Loved this. Few can do it like Sebastian Barry. Coming 2023.

So much respect for DUA LIPA 👑

Outstanding! Watch for this one in 2023. Aleksandar Hemon

On the road again and back to Canada for the final events of my year. 🍁 See you tonight, Ottawa. Ottawa Writers Festival

*Vancouver and then Victoria on Friday. Come say hi, Vancouver Writers Fest Bolen Books

Enormous congratulations to the fantastic Shehan Karunatilaka. Enjoy the ride! The Booker Prizes

Some lovely news! Thank you to the librarians who nominated our Mungo. And hearty congrats to all the writers on the list.

Can't tell you how much I love joesef and his music. It was brilliant to catch up with him for Rolling Stone UK and hear how he'd shagged his way across Glasgow. 😉

'It seemed embarrassing to have dreamed at all.'

Loved this. Adam Dalva

newyorker.com/culture/person… via The New Yorker

A lesson in faith & perseverance. When I studied Royal College of Art in the 90’s. Manuel Torres was already at work, developing fabric ‘in a can’. Us fashion students - drawn to the ephemeral - thought he was a bit mad. 24+ years later. History made. Bravo Dr Torres.

thecut.com/2022/10/how-be…

Passed a road sign for ‘Clinkie Muir’ a few months back and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. No idea what my next novel will be about but you can bet it’ll be called Clinkie Muir.

Happy publication week to ‘il giovane mungo’ 🇮🇹

I love that Mondadori chose to go with Tillmans’s iconic kiss. Feels so right.

And grazie mille to my incredible translator, Carlo Prosperi.

Ottawa – October 19: writersfestival.org/events/fall-20…
Vancouver - 20 & 21: writersfest.bc.ca/archives/festi…
Victoria – October 21: bolen.bc.ca/events/20221021

Toronto – September 25: festivalofauthors.ca/event/young-mu…
Burlington – September 26: attend.bpl.on.ca/event/7153076
Calgary – September 29: wordfest.com/2022/event/an-…

I like to write like nobody’s watching.

Fantastic listening to Douglas Stuart tonight speak in the impressive surroundings of Glasgow Cathedral about Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. Thank-you for a wonderful evening!

Thank you to the incomparable Val McDermid and to everyone who came out to Edinburgh International Book Festival last night. It was so good to be gathered together again and to see you all looking so well. X