Glen James Brown

I love this book

Ah, this is really nice Kym. Thank you for reading and I'm so happy you like it!

Great news! Congratulations x

I'm glad you stuck at it Drew. Shit is hard out there x

236. Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have been more different. One tra...

Delighted to be a guest on the brilliant podcast Lost Ladies of Lit! Thanks Amy and Kim for inviting me to talk about #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe and my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN with you! 📚
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It's always 'more people are pretending to have poor mental health'. Never, 'piss poor governments and predatory, unregulated capitalism is making more people ill'

Image of the five shortlisted books and a brief description by judges.

In further fun, Mother Naked also made the shortlist for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize. A shortlist reading is March 13th in London. Links below. And the prize is announced on the 1st April. If you're down there, it'll be nice to see you x

libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794

Thanks Lucie. And congratulations on your latest book announcement- can't wait to read it!

Thank you Louise, it's a nice honour.

Cheers Drew!

Thank you Linda, I hope you're well x

Cheers, Judy!

Thank you for reading, Anne!

MOTHER NAKED is on the longlist for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction! 

Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place.

www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media

Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

Old Soul by Susan Barker Mainly book reviews, occasional poetry and short fiction, musings about literature and classical music

"Old Soul" by Susan Barker. A protagonist to die for?

horror #suprenaturalfiction

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I know them feels. I hope you manage to find that person soon.

I don't know you and this is unsolicited so feel free to ignoret, but a therapist relationship is like any other. Sometimes you don't click. Some are awful. Sometimes they are the right person at the wrong time etc. No shame in ending it for these reasons. Others will be a better fit. Sending love x

Excellent review of an excellent book

YouTube video by Chrysta Bell - Topic Sublime Eternal Love

Sublime Eternal Love

The last song on David Lynch's last record. A fine way to bow out

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Thank you Drew x

The wonderful @jenbowden12.bsky.social had me on her equally wonderful #NorthernVoices to chat about Mother Naked, but also language, place, and the obstacles we often self-impose when it comes to creative expression.

Even if my voice does your nut, do listen to Jen's other 59 episodes!

Happy birthday! Brian is a wonderful book.

This is the most wonderful, considered - and insightful - discussion of my book I've ever read. Thank you @lmcraeandrew.bsky.social

I'm humbled and awed.

One of the greatest covers I've ever seen

I watched this over summer. It's an inredibly sweet film.

Frozen cobwebs