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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · 10d

‘Another masterwork’, says Kirkus.

Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · 27d

Excellent

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 27d

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Sep 3

deadline.com/2025/09/marg...

‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Author Margaret Atwood Mocks Book Ban With New Short Story & Now The Ban’s On Hold “Until Further Notice”

Ban 'The Handmaid's Tale' & face the literary wrath of Margaret Atwood, as Alberta backs down on censorship measure

deadline.com

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Aug 9

One of the best memoirs ever written. A masterclass. manchestermill.co.uk/andrea-ashwo... - And she has not vanished. She has been writing.

Andrea Ashworth wrote a classic of Mancunian literature. Why did she vanish from view?

My search for the author of ‘Once in a House on Fire’ led to the other side of the world - and to a tantalising revelation

manchestermill.co.uk

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 18

‘Unputdownable’ @thebookseller.com on Other People’s Fun by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social (out in October)

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 16

Category: exceptional non-fiction - April 2026 @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

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Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social · Jul 16

New book coming.

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 11

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. - Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood - 4th November 2025 @margaretatwood.bsky.social

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 7

This week’s top ten bestsellers - a gorgeous trio! #SundayTimesBestsellers

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 3

‘Action-packed’, ‘beautifully observed’ says The Times, full of praise for the new series by William Shaw. Out today! @williamshaw

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jul 1

Look what’s landed! Are you a work horse or a show horse? ‘Fierce, funny and unflinching’ says Coco Mellors of Workhorse by Caroline Palmer @4thestatebooks.bsky.social

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 30

Congratulations Yeal van der Wouden and The Safekeep!

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 30

The Names and The Safekeep among the 40 great novels to bring to the beach - as chosen by The Sunday Times @thetimes.com

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 25

It’s Fun to Watch Hot People Do Psychotic Things in This Novel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b... ‘thrilling and haunting’ The New York Times on The Compound by Aisling Rawle

It’s Fun to Watch Hot People Do Psychotic Things in This Novel

www.nytimes.com

Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 21

There is no better film than The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke season at the BFI whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

Complicit: The Films of Michael Haneke | BFI Southbank

whatson.bfi.org.uk

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 21

50 hottest books to read right now- summer reads chosen by the Guardian - delighted to see The Names by @florenceknapp.bsky.social A Different Kind of Power by @jacindaardern.bsky.social and Women’s Prize for Fiction winner The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 21

The 12 best books of the year so far - chosen by the BBC

Happy to see Catherine Airey’s CONFESSIONS & Florence Knapp’s THE NAMES www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti... @john-ash.bsky.social @florenceknapp.bsky.social

The 12 best books of 2025 so far

From multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very best fiction of the year so far.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 17

‘If someone wants to be seen… then someone has to watch’ - a new book from the author of Alys, Always & Her - OTHER PEOPLE’s FUN by @harrietlane.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 17

Straight onto The Sunday Times bestseller list!

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 13

‘We don’t leave this life in the same bodies we were born into’ - beautiful interview with Yael van der Wouden, winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · Jun 13

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Yael van der Wouden. Congratulations, Yael! What a day: a paperback launch and a major award win for The Safekeep, a dream of a novel.

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · May 31

‘Empathy is a kind of strength’ A DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America

Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Gua...

www.theguardian.com

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · May 14

The Names by Florence Knapp is an instant Sunday Times bestseller - congratulations, @florenceknapp.bsky.social !

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Karolina Sutton @karolinasutton.bsky.social · May 13

Margaret Atwood wins Freedom to Publish Award at the British Book Awards.

Her words to publishers and booksellers: ‘I wish you strength and hope, and the courage to withstand the mobs on one hand, and the whims of vengeful potentates on the other’ www.thebookseller.com/news/margare...

Margaret Atwood wins British Book Award for the Freedom to Publish

Margaret Atwood has been awarded the Freedom to Publish Award at The British Book Awards, held on Monday 12th May at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House in London.

www.thebookseller.com

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