Sarah McLean

This is so unbelievably sad.

We're excited to reveal the cover for Patti Smith's intimate new memoir, BREAD OF ANGELS. Available to pre-order now. Bread of Angels takes us through her childhood and teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Bread of Angels, out 4th November 2025.

@Eurostar update you’re still claiming the 16:12 left at 17:12 even though it didn’t start boarding until well after that time. Our train supposed to leave in 5 minutes and just started boarding. Everyone thoroughly hacked off and NO communication even thought app???

@Eurostar your comms at Gare du Nord need some serious work. No trains have left for hours and no updates for passengers other than incorrect and unachievable departure times. Absolute chaos.

GEORGE SAUNDERS IS BACK! The new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, VIGIL is a playful, wise, electric novel taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next.

How to turn a Prius into a Lamborghini: Sell Prius Buy Ethereum Hold Ethereum Sell Ethereum Buy Lamborghini Seems simple right? But not all good fortune is without its price... #TotheMoon, the bestselling South-Korean novel by Jang Ryujin, is out in bookshops now!

@yearsofreading @francescamain @Phoenix_Bks @d_whitehouse @Matineegirl @jennieg_author I LOVED it!

Thank you ever so much to @francescamain and @Phoenix_Bks for my copy of #SaltwaterMansions by @d_whitehouse - I know @Matineegirl and @jennieg_author loved it and I will too. This is my next read, and if you haven’t read David’s previous book #AboutASon I would so recommend it.

@fionamsharp @BloomsburyBooks One of my books of the year!

I’ve heard only excellent things about this book! Thank you ⁦@BloomsburyBooks⁩ #Buckeye #PatrickRyan

The year is 1483. The English throne is in peril. In the corridors of power, warring factions of high-born men scheme and plot over history's next chapter. Enter John Collan. Once a peasant boy, now a pretender - soon, perhaps, to be the king? Discover #ThePretender, out now!

🏆 We are thrilled to have won Publisher of the Year at the #BritishBookAwards! Huge thank you to the judges and the whole team at @thebookseller. #Nibbies

The year is 1483. The English throne is in peril. In the corridors of power, warring factions of high-born men scheme and plot over history's next chapter. Enter John Collan. Once a peasant boy, now a pretender - soon, perhaps, to be the king? Discover #ThePretender, out now!

No, you're not fine just the way you are. The first excerpt from my new book MORAL AMBITION is published today in The Guardian! Of all the things we waste in this throwaway world, the greatest is wasted talent. I wrote Moral Ambition for the millions of talented people stuck in not-very-impactful jobs. For the dreamers who’ve settled. For the idealists who gave up. For those who want to make their one life count. You’ve only got about 2,000 workweeks in your career. How you spend that time is one of the most important moral decisions of your life. You can spend those hours making people click ads, writing reports nobody reads, or managing people who don’t need managing. Or… you can do something that really matters. That’s the core idea of Moral Ambition: using your talent to take on the biggest challenges of our time—climate change, corruption, inequality, future pandemics. To make the world a wildly better place.

It's Friday! What are you reading this weekend?

@LauraPAuthor I totally totally agree - it’s a perfect novel.

It’s publication day for #TheDeathofUs by Abigail Dean and I just wanted to shout about it because it might well be the best book I’ve read so far this year. Be warned, though, it’s harrowing. Trigger warning for sexual assault.

The @BloomsburyBooks Big Night In is returning for a second year, with authors including @say_shannon and @theliannz bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

@thereadingpara @WomensPrize I know I am hugely biased but Good Girl is an exceptional read. Nuanced and poetic but perilous and heart-wrenching too.

Thank you so much to @WomensPrize for sending me the shortlisted books. I’ve only read The Safe Keep (5 stars, brilliant!) but will be reading all the rest before the winner is announced on 12 June. Have you read any? Whats your favourite so far? 🙌🏻

Legit LOVE this book.

@thameswater @elliereeves like clockwork you’ve already taken the what’s app chat offline and there is no way to actually report a fault on your website. Our whole street has zero water and no way of contacting you.

@thameswater @elliereeves SE26 without water AGAIN?!?!

🎉 Huge congratulations to @YuanfenYang on reaching the 2025 non-fiction shortlist with Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China! Congratulations to all of the @WomensPrize shortlisted authors! View the brilliant #WomensPrize shortlist here: womensprize.com/prizes/womens-…