a powerful, moving tribute to young poet Mohammad Saleh

Facebook memories tell me it’s 10 years to the day that I got the call to tell me Jonathan Cape would be publishing
physical. I took the call in an empty classroom at work & then had a glass of wine in the pub on Manchester Victoria station on my way to do a workshop in Halifax

North Manchester film festival- just down the street from me at The Miners Community Arts & Music Centre - really hoping to get there!

home to this truly brilliant debut collection from Amelia Loulli. Out soon from Jonathan Cape

see you this evening Huddersfield

when I was in Norway I was asked to describe my ideal novel, then was presented with this beguiling and unsettling short novel by Mona Høvring , translated by Kari Dickson and Rachel Rankin. Published by Book*hug Press highly recommend

At least 70 authors have now dropped out of @PENAmerica events in an unprecedented act of solidarity with Palestinian writers.

Today we are announcing an alternative event to mark this collective action, to hear from these authors and from writers from Gaza.

Join us at Judson…

pity in paisley this evening

Enjoy a world of different literature 💭

Poet and novelist Andrew McMillan shares his top picks from our upcoming Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye programme on our Bookshop.org page.

Fill your baskets uk.bookshop.org/lists/andrew-m…

Office book post: new Caleb !

Synd in Sweden -

Thanks to @svenskadagbladet for this review of Eva Åsefeldt’s translation of Pity, out with Norstedts now

“A future classic”
svd.se/a/dwxxOz/recen…

this week there’s

pity in Paisley PaisleyBookFest

paisleybookfest.com/programme/work…

&

Pity at Polari Polari Literary Salon , Hudd Lit Fest

huddlitfest.org.uk/event/polari-2…

See you there 🩷🖤

a wonderful book that I’ve recently been re-reading. Hopefully this August re-issue will bring even more readers to it

Another fascinating debut panel at this year's Cambridge Literary Festival with Alex Clark discussing the work and practice of three brilliant writers: Sinéad Gleeson on HAGSTONE, Andrew McMillan on PITY and Holly Pester on THE LODGERS. Essential reads!!

nice shoutout for PaisleyBookFest in today’s Times. Looking forward to being there next Friday evening

paisleybookfest.com/programme/work…