Good to hear @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social playing the sainted Gene Clarke on the radio. Christmas has truly begun.

Gorgeous and mysterious👇🎄

Thank you Claire. So, so brilliant to hear that. I feel really proud of the audiobook.

Cannot wait to hear these stories!!!!

Winterreisen - three new stories about winter journeys, inspired by #Schubert, by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @jolloyds.bsky.social and Mark Haddon. Read by Siân Thomas, Morfydd Clark & Lydia Wilson. Produced by Fay Lomas and me. 21.45 22-24 Dec @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Amazing xxx

These are lovely little books.

This beautiful book has been my companion now for quite a few weeks because these are stories that I want to think about, live with for a little while before moving on to the next. Every one is stunning. Brilliant, brilliant writer.

If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!

A book of the year in the Observer today, the Irish Times yesterday and the Daily Mail last week. Lovely, lovely comments. Thank you @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for everything. Also in the top ten sellers at Waterstones Ballymena, which had pleased me no end. Thank you! Really appreciated.

Love, love, LOVED #TheBenefactors by the wonderful @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Highly recommend you read it 👏📚📚👏 #books #booksky @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

I am delighted to be on the Gordon Burn longlist because number one, I am a Gordon Burn nut, and number two the books I have already read on this list are brilliant. Thank you so much.

Edward Hartwig (1909-2003): Ulica Ztota in Lublin, 1954

Thank you Ian. That’s so lovely to hear. It makes demands on a reader, for sure, and thankfully there seem to be people like you well able for it.

Should add that @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social’s book is in my top 3 this year.

Deirdre! Thank you! Great to hear this.

Yeah for sure @elfodongo.bsky.social is a good pal of mine. But/And his collection Saints is terrific. Check out this @john-self.bsky.social review. @scratchbooks.bsky.social thecritic.co.uk/issues/novem...

Yup it is.

Many congratulations to @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social , whose novel The Benefactors has just been named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. This is an out-take from a series of portraits of writers I'm working on for @literatureireland.bsky.social.

The Benefactors is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. I could not be more pleased.

Issue Seven of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring new writing from Sophie Corser, Wendy Erskine, Rosa Mäkelä, Dara McWade, Laura Morris, Nicole Morris and Odrán Waldron.

In terms of shortlists, I can never look at one without thinking about the other books, equally good, that might have been there. That said, get voting. I’m delighted that The Benefactors is here in such lovely company. www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

I loved this evening. Thank you for having me.

What a magnificent evening’s conversation with the wonderful @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social organised by @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social One of those guests you just feel lucky to have met.

Butter Intervention is great.

Really looking forward to coming to Bridge Books Dromore! I’ve heard so much about this great shop xxx Come along on the Monday!

Here’s Wendy Erskine, Wayne Holloway and Adrian Duncan surrounded by books @noalibisbookstore this evening.

Thank you Jackie. And thank you Write by the Sea!

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…

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 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏