Alison Barrow
@alisonbarrow.bsky.social
Book cheerleader, Bookshop fan, Reader. Often on book tour. UK publishing PR and events 📚 Penguin Random House 🐧
Posted this elsewhere ... After 30+ years in UK publishing championing incredible authors, I’m stepping into a new adventure: my own writing!
Thrilled, humbled & overjoyed that I now have a literary agent — brilliant @DavidHHeadley @DHHlitagency .
Wow… I have a literary agent! 🎉 more news soon
Thrilled, humbled & overjoyed that I now have a literary agent — brilliant @DavidHHeadley @DHHlitagency .
Wow… I have a literary agent! 🎉 more news soon
September 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Posted this elsewhere ... After 30+ years in UK publishing championing incredible authors, I’m stepping into a new adventure: my own writing!
Thrilled, humbled & overjoyed that I now have a literary agent — brilliant @DavidHHeadley @DHHlitagency .
Wow… I have a literary agent! 🎉 more news soon
Thrilled, humbled & overjoyed that I now have a literary agent — brilliant @DavidHHeadley @DHHlitagency .
Wow… I have a literary agent! 🎉 more news soon
Wonderful visit to Sheffield to bring @tessgerritsen.bsky.social to meet with the YorkshireReads influencers. One the best ever parts of the job is when readers and writers meet! Loved it! ❤️📚🎉
March 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Wonderful visit to Sheffield to bring @tessgerritsen.bsky.social to meet with the YorkshireReads influencers. One the best ever parts of the job is when readers and writers meet! Loved it! ❤️📚🎉
13 years ago this week we launched a hopeful, inspiring debut novel about a man called Harold Fry 👣 We're still happily touring. Delighted to be alongside award-winning No.1 bestselling Rachel Joyce visiting Manchester & Liverpool bookshops ❤️📚for #TheHomemadeGod (out April)
March 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
13 years ago this week we launched a hopeful, inspiring debut novel about a man called Harold Fry 👣 We're still happily touring. Delighted to be alongside award-winning No.1 bestselling Rachel Joyce visiting Manchester & Liverpool bookshops ❤️📚for #TheHomemadeGod (out April)
What an outstanding Women's Prize 2025 fiction longlist 🎉 I've read six, not yet heard of four until this list (how exciting is that?!) and next up for me is Dream Count... 📚 💚 How about you?
March 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
What an outstanding Women's Prize 2025 fiction longlist 🎉 I've read six, not yet heard of four until this list (how exciting is that?!) and next up for me is Dream Count... 📚 💚 How about you?
Award winning, No. 1 bestselling novelist Rachel Joyce on writing about siblings and charting new writing direction... via The Bookseller. Read here: goo.gl/alerts/YQAnWg
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Award winning, No. 1 bestselling novelist Rachel Joyce on writing about siblings and charting new writing direction... via The Bookseller. Read here: goo.gl/alerts/YQAnWg
Yesterday we revealed this gem. 💜📚 Out May 22 2025 it is the story of people finding each other and in doing so, finding themselves. Filled with beautiful characters. It's her best yet and we are bursting with pride and happiness to bring you Ruth Jones' new novel #ByYourSide
January 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yesterday we revealed this gem. 💜📚 Out May 22 2025 it is the story of people finding each other and in doing so, finding themselves. Filled with beautiful characters. It's her best yet and we are bursting with pride and happiness to bring you Ruth Jones' new novel #ByYourSide
THRILLED 🎉❤️📚 to announce the October 2025 publication of the book behind the award-winning, massively loved #GavinAndStacey TV show, written by creators James Corden and Ruth Jones.
Tidy. penguin.co.uk/books/469148/w…
Tidy. penguin.co.uk/books/469148/w…
December 20, 2024 at 11:37 AM
THRILLED 🎉❤️📚 to announce the October 2025 publication of the book behind the award-winning, massively loved #GavinAndStacey TV show, written by creators James Corden and Ruth Jones.
Tidy. penguin.co.uk/books/469148/w…
Tidy. penguin.co.uk/books/469148/w…
Look at these beauties, just in!
📚 🎉Am having an office sort out (clean up?!) before the holidays - so any UK booksellers & book bloggers like to get your hands on this taut, twisty read for the holidays... Follow & RT by 12 noon 19/12/24 so I can pop in the post #Giveaway
📚 🎉Am having an office sort out (clean up?!) before the holidays - so any UK booksellers & book bloggers like to get your hands on this taut, twisty read for the holidays... Follow & RT by 12 noon 19/12/24 so I can pop in the post #Giveaway
December 17, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Look at these beauties, just in!
📚 🎉Am having an office sort out (clean up?!) before the holidays - so any UK booksellers & book bloggers like to get your hands on this taut, twisty read for the holidays... Follow & RT by 12 noon 19/12/24 so I can pop in the post #Giveaway
📚 🎉Am having an office sort out (clean up?!) before the holidays - so any UK booksellers & book bloggers like to get your hands on this taut, twisty read for the holidays... Follow & RT by 12 noon 19/12/24 so I can pop in the post #Giveaway
Tonight! I'm going to be with wonderful Diane at Wave of Nostalgia bookshop in Haworth, Yorkshire, talking about our top reading recommendations for 2024! Come along if you can!
December 4, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Tonight! I'm going to be with wonderful Diane at Wave of Nostalgia bookshop in Haworth, Yorkshire, talking about our top reading recommendations for 2024! Come along if you can!
Some writers spin songs of hope & truth through the pages of their stories.
Some compose symphonies.
Congratulations 🎉 #DonalRyan on being shortlisted for the #NeroBookAwards 🎉 📖 and 👏 all shortlistees. May your words and music soar. 🎶
Some compose symphonies.
Congratulations 🎉 #DonalRyan on being shortlisted for the #NeroBookAwards 🎉 📖 and 👏 all shortlistees. May your words and music soar. 🎶
December 3, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Some writers spin songs of hope & truth through the pages of their stories.
Some compose symphonies.
Congratulations 🎉 #DonalRyan on being shortlisted for the #NeroBookAwards 🎉 📖 and 👏 all shortlistees. May your words and music soar. 🎶
Some compose symphonies.
Congratulations 🎉 #DonalRyan on being shortlisted for the #NeroBookAwards 🎉 📖 and 👏 all shortlistees. May your words and music soar. 🎶
Congratulations Donal Ryan 🎉 ❤️📖as #HeartBeAtPeace wins The Novel of The Year at the Irish Book Awards! @doubledayuk.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Congratulations Donal Ryan 🎉 ❤️📖as #HeartBeAtPeace wins The Novel of The Year at the Irish Book Awards! @doubledayuk.bsky.social
‼️ Kate Atkinson & Jackson Brodie fans. ‼️ Find out why Jo Brand chose Big Sky as her Bring Your Own Book - tonight on #BetweenTheCovers 📺 ❤️📖 with Sara Cox @BBCTwo 7pm
November 26, 2024 at 6:56 PM
‼️ Kate Atkinson & Jackson Brodie fans. ‼️ Find out why Jo Brand chose Big Sky as her Bring Your Own Book - tonight on #BetweenTheCovers 📺 ❤️📖 with Sara Cox @BBCTwo 7pm
Thrilled to be championing #OurLastWildDays by bestselling writer Anna Bailey. Out April 2025, stuffed to edges with atmosphere, ferocious friendship, hope, murder. "They say you can tell the health of a place by its wilderness. Well I say something's not right out there..." 🐊 Ask me for your ARC! 📖
November 16, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Thrilled to be championing #OurLastWildDays by bestselling writer Anna Bailey. Out April 2025, stuffed to edges with atmosphere, ferocious friendship, hope, murder. "They say you can tell the health of a place by its wilderness. Well I say something's not right out there..." 🐊 Ask me for your ARC! 📖