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Simon Prosser
@HamishH1931
Publishing Director: Hamish Hamilton & Penguin Books. Future Library trustee. Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature
NW penguin.co.ukJoined July 2012

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We all need beauty and dark truth. If you haven’t read CÉSAR AIRA, here is a great place to start — 3 short novels in 1, with a cover by ⁦⁩ —
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the ALI SMITHS are here! — paperback ‘Companion piece’ advances just in — bronze foil and Hockney’s felled trees —
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Read the first extract from HAN KANG’s ‘Greek Lessons’ — coming from Hamish Hamilton in April, translated by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won — in this week’s New Yorker —
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This week's fiction is “The Middle Voice” by Han Kang (translated, from the Korean, by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won). newyorker.com/magazine/2023/
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NEW from ALI SMITH — a gorgeous, free-wheeling story in the mode and mood of her Seasonal novels, from . ‘Future, folded, waiting, possible,open…’
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'Above our small street three poplars in the distance flexed their spines against the shift of air … ' The writing is on the wall in Ali Smith's short story Wake. Read it exclusively at fictionable.world #books #fiction #shortstories #reading #writing #writers
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This year marks the 70th anniversary of City Lights Bookstore! City Lights was founded in 1953 as the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore and “literary meeting place.” Connecting people through books has been our mission ever since.
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Pauline Boty’s ‘The Only Blonde in the World’, looking 💚 at Tate Britain, opposite Hockney’s ‘Splash’. Love to Ali Smith —
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Just in! — bound proofs of HAN KANG’s ‘Greek Lessons’ — the novel which followed ‘The Vegetarian’ in Korea — translated by Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won, and coming from Hamish Hamilton this April 🌀
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Coming from Hamish Hamilton this March ⚡️
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Very excited to reveal the gorgeous and unsettling final cover of the UK edition of Cursed Bread! Out (very soon!!) on 2nd March, or available now to pre-order from the bookshop of your choice 🥖penguin.co.uk/books/446244/c
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