Conduit Books publisher Jude Cook spoke to the BBC's World Service Weekend programme about their launch title MALC'S BOY. He spoke about the crisis in male reading & the need for young male voices of all backgrounds to have their work published. Interview at 38' 12" www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Listen up. I know it's been a while, but A Personal Anthology will anthologise tomorrow, like on a normal Friday. Tomorrow's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is Kimmo Rosenthal.
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Only 5 days to go before the launch of @smwwriting.bsky.social's brilliant debut novel MALC'S BOY! Join us at The Social on Tues 21st April at 7pm for music, readings and an in-conversation between Shaun & Lias Saoudi from Fat White Family. @conduitbooks.bsky.social www.thesocial.com/event/condui...
Ah the straw man of 'the publishing world', a commentary cliché - it's not the institutions that award grants which are to blame, or the choices made by individual writers, or - God forbid - the public, but 'the publishing world'. How comforting.
*UPDATED* BOOK TOUR 📖
@smwwriting.bsky.social is hitting the road for the #MalcsBoy tour this spring. From London launches to conversations in Manchester, it’s a chance to hear about the story behind the book, meet the author, and celebrate the launch!
#London #Newcastle #Manchester #BookEvents
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@smwwriting.bsky.social's Malc’s Boy is a raw, gripping story of a son caught between loyalty and escape. In a town ruled by reputation and violence, Shaun must confront his father’s past, or risk becoming it.
Can he break free before it defines him?
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Don’t miss this Q&A with @smwwriting.bsky.social, #Debut author of Malc's Boy, and The Debut Digest 📖
Shaun discusses his PhD - published author writing journey, the themes of his book and what he's currently working on.
Read the full interview here:
www.thedebutdigest.com/post/q-a-wit...
@smwwriting.bsky.social's debut Malc's Boy is out in 15 days time, have you added it to your pre-order list yet?
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‘The songs can make you feel as if you are standing alone in a cathedral, bathed in sound. Wilson was able to make pop music that was uplifting without ever being sickly. Secular hymns baited with pop hooks; heavy themes made exquisitely light.’
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"If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f**k alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt Cobain The Advocate, 1995
Mood, every single day.
And the podcast episode is out 🎧📖
Tune in to @smwwriting.bsky.social (author of Malc's Boy) in conversation with Ben, host of Beyond the Zero.
Expect a lively chat about Malc's Boy, small-town pub culture, power dynamics, and the books that shaped Shaun’s writing.
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We had a blast last Thursday at Deleted Scenes, celebrating Men in Fiction… or Something with brilliant voices @smwwriting.bsky.social, Josh Silver, Calum O’Keefe and Mohamed Zaki.
Thanks to everyone who came, we can’t wait for the next one! #MalcsBoy is out 23rd April, add it to your #TBR
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‘Even as he deploys African and Afro-Caribbean spiritual motifs, Lam transforms and adapts them. There are drawings that echo the formal language of vèvès, the ritual tracery of Vodou.’
Tony Wood on Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, at MoMA.
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BOOK TOUR ALERT! 📖
@smwwriting.bsky.social is hitting the road for the #MalcsBoy book tour this spring. From London launches to conversations in Manchester, it’s a chance to hear about the story behind the book, meet the author, and celebrate the launch!
#London #Newcastle #Manchester #BookEvents
'An impressive new voice in literature.'
Over the moon with this brilliant review of @smwwriting.bsky.social's Malc’s Boy in The Debut Digest, thank you, Team TDD 🎉
Just 17 days to go, we HIGHLY recommend adding it to your #TBR list!
Pre-order: shorturl.at/qrLyX
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'Malc’s Boy by Shaun Wilson is warts-and-all autobiography and it’s an extraordinary book with a unique and memorable voice.'
A brilliant review of @smwwriting.bsky.social incredible debut, #MalcsBoy from @suekelsoryan.bsky.social at @tripfiction.bsky.social!
Out 23/04, available to pre-order now!
Our best annual sales for five years – up 20% on last year. Fifth consecutive year of growth. Thank you to every reader and bookseller who made it happen. 📖 saltpublishing.com
Get involved! Follow this new Bluesky account for the 2026 Barbellion Prize. @thebarbellionprize.bsky.social
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I love Rennie's story cos i was based at Seacroft Library for 6 years from 2015, it's in the opening pages of Ghost Signs.
Out in paperback on April 2nd! Quote from Cameron Crowe and everything!
My review of Someone Like Me, an excellent collection of essays by autistic writers, in this week's @thetls.bsky.social
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We can officially say that our very first title, @smwwriting.bsky.socials #Debut #MalcsBoy, is out THIS MONTH, and just look at this extraordinary praise from Sputnik Caledonia author Andrew Crumey… need we say more?!
Pre-order NOW: www.conduitbooks.co.uk/books/p/malc...
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Kicking things off with @smwwriting.bsky.social's #MalcsBoy AND trust us the next 3 titles are just as unmissable.
More book announcements coming soon (we’re bursting to share), but for now secure your reads, stack your TBR, and get ready for a very good year of books.
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🚨 1 in 4 boys don’t read at all in a typical week.
A reading crisis we don’t talk about enough: working-class boys are being left behind early, and it shows 📉
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A piece of memoir for my March Substack: read The Happiest Man Alive: My Iranian Uncle for FREE here: 👇https://judecook.substack.com/p/the-happiest-man-alive
I wrote about living in Japan when I was in my early twenties; beginning my debut novel, A Tiny Speck of Black and then Nothing; and the start of my friendship with Emma Claire Sweeney. emilymidorikawa.com/2026/03/26/i...
'Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.' - César A. Cruz
Today, we are sharing another inspiring quote from @smwwriting.bsky.social's must-read Substack post, 'Too Male? On Finally Getting Published'
We highly recommend that you read it: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Just 29 days to go.
Shaun Wilson’s electrifying #Debut #MalcsBoy is almost here and the buzz is impossible to ignore.
We’re absolutely thrilled to share these words from the brilliant Rob Doyle , and honestly, we’re still speechless.
Pre-order now: www.conduitbooks.co.uk/books/p/malc...
DEBUT AUTHOR #BOOK #LAUNCH. NOT TO BE MISSED!
The #Debut author of #MalcsBoy, @smwwriting.bsky.social will be in conversation with the brilliant Tony Walsh on Thursday 21 May.
Tickets are available now: librarylive.co.uk/event/malcs-...
Thank you so much @manclibraries.bsky.social for hosting📖