It’s the scene with the shoe shine boy and the bananas.

Anybody read Mr Bridge? I want to ask about a particular scene.

So great that The Benefactors is up for the best audiobook at the British Audio Awards. Loads and loads of people involved and thanks to each and every one of them.

Wonderful. Thank you!

Thank you Steve! This is lovely.

Thank you John! Lovely to hear this.

Happy publication day to @davetynan.bsky.social!!!

This is a superb read. Multiple varied and interconnected voices brilliantly grapple with relationships around an awful event. It’s just alive with humanity. The sole upside to being unwell is having time to read…

"Caro was in fact sorry when the phone call was over and she had to make her way back to the house again. She almost thought that the dark could dye her, but still her hands gleamed white when she raised them up to her face." Cell, from Dance Move by Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social

13 January, Wendy Erskine, The Benefactors 10 February, Octavia Butler, Kindred 10 March, Edna O’Brien, Country Girls 14 April, Dorothy L Sayers, Gaudy Night 12 May, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 16 June, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

A consideration of burgundy - burgundy sta press, v necks, loafers and so on - is just the sort of thing I wanna encounter. The 80’s hue phenomenon. Psyched to read George on this!

It’s lovely to be in this anthology of writing about cinema, from #VanguardEditions and edited by @richardnskinner.bsky.social. I write about mothers and sons in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma. I loved doing it. Thanks for asking me.

Thabks to Books of Some Substance for asking me these questions. www.booksofsomesubstance.com/blog/13-ques...

Thank you Teddy.

My company on my commutes into London recently has been “The Benefactors” by Belfast writer @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social It’s been such a great read, compelling and brilliantly written! What a cracking debut!

Was recently in Belfast and a friend recommended The Benefactors by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, anyone who has the chance, pick this up, it’s brilliant:

Linda is a great writer herself. Thus is lovely to read. Thank you.

It’s such a privilege to get good faith reviews of your book. And then there’s this, which is something else again. Emma, I’m so moved.Thank you @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social. You guys are the best, www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/the-...

Have to say, incredibly humbling & validating as a writer when you can quote someone of @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social calibre saying things like this about your work 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

The programme for 2025 Write by the Sea Festival has just been announced and I'm really pleased to be heading back to Kilmore Quay in September! I'll be interviewing the brilliant @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social and Donal Ryan on Sun 28th Sep at 11.30am ✨️ writebythesea.ie

Read my review of 'The Benefactors' by the brilliant Wendy Erskine in the recent #JustJillian Blog @WednesdayErskin @LibrariesNI #NorthernIreland #fiction www.librariesni.org.uk/browse-read/...

Missing ships, missing artworks, missing persons… I loved CD Rose’s new novel We Live Here Now, which has echoes of M John Harrison, JG Ballard, Tom McCarthy and … Martin Amis, but is also thoroughly and delightfully its own thing. Me in today’s Telegraph:

This year's holiday reading was top notch. The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine, The Book Of Strange New Things by Michel Faber and the stunning Hellfire by Nick Tosches.

Thank you for this lovely review, @irishexaminer.bsky.social. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

This thread about my book is nothing short of wonderful.

Just amazing Steve. Thank you. Thank you so much. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Loved The Benefactors by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social - brilliant multi-charactered novel but also a shout out to the brilliant audiobook which has multiple narrators.

BBC’s 10 of the best summer reads. Lovely to see The Benefactors there.

Was absolutely brilliant to talk to Neil. Thanks so much.

On today's new Little Atoms podcast, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social on her incredible debut novel The Benefactors. Out now from @sceptrebooks.bsky.social. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here. shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...

Happy Publication Day to the one and only John Niven and THE FATHERS. It is gonna be great to talk to him and the brilliant @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social in August. @edbookfest.bsky.social www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Gorgeous response from a great writer. Thank you.

This is just great to read. Thank you.

It was a real thrill to be part of The Prompt on RTÉ Radio 1. My prompt was Dark Horse and the responses were brilliant. @zoecomyns.bsky.social www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Well Jackie you heard me yakking on about it long enough so glad you thought it was alright.

Book 56: The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine. Loved this! Despite some tough subject matter, it's a really humane, character driven novel, featuring a polyphonic cast of voices. Love that the audiobook features dozens of the author's friends and family too 🥰

The @financialtimes.com’s fave audio books and one is The Benefactors. Thanks for this lovely description. Yes, I do the narration and a cast of friends, family and readers do the monologues. Very proud of it.

Thank you Glenn. Gut-wrenching and hilarious I will take for sure! Brilliant.

Really looking forward to being in Bantry

Irish Times Summer Reads: what I’ve enjoyed.Not ‘best’: why should personal pref masquerade as fact? @spacedolphin93.bsky.social @mhut25.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social. Also recommend Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza. @irishpages.bsky.social. Thank you to Sarah Gilmartin for including my book x

One of my favourite things I have read on The Benefactors. I know I am very lucky to have people engage with it in this thoughtfully. Thank you Jude.

Thank you Aidan. This is brilliant.

Thank you Wayne. Means such a lot that you think this.

Lovely to read this. So delighted that there are responses like this. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Really looking forward to this. If you’re about, come along! Pay what you can.

Honoured to be shortlisted for this prize. Last week at The Dock, I spoke about how much John McGahern’s work means to me. Am in great company with Ferdia Lennon, Alan Murrin and Anna Anna Fitzgerald. Thanks to the judges and @irishinstitute.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Thank you Memorial Device. Wonderful that you think this. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

Thank you Michael! Brilliant to to read this.

just finished listening to the benefactors by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social who reads her books aloud so perfectly that i only ever want to buy the audio versions. i had to sit and stare at a wall for half an hour after it ended, thinking about everyone