If you're coming to our literary event tomorrow night (Fri 10 May), make sure to get there early as there'll be very exciting limited-edition merchandise on the stall. It might sell out before the event begins. Doors 7pm, event starts 7.30pm. Tickets here: thi-wurd.com/product/earthl…

Farrukh #WorkWell is just #ToryConTricks 🤡
Farming out NHS work to mates' firms instead of fixing what they broke with #ToryCutCutsCuts . 💷🚫🏥
#GPsKnowBest but the Tories only care about £££. 👨‍⚕️💷🧑‍⚕️
We need #ToriesOut to truly #SaveTheNHS ! 🚫👋🏼🏥

Wonderful to welcome Graham Norton and Jono McLeod to the archive today, thanks for visiting!

#alasdairgray
#thealasdairgrayarchive

That’s my Edinburgh International Book Festival off to a strong start for 2024! Tickets bought for Matt Haig with Chitra Ramaswamy. Looking forward to the full announcement in June.

Loved my first foray into some creative writing of my own last night. Now to get writing ahead of next week’s class.

Looks like oor Taylor turned the weans against Matty Healy 😳

#TaylorSwift #mattyhealy LimmyTwitchClipsPlus twitch.tv/Limmy Taylor Swift #the1975

ICYMI: Book Review – Poor Things by Alasdair Gray is.gd/4O7jBg

Douglas Stuart Graeme Armstrong Claire Keegan The Alasdair Gray Archive Featuring psychological portraits of
#theresonlyonedannygarvey by david f ross
#gingerandme by Elissa Soave
#achristmascarol by #charlesdickens
#papercup by Karen Campbell

With lots more to come!

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Featuring psychological portraits of
#shuggiebain #youngmungo by Douglas Stuart
#mayflies by #andrewohagan
#theyoungteam by Graeme Armstrong
#smallthingslikethese by Claire Keegan
#PoorThings by The Alasdair Gray Archive
#toparadise by #hanyayanagihara
#Case63
#thewhale
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New website thepaperbackpsychologist.com
full of psychological explorations of characters from Douglas Stuart Graeme Armstrong The Alasdair Gray Archive david f ross darren aronofsky Elissa Soave Karen Campbell & more

Picador Books Faber Books Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦 Canongate HQ Stories Bloomsbury Books UK

A disaster that demonises & stigmatises mental health. More barriers & hoops to jump through. Baffled at the rationale behind removing expert medical opinion from healthcare decisions. Showing himself to lack any compassion & be utterly out of touch. #sicknote Rishi Sunak

4 days till our online Spring classes begin thi-wurd.com/writing-fictio…

Thank you - but it is a ship, not a shop. Though maybe a shop slipping into the Clyde would be something to behold!

Our online ‘Writing Fiction’ class begins next Tuesday evening (7pm BST). All writers welcome. Sign up here: thi-wurd.com/product/writin…

It’s a great piece! Thanks SNACK mag and Alistair Braidwood 🤛🙌

Very redemptive experience today…

18 years later, after being expelled for fighting in S3, I’m incredibly grateful to be welcomed back by Mr Anderson HT to deliver anti-violence inputs to Airdrie Academy’s young people.

That’s full circle!

#ViolencePrevention
#StreetBelonging

Just finished O brother by John Niven HQ. Such a beautiful, raw and heartbreaking memoir. Without doubt will be in my top books I’ve read for 2024. Canongate