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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!

#NobelPrizeInLiterature

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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!

#NobelPrizeInLiterature

#HowToBuildAHauntedHouse by Caitlin Blackwell Baines is out today 👻

Do you have what it takes to cross the threshold?

Crumbling turrets, crenelated walls, creaking floorboards. We all know a haunted house when we see - or feel - one. That creeping sense of wrongness. An icy shiver stealing down the spine.

But why do certain structures set this super-sensory alarm bell jangling, while others leave us unmoved? Can a house be purpose-built to be haunted? And does a building need a bloody legacy to set the skin tingling?

Tiptoe through the haunted gallery at Hampton Court Palace, encounter the spectral residents of Chillingham Castle and lose yourself in the labyrinthine layout of Winchester Mystery House as Caitlin Blackwell Baines unravels the psyche, the history and the folkloric fabrication that make a haunted house take on a life of its own.

Enter if you dare...

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#HowToBuildAHauntedHouse by Caitlin Blackwell Baines is out today 👻

Do you have what it takes to cross the threshold?

Crumbling turrets, crenelated walls, creaking floorboards. We all know a haunted house when we see - or feel - one. That creeping sense of wrongness. An icy shiver stealing down the spine.

But why do certain structures set this super-sensory alarm bell jangling, while others leave us unmoved? Can a house be purpose-built to be haunted? And does a building need a bloody legacy to set the skin tingling?

Tiptoe through the haunted gallery at Hampton Court Palace, encounter the spectral residents of Chillingham Castle and lose yourself in the labyrinthine layout of Winchester Mystery House as Caitlin Blackwell Baines unravels the psyche, the history and the folkloric fabrication that make a haunted house take on a life of its own.

Enter if you dare...

To celebrate tomorrow’s publication of #HowToBuildAHauntedHouse by Caitlin Blackwell Baines, we asked the Profile staff for their favourite haunted house story – novel, film or real life haunting…

How to Build a Haunted House examines our cultural obsession with the haunted house, which has fed into many great works of the horror genre, both on the page and on screen. Taking eight famously haunted structures – including the featured Winchester Mystery House – art historian Caitlin Blackwell Baines takes the reader on a grand tour through the art, history and folklore behind this most enduring of gothic symbols.

Get your copy tomorrow and add this fascinating read to your spooktober TBR! And don’t forget to let us know your top haunted house recommendation in the comments below 👻🦇🕷️

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To celebrate tomorrow’s publication of #HowToBuildAHauntedHouse by Caitlin Blackwell Baines, we asked the Profile staff for their favourite haunted house story – novel, film or real life haunting…

How to Build a Haunted House examines our cultural obsession with the haunted house, which has fed into many great works of the horror genre, both on the page and on screen. Taking eight famously haunted structures – including the featured Winchester Mystery House – art historian Caitlin Blackwell Baines takes the reader on a grand tour through the art, history and folklore behind this most enduring of gothic symbols. 

Get your copy tomorrow and add this fascinating read to your spooktober TBR! And don’t forget to let us know your top haunted house recommendation in the comments below 👻🦇🕷️

“In my people’s language, we greet each other each morning by saying “Tsecwínucw-k: ‘You survived the night”’

#WeSurvivedTheNight by @jnoisecat publishes next week!

One dark night, a new-born is discovered dumped inside a waste incinerator. The boy, rescued from death, grows into a man who will in turn abandon his own children, including his first-born son Julian Brave NoiseCat.

Behind this father-son story lies an even darker history of abuse, colonialism and vicious attempts to erase North America’s First Peoples from their land. Told in the style of a ‘Coyote Story’, a legend of the trickster forefather of NoiseCat’s people, We Survived the Night brings a vanishing artform back to life in this dazzling account of contemporary Indigenous North America. Braiding on-the-ground reportage together with intimate experience, history with mythology, NoiseCat grapples with trauma that cascades across generations to uncover truths about himself, his family and his people - how they survived and how, through vital political, environmental and cultural movements, they are coming back.

An inventive, illuminating and moving narrative from one of the most compelling artists at work today, We Survived the Night is both reconciliation and celebration of Indigenous pain, hope and resurgence - and their power to shape a collective future.

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“In my people’s language, we greet each other each morning by saying “Tsecwínucw-k: ‘You survived the night”’

#WeSurvivedTheNight by @jnoisecat publishes next week!

One dark night, a new-born is discovered dumped inside a waste incinerator. The boy, rescued from death, grows into a man who will in turn abandon his own children, including his first-born son Julian Brave NoiseCat.
 
Behind this father-son story lies an even darker history of abuse, colonialism and vicious attempts to erase North America’s First Peoples from their land. Told in the style of a ‘Coyote Story’, a legend of the trickster forefather of NoiseCat’s people, We Survived the Night brings a vanishing artform back to life in this dazzling account of contemporary Indigenous North America. Braiding on-the-ground reportage together with intimate experience, history with mythology, NoiseCat grapples with trauma that cascades across generations to uncover truths about himself, his family and his people - how they survived and how, through vital political, environmental and cultural movements, they are coming back.

An inventive, illuminating and moving narrative from one of the most compelling artists at work today, We Survived the Night is both reconciliation and celebration of Indigenous pain, hope and resurgence - and their power to shape a collective future.

We are incredibly pleased to announce a new book from Mary Beard, publishing in April 2026. #TalkingClassics: The Shock of the Old is a bold and incisive account of why the classics matter.

What’s exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What’s the point?

The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) – and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently.

In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It’s not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it’s a shame not to be.

After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.

Pre-order your signed Waterstones edition via the link in our bio.

#MaryBeard #TalkingClassics #Classics #Waterstones #AncientHistory

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We are incredibly pleased to announce a new book from Mary Beard, publishing in April 2026. #TalkingClassics: The Shock of the Old is a bold and incisive account of why the classics matter.
 
What’s exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we be bothered with the distant past anyway? What’s the point?
 
The life, art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome have something to offer everyone. They are not the property of wealthy white men only. They make us wonder how to make sense of people who lived long ago (from angry landlords to giggling senators) – and to think harder about our own world, to look at it differently.
 
In Talking Classics, Mary Beard points to the surprising connections between antiquity and the present. From revolutionaries to dictators, Bob Dylan to Beyoncé, she joins forces with the varied modern characters who have been transfixed by the ancient world. It’s not compulsory, she argues, to be excited by antiquity, but it’s a shame not to be.
 
After half a century teaching and studying classics, she fills the book with lively stories, curious facts and some good gossip. Talking Classics explains why the deep past does really affect us all.
 
Pre-order your signed Waterstones edition via the link in our bio.

#MaryBeard #TalkingClassics #Classics #Waterstones #AncientHistory

Take your pitch-side seats to the world’s greatest football tournament ⚽️🏆

Today we publish #WorldCupFever by bestselling author Simon Kuper. Simon Kuper is one of very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he’s experienced - from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa’s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of 2022 – to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world.

World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes our lives, by one of the best writers on the beautiful game.

#WorldCup #Football #SimonKuper #FootballBook #Bookstagram

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Take your pitch-side seats to the world’s greatest football tournament ⚽️🏆
 
Today we publish #WorldCupFever by bestselling author Simon Kuper. Simon Kuper is one of very few people to have attended every World Cup since 1990. In World Cup Fever he looks back at each tournament he’s experienced - from half-empty stands at Italia 90 to the French triumph as hosts in 1998, South Africa’s national dream in 2010 and the troubling legacy of 2022 – to reveal a captivating portrait of sport in a globalised world.
 
World Cup Fever is the story of how the tournament touches and sometimes even changes our lives, by one of the best writers on the beautiful game.
 
#WorldCup #Football #SimonKuper #FootballBook #Bookstagram

Exciting news to kick off October: #ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski is Blackwells’ Non-Fiction Book of the Month! Join stonemason Andrew Ziminski on a charming tour around Britain’s best medieval churches, exploring their features and furnishings, from angel roofs to flying buttresses.

⛪️

‘Joyous and illuminating’ – Sir Tony Robinson

‘A beautiful book’ – Rory Stewart

‘Utterly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton

⛪️

#ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski publishes in paperback tomorrow. Who’s coming on a church crawl with us?

#ChurchGoing #BritishChurches #Churches #AndrewZiminski #Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #Architecture #ChurchCrawling

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Exciting news to kick off October: #ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski is Blackwells’ Non-Fiction Book of the Month! Join stonemason Andrew Ziminski on a charming tour around Britain’s best medieval churches, exploring their features and furnishings, from angel roofs to flying buttresses.

⛪️
 
‘Joyous and illuminating’ – Sir Tony Robinson
 
‘A beautiful book’ – Rory Stewart
 
‘Utterly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton

⛪️
 
#ChurchGoing by Andrew Ziminski publishes in paperback tomorrow. Who’s coming on a church crawl with us?
 
#ChurchGoing #BritishChurches #Churches #AndrewZiminski #Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #Architecture #ChurchCrawling

Bon appétit! Ned Palmer’s brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France publishes this week in paperback 🧀

In #ACheesemongerTourDeFrance, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country’s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France’s oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it’s made – its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that’s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it’s about power and politics – Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.

Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard – and a terrific insight into la Belle République 🇫🇷

Out this Thursday in paperback!

#Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #ACheesemongersTour #Cheese #FrenchCheese #Fromage

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Bon appétit! Ned Palmer’s brie-lliant guide to the cheeses of France publishes this week in paperback 🧀
 
In #ACheesemongerTourDeFrance, Ned Palmer wends his way around the country’s regions, meeting the remarkable cheesemongers who carry the torch for France’s oldest and most treasured traditions. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it’s made – its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that’s a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it’s about power and politics – Brie swelling to royal dimensions due to its proximity to the French court, or Camembert gaining national status after being supplied in patriotic boxes to First World War soldiers.

Witty, fascinating and endlessly moreish, A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France is the perfect guide to a French cheeseboard – and a terrific insight into la Belle République 🇫🇷
 
Out this Thursday in paperback!
 
#Bookstagram #BooksOfIG #ACheesemongersTour #Cheese #FrenchCheese #Fromage
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