Karen Bartlett is a writer and journalist, contributing to The Times, WIRED, Newsweek, TIME and the BBC. Karen was formerly the director of a leading campaign group for democracy and human rights, and is the author of five other non-fiction books including The Health of Nations, The Diary That Changed The World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and The Diary of Anne Frank and After Auschwitz with Eva Schloss. She lives in London.
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📚 This Weekend: Dur e Aziz Amna at Wimbledon Book Fest × Lahore! 📚
We’re thrilled that Dur e Aziz Amna, author of A Splintering, will join Aisha Hassan and Keshava Guha at Wimbledon Book Fest × Lahore this weekend for Stories from India & Pakistan.
Together, they’ll explore powerful new fiction set against backdrops of ecological collapse, political unrest, and resilience — in conversation with Saba Karim Khan.
🗓️ Sunday 19 October 2025, 1pm
📍 Merton Arts Space, Wimbledon Library
Don’t miss this vibrant celebration of South Asian storytelling and cross-cultural connection.
📚 25% OFF Duckworth Books at Waterstones! 📚
From Tuesday 14th October (00:01) to Friday 17th October (23:59), enjoy 25% off RRP on a selection of brilliant Duckworth titles, exclusively on the Waterstones website and app.
Simply enter OCTOBER25 at checkout to redeem the offer.
✨ Featured Duckworth titles include:
* The Last Empress of France
* Spider, Spider
* Bread and War
* In Green
* Conversations with an Executioner
* I’ll Be the Monster
Don’t miss out — this special #WPreorder promotion runs for just four days!
Explore the offer at: http://waterstones.com//campaign/october-pre-order-offer
📚 OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK! 📚
We’re thrilled to announce that Dead Behind the Eyes — the second book in Ian Moore’s gripping Loire Valley Mystery series — is now available in paperback!
When the decapitated body of a lonely man washes up on the River Loire, Lombard`s investigation draws him into the world of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and a violent plan to save the planet.
We are also delighted to celebrate the paperback release by announcing the winners of the giveaway we have been running on our page! Huge congratulations to:
@abbiesgoodreads
@thepuzzling_bookworm
#books #crimefiction #giveaway #bookstagram
Indie bookshop highlight📚💕
Spotted River East, River West and A Splintering in Next Chapter Books, a brilliant women-led independent bookshop in Leeds.
You can find them at the Leeds Corn Exchange (gorgeous location!)
What is an indie bookshops have you visited recently?
#books #bookshop #UK
A Splintering in the Sainsbury’s Magazine🧡💕
‘Every now and then... I saw Mother
was haunted... I could not afford
to sit too long with my mother’s
ghosts.’
Tara’s ambition to swap the
dull smallness of her rural Pakistani
village for the city life is realised when
she marries an urban accountant.
But she is still shackled by expectation
and tradition: children, obeisance,
patriarchy. Not for always, though...
📚 Event Alert 📚
Join us on 9 Oct, 6:30pm at Daunt Books Hampstead for Karen Bartlett in conversation with Saad Mohseni on The Escape from Kabul.
🎟️ Tickets £6 – link in stories and on the Daunt Books website.
#DauntBooks #BookEvent #KarenBartlett #SaadMohseni
🚨Giveaway time🚨
🕵️♂️ A headless corpse on the banks of the River Loire… Are you interested?
Matthieu Lombard is back, and the mysteries continue to run deep… 🌊
From eco-terrorism to French aristocracy, Dead Behind the Eyes twists through shadowy corridors of power and hidden motives. Can murder ever be justified by a noble cause?
💀 Dead Behind the Eyes by Ian Moore
📖 The second instalment in the Loire Valley Mystery series
📅 Out in paperback Thursday 9th October
We will be sending out 2 copies of the book to influencers who LOVE crime. To enter:
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✅Follow us and the author @ianmooreauthor
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#LoireValleyMysteries #DeadBehindTheEyes #IanMoore #CrimeFiction #NewBookRelease #giveaway #competition #books
`A bleak and gritty shock of a novel, gripping to the end` - Anthony Cummins 🤯
Need we say more….
A Splintering just featured in the Daily Mail’s ‘best Literary Fiction to read this autumn’ 🥳🍁🍂
#asplintering #literaryfiction #bookstagram #books #dailymail
Join Kate Kennedy and Eleanor Chan at Goldsmiths University 👏
📆15th October
⏰5-6pm
📍Richard Hoggart Building
🎟️Free
Music, life-writing and how to write about what you can’t hear🎼
We had two Duckworth authors at the inaugural Festival of Encounters 🦆🦆
Eleanor Chan discussing Duet with the brilliant @elizabethalker
🎼Duet: A groundbreaking history of the way music has threaded through human history, by a brilliant young historian and BBC Next Generation Thinker
And the wonderful Andy Field was discussing his book Encounterism in a barbers shop! Very fitting!
💇♂️Encounterism: A joyous exploration into the everyday pleasures and benefits of encountering the world in-person
What a fantastic experience! Thank you so much @vangoghlondon
Photo credit @neenapercy 📸
#festivalofencounters #vangoghhouse #duet #encounterism
We are very excited to see Eleanor Chan @thoroughlyearlymodernellie and Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason @thekannehmasons in conversation at Hatchards @hatchardspiccadilly next week.
Why not join them – and our Chair, musicologist and broadcaster Emily MacGregor @emjmacgregor – for a fascinating evening discussing how music has threaded through human history and artistic self-expression?
In Duet: An Artful History of Music Chan explores the inter-relationships of sound and vision, music and art. Taking us on an exhilarating journey that encompasses a 35,000-year-old flute found in a German cave, Kandinsky`s kaleidoscopic paintings, illuminated manuscripts and haute couture, we discover a long historical interplay of music and art. But what might it mean to to trulyseemusic?
Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason’s memoir, House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons, won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Storytelling Award and her most recent book is To Be Young, Gifted and Black. Through conversations with her extraordinarily gifted family, all classical musicians, Kanneh-Mason explores what it’s like to come of age in these turbulent times, when Black artistic self-expression is so often met with disparagement and abuse online – and offers a hopeful, powerful way through.
Emily MacGregor is a writer, broadcaster, and music historian. Her book While the Music Lasts offers an erudite, lyrical, gently humorous and healing journey in making and participating in music.
Published today in paperback! For readers who love fascinating women’s biographies shot through with literary intrigue of the 20th century.
The Quality of Love is an intimate portrait of the stunning Paget Twins whose lives intersected with friends and lovers: George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler and many others.
A beautiful and deeply moving book about sisters who captured the attention of the world, order it from your nearest independent bookshop.
