Tomasz Hoskins
@tomaszhoskins.bsky.social
Publisher. Commissioning literary biography, history and current affairs for Bloomsbury Continuum, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
Pitches: tomasz.hoskins@bloomsbury.com
www.bloomsbury.com/continuum
Pitches: tomasz.hoskins@bloomsbury.com
www.bloomsbury.com/continuum
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Penelope Lively is 92 today.
March 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Penelope Lively is 92 today.
Now the British Museum Reading Room is back open, I'm reminded of this piece: 'Lenin liked London primarily because he had fallen in love. The object of his love was the British Museum – or rather, the great circular reading room of the library.’
Sheila Fitzpatrick on a famous reader:
Sheila Fitzpatrick on a famous reader:
Sheila Fitzpatrick · To King’s Cross Station: Lenin’s London
Lenin liked London primarily because he had fallen in love. The object of his love was the British Museum – or rather...
lrb.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Now the British Museum Reading Room is back open, I'm reminded of this piece: 'Lenin liked London primarily because he had fallen in love. The object of his love was the British Museum – or rather, the great circular reading room of the library.’
Sheila Fitzpatrick on a famous reader:
Sheila Fitzpatrick on a famous reader:
The best editing advice is so often the simplest - from George Saunders in The Paris Review: 'Would a reasonable person, reading line 4, get a little jolt, and go on to read line 5?'
November 27, 2024 at 3:45 PM
The best editing advice is so often the simplest - from George Saunders in The Paris Review: 'Would a reasonable person, reading line 4, get a little jolt, and go on to read line 5?'
Very happy to find out that On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain is an FT Book of the Year! A truly unique, funny and profound book - we loved publishing it
November 21, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Very happy to find out that On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain is an FT Book of the Year! A truly unique, funny and profound book - we loved publishing it
Don Confuso
My six favourite European Mr Men character names...
6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso
5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel
4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing
3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo
2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs
1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump
6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso
5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel
4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing
3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo
2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs
1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump
November 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Don Confuso
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“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets
This one’s personal. Dylan Thomas bestrides modern Welsh poetry like a chubby-cheeked, shabby-blazered colossus. Any Welsh poet who tries to be modern therefore has to pass through him first, wheth…
lithub.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:39 AM
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
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Loved working on this book, we just don't know enough about Goethe in the UK -- like how whenever he went to the theatre he insisted on bringing his own big personal bowl of punch
We attempted the unusual on our little imprint - a life of one of the greatest creative minds in history told through the epic poem he spent his whole life writing. And now Goethe: His Faustian Life by A N Wilson has been chosen as a biography of the year 😊
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
The best biographies and memoirs of 2024, from Elizabeth II’s life to Rushdie’s near-death
This year saw the release of Craig Brown’s magnum opus on the late Queen, as well as dissections of the messy difficulty of genius
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 17, 2024 at 8:35 AM
Loved working on this book, we just don't know enough about Goethe in the UK -- like how whenever he went to the theatre he insisted on bringing his own big personal bowl of punch
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Tolstoy on his early drafts of Anna Karenina: "I loathe what I have written. Everything in the galleys is so rotten, and the whole thing should be rewritten—all that has been printed too—scrapped, and melted down, thrown away, renounced.”
November 12, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Tolstoy on his early drafts of Anna Karenina: "I loathe what I have written. Everything in the galleys is so rotten, and the whole thing should be rewritten—all that has been printed too—scrapped, and melted down, thrown away, renounced.”
The pioneering publisher Phillipa Brewster was a brilliant woman and I learned so much about publishing from her at the very beginning of my career. Jeanette Winterson’s piece in the Guardian today rings so true. She was also so stylish, in her person and in her publishing…an inspiration to us kids
‘She gave me the chance that became my life’: Jeanette Winterson on her first editor, Philippa Brewster
The pioneering feminist editor and publisher died in October. The Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit author looks back on the close friendship they shared
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:52 PM
The pioneering publisher Phillipa Brewster was a brilliant woman and I learned so much about publishing from her at the very beginning of my career. Jeanette Winterson’s piece in the Guardian today rings so true. She was also so stylish, in her person and in her publishing…an inspiration to us kids
Please don’t make me say skeets
November 15, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Please don’t make me say skeets
It really is as good as we say it is...includes a brief history of Halloumi which is worth the cover price alone.
Wonderful to see CYPRIA listed among the best history books of the year by Waterstones www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...
The Best History Books of 2024 | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones
From Alice Roberts to Ben Macintyre, here are the history books we've loved this year.
www.waterstones.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:04 PM
It really is as good as we say it is...includes a brief history of Halloumi which is worth the cover price alone.
Fascinating!
Here's a new discovery: *3* brothers of #JaneAusten participated in public anti-slavery activism, as my research has uncovered. My piece in Conversation US describes Frank Austen's previously unknown abolitionist activities in Gosport in 1826. theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au...
3 of Jane Austen’s 6 brothers engaged in antislavery activism − new research offers more clues about her own views
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen times in her books.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Fascinating!
We attempted the unusual on our little imprint - a life of one of the greatest creative minds in history told through the epic poem he spent his whole life writing. And now Goethe: His Faustian Life by A N Wilson has been chosen as a biography of the year 😊
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
The best biographies and memoirs of 2024, from Elizabeth II’s life to Rushdie’s near-death
This year saw the release of Craig Brown’s magnum opus on the late Queen, as well as dissections of the messy difficulty of genius
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM
We attempted the unusual on our little imprint - a life of one of the greatest creative minds in history told through the epic poem he spent his whole life writing. And now Goethe: His Faustian Life by A N Wilson has been chosen as a biography of the year 😊
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets
This one’s personal. Dylan Thomas bestrides modern Welsh poetry like a chubby-cheeked, shabby-blazered colossus. Any Welsh poet who tries to be modern therefore has to pass through him first, wheth…
lithub.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:39 AM
“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
lithub.com/a-chubby-che...
Has anybody made a UK publishing starter pack? Please send me in the right direction if so...
November 13, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Has anybody made a UK publishing starter pack? Please send me in the right direction if so...
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Modern politics in its purest, concentrated form.
Elon Musk posted:
“Department of Government Efficiency
The merch will be 🔥🔥🔥”
(Yes, this is real.)
“Department of Government Efficiency
The merch will be 🔥🔥🔥”
(Yes, this is real.)
November 13, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Modern politics in its purest, concentrated form.
Orbital wins the Booker Prize! I loved James by Percival Everett but Orbital has been by far the biggest seller - indies loved it...
November 12, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Orbital wins the Booker Prize! I loved James by Percival Everett but Orbital has been by far the biggest seller - indies loved it...
Some thoughts on hope from Franz Kafka - ‘Oh there’s plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope - but not for us!’
November 12, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Some thoughts on hope from Franz Kafka - ‘Oh there’s plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope - but not for us!’
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for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
November 11, 2024 at 10:10 PM
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
Wendy Cope's first draft
Give not this rotten orange to your friend
November 12, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Wendy Cope's first draft
Tolstoy on his early drafts of Anna Karenina: "I loathe what I have written. Everything in the galleys is so rotten, and the whole thing should be rewritten—all that has been printed too—scrapped, and melted down, thrown away, renounced.”
November 12, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Tolstoy on his early drafts of Anna Karenina: "I loathe what I have written. Everything in the galleys is so rotten, and the whole thing should be rewritten—all that has been printed too—scrapped, and melted down, thrown away, renounced.”
One day 1954 will be a key date in history, like the invention of the atom bomb or the discovery of the North Pole.
"Major oil companies, including Shell and precursors to energy giants Chevron, ExxonMobil and BP, were alerted about the planet-warming effects of fossil fuels as early as 1954, newly unearthed documents show." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show
Newly unearthed documents contain warning from head of Air Pollution Foundation, founded in 1953 by oil interests
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2024 at 5:48 PM
One day 1954 will be a key date in history, like the invention of the atom bomb or the discovery of the North Pole.
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I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
November 12, 2024 at 4:23 AM
I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"