Ann Morgan

Whoop! Big thanks to @Waterstones for picking #RelearningtoRead for this pre-order promotion. Order through their website, using code SUMMER25, and get 25% off until end of July.

🚨 #poetrycompetition closing soon! 🚨 Delighted to see a whopping 500 entries for the Interwoven competition – is yours in yet? Final call for #poems celebrating connectedness – closes midnight Sunday! renardpress.com/interwoven-ant… #poetrycommunity

‘For contemporaries entangled, as we are, in the inexorable demands of daily life, the dividing lines between eras may be hardly visible when they are crossed; only after people stumble over them do the lines grow into walls which irretrievably shut off the past.’ Hannah Arendt

Book of the month: M.G. Sanchez ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/07/28/boo…

ANNOUNCING! A landmark new series from Chowringhee Press. Interviews with 100 translators around the world, working in and out of 60 different languages. In 5 volumes. We’ll be publishing the @harshaneeyam conversations with translators on their work and their craft this year…

‘What can I say, Juan? There are things embedded in my past that no man should have to talk about in the first-person possessive.’ From Diary of a Victorian Colonial and other Tales by M. G. Sanchez #Gibraltar

‘These scoundrels… [should be forced to] apologise. And while they’re doing that there has to be a visible blob of marmite on their clothing.’ Costa-winning poet Jonathan Edwards has a mischievous suggestion for handling rejection in the new #rlfcollected podcast.rlf.org.uk/488-jonathan-e…

My younger daughter, who is two, enjoys watching Bluey and Peppa Pig. But she calls them Bingo and George. For her, the shows are about the younger siblings. This is why representation and diversity of voices matter: we look for ourselves in stories.

"We need more translations to drown out the voices of those who try to rewrite our stories." Nashwa Nasreldin hits home with her call to amplify Middle Eastern voices and challenge hurdles to visibility: thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/b…

I had a great time being interviewed on Collected by Jonathan of @royallitfund about everything that goes into becoming a writer @ArlenHouse @publishingwomen @ACNIWriting m.youtube.com/watch?v=wsqW6u…

So the #education secretary has announced that 2026 will be the UK’s National Year of Reading. If only there were a book coming out this October about putting the joy and curiosity back into #reading 🤔 (Still got a couple of ARCs if you’d like to see one)

What is the future of English studies? ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/07/07/wha…

Book of the month: Tahir Hamut Izgil ayearofreadingtheworld.com/2025/06/30/boo…

I regularly get messages from aspiring journalists wondering how to get involved with the Economist. This is the answer 👇

Went to see @gunsnroses at Wembley last night. My first big stadium gig at the ripe old age of 43. This morning I keep reflecting on the resonance of those lines from Civil War: You can’t trust freedom when it’s not in your hands/ When everybody’s fighting for the promised land.

Wow, would you look at this? A visitor to my blog has created an interactive map showing the titles rated highest on Goodreads for each country. Extraordinary. (Apparently ATONEMENT tops the bill for the UK) bookrecommendationgenerator.com/world-book-map/

Such an honour to have Tessa Hadley as a guest on #rlfcollected. I particularly love what she says about her early struggles to write - so inspiring for all of us who have battled to realise the work we feel compelled to make podcast.rlf.org.uk/486-tessa-hadl…

Honoured to have an essay in this collection, published today in the UK, alongside work by such household names as Michael Morpurgo, Madeleine Thien, William Boyd and Nikesh Shukla. Many of my most powerful exchanges about books have involved messages from young people.

"To write stories is to be distrustful. To read is to engage with the story. Every story tells of a ghost. At the end, the centre of the story is a Black Hole, but it isn’t black, and it isn’t dark. In the best case, it might gleam." Judith Hermann, tr. Katy Derbyshire

This happened. RELEARNING TO READ is one of The Bookseller’s top ten nonfiction recommendations for September. Hooray!