Five Dials

‘Walking alone in Peckham on a dark, wintry night, the last thing you want to hear is footsteps behind you…’ 25 years after her debut, reissued in our #BlackBritainWritingBack series, NICOLA WILLIAMS returns with a searing legal thriller of race and class. Coming from HH 03/23

Happy news! @isabelwaidner moves to Hamish Hamilton with new novel COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY thebookseller.com/rights/rig…

Thinking of the late BINYAVANGA WAINAINA this afternoon, as first copies of his How to Write about Africa arrive at Hamish Hamilton. An incomparable writer and brilliant human being, celebrated in this joyful collection of his pioneering writing. Publishing 29 September

Coming next April from HAN KANG 🌀 Cover by ⁦@gray318⁩ for Hamish Hamilton

Coming next Spring, in superb translation by MARGARET JULL COSTA, the English-language edition of the new novel from JAVIER MARÍAS — & one of his greatest yet. Heading to copy-editing today —

Happy publication day to JOHANNA HEDMAN! And to translator Kira Josefsson — ‘a love letter to those fevered blue nights and lemon-pale dawns of youth’ as editor ⁦@HermThompson⁩ beautifully says

So good to see Ruth & Pen by @emiliepine and Companion piece by Ali Smith together in this book stack. Thank you @NicolaSturgeon!

Some words from me about the next book from @RobGMacfarlane — ‘Is a River Alive?’ — mapping the places, people, histories & futures of the new-old idea that the world is far more alive than we allow, and that Nature itself has rights —

Special delivery from printer — advance copies of ANGELA DAVIS’s Freedom is a Constant Struggle —with intro by Cornell West: ‘AD is one of the few great long-distance freedom fighters in the world’