Day 2 of the residency & a session on Voice w/ Costa Novel and BBC National Short Story Award-winner Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧. They were also given a tour of Seamus Heaney Centre by Director Glenn Patterson who kindly offered them to come write & get inspired. Leeor Ohayon @TenayaSteed CommaJane

Congratulations to our very own Editor in Chief, Kwame Dawes, on his investiture as Poet Laureate of Jamaica last week! Dawes is the fourth Poet Laureate of Jamaica, and will hold his appointment from 2025-2028. Read more about the ceremony here: jis.gov.jm/professor-kwam…

We can't compete with, you know... THAT offer! However, we do have lots of SIGNED and SPECIAL editions in our pre-orders, and you do get rewarded with our lovely Fox Lane Points AND you will be supporting an #indie family business plus keeping 2 gorgeous cats supplied with

'Each voice shines from the page . . . I adored Love After Love, and this novel is another literary triumph.' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lost Love Songs, from the Costa and Indie Book award-winning author Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧, is out in paperback on April 24. faber.co.uk/product/978057…

Time for a bit of reality - a thread. Sales in the shop are doing well, but we're reliant on sales on the website to help pay the bills. The website is reliant on social media, particularly twitter. Since September, we've seen a big decline in people seeing our tweets.

Doors open in 30 minutes. Everyone, this is Mocha. Mocha, this is everyone. Find someone who looks at you the way that Mocha looks at cameras. Her proudest achievement is that she's a Very Good Dog. #DogsInBookshops

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment Claude Malhuret

"This is the tenth year I have read this list" Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips reads names of women killed by men over the last year in the UK It takes her more than four minutes bbc.in/3Dnx41J

For your chance to win a hardback copy of the anniversary edition of Never Let Me Go and a poster, leave a comment on what you love about the novel below. (Entrants must be 18 or over and resident in the UK; one winner will be chosen at random).

“The UK is losing libraries at a rate of about 40 each year, BBC research has found. According to those who depend on them, local libraries are far more than a repository of books - they are community focal points + …a vital lifeline to the outside world” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Things I can’t forgive Ingrid Persaud for: - Making me read a book with “Love” twice in the title. - Writing such beautifully layered and flawed characters - Making my sinuses act up causing my eyes to leak. May you never stop writing…..Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧

Every writer hopes for this magic in the private space where text and reader collide.

Lost Love Songs by the award-winning Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧 is out in paperback this week. Over on @bookshop_org_uk Ingrid has shared five books she read whilst writing her new novel. uk.bookshop.org/lists/five-boo…

Thanks for choosing #thelostlovesongs. A book plus a sunny spot equals paradise

Today we're thrilled to reveal the five titles shortlisted for our 2025 Encore Award, recognising the best second novel of the year. The winner of the 2025 Encore Award will be presented at a special event on Wednesday 21 May 2025, following an announcement across our socials.

We offer our warm congratulations to: Molly Aitken, MarinaKempPull, Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧, Clare Pollard and Manya Wilkinson. Canongate (has left) 4th Estate Books Penguin Books UK Faber Books And Other Stories

Ingrid Persaud’s Lost Love Songs has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature 2025 Encore Award🥂

Tributes flow for ‘unflinchingly honest’ poet Paul Durcan on his death at age 80 independent.ie/irish-news/tri…

“You will love again the stranger who was your self.”  — Derek Walcott . . . This poem appeared in Collected Poems 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Shared here with profound gratitude.

Granta mourns Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on his writing for the magazine.