FOUR Fig Tree authors are at Norfolk & Norwich Festival this weekend! Ferdia Lennon and Clare Pollard on Friday: nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/darin… and Michael Donkor and Santanu Bhattacharya 🏳️‍🌈 on Saturday: nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/grow-…

Michael Donkor Dear Michael, I rarely use this disgraced platform but wanted to say your new novel is effing amazing and I savoured every page as it brought so much comfort in a time when I feel totally lost. I raved about it on insta where you’re private so here’s a screenshot

✨The Betty Trask Prize shortlist: Stephen Buoro for The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa Tom Crewe for The New Life Rachel Dawson for Neon Roses Rachel Connolly for Lazy City C.E. McGill for Our Hideous Progeny Nathan Munday for Whaling

A total delight and a complete honour to judge the Betty Trask this year. Such a starburst of extraordinary talent on this shortlist.

La última semana de eventos⭐ Firmas, lecturas y un evento Bloomsday de lujo Hoy con Michael Donkor (Penguin Books UK) #FLMadrid24 #lisahannigan #EimearMcBride #JohnBanville #Bloomsday #BloomsdayMadridDublin2024

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For the FIRST TIME, my brother Paddy and I will be speaking together in public about our novels, at Waterstones Covent Garden on 11 July. Come along to find out what happened in our childhoods to make us this way, and whether we hate each other now eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-w…

Thrilled to have won the Society of Authors Betty Trask Prize, and very grateful to the judges, Michael Donkor, Anjali Joseph and Alex Preston. Grateful also, and always, to everyone who has bought the book and to booksellers for putting it in people’s hands. www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/06/20/spa…

Congratulations to Tom Crewe, WINNER of the Betty Trask Prize for The New Life (Chatto&Windus) ‘A jewel of a novel: exquisitely crafted, multifaceted, luminous.’ (Judge Michael Donkor) #SoAwards

The dog's out the bag! Utterly delighted to be able to announce that I AM REBEL is the Waterstones Kids July Book Of The Month, with a *beautiful* exclusive new cover by Keith Robinson. To say I'm gobsmacked this has happened is an understatement - cannot believe how lucky I am

I drew Dua Lipa being played at by the Ukulele guy at Glastonbury

THRILLED to be leading this writing and movement retreat in my beloved Portugal with the one and only Maria Eilersen (she/they) this September. Four days of creativity, reflection, rest and yoga in the most exquisite setting. Join us! beconsciouspr.com/find-your-flow… 🧘🏿‍♂️✍🏿🌴

Inevitably taken by this review in The i paper but appreciative too of how closely Michael Donkor reads the novel - as a study of the 'impossibility of wholeness' and of the 'jagged and partial' nature of thought. inews.co.uk/culture/i-will…

Thom Gunn, holding immense pain so so lightly

Hey! I'm seeking a literary agent to represent me. I'm the author of Keeping the House, I've now completed my second novel & I'm half way through my 3rd – experimental literary fiction. I'm repped for Film & TV by the fab Chris Ogunbanjo at United Agents ticecin.com

Thrilled to announce our latest free CPD for KS4-5 English teachers! eventbrite.co.uk/e/othello-in-c… Join us on 23 Oct to explore Othello in context with Prof Emma Smith, teacher & author Michael Donkor, and teacher & founder of Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy, Dr Wendy Lennon Dr Wendy Lennon FEA MCCT

Introducing the cover for The Boyhood of Cain, a poignant debut novel about a boy on the precipice of adulthood, struggling to understand how he might give and deserve love. The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst is out in February 2025. Pre-order now: linktr.ee/boyhoodofcain