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

Me & Jack Lowden are on the cover of today’s Scotsman Mag talking about the Muckle Flugga audiobook. My Ma & Granny already huv their copies. The audiobook has been out less than a month and already a phenomenal number of you have quested in. Stunners y’all 🙏 🥰 💜. 🎧: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

Me & Brian Cox have formed a poetry boy band and our first single is out now. What I mean to say is, as Edinburgh Makar, I wrote a poem about my love of festivals that we’ve jointly narrated. It's available via the link below in aw its cinematic splendour. www.edfringe.com/about-us/new...

Glasgow you glorious beings. Here’s a FREE EVENT with me and Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch. Not only that, it’s hosted by the ace @nicolameighan.bsky.social at Hillhead Library for Byres Road Book Festival on 25/09 💚🩵 Muckle Empire 💜💛. 🎫 : www.eventbrite.com/e/muckle-emp...

I rarely have photoshoots but I had three in August and this was one of them! I am the excitable face of the BYRES ROAD BOOK FESTIVAL 2025 along with the very cool Muckler @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - Byres Road Book Festival will be 25-28th Sept 2025. Programme incoming! byresroadbookfestival.com

TONIGHT it’s me & Russell Tovey & Reuben Kaye at the glorious @edbookfest.bsky.social. We’re in the main theatre at 20:30. It’s closing weekend you gorgeous beings 🩵💚💜💛. Muckle Flugga lustre loaded @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨✨ 🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Edinburgh – tonight / for one night only – Scotland & New Zealand unfurl this gooey splendour just for you. Bestsellers, ex National Poets, spoken word superstars, comedic gurus, prize winners of every lush ilk. Send lovers, friends & floosies our way. 🎫: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Whizzed by the press area of @edbookfest.bsky.social today and bumped into the lovely Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social who was about to chair a session with @ivograham.bsky.social called The Glory and The Chaos

Edinburgh, for one night only, we are: Charged By Starlight. I’m chatting with (beacon of screen & being) Russell Tovey, with a closing performance by the truly luminous @reubenkaye.bsky.social 📚👩🏼‍🎤 🌠 🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Glorious to have comedy supremo Ivo Graham recommending Muckle Flugga on Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd’s Weirdos Bookclub podcast. I love this podcast and all these lush humans. 📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga @faberbooks.bsky.social

Time for our weekly round-up of events with our authors, beginning with Michael Pedersen, who will be at Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate his debut novel, Muckle Flugga, on Saturday 23 August. edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight

Lighting a firework for this @edbookfest.bsky.social main theatre show with artsy dreamboat Russell Tovey on Saturday 23rd August. Charged By Starlight, we’ll be talking books, arts, love, friendship, & beyond. Please send lovers, friends & floosies 🎫 : www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Out today, the audiobook of Michael Pedersen’s lyrical debut novel Muckle Flugga is beautifully narrated by Jack Lowden. Here, Jack speaks about the experience of narrating the audiobook.

The Audibook for Muckle Flugga is officially out on all your audiobook spots. Narrated by the wonderful Jack Lowden, who soars on the role. Wee feature in The Scotsman. Apple Books: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook... Audible: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Muckle-Fl... 💛🩵💜🖤💚💖✨

This was a competition well worth winning! Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social was an absolute joy to listen to. My thoughts are on Instagram. Thanks to @faberbooks.bsky.social and @xigxaguk.bsky.social for picking my name out of the hat 😊 #Booksky 💙📚🖋️ www.instagram.com/p/DMuq143Iof...

A @writerscentre.bsky.social podcast: @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks with @hughespeg.bsky.social about fusing genres, placing fantastic elements in real-world settings, & how pushing the boundaries of literary categories can enhance your writing 💙📚 nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...

That’s Muckle Flugga been cutting loose on bookshelves for 2 months now. Thousands of you gorgeous humans have lassoed it & came to shows. We’re chuffed to bits. Please do keep blasting the beam, it’s appreciated to a soppy acme. Reviews haven’t been shite either 🥰 📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga

Muckle Flugga, the UK’s most northerly lighthouse, was built in 1854–1858 by Thomas Stevenson & his brother David. Robert Louis Stevenson visited it with his father in 1869 – & RLS’s ghost makes a guest appearance in @michaelpedersen.bsky.social’s debut novel 💙📚 booksfromscotland.com/2025/04/muck...

The audiobook of Muckle Flugga is narrated by the sublime Jack Lowden. It arrives in just over a week’s time and can be preordered now. Me & @faberbooks.bsky.social are chuffed to the cherries with it. An absolute vocal quest awaits 💫 ✨. 📚 📻: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

We were delighted to have @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and @holliemcnish.bsky.social pop in to see us! #SuperSheltie is demonstrating with his wee hooves the amount of delight #ThisMuch

Time for our weekly round-up of events with our authors. Edinburgh’s Makar, Michael Pedersen, joins Russell Tovey on 23 August at Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his offbeat debut novel Muckle Flugga. edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight

Eilen tavattiin Käpylän lippakiskalla sateisissa tunnelmissa, allekirjoittaneen Muckle Flugga veti sivunsa kiharaan ilmankosteudesta! Kiitos lukijoille ja kiskalle, oli kivaa vaikkakin koleaa!

Edinburgh’s Makar, Michael Pedersen, joins Russell Tovey on 23 August at Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his offbeat debut novel Muckle Flugga. Get your tickets now. edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight

Some lush shows over August & September with tickets still available – Lerwick, Edinburgh, Dunoon, St Andrew’s. ‘Garishly alive’ Guardian 💛 ‘Awe-inspiring images’ FT 💙 ‘Extraordinary’ Scotsman 💚 🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events