So today is D Day for my Memoir - it’s being launched this evening by my fab friend Mark Little in the company of family, friends&all my work friends. Terrifying&exciting in equal measure!
JOHN MCGUIRK: Like many men during the height of #metoo, Olaf Tyraransen was tried and found wanting in the court of public opinion, paying with his career and reputation.
But he has never had the chance to test the allegations against him:
https://t.co/GHglTzqrh7
We’re so pleased that Sea Defences, @hilarytaylor00’s haunting mystery set on the crumbling North Norfolk coast, has been shortlisted for its THIRD prize: the Creative Suffolk Author Award. It’s wonderful to see this gem of a book getting the recognition it deserves
Ocean, the new novel by @MsPollyClark, is out two weeks today. ‘Superb doesn’t begin to describe it,’ says @StrongWordsMag. ‘People are going to be talking of little else.’ Order your signed copy now from https://t.co/Lp0GPWCr7s
Quick deleted scene from my new storytime.
Mostly cut it last minute for pacing reasons, felt a little out of place and random to me.
Either way, huge thanks to Toby Animates for providing lines! 🎤
“Oi”
🏆 The Adversary by Michael Crummey has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award! 🏆
Nominated by Newfoundland & Labrador Public Libraries and published by Knopf Canada, this powerful novel takes the top honour in the award’s 30th year. 🎉
#DublinLitAward#DLA30yrs
George Harrison’s acclaimed debut novel Season – about the slow-burn friendship between two season-ticket holders at a football stadium – is out in paperback in September. And of course still available in hardback or ebook https://t.co/kOYR78FUUq
To protect Irish bookshops from the danger of https://t.co/s67H5OLDX1, @AnPostvox should offer them reduced or free commercial postage rates. https://t.co/LNgtb3F0X4