Louise Court
@louisecc.bsky.social
Professional book-pusher at Sceptre Books (Hodder & Stoughton) and self-facilitating media node. I'm usually more charasmatic than this.
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Highly Commended in the @Waterstones Best Hardback Fiction Campaign category is the incredible campaign for You Are Here -well done to @louisecc and @EmmaPublicity #PPCAwards25
March 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Highly Commended in the @Waterstones Best Hardback Fiction Campaign category is the incredible campaign for You Are Here -well done to @louisecc and @EmmaPublicity #PPCAwards25
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The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award are hosting an evening of readings and discussion with the shortlisted authors, chaired by author and former winner, Zadie Smith.
📍 The Barbican
🕖 7pm
📅 Monday 17 March 2025
Get your ticket here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
📍 The Barbican
🕖 7pm
📅 Monday 17 March 2025
Get your ticket here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
February 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award are hosting an evening of readings and discussion with the shortlisted authors, chaired by author and former winner, Zadie Smith.
📍 The Barbican
🕖 7pm
📅 Monday 17 March 2025
Get your ticket here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
📍 The Barbican
🕖 7pm
📅 Monday 17 March 2025
Get your ticket here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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We're absolutely delighted that THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller has been longlisted for the sixteenth #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction!
February 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We're absolutely delighted that THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller has been longlisted for the sixteenth #WalterScottPrize for Historical Fiction!
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pics from Sceptre Salon!
we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below:
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below:
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
pics from Sceptre Salon!
we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below:
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
we heard from the wildly talented authors on their 2025 list, including superstars below:
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, @jennymustard.bsky.social, @gabrielflynn.bsky.social, @arifa.bsky.social, @elfodongo.bsky.social & @jennashworth.bsky.social
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social
@reece-shearsmith.bsky.social and @sjpemberton.bsky.social are Very Silly Men who happen to be geniuses. loved Inside Number 9 at the Wyndham's yesterday
February 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@reece-shearsmith.bsky.social and @sjpemberton.bsky.social are Very Silly Men who happen to be geniuses. loved Inside Number 9 at the Wyndham's yesterday
tonnes of fun was had this year at my annual event highlight, the Sceptre Salon, which is always worth the stress-dreams and last minute panic about where the tombola is
February 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
tonnes of fun was had this year at my annual event highlight, the Sceptre Salon, which is always worth the stress-dreams and last minute panic about where the tombola is
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Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚
February 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚
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I'm loving this evening's #SceptreSalon25, packed with exciting books for the year ahead but also brilliant for programming a simple livestream for booksellers outside of London to watch too.
Kicking off our #SceptreSalon25 by remembering our amazing 2024 publishing with @mrfeditor.bsky.social, before looking ahead at some of the fantastic books ahead 📚
February 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm loving this evening's #SceptreSalon25, packed with exciting books for the year ahead but also brilliant for programming a simple livestream for booksellers outside of London to watch too.
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So completely beside myself to be working on this gorge gorge gorgeeee book next year! And look at that COVER 🤩 complete with bespoke painting by Ariel Lee, and put together by cover designer extraordinaire Lucy Scholes 🏞
#DreamState
#BookSky 📚💙
#DreamState
#BookSky 📚💙
Ann Patchett/Claire Lombardo/Jonathan Franzen/Ann Napolitano girlies: where you at?
Today is my last day in the office: ask now if you want a proof and enjoy this gem over Christmas.
Dream State by Eric Puchner.
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social 2025.
Today is my last day in the office: ask now if you want a proof and enjoy this gem over Christmas.
Dream State by Eric Puchner.
@sceptrebooks.bsky.social 2025.
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
So completely beside myself to be working on this gorge gorge gorgeeee book next year! And look at that COVER 🤩 complete with bespoke painting by Ariel Lee, and put together by cover designer extraordinaire Lucy Scholes 🏞
#DreamState
#BookSky 📚💙
#DreamState
#BookSky 📚💙
absolutely raging about today's NYT Connections
December 12, 2024 at 4:53 PM
absolutely raging about today's NYT Connections
SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS, the debut novel by @cmgleeson.bsky.social is coming in April - from the first word to the last, this is such an accomplished & exquisitely sensitively-handled story of how a woman rebuilds her life after the most horrific of tragedies. Moving, devastating & ultimately hopeful
December 9, 2024 at 10:49 AM
SHOW ME WHERE IT HURTS, the debut novel by @cmgleeson.bsky.social is coming in April - from the first word to the last, this is such an accomplished & exquisitely sensitively-handled story of how a woman rebuilds her life after the most horrific of tragedies. Moving, devastating & ultimately hopeful
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Oh, hi Bluesky! We're very excited to be here, and to share news & updates on all of the literary delights we have to offer ✨
...and what better way to begin than by sharing the INCREDIBLE news that #YouAreHere by David Nicholls has just surpassed 100,000 hardback sales! 💛🗺
#BookSky
...and what better way to begin than by sharing the INCREDIBLE news that #YouAreHere by David Nicholls has just surpassed 100,000 hardback sales! 💛🗺
#BookSky
December 4, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Oh, hi Bluesky! We're very excited to be here, and to share news & updates on all of the literary delights we have to offer ✨
...and what better way to begin than by sharing the INCREDIBLE news that #YouAreHere by David Nicholls has just surpassed 100,000 hardback sales! 💛🗺
#BookSky
...and what better way to begin than by sharing the INCREDIBLE news that #YouAreHere by David Nicholls has just surpassed 100,000 hardback sales! 💛🗺
#BookSky
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This is superb: multiple POVs in musical prose, moving, grim, funny... on inequality, hope, and how class impacts women's lives. Deftly deals with sexual assault (bleak reading it alongside McGr**g*r's court case). Brilliant work @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social. Out next June, @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 1:05 PM
This is superb: multiple POVs in musical prose, moving, grim, funny... on inequality, hope, and how class impacts women's lives. Deftly deals with sexual assault (bleak reading it alongside McGr**g*r's court case). Brilliant work @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social. Out next June, @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
lovely write up of Andrew Miller's 'incredibly satisfying', 'exquisite' 10th novel THE LAND IN WINTER in the Bookseller this morning
November 26, 2024 at 10:01 AM
lovely write up of Andrew Miller's 'incredibly satisfying', 'exquisite' 10th novel THE LAND IN WINTER in the Bookseller this morning
It is, my friends, the Year of David Nicholls! Lovely man, BRILLIANT book. Has anyone not read this yet?! www.thebookseller.com/news/david-n...
David Nicholls' You Are Here named Amazon Books' Best Book of the Year for 2024
David Nicholls’ You Are Here (Sceptre) has been awarded the title of Best Book of the Year for 2024 by the Amazon Books editorial team, who also take Amazon Charts data and customer review ratings int...
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:39 PM
It is, my friends, the Year of David Nicholls! Lovely man, BRILLIANT book. Has anyone not read this yet?! www.thebookseller.com/news/david-n...
here's a tip: if a company is asking YOU to pay THEM to publish your book, that's a 🚩
November 25, 2024 at 10:07 AM
here's a tip: if a company is asking YOU to pay THEM to publish your book, that's a 🚩
it's lovely to see so many people discovering Samantha Harvey's writing. her novel The Western Wind introduced me to the word 'cropsick' which is a wonderful old term for a hangover
November 21, 2024 at 1:36 PM
it's lovely to see so many people discovering Samantha Harvey's writing. her novel The Western Wind introduced me to the word 'cropsick' which is a wonderful old term for a hangover
adored this 3 part BBC series on Lucan - a really affecting story of obsession with so many twists and turns: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 20, 2024 at 1:54 PM
adored this 3 part BBC series on Lucan - a really affecting story of obsession with so many twists and turns: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I always get a kick when a reviewer manages to distil a book so skilfully. This is brilliant by Rachel Seiffert on The Land in Winter by "the master of nuance, expert at exploring the various chambers of the human heart", Andrew Miller:
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller review – light in the darkness
Set during the Big Freeze of 1962-3, this story of two marriages brilliantly evokes the legacy of the second world war
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:01 AM
I always get a kick when a reviewer manages to distil a book so skilfully. This is brilliant by Rachel Seiffert on The Land in Winter by "the master of nuance, expert at exploring the various chambers of the human heart", Andrew Miller:
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
This is so heartening to see! literary fiction at the top of the charts!
The announcement of Orbital (Jonathan Cape) by Samantha Harvey as @thebookerprizes.bsky.social winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts 👇 www.thebookseller.com/news/news/in... #BookSky
Into orbit: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first Booker champ to hit number one in week of its win
The announcement of Orbital (Vintage) by Samantha Harvey as the Booker Prize winner for 2024 has rocketed it to the top of the charts, breaking Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid's three-week run in first place.
www.thebookseller.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:33 PM
This is so heartening to see! literary fiction at the top of the charts!
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Writers & artists, I've decided to remove the paywall on my eight essays on the creative process, written between January and September this year. My newsletter is called SUBTRACTION and you can find it here.
Archive - Subtraction
Full archive of all the posts from Subtraction.
charlottewood.substack.com
November 19, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Writers & artists, I've decided to remove the paywall on my eight essays on the creative process, written between January and September this year. My newsletter is called SUBTRACTION and you can find it here.
One of the most fun things about having kids is getting to reread books you loved as a child and realising they're probably a huge reason why you became the person you are
November 15, 2024 at 12:29 PM
One of the most fun things about having kids is getting to reread books you loved as a child and realising they're probably a huge reason why you became the person you are