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Publishing Director: Hamish Hamilton & Penguin Books. Future Library trustee. Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature
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The costumes of the Notting Hill Carnival, London, which celebrates the Black British Community, are designed months in advance #WomensArt (image by P.Jordan)
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Hello—as my followers tally hit 200k this morning, thought I’d send a note of thanks to you all for the generous, community-making conversations, sharing & debates that happen here.
Twitter doesn’t have to be a cesspit, even if our rivers are rn…
Here’s to kindness & long views.
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Aid urgently needed for the millions affected by the superflood in Pakistan. All money raised from this fiction masterclass with MOHSIN HAMID will go to help. Please share/RT
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Curated by HH author EKOW ESHUN at the Hayward, the ‘In the Black Fantastic’ show is indeed utterly fantastic. Mind-blowing creativity and imagination in every room —
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In France, it’s The Little Book of Spells —
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Des sortilèges à lire à voix haute pour célébrer la beauté de la nature
« Le petit livre des sortilèges » est dans toutes les librairies 
#rentreelitteraire2022 #enlibrairie
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« Le petit livre des sortilèges » est dans toutes les librairies
#rentreelitteraire2022 #enlibrairie
@RobGMacfarlane
@JackieMorrisArt
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Something special for the upcoming fifth anniversary of THE LOST WORDS —
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1/3Signing labels for The Lost Words, and usually now I say no to labels, but there was no way to get me, @RobGMacfarlane and the books in the same place.
@HamishH1931 and @annavridley came through with these elegant creatures
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Speaking of Sebald covers, German vs English, Vertigo presents a challenge as the original didn’t really have one! Rather a very delicate, vellum, typographic slipcase (which also includes the subtitle not to be found in the book itself, or any future edition...)
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Special delivery! First advance copies of the Penguin paperback of MANIFESTO by —
Publishing 22 September
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Big thanks to for all her work on these books.
New Daughters publishing next week; Binyavanga next month —
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Society, prejudice and connection. best-selling author Mohsin Hamid’s new novel #TheLastWhiteMan has just released in Australia. Grab your copy now and join him for a live conversation at #Antidote
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Margaret Busby & Diane Abbott 💫
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Late afternoon at HH with two of my heroes
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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
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Hamish Hamilton will publish the new paperback edition of New Daughters of Africa, first released by Myriad in 2019. The collection, edited by Margaret Busby, brings together contemporary writing by 200 women writers of African descent.
Read more: buff.ly/3Cax3Lz
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One hundred lovely tributes to Biyi Bandele, showing how important he was as a writer, director, photographer, friend and inspirational cultural figure. What a great idea
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NEWS /// Hamish Hamilton to publish paperback edition of Busby's New Daughters of Africa thebookseller.com/rights/hamish-
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📢Author Mohsin Hamid is one of our keynote speakers at the opening press conference of the #fbm22 (18.10.22). His book „Der letzte weiße Mann” (The Last White Man), is published today. His novels have been translated into over 30 languages. buchmesse.de/en/press/press
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And, thanks to , my Ali Smith seasonal set is complete! is a wizard and if you have patience, she can work miracles. I’m so grateful to her and the whole team 🧡
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Your Marketing, Media & Creative finalists are here! 
Hannah Chukwu, from @penguinrandom
Nadine White, from The Independent
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Hannah Chukwu, from @penguinrandom
Nadine White, from The Independent
Shelley Bishton (She/Her), from News UK
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Coming next year from Hamish Hamilton >>>
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About to get lost again in Close to Home by @michaelmagee__
Lads it’s fkn brilliant.
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‘Future humans will look back at the idea of borders with moral horror…’
MOHSIN HAMID, author of The Last White Man, in conversation with the NYT —
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Spectacular afternoon with #ali smith and - made sense of everything and raised the spirits high!!👏🏿👏🏿
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MOHSIN HAMID talks about The Last White Man — ‘We have a choice in how we imagine things’
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ALI SMITH with festival director & a copy of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, for the opening event of the 2022
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I read Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man and it is as though Saramago’s Blindness and Kafka’s Metamorphosis had a baby, filtered through this age of white replacement theory and social media. Deeply provocative and I highly recommend it.
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👱🏻♂️✨NEW PODCAST✨👨🏾🦱
The Last White Man—by this week’s guest Mohsin Hamid—is a brilliant novel that holds up a shattered mirror, reflecting back a recognisable, but heightened and reconfigured version of our world.
Listen to him discuss it here: pod.fo/e/1376b7
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Happy publication day to MOHSIN HAMID and ‘The Last White Man’!
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🌟BERNARDINE EVARISTO🌟
Sunday 9th September. Join us with and at and hear this Booker Prize-winning author talk about her work, and her biography, Manifesto.
🎟️info and tickets: kenilworthbooks.co.uk/event/penguin-
#BlackBritainWritingBack
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Raymond Briggs. Gone. What a light extinguished from our industry. There are very grumpy shoes left open for someone to step into. I would like to do that. We followed a similar path into illustrating books. His Bear is my fav. But he out whits me by an ocean. Celebrate his life.
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Rest in peace Raymond Briggs, a beloved Hamish Hamilton author and true visionary. My thoughts are with his family and friends, and all who worked with him over many years
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It’s with great sadness that we share the passing of Raymond Briggs. Raymond’s best-known work is The Snowman, a pioneering picture book, a radical and beautiful innovation: a picture book without words. All of us who had the privilege of working with him will miss him.
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"It wasn’t supposed to end like this, Biyi." ---'s reflection on Biyi Bandele's death is so moving and heartfelt. Read, reflect on it, share. We hope it brings someone out there some comfort. What a sad day!
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Biyi Bandele’s passing is a monumental loss to Nigeria’s film and creative industry. He will be remembered as a powerhouse who made some of the finest films out of Africa. As we mourn him, we commiserate with his family, friends and colleagues. May he rest in power.
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