Annette Higgs

Today’s novel portrait.

Check out this event. Hope to see you there! betterreadevents.com/events/annette…

Annette Higgs on her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise goodreadingmagazine.com.au/podcasts/annet…

Now in public domain: Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera, D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, André Breton’s Nadja, Wyndham Lewis’s The Childermass: Section I, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando publicdomainreview.org/blog/2024/01/p…

Pessoa’s trunk of unpublished writings after his passing...

WG Sebald - manuscript box / materials for Austerlitz

Christmas sign-off post from me & the penguins. What a year it’s been. See you in 2024! @PenguinBooksAus

@Fred_Delicious At university my mate had this on a mug - love it 

Christmas Present Puzzle! My cartoon for this week's @GuardianBooks / @GdnSaturday

I bought myself a Christmas present today 🎁

The only book Sebald wrote in English, & the last published in his lifetime. And a bit overlooked too, I have the feeling…

My Street Library received fan mail! 😍

New story in @Panorama_J ! Thanks for providing a home for my go at New Nature Writing 🙂 panoramajournal.org/issues/issue-1…

On it goes…to win the Booker! Too funny…

Discuss.

@akverney @mmccwill @rgcooke Huge congrats Anna! Well deserved 💐

Some news from last night. Thank you to everyone who spoke to us and supported this story. Particular thanks to @mmccwill for his commissioning and editing and to my brilliant co-author @rgcooke.

Our Hay Festival Book of the Year 2023 is... Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver – an epic tale of love, loss, and everything in between, and a favourite of festivalgoers. Enjoy! hayfestival.com/book-of-the-ye…