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To say we’re proud to be publishing this is an understatement!⭐️🤫
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The winner of the 2025 #YoungWriterAward is Harry Shukman for #YearOfTheRat 🐀 An eye-opening account of his time infiltrating British far-right groups, revealing how they operate and how they normalise extreme ideologies. Published by @ChattoBooks / @vintagebooks
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It was an absolute joy to present the 2025 #YoungWriterAward last night to Harry Shukman for #YearOfTheRat, published by @ChattoBooks / @vintagebooks! 💐 Thank you to everyone involved for a truly tremendous evening, until next time! ✨🧡 #YoungWriterAward
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Today's top story: @ChattoBooks has won a 14-way auction for Championess, a revisionist, female-centric history of sport by Anna Kessel, which 'unearths thousands of years of women’s participation in sports' bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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.@ChattoBooks has signed Switzy, a new novel by Emma Cline bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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I can’t think of a better occasion than Beltane and International Workers’ Day to report that Bog People : A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror is now available to pre-order 🌾🏵️💪🌾🏵️💪 penguin.co.uk/books/463379/b…
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Rosanna Hildyard, assistant editor at @ChattoBooks, has acquired the “lyrical” first novel from poet Romalyn Ante. The Left-Behind Child will be published in July 2026 👇 ebx.sh/9umsNF
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Replying to @TheTLS
@TheTLS Ackerley Prize 2025 shortlist announced. Catherine Coldstream, Cloistered @ChattoBooks Clair Wills, Missing Persons (@AllenLaneBooks) Jeff Young, Wild Twin (@LittleToller) Join us @Foyles on 23 July 2025 at 7.00pm foyles.co.uk/events/tls-acke… @michaelscaines @claire_harman
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Chatto&Windus retweeted
Doing this on the 10th July and reading poems from the new collection Mouth @ChattoBooks
🪩OUT-SPOKEN LIVE IS BACK NEXT MONTH 🪩 Poetry that hits. Music that moves. A night you won’t forget. Join us at @southbankcentre, featuring: ✨ Fiona Benson ✨ Mona Arshi ✨ Susannah Dickey ✨ Alex Apolline ✨ Benjamin Cook 🗓 10 July 🎟 Book now — link in bio 🔗
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Some books I’ve loved recently… and a few I’m excited to read. 🤩 All loosely matching this gorgeous @GoldsboroBooks edition of The Favourites by @LayneFargo which I highly recommend! Have you read any of these? ⛸️ #BookTwitter #BookStack #PrettyBooks
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thank you so much to @penguinrandom @ChattoBooks for gifting me a final copy of Bad Nature by Ariel Courage! i cannot wait to read!
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Just finished "Beautyland" by Marie-Helene Bertino and oh my god I didn't know a book could be so beautiful and tender If you wanna gain a new perspective on humanity and cry in the process, pick this up immediately. Out Today!!! Thank you so much to @ChattoBooks for my copy.
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Publication Day Desk! Many happy returns of the day to Xiaolu Guo. rebeccacarterliterary.com/ne… @ChattoBooks @PenguinUKBooks
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The face of a girl with a ✨BOOK DEAL✨ It is a dream come true to announce that the UK rights to my debut work of non-fiction, tentatively titled The Politics of Smell, have been bought by @ChattoBooks, part of @vintagebooks, an imprint of @PenguinBooks! US - you’re next! 🥹
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Very excited to dive into essayist Aaron Robertson's acclaimed book The Black Utopians @ChattoBooks , which weaves together memoir & history to tell the story of Black radicals who built pockets of egalitarian collective living.
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The most exciting news!! Welcome to Chatto, @DrAllyLouks 🤩👃
👃 DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 👃 Roll on spring 2027 for @DrAllyLouks' non-fiction debut THE POLITICS OF SMELL — an 'important, persuasive & completely absorbing' read — which has been snapped up by @ChattoBooks!
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Couldn't be more thrilled for @SophieElmhirst @ChattoBooks. 'Maurice & Maralyn' is a true gem of #nonfiction storytelling you could press on any reader. A joy to be part of the @nerobookawards process too
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Chatto&Windus retweeted
.@ChattoBooks has won a 'competitive eight-way auction' for Eat Bitter by Lydia Pang, a debut memoir exploring food, feelings and Hakka culture bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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