Marie-Louise Patton
@marielouisespp.bsky.social
Publicity Manager at Cornerstone, Penguin Random House (previously Penguin General and Faber & Faber).
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Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It's publication week for Robert Macfarlane's IS A RIVER ALIVE? and the press has started to run - first off, this mega serial in @theguardian.com
IS A RIVER ALIVE? is out on Thursday! 🌊🌳
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
IS A RIVER ALIVE? is out on Thursday! 🌊🌳
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
www.theguardian.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's publication week for Robert Macfarlane's IS A RIVER ALIVE? and the press has started to run - first off, this mega serial in @theguardian.com
IS A RIVER ALIVE? is out on Thursday! 🌊🌳
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
IS A RIVER ALIVE? is out on Thursday! 🌊🌳
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Tune into this morning's Woman's Hour to listen to author of You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip, Kelsey McKinney talk about the culutal implications of gossip and where this ancient art origiated. Such an interesting convo, book out now!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Woman's Hour - Disability and domestic abuse, Maternity care failings, Authors Labour MP Yuan Yang and Sanam Mahloudji, Gossiping - BBC Sounds
Clare speaks to two of the women long-listed for the Women's Prize.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Tune into this morning's Woman's Hour to listen to author of You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip, Kelsey McKinney talk about the culutal implications of gossip and where this ancient art origiated. Such an interesting convo, book out now!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Hello—in May I will be talking about & reading from Is A River Alive?
Dates & places below.
I actually can’t wait.
Please come along!
Summer & autumn dates to follow, including Scotland in August.
Dates & places below.
I actually can’t wait.
Please come along!
Summer & autumn dates to follow, including Scotland in August.
March 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hello—in May I will be talking about & reading from Is A River Alive?
Dates & places below.
I actually can’t wait.
Please come along!
Summer & autumn dates to follow, including Scotland in August.
Dates & places below.
I actually can’t wait.
Please come along!
Summer & autumn dates to follow, including Scotland in August.
. @thetimes.com sums up #Hunchback perfectly: 'A disabled virgin with a secret life as a porn writer has to decide whether to give up her inheritance for sex...A brilliant, riveting book.'
Read the full review here:
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Read the full review here:
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
This novel about a disabled porn writer is one of the boldest I’ve read in years
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa was a literary sensation in her native Japan. Now translated into English, it tells the riveting story of a woman with a secret life
www.thetimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
. @thetimes.com sums up #Hunchback perfectly: 'A disabled virgin with a secret life as a porn writer has to decide whether to give up her inheritance for sex...A brilliant, riveting book.'
Read the full review here:
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Read the full review here:
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
'Gloriously transgressive...Ichikawa uses the vantage point of her disability for a particular insight into human nature.'
@guardianbooks.bsky.social on Saou Ichikawa's International Booker Prize longlisted Hunchback.
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
🌸Out now! 🌸
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
@guardianbooks.bsky.social on Saou Ichikawa's International Booker Prize longlisted Hunchback.
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
🌸Out now! 🌸
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa review – favours for furikake
The narrator muses on everything from pornography to David Lynch, in this gloriously transgressive debut from Japan
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
'Gloriously transgressive...Ichikawa uses the vantage point of her disability for a particular insight into human nature.'
@guardianbooks.bsky.social on Saou Ichikawa's International Booker Prize longlisted Hunchback.
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
🌸Out now! 🌸
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
@guardianbooks.bsky.social on Saou Ichikawa's International Booker Prize longlisted Hunchback.
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social
🌸Out now! 🌸
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
I am thrilled to see HUNCHBACK on the International Booker Longlist! It's been a real highlight of the year working on this incredibly special and important novel. Congratulations to Saou Ichikawa and her translator Polly Barton! @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social 💻💖🌸
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist.
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
February 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I am thrilled to see HUNCHBACK on the International Booker Longlist! It's been a real highlight of the year working on this incredibly special and important novel. Congratulations to Saou Ichikawa and her translator Polly Barton! @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social 💻💖🌸
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#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat!
We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SaveThePCC
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.
For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;
you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
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The news that a debut novel had a six-way auction gives me mixed feelings, so how does Catherine Airey's Confessions stand up?
A novel of dropping acid as the Twin Towers fall, of randy professors, of the olden days when computer games came on cassette tapes, and of impression ambition. My verdict👇
A novel of dropping acid as the Twin Towers fall, of randy professors, of the olden days when computer games came on cassette tapes, and of impression ambition. My verdict👇
Secrets, lies and the ‘falling man’ of 9/11 — an epic debut novel
Confessions, Catherine Airey’s impressive first novel, ranges from rural Donegal to New York over three generations of an Irish family
www.thetimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The news that a debut novel had a six-way auction gives me mixed feelings, so how does Catherine Airey's Confessions stand up?
A novel of dropping acid as the Twin Towers fall, of randy professors, of the olden days when computer games came on cassette tapes, and of impression ambition. My verdict👇
A novel of dropping acid as the Twin Towers fall, of randy professors, of the olden days when computer games came on cassette tapes, and of impression ambition. My verdict👇
A rave in the @financialtimes.com: 'Confessions is a messy, bold, beautiful book, and already builds anticipation for Airey’s next move.'
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
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Confessions — girls, women, mothers
Catherine Airey’s dynamic, generation-spanning and much-hyped debut is messy, bold and beautiful
www.ft.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A rave in the @financialtimes.com: 'Confessions is a messy, bold, beautiful book, and already builds anticipation for Airey’s next move.'
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/5cc3...
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/5cc3...
👼🏻 January in Lisbon 👼🏻
January 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
👼🏻 January in Lisbon 👼🏻
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4pm, BBC Radio4, I'm talking to @jonathancoe.bsky.social about his new novel THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE alongside @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com exploring cosy crime, dark academia and 3 influences, including the 'requiem for the detective novel' that is THE PLEDGE 📚🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
4pm, BBC Radio4, I'm talking to @jonathancoe.bsky.social about his new novel THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE alongside @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com exploring cosy crime, dark academia and 3 influences, including the 'requiem for the detective novel' that is THE PLEDGE 📚🎧📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
‘Subtle, symphonic and satisfying’ @john-self.bsky.social on Adam Haslett’s Mothers & Sons publishing next month. www.ft.com/content/b802...
Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett — the ties that bind us
The ‘Union Atlantic’ and ‘Imagine Me Gone’ author explores identity and familial bonds in his eagerly awaited new novel
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January 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
‘Subtle, symphonic and satisfying’ @john-self.bsky.social on Adam Haslett’s Mothers & Sons publishing next month. www.ft.com/content/b802...
Fantastic to see two brilliant books I’m working on included in this list: Confessions by Catherine Airey (23 Jan) and Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback (March) Thanks AnOther magazine! www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
Best Books of 2025: 11 Releases to Add to Your Reading List
With new titles by Annie Ernaux, Ocean Vuong, Eimear McBride and Constance Debré, here are the very best new books to add to your reading list this year
www.anothermag.com
January 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Fantastic to see two brilliant books I’m working on included in this list: Confessions by Catherine Airey (23 Jan) and Saou Ichikawa’s Hunchback (March) Thanks AnOther magazine! www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
Gerald Durrell's Myself & Other Animals is 'Book of the Day' in the @theguardian.com. 'Truly there is magic here.'
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Myself and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell review – hidden gems
A collection of articles, talks, letters and unpublished writing fills important gaps in the great naturalist’s life story
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:54 PM
Gerald Durrell's Myself & Other Animals is 'Book of the Day' in the @theguardian.com. 'Truly there is magic here.'
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d....
@vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d....
December 1, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Early Christmas gift coming 5 December to Waterstones Piccadilly. Get your copy of Stanley Tucci's What I Ate in One Year signed by the man himself just in time Christmas! Details below: @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social
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November 25, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Early Christmas gift coming 5 December to Waterstones Piccadilly. Get your copy of Stanley Tucci's What I Ate in One Year signed by the man himself just in time Christmas! Details below: @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social
www.waterstones.com/events/water...
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Back to where it all began! @jonathancoe.bsky.social talks nostalgia and his new novel The Proof of My Innocence at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge this evening.
November 21, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Back to where it all began! @jonathancoe.bsky.social talks nostalgia and his new novel The Proof of My Innocence at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge this evening.