I finally saw The Importance of Being Earnest & saw Stephen Fry (the great human lighthouse) soar. If yer near London catch this show before it’s dreamdust & legend. It’ll play your heart like a flute. Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic 💜💛💚.

Chuffed to see Muckle Flugga as one of the glorious Matt Haig’s Books of the Year. Matt’s a sublime human & his writing gives people courage & hope. He was one of the first to read my novel and has been supremely championing ever since 💚🧡💚🧡. Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

Behold my buttery lovers – the 𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. It arrives in March 2026 but you can preorder it now (as say, a Christmas gift) 💚🧡. & remember, every time you preorder a book a baby lighthouse is born (and my heart does seven somersaults 🥰) 📚 : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

🌊 'Scintillating.' Ocean Vuong 🌊 'Compelling.' Irvine Welsh 🌊 'Phenomenal.' Matt Haig 🌊 'A thrill.' Financial Times Michael Pedersen's acclaimed debut novel Muckle Flugga is out in paperback 26 March 2026. You can pre-order it now 💚 faber.co.uk/product/9780571387755-muckle-flugga/

💛 Glasgow you gallus lovers 💜 The Muckle Flugga paperback launch is on 25/03 with the phenomenal Fern Brady – one of my fav comedians and an extraordinary writer. Come watch us thrum and fizz together 💚💚💚💚. 🎫 : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...

Edinburgh Lovers 💫 I offer thee a one-off spectacular: the launch of the 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝓤𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 of the planetarium on 23/03. I’ll be joined by 2 sublime sound makers that truly make my heart thrum: Rachel Sermanni & Janette Ayachi. Come soar 🎫: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...

Easy on the reins of the heart – it’s National Grief Awareness Week 2025. New grief, old grief, the anticipation of grief, the shouldering or witnessing of grief, grief by proxy, by package, by post. What a thing it is is love, miss, & to mourn. Here’s a new wee piece I’ve been tinkering with 💜💛🖤.

"I would challenge Viggo Mortensen (dressed as Aragorn) to a fight in the hope he’d take pity on me after distributing the beating" Ahead of his annual Christmas show, Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social takes on our Q&A 🎄

Need a bit of joy in your life, writers? Then join us in a backroom of the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social for an absolute delight of a natter with @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and savour the power, beauty and effulgence of those little pieces of story, we call words. Episode out now - bop the bio.

Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welsh’s Novel of 2025 in The Observer. ‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜. 📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga @faberbooks.bsky.social

The fabulous @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Zine, designed by @joshmoirart.bsky.social will be on the website imminently! Our season is over so check out every episode & subscribe for more mischief to come. Sign up for free - join our community for hope & action www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

Lush to be included in The List’s Hot 100. Chuffed to have done a cover feature with them earlier in the year for Muckle Flugga. Scotland is such a cultural powerhouse, for a relatively wee nation we produce some of the best art in the world. I’m forever swooning at the majesty of Scottish art 💜💛💚.

If you were a subscriber, you'd already have the @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Speakeasy Zine! Instead, enjoy this glorious snapshot, designed by @joshmoirart.bsky.social ...but if you subscribe this week, we'll do a special mailout of this gorgeous final zine of the season www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

Tickets for my final event of this here year. Sharing the stage @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social in London with the lovely @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Join us this wknd! www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...

Yes, me & Hollie went to the Christmas market. & yes, I was giddy to see this banner for Muckle Be The Light on 01/01 at Porty Town Hall with: Shirley Manson @garbage.com & @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake + a pop up from @portybooks.bsky.social. Come ✨ 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...

Tickets for my final event of the year. Sharing the stage with the lovely @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...

'People will try to capitalise upon the..things that pull us apart rather than the many..commonhoods that draw us together. So always, always focus on the joy and rally back towards the light' @michaelpedersenoyster ends our first series with hope. Full episode here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

Words of Muckle Flugga lushness from two of the world’s foremost storytellers. I absolutely adore Ocean Vuong and Irvine Welsh’s writing, to have their glistering critiques on my novel makes the heart do-so-do 💚💖💜💛. 📚 : linktr.ee/muckleflugga

Need a mid-week pick-me-up? Warm, witty and wonderful - Michael Pedersen is in the Speakeasy this week. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak... and his beautiful first novel, Muckle Flugga, is available in all good bookshops. www.faber.co.uk/author/micha... #ScottishFiction

"I convinced myself I was studying literature within the realms of law and it was very easy to do so because it is a celebration in almost a flamboyance of language." is there anything that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social can't make beautiful? Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

It’s Robert Louis Stevenson Day (this being his birthday). Here’s a wee snippet of the sublime Jack Lowden voicing the ghost of RLS in my novel Muckle Flugga. RLS serves as a life coach & confidant to the lighthouse keeper’s otherworldly son, Ouse. MF by JL audiobook available everywhere 🎧 📚💛💜

'I was trying to experience this grief as the last reverberation of loving someone' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social explains the process of writing the beautiful book Boy Friends in the wake of his dearest friend, Scott Hutchinson's, passing. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

Cold Turkey’s Honey Roast Hope has less than 20 tickets left as we announce the sensational @mhairiblack.bsky.social as our special guest. She joins me, @holliemcnish.bsky.social, Withered Hand, & Gemma Cairney for the festive fandango 💖💜💛. Edinburgh, 05/12, 🎫 : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...

01/01: Edinburgh! Let’s start the year with splendour. Me & the wonder Shirley Manson @garbage.com are taking over Porty Town Hall for Edinburgh Hogmanay. Our special guests are glorious: @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) 💖 Come be & beam: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...

💜 Lush London Lovers 💜 Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘 🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...

Glasgow you glorious beings. Catch me & Gordon Buchanan (nature’s heartthrob) at Aye Write Festival at The Mitchell Library come 13/11 at 19:45. And we’ll be chatting with the fantabulous @nicolameighan.bsky.social 💛💜🩵. 🎫 : www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/muck...

Wow, @waterstones.bsky.social have put their special edition of Boy Friends into their clearance for £2 ! ! ! It’s the *generally sold out* hardback edition & has exclusive content ft me & Shirley Manson chatting about friendship 💛💚🩵 📚: www.waterstones.com/book/boy-fri...

The more wee Jessie Lee encounters the better – one of life’s true joy merchants. This is my amazing granny. I’ve tried to get her to do a silly book advert for each of my last few tomes and it never goes according to plan – far from it 😹 and aw the more brilliant for it 💓💜 📚 linktr.ee/muckleflugga

The 2025 shortlists for Scotland's Saltires awards have been revealed, and feature a "wealth and depth of talent" 👇 #BookSky

I've been struggling with my concentration recently so took a while to get through this book, but I loved it nevertheless. Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/10ae...

We are so pleased that Michael Pedersen’s Muckle Flugga has been shortlisted for Scotland’s Fiction Book of the Year 🎉 thesaltires.org.uk/

SWOONS GALORE – Muckle Flugga has been shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at the @saltirebookawards 😭. Such splendiferous news plays me like a flute. Here’s me & my granny about to mambo in jubilation. It’s a gorgeous coddle of a shortlist / I adore it & the Saltires 💜💛 @faberbooks.bsky.social

The rest of the show year is looking gorgeous as a gambol of grapefruit. A treble Edinburgh dollop, Glasgow, Oxford, London, Norwich, Birnam & beyond. Heaps with Hollie McNish plus Damian Barr, Gordon Buchanan, & other heartthrobs. 🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

Edinburgh you swank beauties. Here’s two me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social event doublers. One on 23/10 at Porty Town Hall for Hollie’s book launch (we’ll be over 500 strong on the night). The other, lushly intimate, on 08/11 on the stunning Fingal Boat for PTBO. 🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

Aberdeen you beauties – today at 14:30 I’m talking Muckle Flugga at Wayward Festival. I’m alongside Chris McQueer and chaired by the wonder Nicola Sturgeon. Tickets are pay what you can (including free). ‘Mon let’s do the book boogie. 🎟️ : www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/abe...

Just started. Outstanding opening. Irresistible language. Can't wait to see where this one goes.

Braemar Literary Festival – you’re next – Sunday 28th Sept 11:30. That’s me & Peter Mackay & Gemma Cairney. Edinburgh Makar x Scottish Makar x Arts Supremo. 💛💚💖🖤 🎫: www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...

Took Muckle Flugga for some photos too! I did my thumb nails Muckle Flugga inspired tartan 💅🏽 @michaelpedersen.bsky.social

Cold Turkey’s Honey Roast Hope is in the oven. That’s @holliemcnish.bsky.social, Withered Hand, Gemma Cairney, me & a super special guest TBA. 05/12 in Edinburgh. That’s unfiltered soppiness & joy with a dose of aw that glisters. Early Bird Tickets out now. 🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...

@michaelpedersen.bsky.social & Peter Mackay in conversation with Gemma Cairney about their work, their love of language, & the inspiration they draw from Scotland’s landscapes, contemporary culture & ways of living 28 Sept, Braemar. Tickets £10 www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...

Sublime to have Muckle Flugga included in this Shortlist Magazine guide to essential new fiction alongside the likes of Sarah Hall, Ian McEwan, RF Kuang, Annie Ernaux, and dear Damian Barr. 🗞️ : www.shortlist.com/health-and-f... 📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga

Glorious beings of Fife – tomorrow (18/09) I’m in St Andrews for a Muckle Flugga bash. That’s at the lush Topping & Co and chaired by the literary Liger @holliemcnish.bsky.social. Come zest our way 💘💐🍓 🎫: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...

Currently on BBC Sounds, recorded at the Ledbury Poetry Festival: Ian McMillan presents poetry in performance with Jackie Kay, @holliemcnish.bsky.social & @michaelpedersen.bsky.social, sharing poems of friendship, childhood, & of love in its many forms www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Best book I've read so far this year - Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/muckle-flugg...

Tonight on @bbcradio4 Catch me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social & Jackie Kay on The Verb with Ian McMillan – recorded live at @ledburypoetry – live at 9pm & then on @bbcsounds 💚💜💚 📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Swoon to a croon! Muckle Flugga has been longlisted for the Saltire National Book Awards – Best Fiction – alongside some of the best word-jumblers in the book world’s ballpit. Long live love & Scottish literature – you find it in fecund & fabulous form 💛🧡🩵💚🩷 @faberbooks.bsky.social

I got to chair one of my favourite writers last night, Ocean Vuong, and it was glorious. Two images that capture the soppy lustre / soft sapience of the night captured by @shaunmurawski.bsky.social ✨. Gooey thanks to the bookish brilliance of @portybooks.bsky.social for producing this splendour 📚.

Edinburgh, darling, tonight Ocean Vuong is holding a Scottish launch for his extraordinary new novel and I’m in-conversation with him. It’s for Porty Books at Assembly Rooms and there’s a tiny toaty spit of tickets left. Swoon. 🎫: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ocean...

Loved seeing Russell Tovey interviewing the fab Michael Pedersen yesterday at the Book Festival (Plus bonus appearance from Reuben Kaye for extra queer chaos 🤣) Can't recommend Pedersen's writing enough, Boyfriends and Muckle Flugga are both outstanding