Ian Hagues

Cover showing a face with closed eyes

HEIMAT by David Rose from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

It's PUBLICATION DAY for my debut novel, IN THE DESERT!
I've been writing for decades (many) and this is such a hugely big day for me.
Thank you so much to my publisher @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social for believing in this book and to everyone who has helped along the way!
Links to buy in thread 1/

Congratulations to my pal @barbarabyar.bsky.social I hope In the Desert is a great success and gets the many readers it deserves.

A cardboard box with open lid and inside, copies of The Coast of Everything, the forthcoming novel by Guillermo Stitch.

Such a photograph, I'm led to believe, is de rigeur.

Giant face mask of the poet Carol Ann Duffy

Giant face mask of the philosopher Slavoj Zizek

Giant face mask of the broadcaster Frank Bough

Giant face mask of the former Tory MP Michael Fabricant

The Celebrity Cutouts website offers a colossal range of giant face masks. All but a handful of the names and faces are completely unknown to me (and, I suspect you). There are some surprises all the same. www.ebay.co.uk/str/celebrit...

A lovely stack of new releases at Fox Lane Books, including quite a few #SIGNED copies. And yes, the fresh-book smell situation 👌🏼

If you’ve been meaning to treat yourself to something new, this might be your sign
🦊🧡📚

foxlanebooks.co.uk/new-in

#BookSky💙📚

Kurtág 100 — 2 The second of two reports from Budapest

Second Substack post on the Kurtág 100 festival in Budapest

JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton

Page guide for JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE by May Sarton

2026 Schedule for SundaySarton

Happy March! 🌼 #SundaySarton It’s time to begin May Sarton’s third book of nonfiction, JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE. This is one of my favorites & I’m excited to reread it!

Richard Page - Shows Shows. Richard Page, a jazz artist from Ottawa

New dates posted on my website!

richpagemusic.com/shows

Dream Interpretation, by Kazuya Nagaya 9 track album

kazuyanagaya.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

Reading Independent Publishers Month 2026 This page is to collect together all of the reviews of books published by Independent Publishers during #readindies month 2026! Please do let me know about your posts in the comments below and I wi…

February and Reading Independent Publishers Month #ReadIndies are over, but we should be reading and supporting independent presses all year round. If you want some ideas of what to read next, check out my page with a massive amount of links! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/reading-inde...

New podcast: talking about #Satie #Vexations with Andrew Brixey-Williams. I liked our conversations about performing the piece (around 16'50" and 22'30"): open.spotify.com/episode/6nyK...

'Don't Make Art' made for forthcoming music video project.
More here....http://www.patrickwray.com/p/t-shirts.html

The #resonancefm fundraising auction ends 9PM today Sun 1 March with great stuff to bid for! —including breakfast on me in a top London greasy spoon, with a stroll round Holborn locations and a signed copy of my new novel sent to you on publication 🍳📚📻✊
www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

A tiny woollen flamingo stands on a shelf holding a sign. Positive Flamingo I may be a tiny flamingo, but 1 believe in you! Go do your thing Stand Tall and Be Flamazing

"Drew Gummerson is one of the funniest writers around - the PG Wodehouse of the flophouse. Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel is a riot. A crazy pink tribute - the most under of underdogs." Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul ٨٠٨ "A gut-wrenching masterpiece of booze-sodden tragicomedy and a genuine cult classic. Drew Gummerson is an incredibly skilful and versatile writer, coming across in Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel like the ghost of Charles Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out of his arse pocket." Stu Hennigan, author of Ghost Signs "Probably the most original, exciting and creatively invigorating book I've read this year - like On The Buses meets lain Banks." Jamie Mollart, author of Kings of a Dead World DREW GUMMERSON SEVENNIGHTS# FLAMINGO HOTEL "This is it. You are awake. Hotel Flamingo's resident dishwasher."

If you missed it the first time, the flamingo is back.

Be more flamingo.

Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel

Bookings open:

www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...

Book post👍

We have 4 #SIGNED copies of My Gardening Life 🌿✨

In her heartfelt new book, Mary Berry shares her lifelong love of gardening, from childhood veg patches to a lifetime of growing and learning.

£3 off too… Be quick! 💚

www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

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@kvind.bsky.social Next up👍

Fundraiser 2026 - Resonance Auction See even more items on eBay for Charity.This auction supports the Resonance Fundraiser 2026. Our target is to raise £30k between 14-28 February to sustain independent, experimental ad-free broadcastin...

Loads of great items to bid for in the
#resonancefm fundraising auction - including breakdfast on me in a top London greasy spoon and a wander around Holborn, with a signed and dedicated copy of my new novel sent to you on publication 🍳📚📻✊ www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

The Resonance fundraising auction closes 9pm Sunday 1 March, so hurry! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🏃🏻💨

February – a marvellous month of #ReadIndies! February has been quite a month, and I have so enjoyed hosting Reading Independent Publishers Month. This is the sixth time the event has taken place, and I missed having my lovely co-host Lizzy th…

It's the last day of #ReadIndies month, and I share my February reads here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/f... Don't forget to leave a comment and share your own reads!

YouTube video by ClassicVideos80s Fern Kinney - Together We Are Beautiful (1980)

Morning all👍 youtu.be/pjh-isziS6c?...

Many thanks to Natalie and Ian at

@waterstones.bsky.social Leeds

For the launch of

Blackshroud by JM Campbell.

‘A life affirming book about death.’

@bookcornerhx.bsky.social
@foylesforbooks.bsky.social

A terrific choice of stories, and a generous commentary. A Personal Anthology and a Green by-election victory on the same day - things are looking up!

Greyhound – Joanna Pocock Joanna Pocock’s ‘Greyhound’ is a wonderful work of hybrid literature that artfully combines memoir, travel writing, reportage, and social commentary seen through the prism of her Greyhound bus journey...

My new blog post on Joanna Pocock's GREYHOUND - a wonderful, gripping narrative that is a blend of memoir, travel writing, reportage, and social commentary. I loved it @joannapocock.bsky.social.
readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/g...

Currently reading it. Is excellent 👍

Good luck👍

YouTube video by Translators Aloud Charlotte Mandell reads from Mathias Énard’s THE DESERTERS (Fitzcarraldo/New Directions, 2025)

Here's a clip of me reading from my translation of Mathias Énard's THE DESERTERS, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social and New Directions, recently longlisted for the @thebookerprizes.com , for Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social :

youtu.be/qSxnBV4aMh4?...