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Why has Britain waited almost 50 years for this book?
The extraordinary journey of Conversations with an Executioner — from a Warsaw prison cell to its long-awaited UK publication.
Finally published 27 August. Pre-order now.
🚴 We are thrilled that Simon Parker will be attending this year’s Ilkley Literature Festival to talk all things The Wild Road Home! 🚴
🎟Catch him on 17 October 2026 at 3.45 pm 🎟
Priority booking for Friends of the Festival opens on Wed 19 Aug
General booking opens on Tues 25 Aug
Join #ILF2026 from Fri 2 - Sun 18 October for another year of word power!
‘A chilling classic reveals the mind of a Nazi mass murderer’
We’re thrilled to see Kazimierz Moczarski’s Conversations with an Executioner featured in The Guardian today, ahead of its UK publication next week.
Jo Glanville tells the extraordinary story behind the book: in 1949, Polish resistance hero Moczarski was placed in a Warsaw prison cell with Jürgen Stroop, the SS general responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. They would spend 255 consecutive days together. Moczarski used that unimaginable proximity to investigate a terrifying question: what turns an ordinary person into a mass murderer?
The result became a Polish classic — yet its journey into English has taken decades. As The Guardian reveals, Moczarski’s daughter Elżbieta spent nearly 40 years trying to bring a complete English translation into print. Now, almost 50 years after the book was first published, Sean Gasper Bye’s translation is finally bringing the first uncensored English edition to UK readers.
The piece also speaks to our Editorial Director Clare Bullock about discovering the book nearly a decade ago while learning Polish — and finally having the opportunity to publish it after joining Duckworth.
An extraordinary story behind an extraordinary book, and a wonderful piece to read in full in today’s Guardian.
📕 Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski, translated by Sean Gasper Bye. Out 27 August.
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We couldn’t have asked for a more extraordinary response to Kazimierz Moczarski’s Conversations with an Executioner, which received a rave review in The Telegraph this week.
In 1949, Polish resistance fighter and journalist Kazimierz Moczarski found himself imprisoned for 255 days alongside Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi official responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. What followed were a series of chilling conversations, recorded by Moczarski with remarkable precision: an unforgettable examination of how an ordinary man becomes capable of extraordinary evil.
Never before published in the UK, Conversations with an Executioner is a work of enormous historical and literary importance — and, as The Telegraph’s review makes clear, one that remains painfully relevant today.
Out 27 August and available to pre-order now.
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An unforgettable story of motherhood, obsession and ambition, A Splintering follows Tara, a woman desperate to escape the life laid out for her.
Marriage takes her from a rural Pakistani village to the city, but respectability proves to be just another kind of cage. And even as Tara acquires wealth, her hunger grows for something more: power, possibility and freedom.
How far will she go for the life she wants?
Disquieting and utterly gripping, Dur e Aziz Amna’s critically acclaimed novel introduces a complicated, compelling heroine who refuses to be easily judged — and is impossible to forget.
A Splintering is out in paperback 10 September.
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Meet Tara. You’re going to have an opinion about her.
Ambitious. Angry. Unreliable. Unrelatable. A mother who wants more. A woman determined to escape the life she was born into — whatever it costs.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning, Dur e Aziz Amna’s A Splintering is a fiercely feminist, compulsively readable novel about class, desire, motherhood and female rage.
The literary credentials are established. Now it’s time for more readers to discover Tara.
How far would you go for another life?
A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna.
Out in paperback 10 September.
#ASplintering #DurEAzizAmna #FemaleRage #FeministFiction #LiteraryFiction
Join @blue_bear_bookshop for an afternoon with author @mandyjmorton, purrrfect for readers who love mysteries with whiskers, wit, and a touch of mischief! Mandy will share another delightfully twisty mystery from The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency series - The Tabby in Black.
Book your ticket now! Find the event link in the bookshop`s bio.
The audio book for @windsorvswindsor by @bert.tylermoore is available now, read by star of Channel 4`s The Windsors Harry Enfield.
Have a listen!
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Windsor-vs-Windsor-Audiobook/B0H26MSWDC
https://open.spotify.com/show/0HhFrTVgVghXAb8ilf3T48?si=ba9fcb483c8c46f2
Fantastic launch for @windsorvswindsor by @bert.tylermoore at @waterstoneslewes last night.
Thanks to everyone for coming!
Windsor Vs Windsor is out now
Happy Publication Day to @bert.tylermoore and his riotous royal satire Windsor Vs Windsor.
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When Prince Harry sues Prince William for “wilful and malicious sibling rivalry,” the sensational claims from Spare finally face their day in court. But as the proceedings unfold, it’s not just the brothers on trial-suddenly the very suitability of Wills and Kate as Britain’s future King and Queen is thrown into doubt.
Inside the courtroom, tempers flare and secrets spill that threaten to shake the House of Windsor to its foundations. Meanwhile, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and other family members - jockeying for influence and relevance - may well bring down the crown before any verdict is reached.
`Wonderfully over the top and wickedly irreverent. Like the show, it’s secretly affectionate in its on-target, take-no-prisoners approach. It’s a miracle he’s not in the Tower by now` S J Bennett, author of The Windsor Knot
`On TV, The Windsors was a comic gem and on the page Bert Tyler Moore has done it again. Behold the true story of our monarchy!` Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession
`Hilarious, ridiculous - a right royal laugh!` Melanie Cantor, author of The F**k It! List
`Windsor vs. Windsor made me chortle, giggle, and laugh out loud. The royal family, Keir Starmer, Tony Blair, Rory Stewart, readers of the tabloid press, and royal fans everywhere receive their deserved lampoons.` William Kuhn, author of Mrs Queen Takes the Train
Happy publication day to @ianmooreauthor! A Very French Corpse, the latest of his dark and gripping Loire Valley Mysteries, is out now in paperback, ebook and audio.
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The death of a 16-year-old, dressed as an ‘Immortal Knight’ and having taken a fatal overdose, proves a perplexing case in the ancient city of Tours. Juge d’instruction Matthieu Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation.
When the adolescent’s death is followed a few weeks later by the gruesome murder of a firebrand author, Lombard senses a malign coercive force behind the two fatalities, one that succeeds in challenging his own loyalties and assumptions.
What is it that is nagging at Lombard, locked away in the past? What soon becomes clear is that this game is beyond roleplay. It is deadly.
Coming this Monday (6th July) On Thin Ice written and read by @cwexplore will be the @bbcradio4 Book of the Week!
15 minute episodes, five days in a row. Don`t miss out!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ykml
