I’ve just finished Wounding and yes, agreed, an absolute classic

I’m reading Bear by Marian Engle, the fine reprint on @dauntbookspub.bsky.social which, so far, is wonderful

Yeah, going to treat myself to the Doves. Go for the hat trick. There’s definitely a lot of similarities between Cora and Sean. They both punch you right in the gut, that’s for sure!

Alright @stuhennigan.bsky.social I finished Wounding and yeah, I see the evil literary twin thing 😆
Love Heidi’s stuff. Looking forward to the Library of Lazy Thinking podcast you’re doing on Sound Mirror

Yeah, that was me. Brutal!

I loved the Sound Mirror when I read it, must’ve been back when it came out. And I’m reading Wounding right now. Thought that would be just the ticket after Keshed.

Think I may have to read some Famous 5 or something after, as I’m not sure I can keep up the emotional intensity

A real pummelling. If you’ve not read it, I recommend it. It’s on & Other Stories. Anyway, congrats again. Keshed is superb and I’m afraid I’ll be wanging on about it to anyone who’ll listen for a while yet

It’s so visceral. Keshed reminded me of The Hunger of Women by Marosia Castaldi. Not at all for the subject matter, or the style, but for the effect. That was the last book I read that really gave me a strong physical sensation when I read it. In the chest again. Like a Sunn O))) or a Swans gig

Honestly I loved it. It’s got a lot to say, and I’ll be thinking about it for a while, I reckon. The think that most impressed me though was the way that it created a physical sensation while I read it. Like a hand gripping onto my heart. I felt it in my chest. It’s the impact of the internal voice

Stu Hennigan’s Keshed on an LNER train. The train could never take me to as many places as this book has taken me. The world outside the windows doesn’t even seem as real as the world of the book.

The end of this book made me cry on the train. Don’t #GetKeshed if you want to preserve the tattered veil of your masculinity.

@stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social

Just finished Keshed @stuhennigan.bsky.social
Mate, it’s a fucking triumph. Utterly transportive. Reading it is a physical experience. Just read the last 50 pages on a train. I was in bits. Had to take myself to the bog to get myself together.
Huge congrats. Hope it gets the exposure it deserves

Keshed by Stu Hennigan sat ready and waiting to be read

Guess the postie just answered the question about what I’m going to read next @stuhennigan.bsky.social #GetKeshed

I’m most looking forward to Keshed, I think. But love Polly Barton’s writing too. Tough one!

Great stuff, will look out for that

Library of lazy thinking, maybe? Hope so. Let us know when you can as I love Sound Mirror, be interesting to hear you chat about it

I feel seen

I imagine the sock as a passenger on a rush hour tube. Pressed against your calf. Sighing. Tutting. Jiggling uncomfortably with the motion.

Full Gummerson achieved. Fantastic offer, too good to turn down.

Seven Nights at the Hotel Flamingo tastefully shot on my kitchen table

#Bookpost Looking forward to reading this, finally @drewgum.bsky.social. Hooray for the new print run. With thanks @ronanhession.bsky.social for the recommendation

Loving Cold Light so far. Back to it tonight when the chores are done and the kids in bed. Will definitely check out Notes Made While Falling.
Good luck with Keshed. Can’t wait to read it

Getting into the zone for #Keshed by reading Jenn Ashworth’s Cold Light, which has been on my pile for a bit, and is on @stuhennigan.bsky.social’s list of adjacent tomes

This will forever have a special place in my heart for combining as part of my all-time favourite ‘random play all’ sequence.

It followed Victoria Wood’s The Ballad of Barry and Freda.

Perfect

My dad, a town planner, worked on the 2nd floor of the town hall. Christmas meant the ritual dropping of the tea mugs into the bushes below the old sash window. The winner, the owner of the unbroken mug. I loved that day

I’ve just finished the audio book version of #TitaniumNoir by @nickharkaway.com and I loved it like a hungover Englishman loves a fry up. Satisfying and compelling

Jesus Christ Kinski, by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social and from earlier this year, Base Notes, by @adellestripe.bsky.social are all as brilliant as they are different.

I agree with @stuhennigan.bsky.social on The Benefactors by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, it’s a fantastic book. But the last few months have been great, it’s impossible to choose just one.
Everything Will Swallow You, by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social, TonyInterruptor, by Nicola Barker…

A picture of the moon (presumably super, but I can’t verify that) from the BBC website with a caption concerning bonfire night, super-moons, and (inexplicably) beavers with some metrological predictions thrown in

I had hoped this BBC piece was about the enigmatic and mysterious Beaver Supermoon of 70’s folk-psych band Bonfire Night making an unexpected (but welcome) resurgence in popularity in the latter stages of this year. Sadly it turned out to be an article on the weather

Roscoe has my permission to use it on later editions, should he so choose

1983 was one of the best books I read this year. It’s like stepping through a portal into the recent past and hanging out with some really great people. Some of whom may have shared their mushrooms with you

Roscoe with 1983 and a postcard of her which depicts her looking unusually cheery

The rear cover of 1983

Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum.

It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…