Had a bit of readers block recently but ‘The Voids’ by @WordsOConnor was a book that will stay with me for a while. One scene in particular inspired me to create this personal piece
📢 There are some new faces arriving in Shieldinch…
Read all about it here ➡️ https://t.co/OwLvUZw7gB
📺 Watch @bbcrivercity when it returns from 23 October on @BBCScotland + @BBCiPlayer
⚽️ Aberdeen’s home tie against Sweden’s BK Hacken in the Europa League qualifier will be aired live on @BBCScotland and on @BBCiPlayer on Thursday 31 August
All the info here - https://t.co/oh54bZgzbo
🎪 There’s still lots to come from the Edinburgh Festival this week on @BBCScotland and @BBCRadioScot – and there are some tickets still available with @bbcshowstours
Take a look at some of the fun we had last week with Breaking the News, The Afternoon Show and For the Record
.@MicWink and @WordsOConnor grew up in worlds - Australia and Scotland - and times where difference, especially of gender, was brutally condemned. “I really don’t like preconceptions. I’m still trying to express myself.” @WordsOConnor #bookfringe
Join THE VOIDS author @WordsOConnor in conversation with @MicWink tomorrow at @Lighthousebks as part of this year’s #BookFringe: ALT Edition.
https://t.co/h0hTbTsuXw
@LisaBurn1964 I pack small amounts of many different things, in order to provide options. TBH, it’s far more like a large snack box than a lunch box. 🧺
Current read. Brutal and beautiful, pure psychogeographic poetry, the anti-hero is a kind of ghostly anarcho-flaneur haunting the high-rise he occupies as though in a Ballardian aftermath. Stunning, unflinchingly prose, it rips into your soul. I'm in absolute awe of this writer.
A friend recommended The Voids by Ryan O’Connor. It’s excellent. I finished reading it a while ago & it’s still haunting me. These quotes ⬇️ describe it well. @WordsOConnor @ScribeUKbooks #TheVoids
First novel of the year finished & it’s an enormous high to be starting with: @WordsOConnor has knocked it out of the park here on debut. Such a strong, emotional novel, and a walk across the Glasgow rooftops you’re not likely to forget in a hurry…
Next up in our #BooksoftheYear2022 is The Voids, the stunning debut novel by @WordsOConnor, published by @ScribeUKbooks.
In a condemned tower block in Glasgow, the final occupant, a young man uplifted by angels and plagued by demons, searches for life in the voids...