Jonathan de Peyer
@jondepeyer
Editorial Director, Non-fiction @HarperNorthUK 📌 The false azure in the windowpane Not changing the world, one platform at a time. Purely personal, except when it isn’t.
'As Sally Coulthard reminds us in A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects, Britain's coastline has always been more than a place of leisure. It has been a frontier, a trading route, a line of defence, and a meeting point between cultures.' www.history.org.uk/historian/ne...
It's Yorkshire Day tomorrow and HarperNorth are heading to Scarborough next spring to uncover what the iconic Grand Hotel tells us about Britain today, in an insightful tale of class, regional identity, and belonging. By award-winning writer and proud daughter of Yorkshire Bee Rowlatt. Ummissable.
10. FOOTBALL IS A CRITICAL PART OF OUR NATIONAL STORY @nfmofficial.bsky.social, 'The Story of Football in 100 Objects' This glorious journey through football history, told via everything from inflatable unicorns to dog collars, is a reminder that not every book on the desk needs to be a crisis.
9. WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EXISENTIAL THREAT @profbillmcguire.bsky.social, 'The Fate of the World' A useful sense-check for a PM focused on North Sea oil and growth figures. Some of these problems won't wait.
8. HOW WE MAKE OUR LANDSCAPES ABUNDANT AGAIN @sophieyeo.bsky.social, 'Nature's Ghosts' Yeo traces what Britain's countryside used to look like before centuries of enclosure, drainage and monoculture hollowed it out — and what it would take to bring the wildlife and wildness back.
7. WHEN WE COME TOGETHER, SOCIETY BENEFITS @jonyates.bsky.social CBE, 'Fractured' Yates argues powerfully that we must forge a new ‘Common Life’ – a set of shared practises and institutions ― that can strengthen the glue that bonds our societies, in all their diversity.
6. WHY THE SECRET TO SOCIAL COHESION MIGHT LIKE AT THE BOTTOM OF A PINT GLASS @petebrownbeer.bsky.social, 'Clubland' A history of the working men's club — once the beating social heart of towns, and a case study in what happens when communal spaces disappear.
5. HOW CAN WE TACKLE THE FORCES OF DIVISION? @nicklowles.bsky.social, 'How to Defeat the Far Right' Lowles has spent decades tracking the far right's tactics up close, and this is a practical playbook for what actually works in countering extremism and an optimistic case for belonging.
4. WHO GETS TO BE BRITISH? @sundersays.bsky.social, 'How to be a Patriot' Katwala makes the case for a confident, inclusive national story — one where patriotism and pluralism aren't in competition.
3. HOW TO GOVERN FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY @groomb.bsky.social, 'These Isles' A panoramic history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland's tangled relationship — useful ballast for anyone about to discover the need to govern the whole of the United Kingdom
2. WHY DO WE NEED NO. 10 NORTH? @writesbright.bsky.social, 'Fortress London' A sharp diagnosis of how power, money and media have calcified around the capital, and why that must change
1. HOW AND WHY DO WE NEED TO FIX SOCIAL CARE? @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, 'Why I Care' Sir Ed Davey turns his personal experience of life as a carer into a case for reform, and cross-party cooperation.
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Don't want to brag, but I've just published a bestseller in molluscs
A beautiful window for Matt Sewell's A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME in the window of Booka bookshop in Bridgnorth. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...
Do you want to read a writer? Someone who can really write? This guy can write. Buy his book. It’s about birds, but it’s about so much more.
🗳️ Nigel Farage's party is poised to do rather well in tomorrow's local elections. ❌ But how well do you really know this veteran rabble-rouser, gold bullion salesman and part-time MP? 📖 If only there were some sort of 'record' of his innermost 'thoughts'...
We're delighted that the Story of Football in 100 Objects has been shortlisted for the 2026 Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards and nominated for Illustrated Book Of The Year! ⚽ Thank you @sportsbookawards.bsky.social for the nomination! @nfmofficial.bsky.social #CTSBA25 #ReadingForSport
Huge congratulations to James Graham, Jacob Dunne and the entire team behind PUNCH, which was awarded best new play at the Olivier awards last night. PUNCH is based on the astonishing RIGHT FROM WRONG, which we published and which demands to be read.
To Oxford for an event with Ed Davey and Tiggy Walker, both of HarperCollins, discussing why we care and why it matters. Human, passionate, moving.
It’s publication day for WILD PEAKS by @tchesshyre.bsky.social Journey through the Peak District, Britain’s first National Park, on its 75th anniversary with as our correspondent hits the trails on a 360-odd mile ramble to celebrate this symbolic home of hiking.
Whatever you're into, reading lets you Go All In on your passions. Whether it's football, music, baking, family-time, SF, or... anything, if you're into it, read into it! #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearofReading
