I'm so honoured! My very own tome The Esquimaux has been recommended by the @waltscottprize Academy

Important thread!

Bologna's world class dates move trolling claims another victim. https://t.co/yqiFft2Ldr

A nice angle, but J K Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith) was the UK's top selling female crime writer last year (£3.1m to Jackson's £2.9m per Nielsen BookScan).

Why did you move to Frome, you ask? Isn't it obvious?

If you believe in the power of investigative journalism, please buy a paper tomorrow. Or better, if you can afford to, please consider subscribing. There are huge costs of stories like this.

This is really amazing and we're so thrilled. Just wanted to thank all the volunteers at Indie and @watsonlittle @NGMeetingHouse @Ink84Books and... prob best to stop before this turns into some akin to the Oscars. But thank you @thebookseller @tomtivnan!

Live scenes of @tomtivnan raising a glass to the 2023 @thebookseller Rising Stars last night 🥂

Congratulations to all Rising Stars, just unveiled by @thebookseller. "The Class of 2023 are united by a desire to grow readerships (...) and, perhaps more tellingly, a will to improve the industry’s duty of care to staff." We can't wait to see Shooting Star @mariagluc at #fbm23!

A very important thread! Thanks to this year's amazing list of Rising Stars! Please give them your congrats. Heck, if you are their employer, why not give them a pay rise?

Not 100% sure what to read into this. HC was the second-biggest publisher in Ireland last year through BookScan (9% of the market). I guess the vast marjority of that was UK & US originated titles. Seems slightly odd, though, when others (Bonnier for ex) are coming into Ireland.

You realize @usmnt @jtbatson better managers are available? Leaving out the blinkered tactics, head-scratching subs, Reynagate etc - rehiring someone who admitted domestic violence (no matter how old he was or his relationship with her since) is astonishingly offensive.

I haven't re-read Blood Meridian as much as other favourite books (it's a bit too full on and I have nightmares about the judge for days) but passages are imprinted in my brain, not least the ending paragraph. RIP Cormac McCarthy.

Btw, a fact I learned interviewing Maud Ventura was that French publishers only accept physical submissions (she posted 10 MSs on the same day to different houses). On a sustainabilty, cost to strugging writers etc just absolute...folie.

Our magisterial second annual Translation Focus, the cover of which raises the immediate question: where can I buy Karin Smirnoff's incredible cardi?

Frome station's blue plaque claiming a bit of Bloomsbury Group stardust seems a bit of a reach (Leonard Woolf happened to be staying nearby with a friend from Cambridge at the time).

Just noticed this in the Edinburgh airport gents. Is GoJo's apparent expansion from tech to hygiene products a way to deflect from the dodgy India numbers? How will this affect the Waystar deal?

And so it begins...a Def Leppard circa '83 concert- level of dry ice #Nibbies

Good to see the hotel manager from White Lotus S1 has found work with the Australian entry #Eurovision

I meant #Fin of course