This time next week i'll be in London for this one, would be great to see loads of you there given that between the train, travelodge and two days off work, it's costing me more than HALF the advance just to come and do it 😳😳😳😳😳😳
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#GetKeshed at York LitFest
04.03.2026 14:36 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations. So well deserved!
04.03.2026 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Keshed reviewed in @irishtimes.com.
‘Heartbreaking yet exhilarating … Hennigan’s unflinching debut channels the entire history of British kitchen-sink realism.’
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Finished this on the way to work. Can we just give all the awards to @stuhennigan.bsky.social now?
03.03.2026 10:10 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
Taken me since nine o'clock to do this fuckin update. Man oh man, when am I EVER going to get back to my manucript?!?! 😩
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@stuhennigan.bsky.social #getkeshed by the sea in Cornwall
28.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
KESHED in Cologne
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Skip this to about 3:20 if you wanna hear the breakfast show book club from yesterday where i talked to Rima about @jamesscudamore.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Naomi Booth, Wuthering Heights, audio books and loads more 🙏📚 #BookSky
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Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social & more ...
out now:
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Great to know Keshed is at EBB!
26.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Get yourselves down East Bristol Books. Doing things right.
Good to have a gander @stuhennigan.bsky.social 'Keshed' while I was there.
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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.
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Radio Leeds Book Club tomorrow morning, live at 9.15ish. Tune in if you wanna hear me talk about books by the dazzling triumverate of Naomi Booth, @jamesscudamore.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, plus whatever else Rima wants to bring up. Not saying which books though 😀
25.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Book display with paperback edition of Keshed by Stu Hennigan
Saw Keshed out in the wild today @stuhennigan.bsky.social! They have it on the back of the front window display case where they keep all their recommended books in Gloucester Road Books in Bristol
20.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Up on the @bookshop.org homepage now.
Keshed is actually featured twice on the homepage at their moment, as The Margate Bookshop have it on their Feb Favourites list!
Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social is the Republic of Consciousness Book of the month for Feb.
Subscribers receive an indie press book in the post every month.
Also, the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize just announced their 2026 longlist. Wonderful books. Take a look!
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A fantastic event in Stockport tonight with @stuhennigan.bsky.social to celebrate the release of his debut novel KESHED. A dark and brutal look at modern masculinity, class and mental health which is also infused with Northern humour and a lot of love. Huge thanks to Jae for hosting!
19.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Bloody hell, @stuhennigan.bsky.social that was an incredible, brutal ride!
Keshed is an awesome novel - can’t recommend highly enough #getkeshed⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Purposely posting this at an hour when there's mostly Americans on my TL - the book's published in the UK but you can get free delivery in the US via Blackwell's. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
20.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Keshed by Stu Hennigan
Spent the week immersed in @stuhennigan.bsky.social's crackling fizzling merry-walloping novel Keshed and holy moses, if you like a book that grabs you by the arm & spins you around & boots you down the stairs & chases you down the street (in a good way!) you really must read this. It's tremendous.
20.02.2026 01:36 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 2Thanks Drew! Glad it arrived safe. It feels good in the hands doesn't it?!
19.02.2026 10:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Copy of Keshed on a chair with an Art Deco cushion.
And #BookPost is Keshed. Congratulations to @stuhennigan.bsky.social on the publication of your first novel and to @ortacpress.bsky.social for putting this out and creating such a beautifully produced (really) book. Wishing you a huge success. And, as always, #GoIndiePublishing
19.02.2026 10:11 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Keshed — @stuhennigan.bsky.social
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#GetKeshed in Australia
18.02.2026 12:12 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Stu looking all windswept
@stuhennigan.bsky.social has a new book out called Keshed, last year he updated his author q&a on the Big Bearded Bookseller blog where he talked about this as a work-in-progress
#AuthorQ&A #AuthorInterview #BookSky 💙📚
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Still tix left for this is anyone wants to come #GetKeshed with me and Terri on Thursday in the intimate surroundings of @serenitybookshop.bsky.social. Gonna be a banger, as it always is when Terri's in the house 💥💪
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Just finished the extraordinary Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social An incredible book. That's a very high bar been set early for my book of the year. Unflinchingly honest, powerful, visceral. It deserves all the plaudits and more. I really can't recommend it enough.
18.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
There’s an extract from Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social in the brilliant @minorliteratures.bsky.social today.
This is the opening section of the novel, as the protagonist Sean regains consciousness.
Stu’s reading this bit at @serenitybookshop.bsky.social in Stockport tomorrow. Grab a ticket!
Keshed by Stu Hennigan (and Stanley)
@stuhennigan.bsky.social looked what arrived today!
#GetKeshed
