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I chair the acquisitions meeting of Reaktion Books. We're open to unsolicited book proposals and read them all year round: art, music, film, history, food studies, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

which could not be eaten Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, from ‘Petals of Blood’

wild beauty James Schuyler, ‘Closed Gentian Distances’

Last new fiction of the year, my short story ‘The Moon Musician’, online in issue 4 of Neutral Spaces: neutralspaces.co/magazine/four/

A book of short stories variously described as deep, uncanny, witty, troubling, sensuous, perspicacious, subtle, beautiful, unsettling, brilliant, refined and fearless (references available on request). transitbooks.org/books/darker

Spurs of Rudolph Valentino with scales

I wrote about "the rooms of fiction" with cameos from Bachelard, Woolf, Salter, Bonnard, Kafka, Hamsun, Krasznahorkai, Murnane. (link below)

TOMORROW already! Come on down to Merrion Square tomorrow night for International Literature Festival Dublin event for the launch of our summer issue. We are promising you readings and music and sunshine! 8pm - tickets from 5 euro with our share going to support Belong To. ilfdublin.com/whats-on/festi…

The forthcoming Claire-Louise Bennett novel, ‘Big Kiss, Bye Bye’, is utterly engrossing and unsettling. From Fitzcarraldo Editions in October.

Arrived home to my contributor copy of the new The Stinging Fly. An outstanding gathering of writers, superbly edited by Lisa McInerney.

Reading from my story ‘Jenny and the Viking’ last weekend International Literature Festival Dublin for the launch of the summer issue The Stinging Fly. Superb readings from Tara Bergin, Aoife Bhreatnach, James Hudson, Liz Quirke, and Tenaya Steed. Thanks to all involved. Photo by Ger Holland.

Tim MacGabhann’s ‘The Black Pool: A Memoir of Forgetting’ goes into and under the surface of memory in a powerfully charged narrative that’s raw and fine, agonising and funny, sobering and unforgettable. Sceptre Books.

Per l’edizione speciale di SULLO SCAFFALE, «dedicata a racconti di raccolte da qualche tempo sugli scaffali ma ancora molto interessanti», Cattedrale propone 𝑆𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑎 di David Hayden, da 𝑰𝒍 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒐 𝒂 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒊 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒆! 🙏 ​ 👉 ​ 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊: bit.ly/DavidHaydenCat…

NEW on our website | Maija Makela reviews 'Modern Poetry' and 'frank: sonnets' by Dianne Seuss, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions "If autobiographical writing is an attempt to fix a life inside language, frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry are both convincing arguments for the

The TLS Ackerley Prize 2025 shortlist announced. Catherine Coldstream, Cloistered Chatto&Windus Clair Wills, Missing Persons (Allen Lane) Jeff Young, Wild Twin (Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸) Join us Foyles Bookshop on 23 July 2025 at 7.00pm foyles.co.uk/events/tls-ack… Michael Caines Claire Harman

My story 'Marrickville Light' online to read at HEAT journal of which Helen Garner wrote: ‘fabulous story. It gave me such a thrill that I had to read it again right away to try and see how the hell he did it - W O W !’ giramondopublishing.com/heat/archive/h…

dull shabby human mediocrity Graham Greene, from ‘The Ministry of Fear’

life is broken Alice Notley, from I Went Down There, Certain Magical Acts