I wasn’t a fan of the single poem/ short story prize format - there’s lots of comps for those - but it’s a disgrace that An Post Irish Book Awards have NO categories for short story or poetry collections. Now the single poem/short story prizes are gone, neither genre is represented at all.

Tea, scones, murder - what else do you need?

front cover art by Bob&Roberta Smith Bob & Roberta Smith for the German translation of my novel THE STORY OF JOHN NIGHTLY published by @HeyneHardcore Penguin Books Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 thank you Markus Naegele and John Mitchinson - check Amazon for a rare signed UK #hardback #musicnovel

front cover art by Bob&Roberta Smith Bob & Roberta Smith for the German translation of my novel THE STORY OF JOHN NIGHTLY published by @HeyneHardcore Penguin Books Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 thank you Markus Naegele and John Mitchinson - check Amazon for a rare signed UK #hardback #musicnovel

Wild Folk words lift enter now shapeshift: unbound.com/books/wild-folk

In the last in the current series of John and Otto's Utter Bollocks For the last of the current season, John Mitchinson has a tricky question for Otto English; who is the worst British PM? While Otto has it easier - are ghosts real? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

So many people have come on board to support our book, Wild Folk. Wonderful response to the cover reveal. We had a small celebration with publisher, designer, illustrator, author, at the weekend. Find out more here. jackiemorris.co.uk/wild-folk-word…

Massive congrats to Brighton based Unbound author Paul David Gould for his Polari Prize longlisting!

We love to see it...Unbound is on this fabulous list of international indie publishing houses shaking up the book world in the Los Angeles Weekly Times – with a special mention for Sacha Coward's Queer as Folklore & José Daniel Alvior's Seven Days in Tokyo 🥳 losangelesweeklytimes.com/the-internatio…

There's a beautiful short film trailer for Wild Folk on this posting now. Do go look/listen jackiemorris.co.uk/wild-folk-word… Tamsin Abbott Unbound John Mitchinson 𝕽𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖑

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

This is where I'll be tomorrow. At Foyles Bookshop in CXR with the notable adept John Finnemore puzzling out why we love to peer into the hidden order of things as he launches his near-impossible to solve box of complexity, THE RESEARCHER'S FIRST MURDER... the sequel to #CainsJawbone

If you know Octavia Butler's work, then this is a no-brainer. If you don't (i) you should and (ii) having Salena Godden and Dr Una McCormack reading from and discussing her ground-breaking work is the best possible intro imaginable...

A welcome for new Wild Folk, with beautiful words and images from Tamsin Abbott unbound.com/author-updates… Unbound 𝕽𝖎𝖓𝖆 𝕲𝖎𝖑𝖑 John Mitchinson

And so it begins. 🍂

If you're in Birmingham this weekend, do pop down to the Heath Bookshop – #NorthernBoy is an absolutely glorious debut from Iqbal Hussain. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll laugh some more. It has all the feels and I'm so proud that we've published it Unbound. ❤️

While I beaver away in farmland hedges, my wife turns some of their bounty into beautiful pottery. This shows some of the processes involved in her making a 'bramble' platter. I can't wait to see the end result come out of the kiln.

As the mornings freshen, a classic Backlisted Podcast - Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice, with matchless readings by Samuel West (Samuel West 💙💛) + lit context from Prof Sophie Ratcliffe (Sophie Ratcliffe). And a six year's younger me, Andy Miller and nickybirch. backlisted.fm/episodes/220-a…

THIS book with THIS line-up - COME ON!!!! A classic Backlisted Podcast in the making c/o the amazing Salena Godden and the fabulous Dr Una McCormack