🎉 New blog post: @faberbooks.bsky.social editor Alice Swan on #GlasgowBoys @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social 📚

Want to know what it takes to be an award-winning editor? Check out the blog post below 👇

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🎉 Catch the first of two guest posts from Branford Boase award-winning editors, sharing their experience of working on #GlasgowBoys by @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social

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📚 paperboundmag.com/2025/08/22/branford-boase-award-2025-ama-badu-on-editing-award-winning-novel-glasgow-boys/

Margaret McDonald Wins 2025 Branford Boase Award Debut author Margaret McDonald added the Branford Boase to her impressive list of awards at a thoroughly enjoyable ceremony held at the Centre for Literacy for Primary Education earlier this week. …

Margaret McDonald Wins 2025 #BranfordBoaseAward
A joyful celebration earlier this week celebrating the best of new fiction for young people. And another prize for #GlasgowBoys! @faberchildrens.bsky.social
#UKKidLit

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Congratulations to the Branford Boase Award winners of 2025 - an exceptionally well deserved win!

#GlasgowBoys #BranfordBoaseAward

Sunny evening with a great book, watching my boys play cricket from the comfort of my car (well, listening to them play anyway)! #GlasgowBoys @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social

In the garden of @n-t-s.bsky.social Broughton House in Kirkcudbright, home of artist EA Hornel, one of the Glasgow Boys. #GlasgowBoys #OM5 #MicroFourThirds #stunday

Don't miss the #Carnegies2025 Medal for Writing winner @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Front Row this evening, as she talks about her success, and her 'life changing and emotional' debut – #GlasgowBoys 🏅 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

Tune in from 7:15pm 🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

An Egyptian Interior
by
‘Glasgow Boy’
Arthur Melville (1855-1904)

#art
#ArthurMelville
#GlasgowBoys

#CarnegieMedal for #writing: #MargaretMcDonald named youngest ever winner. The 27-year-old’s prizewinning debut, #GlasgowBoys, is a coming-of-age novel about the friendship between two boys who have grown up in the care system www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... 📚

It was such an honour to be a judge for the #Carnegies2025 – huge congratulations to our talented winners Margaret McDonald for #GlasgowBoys, and Olivia Lomenech Gill for #CleverCrow!

Huge congrats to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social 🎉

#GlasgowBoys #Carnegies2025

And last but by no means least, the winner of the #Carnegies2025 Medal for Writing goes to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social for #GlasgowBoys 🏅 @faberchildrens.bsky.social

@carnegie.medals.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social

Noon

by Scottish artist
George Henry (1858-1943)

#art
#glasgowboys
#georgehenry

A Highland Funeral (1881-1882)
by James Guthrie

based on funeral witnessed by the artist aged about 22
of a young boy who drowned

#art
#Scottish
#glasgowboys

Superb! This will stay with me for a long time. I think it is my favourite book of the year so far 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩵😭 #Glasgowboys @FaberBooks #fostercare #mentalhealth @readingrocks.bsky.social @thereaderteacher.bsky.social @openuni-rfp.bsky.social

Just a few highlights from another trip to Kelvingrove Gallery this morning. #scottishart #scotlandlandscape #glasgowboys #art #glasgow

LAST CHANCE TO SEE: Glasgow Boy James Guthrie’s The Stonebreakers of c.1886/1923, sold by Lyon & Turnbull last year, is on loan to Kirkcudbright Galleries before it goes to its new home abroad. Info: bit.ly/41vcd5P #glasgowboys #jamesguthrie #scottishart #scottishpainting

Huge congratulations to @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social and Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick who have both been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing for the brilliant #GlasgowBoys and #SistersOfTheMoon! #Carnegies25 @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

It was my book of 2024 also. An absolute masterclass! I may have purchased a few (a lot!) for Christmas presents 🫣😂 @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social you deserve all the love this book is getting and will get...Even when I'm old old, I'll still remember their hands touching the cupboard 💔❤️ #GlasgowBoys

Thought I might share some copper handmade tiles I created for a project a wee while ago. Created in the style of George Walton for a listed building commission.
#copper #handmade #dunblane #artsandcrafts #scotland #perthshire #artist #glasgowboys #glasgow #glasgowgirls #huntarian