Ann Morgan
@annmorgan.bsky.social
Internationally bestselling author, literary activist, podcaster and blogger who read the world
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Ann Morgan
@annmorgan.bsky.social
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Read outside your comfort zone
If we’re to get back to books, then we’re going to have get used to being bewildered
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Absolutely bowled over by this piece in today's Culture Newsletter from @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What a generous, insightful and powerful review. Thank you! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...
If the MPs ever want my assistance with their inquiry into keeping the joy of reading alive, I might just submit this as evidence: my journey to Greenland with ‘the writer I’d most like to meet’. www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
An expedition to majestic Greenland with a travel legend
Author Tété-Michel Kpomassie moved from Togo to the Arctic nation 60 years ago. Now he’s back, hosting a small-ship cruise up the west coast
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November 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If the MPs ever want my assistance with their inquiry into keeping the joy of reading alive, I might just submit this as evidence: my journey to Greenland with ‘the writer I’d most like to meet’. www.thetimes.com/travel/inspi...
Book of the month: Alla Gorbunova
Books come to me from many directions these days. Emails from publishers. Messages from readers of this blog. Suggestions from other writers. Reviews. Social media posts. Conversations with booklovers around the world. In many cases, I hear about books before they…
Books come to me from many directions these days. Emails from publishers. Messages from readers of this blog. Suggestions from other writers. Reviews. Social media posts. Conversations with booklovers around the world. In many cases, I hear about books before they…
Book of the month: Alla Gorbunova
Books come to me from many directions these days. Emails from publishers. Messages from readers of this blog. Suggestions from other writers. Reviews. Social media posts. Conversations with booklovers around the world. In many cases, I hear about books before they are available. And while I try not to focus on the latest thing on this blog (because good books have long tails and I think the relentless emphasis on the new is one of the book industry’s many problems), I frequently find myself tempted to pre-order things that will be published months down the line.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Book of the month: Alla Gorbunova
Books come to me from many directions these days. Emails from publishers. Messages from readers of this blog. Suggestions from other writers. Reviews. Social media posts. Conversations with booklovers around the world. In many cases, I hear about books before they…
Books come to me from many directions these days. Emails from publishers. Messages from readers of this blog. Suggestions from other writers. Reviews. Social media posts. Conversations with booklovers around the world. In many cases, I hear about books before they…
I might be way off here, but something tells me an MPs' inquiry is not going to help terribly much with the joy...
Ahead of the National Year of Reading, the Education Committee has launched a new inquiry to understand how reading can be nurtured following the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure 👇 #BookSky
MPs launch inquiry into how the joy of reading can be kept alive
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November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I might be way off here, but something tells me an MPs' inquiry is not going to help terribly much with the joy...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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"A stark reminder of what it means to be constrained by others’ ideas when we imagine ourselves to be free."
Thank you @annmorgan.bsky.social for including 'The Rarest Fruit' in this wonderful article about books to read to understand quests in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📚
Thank you @annmorgan.bsky.social for including 'The Rarest Fruit' in this wonderful article about books to read to understand quests in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📚
What to read to understand quests | The Observer
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November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"A stark reminder of what it means to be constrained by others’ ideas when we imagine ourselves to be free."
Thank you @annmorgan.bsky.social for including 'The Rarest Fruit' in this wonderful article about books to read to understand quests in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📚
Thank you @annmorgan.bsky.social for including 'The Rarest Fruit' in this wonderful article about books to read to understand quests in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 📚
Londoners! This looks wonderful. I met South African filmmaker Nicole Schafer years ago in Malawi, and her vision and commitment to her craft remain so impressive. This film screens in London this Saturday. Do go if you can riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/m...
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Londoners! This looks wonderful. I met South African filmmaker Nicole Schafer years ago in Malawi, and her vision and commitment to her craft remain so impressive. This film screens in London this Saturday. Do go if you can riversidestudios.co.uk/see-and-do/m...
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It was an absolute honour to chat with Elif Shafak for the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social podcast. Full of insight and fun, I hope! @annmorgan.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social
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open.spotify.com/episode/3a98...
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It was an absolute honour to chat with Elif Shafak for the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social podcast. Full of insight and fun, I hope! @annmorgan.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/episode/3a98...
open.spotify.com/episode/3a98...
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Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
November 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.
Delighted to receive a copy of this from @translatingwomen.bsky.social, who wrote the introduction. Latin American writers have consistently written some of the boldest, most challenging and illuminating accounts of female experience I’ve encountered. #booksky #feminism #translation
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Delighted to receive a copy of this from @translatingwomen.bsky.social, who wrote the introduction. Latin American writers have consistently written some of the boldest, most challenging and illuminating accounts of female experience I’ve encountered. #booksky #feminism #translation
‘A person is a star that does not fall alone. Who knows where the echo will reverberate when we leave this earth? Perhaps someone will rise from our ashes in another time and realise they have been burned by the flame of our fall.’ ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/30/b...
Book of the month: Bachtyar Ali
I’m very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I’ve featured on this blog are the resul…
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October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
‘A person is a star that does not fall alone. Who knows where the echo will reverberate when we leave this earth? Perhaps someone will rise from our ashes in another time and realise they have been burned by the flame of our fall.’ ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/30/b...
I live in a small town on the south coast of the UK and there is someone publishing world-class Kurdish literature a few minutes’ walk from my house. I give you my latest Book of the month ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/30/b... #booksky
Book of the month: Bachtyar Ali
I’m very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I’ve featured on this blog are the resul…
ayearofreadingtheworld.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I live in a small town on the south coast of the UK and there is someone publishing world-class Kurdish literature a few minutes’ walk from my house. I give you my latest Book of the month ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/30/b... #booksky
Book of the month: Bachtyar Ali
I'm very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I've featured on this blog are the result of conversations with people in parts of the planet from which we English…
I'm very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I've featured on this blog are the result of conversations with people in parts of the planet from which we English…
Book of the month: Bachtyar Ali
I'm very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I've featured on this blog are the result of conversations with people in parts of the planet from which we English speakers rarely hear stories. Examples include: Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame, sent to me by Colin after a discussion with a bookseller at Libraria Dukagjini in Pristina, Kosovo; and…
ayearofreadingtheworld.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Book of the month: Bachtyar Ali
I'm very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I've featured on this blog are the result of conversations with people in parts of the planet from which we English…
I'm very fortunate to receive messages from readers and writers around the world telling me about books I might like to read. Many of the titles I've featured on this blog are the result of conversations with people in parts of the planet from which we English…
I am published by a genuine unicorn of an independent publisher - the wonderful, carbon-neutral, inclusive and thoroughly humane @renardpress.com. Today, they posted this. Please buy a book if you can
#booksky, can you help? In so many ways this has been a glorious week of collaboration and support, but it’s ended on a downer…
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am published by a genuine unicorn of an independent publisher - the wonderful, carbon-neutral, inclusive and thoroughly humane @renardpress.com. Today, they posted this. Please buy a book if you can
Think I'm prouder of this than any of my own books: the collection translated for me from São Tomé and Príncipe back in 2012 is finally published in English ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/22/n...
News: São Tomé and Príncipe collection published after 13 years
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing that happened during my 2012 quest to read a book from every country (and there were many extraordinary things) involved the small African island nation of São …
ayearofreadingtheworld.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Think I'm prouder of this than any of my own books: the collection translated for me from São Tomé and Príncipe back in 2012 is finally published in English ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/22/n...
News: São Tomé and Príncipe collection published after 13 years
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing that happened during my 2012 quest to read a book from every country (and there were many extraordinary things) involved the small African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Of the 11 or so…
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing that happened during my 2012 quest to read a book from every country (and there were many extraordinary things) involved the small African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Of the 11 or so…
News: São Tomé and Príncipe collection published after 13 years
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing that happened during my 2012 quest to read a book from every country (and there were many extraordinary things) involved the small African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Of the 11 or so UN-recognised countries that had no commercially available literature in English translation at the time, this proved by far the trickiest to source a book from.
ayearofreadingtheworld.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
News: São Tomé and Príncipe collection published after 13 years
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing that happened during my 2012 quest to read a book from every country (and there were many extraordinary things) involved the small African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Of the 11 or so…
Perhaps the most extraordinary thing that happened during my 2012 quest to read a book from every country (and there were many extraordinary things) involved the small African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. Of the 11 or so…
Is anyone else starting to find hardbacks a bit last century? I'm beginning to find the sight of them oddly quaint...
October 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Is anyone else starting to find hardbacks a bit last century? I'm beginning to find the sight of them oddly quaint...
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GOOD PEOPLE OF GLASGOW! I am thrilled to be appearing at this year's Aye Write festival on Sunday 9th November at 6pm. I'll be chatting to terrific writer Adam Oyebanji and all round legend Ann Landmann - come and find us and spread the word!
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@orendabooks.bsky.social
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@orendabooks.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
GOOD PEOPLE OF GLASGOW! I am thrilled to be appearing at this year's Aye Write festival on Sunday 9th November at 6pm. I'll be chatting to terrific writer Adam Oyebanji and all round legend Ann Landmann - come and find us and spread the word!
tinyurl.com/yc56dfe8
@orendabooks.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/yc56dfe8
@orendabooks.bsky.social
Obviously disappointed to have been pipped to the post for the Nobel yet again, but this lovely write-up of RELEARNING TO READ BY @carosanderson.bsky.social is a powerful consolation carosanderson.substack.com/p/what-to-re...
WHAT TO READ NEW
"Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not Knowing" by Ann Morgan
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October 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Obviously disappointed to have been pipped to the post for the Nobel yet again, but this lovely write-up of RELEARNING TO READ BY @carosanderson.bsky.social is a powerful consolation carosanderson.substack.com/p/what-to-re...
Arrived at my desk this morning to find this. Just the encouragement I needed today! #parentsky
October 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Arrived at my desk this morning to find this. Just the encouragement I needed today! #parentsky
On Sunday, I'll be on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival reacting to the announcement of the new Nobel Literature laureate. Who do you think it's going to be? #booksky
October 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
On Sunday, I'll be on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival reacting to the announcement of the new Nobel Literature laureate. Who do you think it's going to be? #booksky
Lately, I’ve sent RELEARNING TO READ to Armenia, India, Bhutan, the US, France, Italy, Eritrea and the UAE. These days, sending parcels internationally involves lengthy paperwork. So today I gave copies to Penny and Kate at my local post office to thank them for helping me get my book out there.
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Lately, I’ve sent RELEARNING TO READ to Armenia, India, Bhutan, the US, France, Italy, Eritrea and the UAE. These days, sending parcels internationally involves lengthy paperwork. So today I gave copies to Penny and Kate at my local post office to thank them for helping me get my book out there.
Absolutely bowled over by this piece in today's Culture Newsletter from @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What a generous, insightful and powerful review. Thank you! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...
Read outside your comfort zone
If we’re to get back to books, then we’re going to have get used to being bewildered
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Absolutely bowled over by this piece in today's Culture Newsletter from @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What a generous, insightful and powerful review. Thank you! www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...
RELEARNING TO READ is published to today. My dad died while I was writing it. He was planning to travel in retirement but never got to. I've dedicated the book to his memory; it makes me smile that as it sets off around the world, he goes with it. ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/01/p...
Publication day: Relearning to Read
It’s out! My fourth book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing officially hits the shelves today. It’s available worldwide in English and can be ordered through all the usual c…
ayearofreadingtheworld.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
RELEARNING TO READ is published to today. My dad died while I was writing it. He was planning to travel in retirement but never got to. I've dedicated the book to his memory; it makes me smile that as it sets off around the world, he goes with it. ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/10/01/p...
Publication day: Relearning to Read
It's out! My fourth book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing officially hits the shelves today. It's available worldwide in English and can be ordered through all the usual channels and bookshops, as well as directly through my publisher's website.…
It's out! My fourth book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing officially hits the shelves today. It's available worldwide in English and can be ordered through all the usual channels and bookshops, as well as directly through my publisher's website.…
Publication day: Relearning to Read
It's out! My fourth book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing officially hits the shelves today. It's available worldwide in English and can be ordered through all the usual channels and bookshops, as well as directly through my publisher's website. Drawing on the interactions I've had through this blog and through the reading workshops I've been running for the last four years, it explores how embracing not-knowing can enrich our reading of ourselves and our world.
ayearofreadingtheworld.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Publication day: Relearning to Read
It's out! My fourth book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing officially hits the shelves today. It's available worldwide in English and can be ordered through all the usual channels and bookshops, as well as directly through my publisher's website.…
It's out! My fourth book, Relearning to Read: Adventures in Not-Knowing officially hits the shelves today. It's available worldwide in English and can be ordered through all the usual channels and bookshops, as well as directly through my publisher's website.…