So much loveliness in deadwood.

Without lots of this, no natural forest is complete.
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I am so proud, and feel so lucky, that my novel has been longlisted for the Discoveries Prize. Thank you to the readers and judges, and to Women's Prize, Curtis Brown Books, Curtis Brown Creative and Audible UK 🎧. Such a motivation to keep going!

I’m really emotional at the verdict of unlawful killing in the #StardustInquiry . Justice at last for those families. They never gave up on those they still love with all their hearts. Almost all those who died should be my age now. May they all finally rest in peace. 💚

Thank you for this, Cauvery. May I add that the ‘little people’ who understand how to survive injustice are proving to have the largest, greatest, bravest, most steadfast hearts.
What DIGNITY 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

In a monstrously hypocritical & immoral move, the US Votes to keep the starving and slaughtered Palestinians in a limbo of stateless serfdom

The United States blocked the U.N. Security Council on Thursday from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a…

Celebrating at SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999 HQ today as we send off the first batch of review copies of Judith Heneghan’s fabulous Birdeye 🙌🏻 How gorgeous is that cover!

‘The Conversation’ by ⁦Emily Cooper⁩ & Jo Burns ⁦Doire Press⁩ in the Teacher’s Club this evening.

This is such beautiful, ambitious work✨

Wren
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if you enjoyed my new book please let me know your thoughts, l am trying to get more bookshops to stock it, your views as readers are really important!

A recommended read for the #NorthernSoulRoadshow 2024 writers at Irish Writers Centre online. These compelling essays on working classness led me to invite Prof Maria Fusco to be a special guest on the programme, and we were delighted that she said yes 🙏

Before Dogeen. I had this little dog – PATSY.
Get around it, get through it, get under it - get over it & get on with it was her philosophy - [There's a lesson in there for all of us] One of life's happy creatures.
Patsy was missing one eye and was blind in the other.
Best Dog

As LOTS of you have said this is your favourite play, this is probably worth noting!

'The time has come for Irish voters to take the European elections seriously and pay proper attention to the implications of their choice for the country’s wellbeing, and indeed the entire continent, at this dangerous moment in global history'.

irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

Cúirt: Galway’s week-long celebration of writers. Festival director Manuela Moser introduces this year’s programme. ⁦Cúirt Festival⁩

irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

A bit of fiction fatigue after lots of judging reading, so cleansing my palette with the poems of Thomas Kinsella, a writer I admire so very much.

Come on now, who let this complete nutcase out?? Kemi Badenoch: “… if developing nations do not understand how the west became rich, they cannot follow in its footsteps.” theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Cauvery Madhavan Absolutely. I have never felt this way, not even with the Ukrainian war. I have both Jewish and Arab friends, we are avoiding any conversation about Gaza. It’s stressful.

Do you get the occasional hunch that something terrible is going to happen?

Like escalation of a war or more people dying in a famine?

The world is at a tipping point, I get the uneasy feeling that the Gaza war is going to have serious global repercussions. Famine in Sudan.

So great to see…