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Kicking off the TWO COUSINS OF AZOV blog tour!

Yes we most certainly are! Welcome to DAY ONE of the blog tour to celebrate the wonderful and deeply poignant new novel from Andrea Bennett which is now out in paperback and ebook everywhere! Now, here’s Andrea: We’ve all heard of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Pushkin, but my trio of favourite Soviet… Read More

#LoveAudio: Brittany Newell on the OOLA audiobook

I was nervous about my audiobook. I’m a bit of a control freak (ask my agent), and what’s more, obsessed with the way my work sounds. I whisper aloud as I type, looking not a little like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. I have musician envy: I try to make my sentences like music. So… Read More

#LoveAudio: Rosie Garland on the recording of The Night Brother

When it begins, I’m floored. I’m drawn in by a soft Mancunian accent: ‘My night brother is here. Halfway between yesterday and tomorrow morning, he shakes my shoulder…’ It is Edie, telling her own story. I’m surprised at how emotional I feel. My third novel The Night Brother has just… Read More

A #DayInTheLife – Ann Bissell, Publicity Director

7.30am: Woken by alarm. Why on earth have I set it this early on a Saturday?? Oh yes! Off to Oxford literary festival with two of Borough’s authors. Extricate self from the claws of a sleeping kitten Jeremy Guscatt and attempt to slip out of bed without waking snoring husband. Read More

Review of The Lonely City #EditorPick

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (Canongate) One of the best books I read in 2016 was Olivia Laing’s curiously addictive exploration of loneliness and the modern city, by way of art. Alone and adrift in New York in her mid-thirties, Laing found… Read More

Start reading Christina Baker Kline’s A Piece of the World

Prologue Later he told me he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming… Read More

Terms and Conditions – The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and Elemis Twitter competition

Terms and Conditions This competition is promoted by HarperCollins Publishers Limited (“HarperCollins”), I London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. This promotion is open to all UK residents except employees of HarperCollins and Elemis (or their parent, subsidiaries or any affiliated companies) and their immediate… Read More

We’re SINGING for Chilbury – to celebrate The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir publication

Well, a certain choir are, all for the sake of a wonderful book that we are delighted to be publishing tomorrow! You have no doubt found your way to the Borough website through the Chilbury blog tour, which we are just thrilled so many lovely bloggers have… Read More

Start reading Robert Lautner’s The Draughtsman

 Start reading the first chapter of Robert Lautner’s The Draughtsman The woman at the desk wishes me good morning. She looks like she has been up for hours, fresh and beaming, and I am sure not the same woman I… Read More

A #DayInTheLife – Suzie Dooré, Publishing Director

5am: Leap out of bed. An hour’s meditation and a matcha smoothie and I’m ready to fast-walk to the office… no. No, I can’t lie. It’s actually: 7am: Wake up, peel Kindle off face where I fell asleep reading a submission. Shower, get dressed (it used to be… Read More

AUTHENTIC AND HEARTFELT DEBUT ‘SHE’S NOT THERE’ ACQUIRED

The Borough Press has acquired Tamsin Grey’s first novel, SHE’S NOT THERE. Suzie Dooré, Publishing Director of the imprint, bought World rights from Jo Unwin. SHE’S NOT THERE is the story of two little boys who wake up one morning to find their mother has vanished. Nine-year-old Jonah tries to puzzle out… Read More

Suzie Dooré on BBC Radio 4 Open Book

In January Borough Press’ Suzie Dooré braved the cold and headed over to BBC Broadcasting house to give her ‘Editor’s tip’ and a ‘New year’s resolution for the publishing industry’ on Mariella Frostrup’s Open Book. Suzie’s choice sparked conversation around gender fluidity, feminism and diversity in literature. And her new year’s resolution… Read More