Still absolutely unreal to see champ, legend, Welsh King and my large adult son Joshua Jones | Local Fires OUT NOW as part of this incredible shortlist. 🤞🔥

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What to expect if you’re expecting The Unreliable Nature Writer…
Or: Only 3 weeks to preorder the deft, delightful and unsettling debut by 🌊🌊!

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A thread…

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London today: Went down the canal, found some poetry, met Jamie Cameron and katie anne tobin and we had a very pleasant conversation in a darkened room about Barry Keoghan (amongst other things).

I love living in this normal country where trains come at normal times and cost a normal amount.

ICYMI... 🇵🇸

While we all struggle to find words, Lunate have some brilliant writing and a chance to help the people of Palestine.

Come on writers, let's rally. lunate.co.uk/shop/p/lunate-… Medical Aid for Palestinians

A far from complete look at what book events I’m working on between now and the beginning of August. Anything taking your fancy…?

Medical Aid for Palestinians That volume features new work by Lara Williams Jenn Ashworth @C_CRLL Hannah Clark Terri White Helen McClory and focuses in very compelling fashion on the experience of being a mother. It's an extraordinary and beautiful collective vision.

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If you can help ... the people at Lunate Lunate are doing a wonderful thing in the face of this pure horror... 👇👇👇

My beloveds at Lunate have been putting together this special edition in support of Medical Aid for Palestinians. We would love your support. 🖤

***THREAD - PLEASE READ AND RT***

You will have seen, as we have, the horrors of the past few days.

Dead babies.

Starving children.

Grieving families.

#Gaza in ruins.

US police, those state-sponsored 'violence workers', brutalising peaceful protesters.

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'I still feel my stories are the best of what I can produce, and offer something to readers that they might not get elsewhere...'

Our latest Shelf Life Q&A features the peerless Helen McClory
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#MetGala

Hard to care about anything else today.

Wild to think that in less than a month I'll be in a very fancy bookshop talking to these powerhouses...