You cannot stop an idea whose time has come.

End apartheid. End this genocide. Free Palestine. Free them all. End white supremacy. End racism everywhere. End settler colonialism. 🍉

Thanks to MG at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh and the lovely crowd (lots of Irish accents) last night. Great to see Ian Rankin and Chitra Ramaswamy. Applied Herculean restraint in Toppings and escaped with just one book, Camilla Grudova’s latest collection of short stories, The Coiled Serpent.

Just finished Sinéad Gleeson’s Hagstone. Themes of isolation, community, being an outside, art and the elemental pull of the sea. Magnificent #BookTwitter #Hagstone ps this is the only hagstone I’ve ever found on the beach where I live 🐚

I forgot to share but I reviewed Sinead Gleeson’s Hagstone for The Irish Times. I think all of you have read it by now, and if not then why not. It’s a beautiful meditation on creativity, art, women’s lives, companionship and solitude. Link is here: irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Re: last RT. I read and loved Graeme Thomson's biography of Kate Bush when it was first published in 2010 (to me, it's the definitive KB book). Honoured to have written the foreword for a new updated reissue of Under the Ivy. Out in July, pre-order here: omnibuspress.com/products/kate-…

It was lovely to finally meet Sinéad Gleeson in person last night at her excellent event Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh. I can't wait to read Hagstone, which has already been widely acclaimed.

So enjoyed this production of Muriel Spark’s Girls of Slender Means. Excellent ensemble cast, imaginative staging and costumes you’d run off with. Really evokes penury and coming-of-age in the the London Blitz. On until May 4th at The Lyceum. lyceum.org.uk/events/the-gir…

Lovely to catch up with Sinéad Gleeson on the Edinburgh stop of her Hagstone tour. See her, read her.

Edinburgh tonight to talk about Hagstone. 7.30pm, Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinbur…

The 6 spellbinding novels that make up the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist capture between their pages the enormous breadth of the human experience.

Congratulations to all the authors!
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What an album. Congrats LANKUM.

Loved talking to Sinéad Gleeson for Open Book - incl. land art, folklore, women choosing art making over intimacy, sound phenomena & more… plus Adam Smyth on the fascinating history of bookmaking, & Kathryn Scanlan on Moyra Davey’s genre-crossing work: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

#YouAreHere is out! A HUGE (caps) thank you to the brilliant Federico AndornINo and all the team at Sceptre Books, to the authors who gave wonderful quotes, the early readers and everyone coming to events. I'm very proud of this one which, I hope, is funny and passionate and optimistic.

Edinburgh: This Wednesday at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh. toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinbur… 4th Estate Books

Holy shit.

'The $75,000 prize accompanying the PEN/Stein award will be donated, this year, to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the direction of the Literary Estate of Jean Stein.'

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Today a mass grave was discovered in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, so far 210 bodies have been recovered. Israel killed them and tried to cover their tracks. This is perhaps the biggest mass grave this century. Israel is a war criminal

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I finished this today & loved it. I loved the idea of a noise that came from the land only certain people could hear, a noise that affected the body. I felt like the island & Rathglas was a real place I wanted to visit. This is a magical book. Thank you Sinéad Gleeson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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And out of darkness comes a ray of light and hope. Meet my new niece Sidra, born 2 days ago in Jabalia North of Gaza