My friend is fundraising to get her family - including 7 children under 5 years of age - out of Gaza. They’ve been displaced 3 times since the start of the war + now have a newborn baby, Malek, to care for. Please give and share this post if you can ❤️🇵🇸

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Please watch this. Such senseless sadistic brutality

Happy publication day to Oisín McKenna! His stunning debut novel EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS is out now. 🌞🧡💗

'I couldn't put it down' Shon Faye
'A masterpiece' Owen Jones
'Intoxicating' Irish Times
'Electric and intimate' Guardian
'Astonishing' Russell Tovey

This absolutely beautiful book, Evenings and Weekends, by Oisín McKenna is out today and it’s one of the best I’ve read this year. It’s stunning. Thanks 4th Estate Books for my copy. Don’t miss it.

A stunning review of Oisín McKenna's EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS in the The Guardian. 🌞

'This vivid realist novel adroitly manoeuvres a sprawling interlocking cast around the hipster haunts of north & east London … A tender portrait of contemporary queer London’

theguardian.com/books/article/…

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna review – a love letter to London under pressure theguardian.com/books/article/…

Deadline coming up for a new Rights Executive position at MMA! madeleinemilburn.co.uk/news/jobs/job-… Any guesses where our agents are dining?! ☺️ Madeleine Milburn Agency

Thanks to Una Mullally for this lovely The Irish Times feature on 'Evenings and Weekends'

irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Wrote this for ES Magazine about Ireland, Oscar Wilde, other things 🇮🇪standard.co.uk/culture/a-diff…

Such a thoughtful piece by Katie Rosseinsky on Evenings and Weekends in The Independent today ❤️

independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…

📣Calling unagented writers,
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#BathNovelAward24 (A/YA) is open until 31 May
#BathChildrensNovelAward24 (YA/MG/CB/PB) is open until 30 Nov.

Head to bathnovelaward.co.uk for all the info!

Oisín McKenna's stellar debut novel EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS has been featured in the '10 Books for May' round up in Irish Examiner 🤩

Pre-order your copy now: bit.ly/4bkWLLz

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…

'I was interested in writing something that moved people, that made them laugh, that was propulsive and gossipy and hard to put down and that was serious about giving readers a good time.'

Read Oisín McKenna's interview with Man About Town below🐋
manabouttown.tv/blogs/words-an…

'Never before had I been so aware of the gulf that divides this country. The irony was that I’d never wanted to divide people: precisely the opposite.'

Read Corinne Fowler's article for The Telegraph below:
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/2…

cft.org.uk/events/the-hou…

The love of my life wrote this and it's going to be really really mega so you should all go and see it

Incredibly proud of this incredible man & author - the book is astonishing. Can't wait to see it out in the world where it deserves to be. #TLCTalent

Delighted to have signed Johnny Gaunt, winner of the TLC Pen Prize for his literary horror novel set in South Yorkshire at a time of major societal change incl the miners strikes + rise of the National Front. OFFCUMDEN is Shuggie Bain meets Stephen King and I am so excited!

Flying visit to House of Books and Friends today to meet the lovely booksellers and sign some copies ✨

Congratulations to Soula Emmanuel and her profoundly beautiful debut novel WILD GEESE, shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction 2024 ✨

Currently injured and taking forced time out from my favourite hobby (running) and reflecting a lot on the running world and mindset. If anyone is querying a literary leaning novel with running as a central theme or focus I would love to see it! #mswishlist #mswl