Full #LowHouseLitfest programme now online. laxfieldliterary.com/low-house-litf… Sun 2 July, 11am - 6pm. Free entry, all welcome. Join us! Charlotte Seymour Emma Shercliff Kate Sawyer Polly Crosby Phoebe Morgan Patrick Barkham @the_fields_edge Paddy O'Connell @AnnalieseAvery

Debut #author looking for an agent? Come & chat to me tomorrow Primadonna Festival and Prize CIO at 12.00 in my beautiful home county of #Suffolk. Incredible line-up of talks, workshops, advice sessions on how to get published. Day tickets still available! Food Museum primadonnafestival.com/year-2023/

Join me at the launch party for, "Whites Can Dance Too." I'll be diving into the story and its background in a conversation with the @maazamengiste.  Readings by @catarinamira and @nastiomosquito + music by jamzsupernova and @brankoofficial Sep 29th @richmixlondon

The stage is set 🦋 Book Forum Lviv streams live from Ukraine to the world, 5–8 October, free online with 50 writers in 24 conversations. Register > hayfestival.com/lviv-bookforum

Delighted to share this exciting news - and to reunite Ellah Pedzisai Wakatama with 'the author of her dreams'! Brian Chikwava #Shamiso Canongate (has left) Laxfield Literary thebookseller.com/rights/canonga…

The campaign is now live for Richard Negus' WORDS FROM THE HEDGE - "a modern pastoral by a writer who knows how to use a billhook".🍂A joy to be working with the fabulous team @unbounders on this brilliant book Patrick Galbraith John Mitchinson 𝕽𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖑 @rinathepublicist.bsky.social Sophia Laxfield Literary

Artem Chapeye’s remarkable collection of facts and fictions, THE UKRAINE, is out today. Not some patriot’s love song, The Ukraine is a nuanced look at a troubled homeland, and unlike anything else you are likely to read this year.

"some news", as the kids say CARRION CROW will be landing via Doubleday Books in Feb 2025, with an unhinged short story collection to follow in 2026 thebookseller.com/rights/doubled…

At the London Film Critics Circle Awards tonight with Mstyslav Chernov who won best documentary for the awesome 20 Days in Mariupol whom we coagent with Emma Shercliff ⁦Laxfield Literary⁩ ⁦Blake Friedmann Literary Agency⁩ - to add to an Oscar nom and two BAFTA noms.

🎉We're thrilled to share Non-practising Zimbabwean☝️🏾😌's #AvenuesbyTrain has been shortlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize prize! Congratulations to Farai and other shortlisted authors! Special thank you to the prize for recognising small presses and to all the judges. Grab a copy if you haven’t!

Huge congratulations for Мstyslav Chernov and his team The Associated Press for this momentous win - Ukraine's first ever Oscar. Hugely proud to represent Мstyslav Chernov @laxfieldlit along with my colleagues Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. #20DaysInMariupol #LaxfieldLiterary

This is a lovely end to a busy week! And congratulations to my fellow nominees - I'm honoured to be in such great company. Laxfield Literary #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies Blake Friedmann Literary Agency

Happy Publication Day to @TommyShakes! His wonderful debut novel, The Ha-Ha, is out today. A perfect, joyous read for the Easter weekend!🤩

"It’s not just a workshop but a project because we are going to publish the stories from the workshop in an anthology of new writing and get them into institutions where they will be taught as part of the growing and exciting corpus of literature from this part of the country.”

⭐️NEW⭐️ 'Dip My Brain In Joy: A Life With Neil Innes' by Yvonne Innes Bonzos, Beatles, Pythons and Rutles, life inside the circus of our quiet national treasure and sweet idiot laureate by the woman who knew him best and loved him most 24-10-24 Buy Now geni.us/DipMyBraininJoy

Really looking forward to Primadonna Festival and Prize CIO today. Budding writers - come and chat to me today in the Chapel, 10.30 - 12.00. Feel free to ask me anything about agenting/publishing, or pitch me your book! #LaxfieldLiterary #PrimadonnaFestival

“The Language of War,” by Oleksandr Mykhed. Recommended.

Today we’re in the studio with Yvonne Innes as she records the audiobook about her remarkable and beautiful life with Neil. Dip your brain in joy from 24th October geni.us/DipMyBraininJoy

My The Bookseller #nonfiction Book of the Month for March is this work of compelling & courageous testimony by Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina (1986-2023) William Collins Books