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@stuhennigan.bsky.social #getkeshed by the sea in Cornwall

KESHED in Cologne

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Rima Ahmed - 26/02/2026 - BBC Sounds Waking you up each weekday morning, it's Rima Ahmed.

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!

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 😀

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

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!

Choose the subscription type that suits you best: — Republic of Consciousness

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!

Bloody hell, @stuhennigan.bsky.social that was an incredible, brutal ride!

Keshed is an awesome novel - can’t recommend highly enough #getkeshed⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Keshed In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain o

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...

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.

Thanks Drew! Glad it arrived safe. It feels good in the hands doesn't it?!

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

Keshed — @stuhennigan.bsky.social

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#GetKeshed in Australia

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.

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

#GetKeshed with Bob and Bob's gorgeous pooch 😀

I think this is 5 x copies in the US now @ortacpress.bsky.social amd 3 x copies in Australia that i know of.....

#KeshedGoesGlobal

Paperback of a book called Keshed by Stu Hennigan.

Fantastic book post - #Keshed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social 💙💙

Loving the Now & Then design - congratulations on producing such a stunning design @ortacpress.bsky.social
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Just arrived KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social from @ortacpress.bsky.social

Alongside my flowering venus flytrap.

Thanks also to everyone for the slew of amazingly generous posts, DMs, WhatsApps, emails etc today and this week, it's properly humbling to have such a dedicated, passionate and supportive bunch of friends and readers in your corner. Appreciate every last one, truly.

Tomorrow: bed, bed, bed.

Keshed by Stu Hennigan.

NOW is the time to get Keshed. Love the design of this book, looks so cool in person.

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I've been #keshed 👀