Louisa Pritchard
@louisapritchard.bsky.social
Literary agent specialising in translation rights. Owner of LPA. Fond of books, cats and running.
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Seconds out! Round one!
THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR
This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.
A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.
🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺
THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR
This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.
A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.
🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺
October 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Seconds out! Round one!
THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR
This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.
A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.
🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺
THE DEVIL'S DANCE FLOOR
This isn't an official announcement from Duckworth. It's a page from my agent's newsletter and book fair rights catalogue, which is public. So, a tiny-text soft launch? Details subject to change.
A lot of thank yous and less Disney, to come.
🐻🥊👊🏾👊🏻🦁🍺
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So excited to get an advance copy of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore.
I couldn't be happier – it looks absolutely lovely!
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore
I couldn't be happier – it looks absolutely lovely!
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore
September 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So excited to get an advance copy of The Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore.
I couldn't be happier – it looks absolutely lovely!
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore
I couldn't be happier – it looks absolutely lovely!
@eandtbooks.bsky.social
#cats #fairytales #folklore
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So, the cat has made friends with a pigeon. I think perhaps they solve crimes together.
August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So, the cat has made friends with a pigeon. I think perhaps they solve crimes together.
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Lovely news claxon this morning!
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #NatureNeedsYou has been longlisted for the #WainwrightPrize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing – congratulations to a brilliant longlist, all fighting for the natural world
#StoriesThatConnect #SwiftBricks
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #NatureNeedsYou has been longlisted for the #WainwrightPrize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing – congratulations to a brilliant longlist, all fighting for the natural world
#StoriesThatConnect #SwiftBricks
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Lovely news claxon this morning!
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #NatureNeedsYou has been longlisted for the #WainwrightPrize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing – congratulations to a brilliant longlist, all fighting for the natural world
#StoriesThatConnect #SwiftBricks
@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social #NatureNeedsYou has been longlisted for the #WainwrightPrize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing – congratulations to a brilliant longlist, all fighting for the natural world
#StoriesThatConnect #SwiftBricks
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Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
July 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Because there’s never a bad time to share Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner, here are Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner
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@wainwrightprize.bsky.social #WainwrightPrize longlist is out - reflecting the breadth & vibrancy of contemporary nature writing, it has never been more urgent. And we’re so pleased to see @pollyrowena.bsky.social na.bsky.social#TheCompanyOfOwlsls in the Nature Writing category#StoriesThatConnectct
July 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
@wainwrightprize.bsky.social #WainwrightPrize longlist is out - reflecting the breadth & vibrancy of contemporary nature writing, it has never been more urgent. And we’re so pleased to see @pollyrowena.bsky.social na.bsky.social#TheCompanyOfOwlsls in the Nature Writing category#StoriesThatConnectct
If you'd like to know more, Danny is also the author of Pitch: How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience on the Planet. Published by Profile in the UK, Spanish rights sold to Peninsula
We are now joined by Danny Fontaine, aka Pitchguy, to dive into how we can make our stories shine, fast by turning any pitch into purpose 💡 #MPConf
June 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you'd like to know more, Danny is also the author of Pitch: How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience on the Planet. Published by Profile in the UK, Spanish rights sold to Peninsula
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Was on BBC Cambridgeshire this lunchtime, talking to Chris Mann about my new book, Further. Chris is a great interviewer, and had actually read the book, so a really enjoyable chat... from 2'12" in.
Observe my mastery of the promo pic.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Observe my mastery of the promo pic.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
June 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Was on BBC Cambridgeshire this lunchtime, talking to Chris Mann about my new book, Further. Chris is a great interviewer, and had actually read the book, so a really enjoyable chat... from 2'12" in.
Observe my mastery of the promo pic.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Observe my mastery of the promo pic.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Ten years ago I wrote a book called Faster, about going faster. To celebrate, I've written a book called Further, about going further. It's about the why and the how of ultra races and other very long bike rides. michaelhutchinson.co.uk/books
Please buy it. I have a cat to support.
Please buy it. I have a cat to support.
June 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Ten years ago I wrote a book called Faster, about going faster. To celebrate, I've written a book called Further, about going further. It's about the why and the how of ultra races and other very long bike rides. michaelhutchinson.co.uk/books
Please buy it. I have a cat to support.
Please buy it. I have a cat to support.
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Out tomorrow -- just in time for father's day. It's certainly what I'm giving my father.
June 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Out tomorrow -- just in time for father's day. It's certainly what I'm giving my father.
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Recording the audiobook for "Further" in an over-heated cupboard full of foam in North London. An oddly intense experience. Some say it reconnects you with the ancient oral traditions of story telling. Some say it just teaches you not to use words you don't know how to pronounce.
June 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Recording the audiobook for "Further" in an over-heated cupboard full of foam in North London. An oddly intense experience. Some say it reconnects you with the ancient oral traditions of story telling. Some say it just teaches you not to use words you don't know how to pronounce.
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This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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Very happy that Darwin Comes to Town has come out in a Turkish edition with Avantür.
This is a big deal as Türkiye has, together with the US, one of world's lowest rates of public acceptance of evolution, and is a global source of creationism.
www.avanturkitap.com/kitaplarimiz...
This is a big deal as Türkiye has, together with the US, one of world's lowest rates of public acceptance of evolution, and is a global source of creationism.
www.avanturkitap.com/kitaplarimiz...
Darwin Şehirde
www.avanturkitap.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Very happy that Darwin Comes to Town has come out in a Turkish edition with Avantür.
This is a big deal as Türkiye has, together with the US, one of world's lowest rates of public acceptance of evolution, and is a global source of creationism.
www.avanturkitap.com/kitaplarimiz...
This is a big deal as Türkiye has, together with the US, one of world's lowest rates of public acceptance of evolution, and is a global source of creationism.
www.avanturkitap.com/kitaplarimiz...
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It’s not often a piece of publishing really takes my breath away but this is beautiful
April 10, 2025 at 9:31 AM
It’s not often a piece of publishing really takes my breath away but this is beautiful
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It's finally here! The BRAND NEW, fully updated edition of Tim Marshall's modern classic, #PrisonersOfGeography!
Read this to understand what’s happening in our fast-changing world. Because if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.
bit.ly/42keHTH
#geopolitics #geography
Read this to understand what’s happening in our fast-changing world. Because if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.
bit.ly/42keHTH
#geopolitics #geography
April 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
It's finally here! The BRAND NEW, fully updated edition of Tim Marshall's modern classic, #PrisonersOfGeography!
Read this to understand what’s happening in our fast-changing world. Because if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.
bit.ly/42keHTH
#geopolitics #geography
Read this to understand what’s happening in our fast-changing world. Because if you don’t know geography, you’ll never have the full picture.
bit.ly/42keHTH
#geopolitics #geography
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The new @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social book on the British asylum system looks outstanding. It's at the top of the pile.
April 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The new @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social book on the British asylum system looks outstanding. It's at the top of the pile.
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What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?
No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine.
I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story.
Out April 22—preorder now!
No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine.
I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story.
Out April 22—preorder now!
More Everything Forever
This "wild and utterly engaging narrative" (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death,...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
April 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?
No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine.
I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story.
Out April 22—preorder now!
No matter how closely you think you've been paying attention, the truth is far weirder and way more disturbing than you imagine.
I just read @adambecker.bsky.social's new book in proof and it's a gripping, spine-chilling story.
Out April 22—preorder now!
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We were having a discussion on here the other day about whether podcast mentions and appearances are useful for selling books.
That would be a 'yes'.
That would be a 'yes'.
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We were having a discussion on here the other day about whether podcast mentions and appearances are useful for selling books.
That would be a 'yes'.
That would be a 'yes'.
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Here you go. Out on 2 October.
Into the Groove - The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History.
Published by Elliott & Thompson. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
By me, Justin Lewis.
Excited now.
Into the Groove - The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History.
Published by Elliott & Thompson. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
By me, Justin Lewis.
Excited now.
March 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Here you go. Out on 2 October.
Into the Groove - The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History.
Published by Elliott & Thompson. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
By me, Justin Lewis.
Excited now.
Into the Groove - The 1980s: The Ultimate Decade in Music History.
Published by Elliott & Thompson. @eandtbooks.bsky.social
By me, Justin Lewis.
Excited now.
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🎉 #TheFiresOfGallipoli included in @thetimes.com selection of the best historical fiction of 2025 so far!
'A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime.'
Read the full review: www.thetimes.com/culture/book... #WWI #WW1 #WarNovel #fiction #Gallipoli #wartime
'A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime.'
Read the full review: www.thetimes.com/culture/book... #WWI #WW1 #WarNovel #fiction #Gallipoli #wartime
The best historical fiction of 2025 — so far
A quiet hero takes on fascists in Italy. Plus, secrets in the wallpaper and a one-eared detective in revolutionary Ukraine: our critics take their pick of the latest historical fiction
www.thetimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎉 #TheFiresOfGallipoli included in @thetimes.com selection of the best historical fiction of 2025 so far!
'A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime.'
Read the full review: www.thetimes.com/culture/book... #WWI #WW1 #WarNovel #fiction #Gallipoli #wartime
'A wonderful, unsentimental novel about male friendship in wartime.'
Read the full review: www.thetimes.com/culture/book... #WWI #WW1 #WarNovel #fiction #Gallipoli #wartime
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Urban biodiversity hotspots are not always where you expect them. The facade of Igreja da Candelária in Rio de Janeiro is home to a microbial film of 100,000 extremophilic microbes. More about such unseen urban biodiversity in my book The Urban Naturalist!
(See: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)
(See: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)
February 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Urban biodiversity hotspots are not always where you expect them. The facade of Igreja da Candelária in Rio de Janeiro is home to a microbial film of 100,000 extremophilic microbes. More about such unseen urban biodiversity in my book The Urban Naturalist!
(See: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)
(See: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)
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Reminder: Reading my book won't make the trade situation any better, but it will help you discover new and interesting ways in which it's terrible.
February 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reminder: Reading my book won't make the trade situation any better, but it will help you discover new and interesting ways in which it's terrible.
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Can’t resist a bit of client spotting when I’m in a bookshop
January 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Can’t resist a bit of client spotting when I’m in a bookshop
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In my new book, The Urban Naturalist, I talk about inspiring community scientists like Graham Moates, who used his plastic cleanups to discover that, in the UK, 3 million mammals every year die inside discarded bottles and cans.
His paper: lnkd.in/er8u49s8
His paper: lnkd.in/er8u49s8
January 28, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In my new book, The Urban Naturalist, I talk about inspiring community scientists like Graham Moates, who used his plastic cleanups to discover that, in the UK, 3 million mammals every year die inside discarded bottles and cans.
His paper: lnkd.in/er8u49s8
His paper: lnkd.in/er8u49s8
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We can't wait to release this new edition of #PrisonersOfGeography by Tim Marshall! It will include an extra 100 pages and fully updated text throughout to reflect the changing world around us...
Elliot & Thompson has announced a new updated edition of Tim Marshall's Prisoners of Geography, celebrating its 10th anniversary
https://buff.ly/4h7jCxv (£)
https://buff.ly/4h7jCxv (£)
January 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We can't wait to release this new edition of #PrisonersOfGeography by Tim Marshall! It will include an extra 100 pages and fully updated text throughout to reflect the changing world around us...