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Ben Doyle
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Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
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Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
Photograph shows the book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' on a bookshop bookshelf, jacket out.
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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All set up at #MSA25. Stand looking good and we are ready to rock!
Photo shows two tables with blue Bloomsbury tablecloths covered in books on book stands.
October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...
Photo shows a copy of the book 'How to Weather Together' on a desk.
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.
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October 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Great to have the final jacket for the next book in our Studies in Digital Cultures series locked down. Available in paperback near you soon! www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...
Image shows the full jacket spread for new Bloomsbury book 'Listening In'.
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Advance copies of 'The American Sentence' by Ira Nadel from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social just dropped onto my desk and look AMAZING! Available in paperback, it's a thoroughly engrossing account on the evolution of the American sentence over the years. www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
Image shows a hand holding the book The American Sentence. The paperback jacket is navy blue, with the outline of a pen nib in lighter blue, with the title and author name - Ira Nadel - embossed in gold on it.
August 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Lazy Friday dog.
Picture shows a greyhound on her back 'roaching', stretching across the whole length of a double bed.
August 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Just glorying once again in the jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton, now complete with a LOVELY endorsement from the utterly amazing Naomi Klein.
www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...
Jacket is green with the title and subtitle in pink text. The jacket is covered with small blue illustrated icons relating to weather (umbrellas, ice lollies, wellington boots, sunglasses etc). There is an endorsement from Naomi Klein in the top right hand corner which reads 'This eye-opening, body-connecting thought experiment provides a blueprint for an embodied approach to climate change.'
July 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Post-ADHO trip to the Douro valley! #holidayreads
Photo shows a copy of Saul Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie Marsh' in the foreground against a backdrop of a view of the Douro valley.
July 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Last day of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social at the ADHO conference today! I know you couldn't all be here, so here's the conference booklist. Order via our website and use the discount code BLOOM-CONF-26 to get 35% off. Lisbon, it's been real!
Photograph is of the list of books displayed at the conference. For details of specifically what titles these are, email me at ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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A new Thomas Pynchon novel imminent? Sign me up!
Photograph is of Thomas Pynchon's new book 'Shadow Ticket', publishing October 7 2025.
July 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social all set up at #adho25 in Lisbon. Looking forward to an exciting week aheadm
Photograph shows a Bloomsbury Academic book stand with ten digital humanities books on it, along with some flyers. There is a hand holding a DH 2025 lanyard in the foreground.
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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All set up at the global Jane Austen conference at Southampton!
Photograph of a table with a Bloomsbury tablecloth on it, along with six books all on Jane Austen
July 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Better late than never, but obligatory stand photo at the Shared Futures conference! Into the second day and all going well!
Photo shows a table with a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth, with ten Bloomsbury books on the table.
July 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Just arrived at Shared Futures and getting set up. I've worked in publishing for 15 years and am still entirely unable to work out how to construct a book easel. Help.
Photo shows an unconstructed book easel/stand for an individual book
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Now on the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social website in anticipation of a Feb pub date, 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton. Pre-order your copy of the paperback here: www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath... (Ignore placeholder endorsement text!)
Jacket is for the book How to Weather Together. The jacket is bright green with pink font and small icons relating summer and water (ice creams, wellington boots, umbrellas etc). Blurb reads: In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation that brings together climate justice and community engagement. Translating feminist theory into practice, they demonstrate how we can gradually change the world as the world changes us. Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, Neimanis and Hamilton propose ‘weathering’ as both a theoretical framework and a set of practical tools for responding to environmental catastrophe. They ask how we can reckon with existential crisis through playful, low-tech practice by connecting the planetary to the personal. ASTRIDA NEIMANIS is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at the University of British Columbia, Canada on unceded syilx territory. JENNIFER MAE HAMILTON lives and works on unceded Anaiwan Country as Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of New England, Australia.
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Who would have seen this coming?!!! I for one am SHOCKED.
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June 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Excited to announce a new series from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - 'Book History for the Future', edited by Lisa Gitelman, Tom Mole and Sarah Werner. Now soliciting proposals, so drop me a line if you're working in the area and interested in learning more!
Image is a series flyer for new Bloomsbury series Book History for the Future. Flyer reads: Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams. They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative ethodologies, digital tools, and global contexts. About the Series Editors Lisa Gitelman is Professor of Media History at NYU, USA. Her work puts book history in conversation with media studies and the histories of technology. Her most recent book is Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents and was published by Duke. Tom Mole is Professor of English Literature and Book History and Principal of Van Mildert College at Durham University, UK. Before coming to Durham he was Director of the Centre for the History of the Book at the University of Edinburgh. With Michelle Levy he wrote The Broadview Introduction to Book History and edited The Broadview Reader in Book History. Sarah Werner is the author of Studying Early Printed Books 1450-1800: A Practical Guide and the companion site EarlyPrintedBooks.com, resources that have been widely taught with and recommended by book historians, librarians, and booksellers. For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact: Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher Ben.Doyle@bloomsbury.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Final jacket proof for 'The American Sentence' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social in! A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book explores what an American sentence is and how it's changed.

Grab a copy of the paperback: www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...
Image shows a book jacket with the title 'The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction' by Ira Nadel inside the outline of a pen nib. The jacket is navy blue and the pen nib is lighter blue, while the font is gold. The jacket blurb reads: A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed? While sentences have become the subject of their own form, literary histories, cultural narratives, and personal writings have not centred on the sentence as a singular object. There is no history of the sentence. This book addresses that absence, reviewing American style through American literary history for evolutionary moments in the development of the American sentence from the Puritans to the present day. Reading sentences from writers as diverse as Benjamin Franklin, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lydia Davis, Cormac McCarthy and Colson Whitehead, we find ourselves asking if a poetics of the American sentence actually exists, whether good sentences are the reason we read, and what the future of the American sentence might be.
May 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Very pleased to share the flyer for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social wonderful forthcoming book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words'. Order now from www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-... using the discount code AUSTEN20 to get 20% off hardback, paperback and ebook list prices.
Image is of a flyer for the book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words'. Jacket of the book in the top left corner is a mock-up of a playing card with the title in the middle. Flyer offers 20% off using the code AUSTEN20 - paperback list price is £14.99/$19.95. Blurb of the book reads: What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and 'delicacy', or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence'? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a person's 'air' and 'address'? These questions and more are answered in this Janeite treasure trove, which examines the distinctive language woven through Austen's signature stories. Much of the language used in Austen's time has either fallen out of common use or changed valence in significant and surprising ways. Maria Frawley takes 50 of those words - words that are integral to the fabric of Austen's fiction - and explores them in short, accessible and lively entries. With juicy morsels for lifelong Austen lovers as well as new students of the great writer, Frawley offers new perspectives on Austen's world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.
May 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Just finished this, sitting outside in a beer garden. Beautiful collection of short stories - by turns moving, uplifting and bitingly funny. He's a wonderful observer of people and of the society that makes them do the things they do.
Picture shows a table in a beer garden with a pint of beer and the book 'Tenth of December' by George Saunders.
May 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Our new Blue Humanities series is growing quickly - several books now under contract with several more under consideration. Delighted to be working on this with two of the best series eds in the biz! Any interest, as ever, drop me a line!
Image is of a flyer for the series 'Blue Humanities'. Series title at the top with a small series logo consisting of an icon of the globe, the vast majority of which is coloured blue. Flyer text reads: SERIES EDITORS: Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA, mentzs@stjohns.edu Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, Turkey, serpil.oppermann@kapadokya.edu.tr The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series will explore connections between waterscapes and landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives, often using data provided by the scientific disciplines of oceanography and limnology. The books published in this series will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that all waterscapes are undergoing today. The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the blue humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies. Have a proposal idea? The series editors would like to invite proposals for monographs, multi-authored books, and edited collections that engage with the Blue Humanities in all its forms. Please send any proposals or expressions of interest to Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic (ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com). For more information or to discuss an idea for a book in the series, please contact: Ben Doyle, Senior Publisher Ben.Doyle@bloomsbury.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Ladies and gentlemen... The White House
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May 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Finally, publishing in December from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social open access: 'Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, which makes a forceful case for the contribution that art can make to debates and developments in critical medical humanities today. www.bloomsbury.com/art-and-the-...
Image is the book jacket for 'Art and the Critical Medical Humanities'. The jacket features a black background with a colourful circle depicting cells under a microscope in yellow and orange, on a blue and pink background.
May 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Publishing open access in September from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social we have 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic', which challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: www.bloomsbury.com/autism-and-t...
Image is of the book 'Autism and the Empathy Epidemic' by Janet Harbord. Jacket is a sky blue background with the title in yellow in the top left and the author in white in the bottom right.
May 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM