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Victoria Gosling

Victoria Gosling grew up in Wiltshire and studied at Manchester University and the University of Amsterdam. Victoria is the founder of The Reader Berlin and The Berlin Writing Prize. She divides her time between Wiltshire and Berlin. She is the author of Before the Ruins and Bliss & Blunder @victoriagosling

Books by Victoria Gosling

Bliss & Blunder

Victoria Gosling

A breathtakingly fresh retelling of the King Arthur legend for the 21st century.

Before the Ruins

Victoria Gosling

One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.

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We’re serving up a late breakfast treat – proofs of Camille Bordas’ upcoming short story selection #OneSunOnly 🍳

A young woman takes stock following a burglary. A teenager becomes obsessed with the obituaries in a weekly magazine. Grandchildren mourn the grandparents who loved them and the ones who didn’t. Painters and almost-painters try to distinguish Good Art from Bad Art. People grapple with life-altering illness, unrequited love and promises they have every intention of keeping. Some win the lottery. Some don’t.

#TheMaterial author and rising literary star Camille Bordas delivers with this sharply observed collection, perfect for readers of Curtis Sittenfeld. Who wants a copy?

#OneSunOnly publishes January 2026 ☀️

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How would you spend your last day? And whom would you spend it with?

Finished copies of #TheFerrymanAndHisWife have landed, who would like a copy? 🛶

Ferryman Nils Vik chooses to head out onto the fjord, as he has for many years. Today, the 18th of November, his trip is different. As his trusty boat reaches the sea, a lifetime of passengers join him from beyond the grave, among them his rescue dog, the American photographer he thought of as his friend and young Jon Anderson, whose funeral Nils attended. But Nils is truly waiting for just one passenger: his beloved wife Marta, whose absence has marked each day since her passing. Approaching the end of his journey, his expectation grows - will he be reunited with her too?

The Ferryman and His Wife publishes 13th November!

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@waterstones are offering 25% off #Intelligence by beloved comedian Robert Newman! Valid until 23:59 Friday 17th October, with code OCTOBER25 at checkout.

‘Wonderfully feisty and beguiling’ William Boyd

Oxford, 1938. Ida and Medora are two brilliant young philosophers at the heart of a group who gather in storied rooms to dance, drink and debate theories of right and wrong. But as the world spins towards war, theoretical questions of life and death become all too real...

Seductive, witty and page-turning, Intelligence is the unputdownable new novel of love, espionage and wartime secrets from one of the UK’s best-loved writers and comedians.

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László Krasznahorkai shares his thoughts on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.

‘I am deeply glad that I have received the Nobel Prize — above all because this award proves that literature exists in itself, beyond various non- literary expectations, and that it is still being read. And for those who read it, it offers a certain hope that beauty, nobility, and the sublime still exist for their own sake. It may offer hope even to those in whom life itself only barely flickers. Trust — even if there seems to be no reason to’

His novels include Satantango, The Melancholy of Resistance and Herscht 07769, which was published in paperback this September. Published on our Tuskar Rock list, discover the work of this visionary author now.

#NobelPrize2025 #LaszloKrasznahorkai

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László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

Huge congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.

The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Congratulations also to Peter Straus and Colm Tóibín whose visionary publishing brought him to their Tuskar Rock list. Tóibín says “he has elevated the novel form and is to be ranked among the great European novelists”.

A towering figure in contemporary fiction, Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954 and has long been celebrated for his hypnotic prose and visionary scope. His many other accolades include the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor for lifetime achievement. Several of his most famous novels, including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, were turned into films by the director Béla Tarr.

We celebrate this historic achievement and look forward to readers discovering (or rediscovering) one of literature’s most fearless voices. Congratulations once again to László Krasznahorkai!

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‘Lush and magical, creepy and shocking - Kerr is a born storyteller’ Jenn Ashworth, author of Ghosted

The pit towns of Northalbion are seething with protest and unrest ... and when townsfolk begin to turn up mauled, locals suspect the murderous and mythical Wolf of Whindale.

Caleb, banished for crossing a picket line, is forced to take work with pit owner and antiquarian Mr Siskin, who is in pursuit of an ancient artefact that may have magical properties. But searching for buried treasure in lonely places brings danger when there is a bloodthirsty killer on the loose - whether wolf, man or something else entirely. Laced with myth, faith and avarice, The Wolf of Whindale is a superbly twisted and ferociously imaginative English horror story set in a stormy northern landscape.

#TheWolfOfWhindale by Jacob Kerr publishes today! 🐺

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