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Emma Southon

Emma Southon is a Bookshop Manager at Waterstones and the author of Agrippina: Empress, Exile, Hustler, Whore, a Best Book of the Year for the New Statesman. Armed with a PhD in Ancient History, she also co-hosts the History is Sexy podcast. She lives in Belfast, with her cat Livia, and tweets @NuclearTeeth. www.emmasouthon.com

Books by Emma Southon

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women

Emma Southon

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Emma Southon

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Sep 21

We are over the moon to share that Prophet Song by Paul Lynch has been shortlisted for the #BookerPrize2023 @thebookerprizes 🎉

'Propulsive, unsparing and terribly moving, the book warns of the precarity of democratic ideals’ the judges said.

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

A huge congratulations to Paul and all the other shortlisted writers!

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Sep 15

We had the best day💜💙💚

#oneworldpublications #rocktheboat #bookfest #waterstonespiccadilly

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Sep 12

Ever since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an alternative history of English literature. Placing the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage, Anna Beer builds a vibrant new canon through Restoration wits, scandalous sensation novelists and medieval mystics.

Warned not to write – and certainly not to bite – these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.

Eve Bites Back by Anna Beer is out in paperback this October

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Sep 7

Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin has a whole new look in paperback

Unsettling, exhilarating and fiercely original, these prizewinning stories expose raw and uncomfortable truths about the people and places we think will keep us safe, and ask what happens when that promise proves empty.

Out today in paperback, just in time for spooky season 👀

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Sep 6

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on ‘ethical living’ I’ve ever read.' Guardian

‘A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination.’ Stephen Fry

‘A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman

What We Owe The Future by William MacAskill is out tomorrow in paperback

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Sep 4

Proofs for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by @shubnumkhan have arrived!

Part love story, part coming-of-age tale, part gothic mystery, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years is a sweeping and tender story set in a decaying mansion on South Africa's eastern coast

Available for request 👀

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