pretalire.bsky.social
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Bookish, European, Scot, Gael.
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For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have recognised the best fiction for adults. Now, we're delighted to announce the Children’s Booker Prize, supported by AKO Foundation.

Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/children
October 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This is excellent on how a bestseller begins its life, the twists and turns along the way, the vagaries of timing, and the people and companies involved in bringing it to a readership. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
An oral history of A Little Life, 10 years on | The Booker Prizes
Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life turns 10 this year. Here, the author’s agent, editor, publicist and others look back at how the novel came to be published – and became a cultural phenomenon
thebookerprizes.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Over the moon to announce that NAMESAKE by N.S. Nuseibeh has won the 2025 #JhalakPrize for Prose Writing!

As intimate as they are thoughtful, these linked essays offer a dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home, exploring what it means to be a young secular Muslim woman today
June 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This will be my thread for today’s @sypscotland.bsky.social conference, so read on for live coverage… #sypscotconf2025
The opening keynote at #syscotconf2025 is Jessica Gaitan Johannesson of Fossil Free Books, a collective campaigning for an industry free of fossil fuel money and complicity in human rights abuses.
April 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Finally!! Great news - congratulations to all who campaigned for this 👏👏Now we need to make it as inclusive as possible eg covering colleges & apprenticeships @europeanmovement.co.uk
New: Starmer ready to offer Youth Mobility Scheme
Keir Starmer's youth mobility proposal aims to strengthen UK-EU relations, addressing labour shortages and opportunities
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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An t-Eilean review – this Gaelic language crime drama should have happened years ago
An t-Eilean review – this Gaelic language crime drama should have happened years ago
A high-budget series set in the Outer Hebrides – it’s hard to believe it’s taken this long, given how popular subtitled TV is. It’s a good, solid series, even if the plot stretches credulity It is difficult to imagine An t-Eilean being made even 10 years…
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM