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Simon Prosser

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Publishing Director: Hamish Hamilton & Penguin Books. Future Library trustee. Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature

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ā€˜When it comes down to that final edit, I don’t want anything on the page that doesn’t need to be there. Editing is the most wonderful part of writing. It begins to roar in the edit’ DEBORAH LEVY in the Guardian, for The Position of Spoons — out next week

ā€˜When it comes down to that final edit, I don’t want anything on the page that doesn’t need to be there. Editing is the most wonderful part of writing.

It begins to roar in the edit’ 

DEBORAH LEVY in the Guardian, for The Position of Spoons — out next week
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Dear Readers, My new memoir, Shattered, is available to buy in shops. If you wish to buy it online, you can do so by following the link below. linktr.ee/shatteredH 'I’ve never felt tempted to use the word ā€˜inspirational’ about a book, and promise I never will again, but

Dear Readers, 

My new memoir, Shattered, is available to buy in shops. 

If you wish to buy it online, you can do so by following the link below. 

linktr.ee/shatteredH

'I’ve never felt tempted to use the word ā€˜inspirational’ about a book, and promise I never will again, but
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Happy paperback publication day to DARIAN LEADER! Now out in Penguin B format, with cover art by Sophie Calle (ā€˜The Hotel, Room 43’)

Happy paperback publication day to DARIAN LEADER! 

Now out in Penguin B format, with cover art by Sophie Calle (ā€˜The Hotel, Room 43’)
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Launched! HANIF KUREISHI with family and friends after we celebrated the publication of Shattered. Shepherd’s Bush, London

Launched!

HANIF KUREISHI with family and friends after we celebrated the publication of Shattered. 

Shepherd’s Bush, London
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This week's fiction is "Heavy Snow" by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris). newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

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DEBORAH LEVY book signing at the excellent ⁦Tenderbooks⁩ — 20 November 6-8. The Position of Spoons will be on sale alongside related books, old and new, from Duras to Colette. Open to all

DEBORAH LEVY book signing at the excellent ⁦<a href="/tenderBOOKS/">Tenderbooks</a>⁩ — 20 November 6-8. The Position of Spoons will be on sale alongside related books, old and new, from Duras to Colette. Open to all
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ā€˜It is in my mind to tell you that all thoughts can be bent like a spoon’ — DEBORAH LEVY outside ⁦Tenderbooks⁩ in Cecil Court, London — with new book ā€˜The Position of Spoons’ behind

ā€˜It is in my mind to tell you that all thoughts can be bent like a spoon’ — DEBORAH LEVY 

outside ⁦<a href="/tenderBOOKS/">Tenderbooks</a>⁩ in Cecil Court, London — with new book ā€˜The Position of Spoons’ behind
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Hamish Hamilton has secured the "long-awaited" novel from The Booker Prizes winner Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny šŸ‘‡ thebookseller.com/rights/hamish-…

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Hugely looking forward to this, which is published on Thursday. Sebald's essays on Kafka, Roth, Stifter, Handke, Roth and others, superbly edited, translated, introduced and noted by Saturn's Cat #solidarity #iorestoacasa šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ŗšŸ•Æļø. Sebald as critic, here; Sebald also thinking aloud the patterns &

Hugely looking forward to this, which is published on Thursday.
Sebald's essays on Kafka, Roth, Stifter, Handke, Roth and others, superbly edited, translated, introduced and noted by <a href="/WaschbaerNoctur/">Saturn's Cat #solidarity #iorestoacasa šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡ŗšŸ•Æļø</a>.
Sebald as critic, here; Sebald also thinking aloud the patterns &amp;
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Mother Mary comes to us all in September 2025, in ARUNDHATI ROY’s superb autobiographical memoir — Photo of the young Arundhati by Carlo Buldrin. Half jacket wrapped around foiled linen case, Demy format. Design by Chris Bentham & Arundhati Roy

Mother Mary comes to us all in September 2025, in ARUNDHATI ROY’s superb autobiographical memoir —

Photo of the young Arundhati by Carlo Buldrin. Half jacket wrapped around foiled linen case, Demy format. Design by <a href="/ChrisBentham89/">Chris Bentham</a> &amp; Arundhati Roy
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'It is dangerous to want someone this much. He has always known it, from the very first night' Revolving around sinister secrets in the 1970s Venetian film industry, Olivia Laing's THE SILVER BOOK effortlessly blends queer romance with noirish thriller: waterstones.com/book/the-silve…

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From ā€œA River Runs Through It,ā€ by Norman Maclean, to ā€œAll of Us,ā€ by Raymond Carver, the best-selling author and professor Robert Macfarlane recommends four books about rivers. nyer.cm/ux4qzXl

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Booker Prize-winner Kiran Desai returns this Sep with a novel 20 years in the making. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a captivating tale of class, country, race and history from the author of The Inheritance of Loss. Preorder your SIGNED copy now: waterstones.com/book/the-lonel…