Fuck all hidden about it. apple.news/AbLg4DUzqTK-...

Enjoyed a great evening, in fantastic company, last night at the Bothwell Community Hub, with @gfpaterson.bsky.social and the lovely Elissa Soave. Left feeling suitably enthused to keep on keeping on with this writing lark.😃

Next month, I'll be chatting to the mighty Stuart Neville for #BookWeekNI and @librariesni.bsky.social - beyond excited! Do come along!

Lovely to see Elaine Sinclair from Daydreams Bookshop celebrated as a bookshop hero in @thebookseller.com

This Friday, 7pm, Bothwell Community Hub, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire. Hope to see you there. #Scotlit #Glasgow #Scotland #Booksky

This Friday, 7pm, Bothwell Community Hub, Bothwell, South Lanarkshire. Hope to see you there. #Scotlit #Glasgow #Scotland #Booksky

Today's Pick is a wonderful and very funny dispatch from our roving correspondent, as passed on by Sean McNulty: www.abctales.com/story/sean-m...

Dropped into Calton Books this morning and was surprised and delighted to see a certain book among its titles. Also took the opportunity to splurge on some others myself, including @donnamclean.bsky.social’s memoir, which I’ve been meaning to pick up for long enough. Also Kelman’s most recent.🙌🏻❤️😁

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Dropped into Calton Books this morning and was surprised and delighted to see a certain book among its titles. Also took the opportunity to splurge on some others myself, including @donnamclean.bsky.social’s memoir, which I’ve been meaning to pick up for long enough. Also Kelman’s most recent.🙌🏻❤️😁

Tonight, two weeks hence, I’ll be spraffing about Liberties, the working class condition — and, by extension, my writing —- and other associated verbal ramblings in leafy, autumnal Bothwell . Hopefully see some of you there.

A London detective arrives in England's Peak District, which apparently holds more mysteries than he is expecting. Brilliant start to a new story from Ross_Lowe: www.abctales.com/story/rosslo...

Story: Antilogical Elements www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Goofs, gimmicks, and noxious ideas.

‘Why didn’t Grangemouth and Port Talbot get the same treatment as Scunthorpe? One reason was that the owner of the Port Talbot steelworks, the Indian conglomerate Tata, was more co-operative.’ @ewangibbs.bsky.social on the closure of Grangemouth’s oil refinery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We live in cretinous times, and the cretins would appear to be winning. Join the resistance and read a book.

Just watched 28 Years Later. What the fuck is that all about?🤨😂

My sister is raising money to support STV’s Big Scottish Breakfast appeal, helping children living in poverty across Scotland. Please consider donating if you can. www.justgiving.com/page/elle-be...

Very much looking forward to this event next month, in which I’ll be in conversation with the inimitable @gfpaterson.bsky.social and the equally distinguished, Elissa Soave about all things writing. Hope to see some of you there.

All Scots knew this, now the world knows.

Oh look! A poem for my collection ~ In the Shadow of Gods ~ also available for purchase below 👇

Meanwhile, if you want to help us, do buy a book. It's the only reason we're here. And we need EVERY single sale.

Great publishing house, publishing great work. Get on this and grab yourself a bargain.

My sister is raising money to support STV’s Big Scottish Breakfast appeal, helping children living in poverty across Scotland. Please consider donating if you can. www.justgiving.com/page/elle-be...

Couple of weeks to go until @pbennett.bsky.social Elissa and yours truly hit Bothwell Book City! Get your tickets today.

Aye Write 2025 6–16 November, Glasgow Tickets are now on sale for Aye Write, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year with a packed programme featuring 180 writers from Scotland & around the world 💙📚 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/aye...

The Scottish Novel – book launch & seminar 5 Sept, Edinburgh – free, ticketed This seminar presents papers by contributors to The International Companion to the Scottish Novel (ed. Cairns Craig) with a focus on literature from the 20th & 21st centuries www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scotti...

Great to have been included in this issue of @frazzledlit.bsky.social with my story 'Basslines of War' -- congrats to the winners & everyone who took part in the comp www.frazzledlit.com/p/basslines-... #writingcommunity

‘Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.’ — Lennon

I've just submitted An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class to my publisher, Verso. My book explores how a British working class which was powerfully grounded in politics, the economy and culture has been unmade since the 1960s. An Injury to All is due for publication next year!

Story: Rodeo www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Companionship, Kamikazes, and the Great and Distinguished History of Art Theft in Ireland.

My second collection available for sale here: amzn.eu/d/i5wEL21

One of the best contemporary poets in the land. Agog, am I. . . frequently.

Pick a window, you’re leaving.

When the many become one. A wonder to behold.

Tune: youtu.be/3qVPNONdF58?...

My new book Saltburn now has its own site. With links to buy, reviews, soundtrack and interviews. #BookSky (And I recommend LinkTree to writers as it’s quick to set up and maintain.) linktr.ee/SaltburnBook

Very much looking forward to this event next month, in which I’ll be in conversation with the inimitable @gfpaterson.bsky.social and the equally distinguished, Elissa Soave about all things writing. Hope to see some of you there.

New search engine identified.

The face of an old woman who has her first novel being published in the spring

Rutherglen Library never takes liberties, only its patrons. 😃 My book has been on loan more than on the shelf in this library, more than any other, as far as I can see. This makes this writer happy. Libraries are important. Use them, or lose them.

I’ve signed up. Have you?

Makes you proud to be Scottish *wipes away tear apple.news/AXILtYcE8Siq...