fan of Ian Nairn? Join us at Nairn Night with @c20society.bsky.social!

Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Outrage, the launch of our new edition and enjoy a brilliant discussion with Travis Elborough, Gillian Darley, Hugh Pearman and Gareth Gardner.

Book: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
January 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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To find out more and enter our Bodleian Bestsellers Christmas giveaway, please head to our Instagram page:

www.instagram.com/p/DDcG95kN9-...
December 11, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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Receiving one of our books in the post is a joy in itself🎄

All our books arrive in a custom box and are wrapped in beautiful tissue paper by hand.

Our pages are sewn, not glued, and each book is bound in linen. Things of beauty, if we say so ourselves.

youtu.be/kvebK19UdHM?...
How it feels to receive a NHE title in the post | Notting Hill Editions | Unboxing one of our books
YouTube video by Notting Hill Editions
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December 9, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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Dash Shaw's Blurry is one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2024 on the New York Times's list.

"It's a meditation on perceptions of perceptions, each narrator coloring his or her own recollection and all the recollections within it."

Blurry makes a good Xmas gift...

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...
December 6, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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‘There ought to be technical education classes on the science of present-giving.

No one seems to have the faintest notion of what anyone else wants, and the prevalent ideas on the subject are not creditable to a civilised community.’

- H. H. Munro

(How about these though? ⬇️)
December 5, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Christmas on the horizon 😬. Anyone else start with buying themselves a present?? 🎁 Probably going to be a #vangogh tea towel for me…
December 5, 2024 at 12:05 PM
December 3, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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Any reviewers/bloggers/journalists keen to review The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick by @larryhayesauthor.bsky.social a new upper middle grade comedy horror? Working on the mailing list this week so get in touch if you'd like to be added or want to know more www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...
November 19, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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I only found out about this place last year, even though it’s close to where my mum lives in Bedfordshire. I went there at dawn in May and was immersed in song: warblers, cuckoos, turtle doves. Nightingales everywhere. A dream made real. A revelation of what’s possible.
An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies.

Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm
Bedfordshire farm was saved through public donations after a successful £1.5m crowdfunding campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:28 AM