@tabithapelly

Freelance book publicist. [email protected]

 UK
Joined August 2010
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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress18 Aug 2025
Congratulations to @StarrittAlex 🎉 #DraytonandMackenzie has been longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ⬇️
FT Weekend@ftweekend18 Aug 2025
FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the longlist on.ft.com/3UxQnKF

FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 — the longlist

Tales of geopolitics and growth — plus a rare novel — are among this year’s contenders

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An honour to work with the amazing @rhiannonlucyc whose sharp, funny, compassionate and necessary book The Republic of Parenthood is out *today* @septemberbooks vogue.co.uk/article/new-moth…

New Motherhood Left Me Reeling, Sleep Deprived And Vulnerable – So I Wrote A Book

“I could barely stop sobbing. What had I been thinking?” writes Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, who chose to write her upcoming book at exactly the moment she was told she wouldn’t be able to.

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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress6 Aug 2025
'A big book, and almost Dickensian in its scope ... very moving' #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex is a @BritishGQ Book of the Year. Read the full review: shorturl.at/P5yxE
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Join us for an evening with Tom Cox @_SwiftPress on Wednesday 3rd September as he discusses his new novel @blackwellbooks Book your place here eventbrite.co.uk/e/155926647…
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Drayton and Mackenzie: Men, love and money in the 21st century standard.co.uk/culture/books…

Drayton and Mackenzie: Men, love and money in the 21st century

Novels that dip into the lives of their characters every few years risk them seeming detached from the world or clumsily inserted into historical events. Drayton and Mackenzie, Alexander Starritt’s...

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Shiny #TranslationThursday - @annabookbel reviews two volumes from Penguin's new Maigret Capsule Collection @PenguinClassics @SimenonTeam @tabithapelly shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-peng…

The Penguin Maigret Capsule Collection – Maigret’s Holiday and Maigret’s Pickpocket – by Georges...

Review by Annabel Starting back in 2013, Penguin began reissuing the novels of Georges Simenon in new or recent translations with distinctive photographic details on the covers. All 75 Maigrets are…

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Yet another superb review of Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt - an absolutely glorious novel: theguardian.com/books/2025/j… @_SwiftPress

Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt review – a warmly comic saga of male friendship

This tale of two entrepreneurs dips into the perspectives of real-life tech moguls, with thrilling results

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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress16 Jul 2025
'This tale of two very different young men who together build a company is sweeping, clever, deeply researched and very funny' @VictoriaPeckham #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex is Janice Turner's 'book of the summer' in @thetimes 🌞 Read more: shorturl.at/FdbJw
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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress26 Jun 2025
'Will have you hooked ... an ode to the enduring power of male friendship' @thetimes #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex is a @thetimes Best Summer Book 🌊 Read the full review: shorturl.at/SBVQ6 Pre-order: bit.ly/DraytonMackenzie
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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress23 Jun 2025
Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? 👀 #EverythingWillSwallowYou by Tom Cox is now available to pre-order. bit.ly/EverythingWillSwallow…
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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress19 Jun 2025
‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … I finished it tear-stained' @HackettLaura @thetimes Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie by @StarrittAlex 🌊 shorturl.at/KAmZT
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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Swift Press@_SwiftPress4 Jun 2025
'This clever and vivid book by a historian of Vichy France falls somewhere between autobiographical novel and fictionalised memoir' @GuardianBooks Read the full review of #ThePropagandist by Cécile Desprairies, translated by Natasha Lehrer: ow.ly/a1kW50W3jPk
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With huge thanks to Malcolm Forbes, @tabithapelly and @EngelsbergIdeas for focusing on our new book ‘Mary Shelley in Bath’ engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…
With huge thanks to Malcolm Forbes, @tabithapelly and @EngelsbergIdeas for focusing on our new book Mary Shelley in Bath’ engelsbergideas.com/reviews/what-mary-shelley-did-in-the-shadows/

ALT With huge thanks to Malcolm Forbes, @tabithapelly and @EngelsbergIdeas for focusing on our new book Mary Shelley in Bath’ engelsbergideas.com/reviews/what-mary-shelley-did-in-the-shadows/

With huge thanks to Malcolm Forbes, @tabithapelly and @EngelsbergIdeas for focusing on our new book Mary Shelley in Bath’ engelsbergideas.com/reviews/what-mary-shelley-did-in-the-shadows/

ALT With huge thanks to Malcolm Forbes, @tabithapelly and @EngelsbergIdeas for focusing on our new book Mary Shelley in Bath’ engelsbergideas.com/reviews/what-mary-shelley-did-in-the-shadows/

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The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies @spectator: "A vividly detailed story inter-woven with scorching truth… a personal J’Accuse, indicting her mother and the family–a community of enthusiastic collaborators–for their part in the collapse of a country" spectator.co.uk/article/cons…

Consorting with the enemy: The Propagandist, by Cécile Desprairies, reviewed

As a young child in the mid-1960s, Cécile Desprairies listened hour after hour to her mother Lucie dreamily recalling the 1940s, dwelling on a past peopled by undefined heroes and ‘the bastards’ who...

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bookanista.com@bookanista8 May 2025
"No, she had no regrets. On the contrary. If all the French had been on the right side, Germany would have won the war." Read an extract from Cécile Desprairies' unflinching debut novel #ThePropagandist Out now from @_SwiftPress tr. @NatashaLehrer bookanista.com/my-mothers-wa…

My mother’s war

An extract from Vichy France historian Cécile Desprairies’ novel The Propagandist, drawing on her family’s sympathies and collaboration with the Nazi occupiers.

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Courtesy of literary tastemakers @bookanista: a stunning extract from #ThePropagandist by Cécile Desprairies transl. @NatashaLehrer, out now @_SwiftPress. Historian Desprairies' debut novel blends family history with fiction in "a haunting tale of guilt" bookanista.com/my-mothers-wa…

My mother’s war

An extract from Vichy France historian Cécile Desprairies’ novel The Propagandist, drawing on her family’s sympathies and collaboration with the Nazi occupiers.

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"Longlisted, with good reason, for France’s most prestigious literary prize—now beautifully translated into English by @NatashaLehrer THE PROPAGANDIST is a harrowing but elegantly constructed rot-riddled family romance" @LucyScholes @ftweekend @_SwiftPress ft.com/content/6d497be3-512e…

The Propagandist — Cécile Desprairies’ novel explores her family’s wartime shame

The celebrated historian of Vichy France recalls her closest relatives’ collaboration with the Nazis in a harrowing but elegant fictional debut

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Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out…
Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out!

ALT Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out!

Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out!

ALT Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out!

Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out!

ALT Adding the finishing touches to today’s orders of Washington Square - the literary classic by Henry James. Our brand new edition is introduced by Colm Tóibín and designed by Rose Wong. Perfection and timeless elegance, inside and out!

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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Stephen May@Stephen_May128 Apr 2025
Last post for this. It will be nice to see you.
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Tabitha Pelly retweeted
Stephen May@Stephen_May125 Apr 2025
Film of Day of The Triffids released on this day in 1963. @thetimes let me write about re-reading the book here thetimes.com/culture/books/a…

Triffids on the rampage? Keep calm and have another brandy

In his classic dystopian novel The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham explores how humanity reacts to catastrophe

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Wimbledon Film Club@WFCscreenings25 Apr 2025
Steve Sekely & Freddie Francis's The Day of the Triffids was released on this day in 1963. Based on the John Wyndham Sci-Fi novel, it starred Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore & Mervyn Johns. The special effects were of their era.
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