@thebookerprizes.com shortlist films just dropped 🌊 We're honoured for Kathryn Hunter to be performing a powerful extract from #TheEndOfEverything. Feast your eyes below... #BookerPrize

Kathryn Hunter reads from The End of Everything | The Booker Prize

Watch Kathryn Hunter read from The End of Everything, the Booker Prize 2026-shortlisted book by M. John Harrison. The story so far: Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting…

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Join M. John Harrison, author of the 2026 Booker Prize shortlisted novel #TheEndOfEverything, for his Autumn event tour 🐚 Head to the website of the relevant organiser to get your ticket 🎟️ 'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' Observer serpentstail.com/work/the-end...

#SnowBirds – the irresistible winter story, set in the world of the hit Irish novel, #NightSwimmers – is out today in hardback 💚 Grace is back in a delightful celebration of found family, unlikely friendship and the thrill of open water. serpentstail.com/work/snow-bi...

'One of the founding texts of the Latin American tradition of magical realism ... so enjoyable' Derek Owusu is reading #PedroPáramo by Juan Rulfo, included in the Guardian's latest 'what we're reading'. Discover this Mexican classic now 🌵 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o... @derekowusu.bsky.social

What we’re reading: China Miéville, Sebastian Barry, Derek Owusu and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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A chilling gothic tale of magic, cults and werewolves, #TheWolfOfWhindale by Jacob Kerr is out today in paperback! Perfect for your October reading 🐺🧡 'Close in spirit to Alan Garner' Guardian serpentstail.com/work/the-wol...

Join Susan Stryker in TWO events in Glasgow on 23rd October as part of the Trans History Festival! Book your FREE tickets below ⬇️ 📍 In conversation with Dr Ruth Pearce on the Uni of Glasgow campus, 2pm: tinyurl.com/55884k44 📍 Launch event at Category Is Books, 7pm: tinyurl.com/3xstejas

#Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal is another one of @waterstones.bsky.social's #PaperbacksOfTheYear! Find it at a Waterstones near you this gifting season 🎁 Or order here: tinyurl.com/SaraswatiPBOTY

Great to see #Air by Christian Kracht chosen as one of @waterstones.bsky.social's #PaperbacksOfTheYear! Find it at a Waterstones near you this gifting season 🎁 Or order here: tinyurl.com/AirPBOTY

The End of Everything by M. John Harrison is a ‘novel that can be read as a thriller, a mystery, a satire, a dystopia, a road novel, a work of realism’. @serpents-tail.bsky.social @profilebooks.bsky.social Find out more: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

@serpents-tail.bsky.social Wow! What a thought-provoking book. First thoughts on 'The End of Everything' by M John Harrison: tinyurl.com/47ht5dyj #Booksky 💙📚 #Books 📚 #Literaturesky

"The End of Everything" by M John Harrison

Longlisted for the 2026 Booker prize . Phillip Tennent, one of a com munity of beachcombers, rescues something seemingly organic and alive ...

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'This drily witty fable speaks to our deepest fears about collective memory and big tech' Read what the Telegraph had to say about the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist, and why they think #TheEndOfEverything by M. John Harrison deserves to win the prestigious prize! www.telegraph.co.uk/books/booker...

My tip for the Booker Prize? A very English weirdo

This year’s longlist was odd, but with the shortlist the judges have made amends. Here’s who should win, and why he deserves it at long last

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#TheEndOfEverything by M. John Harrison is on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist! We are absolutely delighted to see this magnificent novel on the shortlist. A huge congratulations to our wonderful author M. John Harrison 🐚 Discover more about the shortlist here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Very excited to announce that my second novel Distortion is coming out in the UK next February with dream publisher @serpents-tail.bsky.social 🐍📚. Thrilled to be published on such an illustrious list, alongside many of my favourite contemporary authors

We are incredibly excited for @susanstryker.bsky.social's upcoming UK visit. Don't miss her event with @lsegender.bsky.social – certain to be a fascinating discussion on the history and future of the concept of gender. 📍 LSE 📅 Weds 21st Oct 🕠 5:30–7pm 🎟️ Free, via the link below!

Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept with Susan Stryker┃LSE Gender

Join us for an evening with award-winning historian and writer Prof Susan Stryker, whose work has shaped conversation on gender and feminism for decades.

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'A very readable format, bringing together all manner of historical quirks, political flashpoints and perpetually evolving theories with a light touch and approachable tone' A fantastic review for @susanstryker.bsky.social's #ChangingGender in Buzz Magazine.

Trans studies professor SUSAN STRYKER's latest book on gender makes the academic accessible

Susan Stryker's Changing Gender is at pains not to dumb down for what’s closer to a mass audience than most of what the author writes.

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We are delighted to reveal the paperback cover of #Intelligence by @robertnewman.bsky.social! The unputdownable novel from one of the UK's best-loved comedians, coming January 2027. 'A plucky page-turner' Mail on Sunday 'Written with great aplomb' William Boyd serpentstail.com/work/intelli...

Today's the day! At 12pm @janicehallett.bsky.social will be on Reddit to answer all your burning questions 🚨 📍Reddit 📅 Today 🕒 12pm-4pm Check back in today at 12pm for a link to the six-time bestselling author's Reddit 'Ask me Anything'! 🩸

'Stryker cuts through the noise to provide an inspirational consideration of 'gender' – as a concept, a politics, an experience and a practice. A transformative book' – Sally Hines #ChangingGender by @susanstryker.bsky.social publishes today! Find out more: serpentstail.com/work/changing-gender/

'Sublime ... a sweet tale, though full of artifice, calculation and grisly loss' A stellar @irishtimes.com review for Adrian Duncan's #AThoughtWithCollision, out now 🩵

A Thought without Collision by Adrian Duncan: A sublime and fascinating exploration of how people teach and learn

This is the most playful and spellbinding of the author’s seven books

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A fascinating piece from the @theguardian.com on Hungarian melancholia in literature, featuring our very own Nobel Prize-winning author Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

Melancholy made in Hungary is fuelling bestsellers across the globe – and widely misunderstood

A ‘capacity for despair’ forged by political oppression has long been consider a Magyar national trait. But after Orbán, writers in the country remind us that melancholy must not always be bleak

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🎧 Fascinating commute listening 🎧 Join author Jonathan Trigell on the @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social #ReadingIsPolitical podcast, as he discusses the re-release of his novel #BoyA and its enduring relevance over twenty years after first publication.

132: Jonathan Trigell on Boy A | Literary Fiction, Crime, Punishment & Second Chances

Podcast Episode · In My Good Books · 17 August · 55min

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Listen to M. John Harrison on BBC Radio 4's Take Four books, where he discusses J.G Ballard, John Wyndham and Robert Aickman alongside his 2026 Booker Prize longlisted novel #TheEndOfEverything 🐚 🎧 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Take Four Books - M. John Harrison - BBC Sounds

On his latest novel - The End of Everything - and the three texts that helped to shape it.

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Wonderful to see #SongForAnotherHome by Bora Lee Reed included in the Times' roundup of historical novels to read this month! Described as a 'moving debut' about 'how life persists in the shadow of war’. This powerful novel, set during the Korean War, is out now. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Eight great historical novels to read in August

This month’s picks feature an adventure with Attila the Hun, a Victorian mystery and a detective in 1930s Germany. Could Sebastian Wolff be the new Bernie Gunther?

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Discover the latest moving novel from Adrian Duncan, one or Ireland's most original writers. A novel in two strands, #AThoughtWithoutCollision is a beautiful meditation on how we construct our relationship to the world around us 🩵 Find out more: tinyurl.com/AThoughtWithoutCollision

'Harrison shows us that our contemporary catastrophes have become almost too cosy, all too easy to ignore' Read about M. John Harrison's illustrious five-decade career, including his 2026 Booker longlisted novel #TheEndOfEverything in the New Statesman! www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

M John Harrison's catastrophic memory

The writer's five-decade career urges us not to let disaster become familiar

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From the award-winning scholar and filmmaker @susanstryker.bsky.social, comes an essential, enlightening exploration of gender and the self. #ChangingGender is available to request in audiobook on NetGalley now, read by the author 👇 tinyurl.com/ChangingGenderAudio

'An audacious imaginative achievement' An inspired review for #Air in @engelsbergideas.bsky.social, comparing Christian Kracht's new novel to the works of Solvej Balle, Ben Lerner and Georgi Gospodinov 💡

Christian Kracht against minimalism

The Swiss writer's latest novel sends up Nordic and Japanese minimalism via the mad and joyful world of fairy tale.

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Adrian Duncan | My Life in Books A brilliantly bookish interview with Adrian Duncan, whose latest novel #AThoughtWithoutCollision publishes this week.

My life in books: I love chance finds and I don’t buy online

Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist and writer based in Berlin. His novel 'Love Notes from a German Building Site' won the John McGahern Book Prize. His latest novel 'A Thought Without Collision', publis...

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The more I read, the more I loved it. Such beautiful characters and storytelling. Love it when a friend recommends a great book 💙📚💙 #NightSwimmers by Roisin Maguire Published by @serpents-tail.bsky.social #books #booksky

'Fits the bill for post-apocalyptic sci-fi while also conducting a profound, non-prescriptive meditation on the present day' The 2026 Booker Prize longlisted novel, #TheEndOfEverything by M. John Harrison is on this week's hotlist in The Nerve 🔥 www.thenerve.news/p/hotlist-cu...

The Nerve Hotlist

This week's don't-miss cultural picks – from a moving coming of age story set in Luton to Nick Hakim’s ghostly new album – as enjoyed by our team of editors and writers

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