Charlotte Seymour
@charlotteseymour.bsky.social
Literary Agent at Johnson & Alcock Champion of writers and cats https://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/charlotte-seymour
Thrilled to see historian Misha Ewen on this incredible shortlist
British Library@britishlibrary.bsky.social · 10mo agoSix incredible writers working across memoir, history and fiction make up the shortlist for the 2026 Eccles Institute and @hayfestival.bsky.social Writer’s Award: Carmen Ávila Jacqueline Crooks Misha Ewen Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Maddie Mortimer Vanessa Londoño
Delighted to announce PARADISE, the stunning new novel by @bentufnell.bsky.social – an uncategorisable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues. PARADISE is published March 2026 and pre-orders are now open.
Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count:…
Follow the #Virtualbooktour for 25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie| Proudly organised by @LoveBooksTours #BookTour #SupportingAuthors #BookPromotion
25 Library Terrace by Natalie Fergie 📅 UK Tour: 5th – 18th June 📚 Genre: Historical • Romance • Scottish • Saga • Literary Fiction 📖 Page Count: 445 🏷️ Publisher: Embla Books Have you ever wondered about all the people who lived in your house before you?25 Library Terrace in Edinburgh is a house where lives are changed.
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It seems about time I shouted a bit about this book. It came out 4years ago, and has done me proud - getting me picked up by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social and then Bodley Head. But more and more the themes of it seem to hit a nerve right now. 1/ www.waterstones.com/book/fit/sam...
Fit by Sammy Wright | Waterstones
Buy Fit by Sammy Wright from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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We are thrilled to be working with Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency on the Great Northern Read Award, for unpublished writers of commercial, genre and book club fiction 📚 Applications will open in Nov 2025 as part of the #NorthernWritersAwards. Find out more: newwritingnorth.com/johnson-alco...
Johnson & Alcock to deliver new award as part of the Northern Writers' Awards - New Writing North
Literary agency Johnson & Alcock will support a new award – the Great Northern Read Award – for debut writers...
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Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired The Mires by Tina Makereti, which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. 👇 #BookSky
Footnote Press acquires Tina Makereti’s 'exploration of people, prejudice and power'
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I spy Rozie Kelly’s brilliant debut in the Telegraph this week!
Jill Damatac in the New York Times ahead of her memoir, Dirty Kitchen, publishing this May… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...
Opinion | Self-Deportation Taught Me What I Know About This Country
My decision to leave the U.S. seemed crazy. I believed then that America is exceptional, the only nation capable of caring for its people.
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How gorgeous is this! The UK cover for Masashi Matsuie’s prizewinning Japanese debut, finally coming to UK readers in July from Indigo Press.
Thrilling to see my author Tina Makereti longlisted for a second time, for her latest novel THE MIRES!
The Spinoff@thespinoff.bsky.social · 2y agoIt’s here! All the books longlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Great to hear Jody Cooksley talking about her gothic novel THE SMALL MUSEUM on BBC Radio London with Robert Elms this morning (from 38 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Robert Elms - Poppy Delbridge, 'The Small Museum' and Nicci French - BBC Sounds
Tapping expert Poppy Delbridge becomes Robert's 'Listed Londoner'.
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The buzz is building for Rozie Kelly’s debut novel KINGFISHER, out @saraband-books.bsky.social in April… She’s even on the cover of this week’s @the-bookseller.bsky.social!
Book of the week! @drmattmorgan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living
In this sequel to his bestseller, Critical, the intensive care doctor draws lessons on the joys of a ‘second life’ from the experiences of patients who have flatlined and been revived
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A thrill to see Rozie Kelly’s debut KINGFISHER among @the-bookseller.bsky.social’s top ten for April! @saraband-books.bsky.social
2024 in books from my brilliant authors (missing one or two) - and that’s a wrap!
Proofs for @jilldamatac.bsky.social’s DIRTY KITCHEN! Coming May 2025 from One Signal/Atria in the US…
I spy Sarah Pearse and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr in the Express’s Best Books of 2024! 🥳
A treat spotting our authors in the end of year roundups 🍾 @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social @aetwigg.bsky.social www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/news/2024/12...
2024 in books: J&A authors features — Johnson & Alcock
It’s been a fantastic year for our authors, and we’re so pleased to see their work featured in roundups of the best books of 2024. Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum’s second work, Why Animals Talk , was ...
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In his inspiring new book, out in January, @drmattmorgan.bsky.social introduces us to patients who’ve come back from the dead thanks to intensive care, and shares the lessons they’ve learned…
If you like your Christmas reading on the gothic side…
Ben Tufnell@bentufnell.bsky.social · 2y agoCelebrating so many new followers with a giveaway. Win a signed hb of my 'weird, astonishing' debut, THE NORTH SHORE, limited edition ON MIRRORS (Nightjar) and DISSOLUTION (The Aleph). To enter - like, follow and repost. I'll draw a winner on 8 Dec. Good luck! #booksky #weirdfiction #folkhorror
Thrilling to see Sophie Shorland’s debut historical biography, THE LOST QUEEN, on this list! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
The Ten Best History Books of 2024
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today
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Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg @aetwigg.bsky.social #SpoiltCreatures #BookReview @tinderpress.bsky.social randomthingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com/2024/11/spoi...
Spoilt Creatures by Amy Twigg #SpoiltCreatures @aetwigg @TinderPress #BookReview
They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women. A remote farm tucked away in the Kent Dow...
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I can’t wait for readers to discover Rozie Kelly’s extraordinary, surprising literary debut, KINGFISHER! @saraband-books.bsky.social
Blackwell's Manchester@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · 2y agoThrilled to announce that the Northern Fiction Alliance's Winter Showcase will be on the 12th December in store! Join publishing superstars @commapress.bsky.social, @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social, @northodoxpress.bsky.social and @saraband-books.bsky.social for some literary delights!
The ebook of UNSOLVED - my Bloody Scotland shortlisted debut - is currently 99p in Amazon’s Black Friday deals… This is the first in the Cal Lovett series about a true crime podcaster investigating cold cases of missing and murdered people in Scotland. amzn.eu/d/05Msv3W
Introducing my two plump, very bookish assistants…
A treat to see two of our Johnson & Alcock authors, William Trevor and Elizabeth Taylor, here! @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 2y agoWhich judge resigned because the books were "mere pornography"? Which author, according to another judge, "puts one off sex"? Which book did Saul Bellow dismiss as a "tinkling teacup thing"? Who refused to give the prize to a book about cannibalism? I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:
