New post: @jondoyle.bsky.social debut interweaves the true-life event of the 2012 Port Talbot community-based Easter weekend production The Passion helmed by native son Michael Sheen, an imagined steelworkers’ strike, and the conflicted soul of a former seminarian coming home to an uncertain future.

Thrilled to make BBC News! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And @juderogers.bsky.social wrote the most generous piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

Some nice reviews for Communion recently. Barney Norris in @theguardian.com went for the bleakest reading.

I'm absolutely delighted to share Communion has found a home across the Atlantic, doubly so because it's with a house I've long admired in @graywolfpress.bsky.social. Coming May 2027

I was on the @rteone.rte.ie show Arena last night, chatting with Ciara King about Communion. It was my first experience on live radio, but it meant a lot to spread the word across the sea to Ireland.

It's publication day for COMMUNION. There are too many people to thank, but I want to mention Alan Bilton & everyone at @swanseauni.bsky.social for the early support, Literature Wales, Tom Bullough, Kasim Ali, James Roxburgh (& everyone at @atlanticbooks.bsky.social) & the unparalleled Emma Paterson

Communion will be released a week today, & I couldn't have asked for a better first review than this piece by Rowan Williams (yes, *the* Rowan Williams) in the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, which positions my work within a small contemporary uptick in fiction that features clergymen in some way.

There's never been a better time to pre-order Communion, because I'm reliably informed you can get 25% off on the @waterstones.bsky.social online shop this week with the code FEB26. Offer lasts up to 23:59 Friday 20th February and not a minute longer. Grab 'em while they're hot.

nation.cymru/culture/port... I had a chat with Gosia Buzzanca for @nation.cymru about all things Port Talbot and the background of my debut novel, Communion.

observer.co.uk/culture/book... I'm honoured to be included among @theobserveruk.bsky.social's Best Debut Novelists of 2026. Huge thanks to everyone involved.

Love book news on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Editorial assistant @jondoyle.bsky.social’s novel COMMUNION will be published in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.bsky.social 👏 Mark it on your calendar!

Thanks to @thebookseller.com and @bookbrunch.bsky.social for sharing the news.

I'm excited to share my debut novel Communion will be released in April 2026 via @atlanticbooks.bsky.social.

More on this soon (albeit under a different title) bsky.app/profile/jond...

Thrilled and a little stunned to have won the W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize 2023 with my novel-in-progress, TENEBRAE. Feeling very lucky! www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/wa-wo...

Work in progress. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhip...