Deputy Literary Editor and Fiction Editor of the Times and Sunday Times / [email protected]
London, England
Joined November 2012
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Laura Hackett retweeted
A wonderful review of SISTERS IN YELLOW by @HackettLaura has just been published. I’m deeply moved by its thoughtful and attentive reading, and so happy to see Tommy Cat (ニャー兄) mentioned💫🥰
"─This is not the Japan you find in novels about cats, cafés and bookshops. Kawakami draws back this cosy façade to reveal the grimy reality underneath — and she does it with consummate style. With Sisters in Yellow, she proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today."
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Laura Hackett retweeted
‘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
Laura Hackett retweeted
Feel very honoured to be a judge -- and in such classy company
Meet the #BGPrize2025 judges - chaired by @thetimes / ST lit ed @RobbieTimes, they are: @UniofOxford lecturer @pratinavanil; biographer and previous winner of the prize @LucyHH; journalist and broadcaster @InayaFolarin; @TheEconomist's Rachel Lloyd; and author @PParkerWriting: thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk… #nonfiction
Laura Hackett retweeted
Romantasy is hotter than dragon's breath at the moment. . . and here's @HackettLaura's review of Rebecca Yarros' Onyx Storm. Enjoy thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
Laura Hackett retweeted
David Lodge died this week aged 89. But his great novels live on. @john_self has written a terrific tribute and guide to five of his best novels thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
Laura Hackett retweeted
I reviewed Jon Sopel’s dismal new book about “Britishness” for @thetimes thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
Laura Hackett retweeted
Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo is out now! 📚 What did The Times and The Sunday Times' Deputy Literary Editor think? Listen to the full review now on The Story ⬇️
🎙️The Story podcast
🗣️@LukeJones | @HackettLaura open.spotify.com/episode/6Yd…
Laura Hackett retweeted
Intermezzo is finally out and so is The Story @thetimes podcast on why Sally Rooney became the great chronicler of awkward millennials with @HackettLaura and @LukeJones 📚
Ft. heartbreak, the perfect linen dress and Yoda.
🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/26c5e2
Laura Hackett retweeted
I reviewed Sally Rooney's new book Intermezzo. I think she has immense novelistic talents but I found the new book moralising and pretentious in ways that not easy to ignore.
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Laura Hackett retweeted
If ever a book changed someone’s life it was Wild Swans, So fascinating to talk to its rockstar author Jung Chang on everything from battling breast cancer to Xi Jinping — and so exciting to hear she is working on a sequel
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Laura Hackett retweeted
Reading 📰 and listening 🎧 to @JohannaTC and @HackettLaura in @ST_Culture on 50 years of the Bestseller List. I know I've been in this business FOREVER... 🙂 but I'm so proud to have been publicist for these five 'defining' books for @TransworldBooks 🎉❤️📕
Laura Hackett retweeted
50th Anniversary Sunday Times 100 Bestselling Books List. How many of Delia's books do you think are on the list...? "I know my own and my own know me. The people who want to cook know where I am.”
ow.ly/CuFe50T01TJ #SundayTimesBooks #Sundaytimes #indiaknight #Foodies
Laura Hackett retweeted
From the book she can’t finish to the day she realised she was on the Sunday Times bestseller list, @jk_rowling shares the culture that made her ⬇️ thetimes.com/culture/books/a…
Laura Hackett retweeted
🎧 Bestsellers: #1 is a book 'which in all likelihood you have never opened, let alone read'
How many of the top 100 bestseller books of the last 50 years have you finished?
🎙️ The Story podcast
🗣️ @LukeJones | @JohannaTC | @HackettLaura open.spotify.com/episode/3VX…
Laura Hackett retweeted
To celebrate 50 years of the Sunday Times bestseller list, we have calculated the nation’s most popular books over the past five decades — how many have you read? ⬇️
Laura Hackett retweeted
Thank you to @HackettLaura & the @thetimes for this wonderful review of my new book on life, writing, and a life in writing: AND THEN? AND THEN? WHAT ELSE?
"...subtle, ironic and full of dry wit... pulses with that same childlike enthusiasm for books."
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Laura Hackett retweeted
Love books? Newspapers too? Fancy chugging cheap white wine/snaffling canapes at book launches? You're in luck! @TheTimesBooks has a vacancy. It's quite a fun way of earning a living ... newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/…
Laura Hackett retweeted
From lush literary love stories and bone-chilling thrillers to rip-roaring histories and mind-bending science — here are the books to take on holiday
Laura Hackett retweeted
Great review by @HackettLaura of My First Book by Honor Levy
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