Reposted by Clare BullockSeán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 29/08/2026“During the almost nine months I spent with Stroop, I found myself eye to eye with a mass murderer . . . I did my best, although at first it caused me some difficulty, to see Stroop merely as a man.”—Kazimierz Moczarski 021
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This Thursday I'm publishing Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski, translated by Sean Gasper Bye. It's an extraordinary book, and one that I've been working on for four years, on and off. I spoke about it with Jo Glanville in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...theguardian.comConversations with an Executioner: a chilling classic reveals the mind of a Nazi mass murdererPolish war hero Kazimierz Moczarski spent 255 days sharing a cell with an SS general. Nearly 50 years after it was published, an uncensored version of his account is appearing in English for the first... 172
Reposted by Clare BullockSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit". 21699150
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Briefly returning to say that a scammer is impersonating me and reaching out to authors asking if they'd like to write for Duckworth. I do contact authors directly, but if the email looks like a scam (and crucially, doesn't use our domain name), please do check with us... 100
Reposted by Clare BullockBrendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025www.ft.com/content/ca4a... 511238
Reposted by Clare BullockJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Jules Renard’s journal, 14 February 1890 930029
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Happy publication day to Dur e Aziz Amna, whose mesmerising novel A SPLINTERING is out today. The narrator, Tara, had me hooked on p. 1 with the line: 'So let my story begin with rage...' www.thetimes.com/culture/book...thetimes.comShe’s a horrible character — but you’ll root for her anywayA Pakistani woman rebels against social restrictions in the pursuit of wealth in Dur e Aziz Amna’s novel A Splintering 100
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Come and work with Duckworth! Excellent books and one of the nicest teams I've ever worked with! jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28001...jobs.thebookseller.comMarketing Manager, Duckworth Books - Duckworth - Richmond-on-ThamesMarketing Manager, Duckworth Books - Duckworth - Publisher - Marketing - Salary range: £34,000-£38,000 pro rata, depending on experience. 030
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Look, I'm biased, but this really is one of the best books I've ever read about the natural world and the way we interact with it 173
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Working on @elliechan.bsky.social's extraordinary DUET includes not only the joy of making of the book itself, but hearing music I thought I knew, and understanding it in an entirely different way... 010
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Absolutely extraordinary piece in The Times, on the role of the 'Essential grandparent' www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...thetimes.comWhen my sister was murdered, it was my grandmother who saved meThe birth of her first grandchild was joyous for Helen Kirwan-Taylor — but it also brought back memories of childhood trauma and the role her ‘Babuskha’ played at that time 010
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 21/05/2025'My toddler is going through a phase of being very suspicious of the first mouthful of any food he is presented with, as though he is a medieval king who has heard rumours of a poisoning plot. I, his lowly jester, must therefore perform the dance of the seven spoons.' 110
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 11/05/2025A bookish weekend in Lewes: dropped into the Lewes Speaker's Festival to see Terri Apter's brilliant talk about GRANDPARENTING (& the queue for signed copies afterwards); walked round a Medieval Fayre with @elliechan.bsky.social talking all things DUET; & bumped in comics supremo Hannah Berry! 130
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I've been obsessed with this brilliantly dark debut, since I read the opening lines at my desk a few days after after I started at Duckworth. Couldn't be prouder to be publishing @lcwinter.bsky.social next spring! 232
Reposted by Clare BullockRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Frog maths. However you run the numbers, it turns out bad for the frogs. 2163
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Bound proofs are in for these two stunners. Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett's brilliantly incisive take on modern parenthood, illustrated by Pia Bramley, and Eleanor Chan's extraordinary DUET, which will forever change the way you think about music 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I am Very Excited about this one. I'LL BE THE MONSTER by the ludicrously talented Sean Gilbert, coming from Duckworth in time for Valentine's Day 2026: www.thebookseller.com/rights/duckw...thebookseller.comDuckworth snaps up I’ll Be the Monster by debut novelist Sean GilbertDuckworth has acquired I’ll Be the Monster by debut novelist Sean Gilbert. 020
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I haven't been able to stop thinking about WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN since I read it a month or so ago. An extraordinary book. 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Happy publication day to @paulmmcooper.bsky.social, whose magisterial FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS is out in paperback today. Don't just take my word for it: ‘Cooper is a phenomenon’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times 120
Reposted by Clare BullockJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 29/03/2025“When all the books are gone, there will be nothing to remember but a single porch light at the far end of the road…” ‘As If From The End Times’ by John Burnside (from his forthcoming final book of poetry, The Empire of Forgetting) 49925
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 13/03/2025'I don’t really run in spiritual circles... Broaching this subject at all had the whiff of something faintly embarrassing, a bit like publishing a sex manual while hanging out exclusively with prudes' Really enjoyed Abi Millar's latest substack. abimillar.substack.com/p/an-updateabimillar.substack.comAn updateBecause it's been a while! 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 07/03/2025“This is the first abortion centre in democratic Poland.” It's been one of the strangenesses of my life to know that I've always had rights that my Polish cousins, whom I share so much with, haven't. Time for change... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...theguardian.com‘There’s no other solution’: Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict lawsFrustrated by government’s failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone’s throw from parliament in Warsaw 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A brilliant piece by Terri Apter about how 1 in 3 women (me included), have only been able to return to work after parental leave because of the childcare provided by grandparents. community.thefemalelead.com/p/grandparen...community.thefemalelead.comGrandparents are secretly fuelling women’s careersA staggering one third of working mothers in the UK rely on grandparents for childcare. 021
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 03/03/2025En route to Manchester and, predictably, the sky is a pearly grey. Ah, the north, how I've missed you. 000
Reposted by Clare BullockOliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Back in Kyiv after three years, and sending a reminder of the reality: Maidan, earlier today. 183
Reposted by Clare BullockMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age. 229251446115
Reposted by Clare BullockLyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If you're in the UK you'd like a pause from banging your head on the table in agonised despair & belief, there's this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Grant automatic visa extension and ILR for Ukrainians after 5 yearsSince Feb 2025, Ukrainians and their eligible family members in the UK have been able to apply for further permission to remain for up to 18 months. We would like the extensions to be automatic and fo... 26136
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Watched the full Zelensky/Trump exchange and I feel physically sick about what this means for Ukraine's safety and the future of Eastern Europe 020
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Bookish hive mind: suggestions of books for my friend's clever, sensitive 9 yr old who has a reading age of 16? I was on a winning streak last year with Anne of Green Gables and sequels, but I tried a Katherine Rundell at the weekend but she's already read them all 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Fantastic interview in @thetimes.com with Terri Apter today, on how not to fall out with your parents when you become a parent yourself www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...thetimes.comHow to be a good grandparent without falling out with your childrenPsychologist and writer Dr Terri Apter shares her expert guide to being a modern grandparent 010
Reposted by Clare BullockAnna Pallai @annapallai.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Lovely piece by Abi Millar in this month's @womanandhome.bsky.social - tied in to publication of *The Spirituality Gap* @clarerbullock.bsky.social @mattcasbourne.bsky.social @angelampr.bsky.social 032
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025In 2026 I'm finally publishing the extraordinary CONVERSATIONS WITH AN EXECUTIONER by Kazimierz Moczarski, tr. the brilliant Sean Gasper Bye. Immensely grateful to @englishpen.bsky.social for supporting our translation. www.thebookseller.com/news/pen-tra...thebookseller.comEnglish PEN announces PEN Translates winners 2025English PEN has announced the PEN Translates awards winners for 2025, including the first-ever PEN Translates award for a title from Somaliland. 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 15/01/2025There's some amazing writing about parenthood out there at the moment, but Rhiannon's witty, insightful column, The Republic of Parenthood, is something I've returned to time and again over the past few years. Absolutely thrilled to be publishing this in Aug. www.thebookseller.com/rights/septe...thebookseller.comSeptember scoops 'agenda-setting' reflections on parenthood by Rhiannon Lucy CosslettSeptember Publishing, an imprint of Duckworth Books, has acquired rights for The Republic of Parenthood by Guardian columnist and author Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett. 000
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Reflecting on the ludicrous ego trip that is editing: taking the ideas of someone who knows more about their subject and wields their words more skilfully than I ever could, and telling them how to make it better. Who the hell do I think I am?? 010
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Wasn't expecting first week back at work after the break to be so full of good things: the wonderful @villagebooks.bsky.social hosting an event for GRANDPARENTING with our amazing author Terri Apter in conversation with Julia Samuel. Cannot wait for this... www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la... 021
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Well, this is a nice way to start the year, with a shout-out to Andrew Ridker's brilliant HOPE in the Observer: 'Tragicomic, piercingly satirical and perceptive about the American dream' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...theguardian.comIn brief: Hope; Wild Chocolate; Night Watch – reviewThe tragicomic collapse of a wealthy family; a genre-busting exploration of the cacao trade; and a tough Pulitzer-winning tale of the US civil war 010
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 06/01/2025So incredibly proud to be publishing this wonderful book by the amazing Terri Apter in a few weeks. Julia Samuel called it 'Brilliant, warm, human and wise', which says it all, I think. Out on 13 Feb from September Publishing 121
Reposted by Clare BullockRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 11/12/2024It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth. 501120248
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Pinching myself that I get to publish the brilliant Dur e Aziz Amna next autumn. This book! www.thebookseller.com/rights/duckw...thebookseller.comDuckworth secures rights to A Splintering by Dur e Aziz AmnaDuckworth has secured rights to A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna, the author of American Fever (Sceptre). 020