Michael Pedersen

Glorious to have comedy supremo Ivo Graham recommending Muckle Flugga on Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd’s Weirdos Bookclub podcast. I love this podcast and all these lush humans.

📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga

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Time for our weekly round-up of events with our authors, beginning with Michael Pedersen, who will be at Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate his debut novel, Muckle Flugga, on Saturday 23 August.

edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight

Lighting a firework for this @edbookfest.bsky.social main theatre show with artsy dreamboat Russell Tovey on Saturday 23rd August. Charged By Starlight, we’ll be talking books, arts, love, friendship, & beyond.

Please send lovers, friends & floosies 🎫 : www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Out today, the audiobook of Michael Pedersen’s lyrical debut novel Muckle Flugga is beautifully narrated by Jack Lowden. Here, Jack speaks about the experience of narrating the audiobook.

The Audibook for Muckle Flugga is officially out on all your audiobook spots. Narrated by the wonderful Jack Lowden, who soars on the role. Wee feature in The Scotsman.

Apple Books: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

Audible: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Muckle-Fl...

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This was a competition well worth winning!
Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social was an absolute joy to listen to. My thoughts are on Instagram. Thanks to @faberbooks.bsky.social and @xigxaguk.bsky.social for picking my name out of the hat 😊
#Booksky 💙📚🖋️
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Writing between genres: Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga In this episode of The Writing Life podcast, prize-winning poet and writer Michael Pedersen shares his experience writing between genres.

A @writerscentre.bsky.social podcast: @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks with @hughespeg.bsky.social about fusing genres, placing fantastic elements in real-world settings, & how pushing the boundaries of literary categories can enhance your writing
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That’s Muckle Flugga been cutting loose on bookshelves for 2 months now. Thousands of you gorgeous humans have lassoed it & came to shows. We’re chuffed to bits. Please do keep blasting the beam, it’s appreciated to a soppy acme. Reviews haven’t been shite either 🥰

📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga

Muckle Flugga, the UK’s most northerly lighthouse, was built in 1854–1858 by Thomas Stevenson & his brother David. Robert Louis Stevenson visited it with his father in 1869 – & RLS’s ghost makes a guest appearance in @michaelpedersen.bsky.social’s debut novel
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The audiobook of Muckle Flugga is narrated by the sublime Jack Lowden. It arrives in just over a week’s time and can be preordered now. Me & @faberbooks.bsky.social are chuffed to the cherries with it. An absolute vocal quest awaits 💫 ✨.

📚 📻: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

michael pedersen hollie mcnish meet Super Sheltie - held by hollie - and marghie our librarian

We were delighted to have @michaelpedersen.bsky.social and @holliemcnish.bsky.social pop in to see us! #SuperSheltie is demonstrating with his wee hooves the amount of delight #ThisMuch

Watch online: Michael Pedersen: Charged by Starlight From Sat 23 Aug - Edinburgh’s Makar, Michael Pedersen, is an effervescent poet, poignant memoirist, anarchic event host… and now a debut novelist. He joins Russell Tovey to discuss the offbeat Muckle…

Time for our weekly round-up of events with our authors. Edinburgh’s Makar, Michael Pedersen, joins Russell Tovey on 23 August at Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his offbeat debut novel Muckle Flugga.

edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight

Michael Pedersenin kirja Muckle Flugga pöydällä kukallisen pöytäliinan päällä, Silent Book Clubin kyltti, kahvikupponen ja soittokello vieressään.

Eilen tavattiin Käpylän lippakiskalla sateisissa tunnelmissa, allekirjoittaneen Muckle Flugga veti sivunsa kiharaan ilmankosteudesta! Kiitos lukijoille ja kiskalle, oli kivaa vaikkakin koleaa!

Edinburgh’s Makar, Michael Pedersen, joins Russell Tovey on 23 August at Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his offbeat debut novel Muckle Flugga. Get your tickets now.

edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight

Some lush shows over August & September with tickets still available – Lerwick, Edinburgh, Dunoon, St Andrew’s.

‘Garishly alive’ Guardian 💛
‘Awe-inspiring images’ FT 💙
‘Extraordinary’ Scotsman 💚

🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

LONDON – last call for some tidy Scottish book chat tonight at Waterstones Islington. That’s me with Fern Brady at 18:30 until 19:30. Send yer aunties & yer concubines, we’ll nourish them all with sop.

🎟️: www.waterstones.com/events/muckl...

✨ LONDON ✨ this is on Thursday – it’s only a £5 & that includes a glass of wine … which I think is worth £20 in London these days, so you’re up even before I start banging on about lighthouses & ghosts 😹.

www.waterstones.com/events/muckl...

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Michael Pedersenin Muckle Flugga sinistä taivasta ja pensaita vasten.

Ihmettelin kun Michael Pedersenin Muckle Flugga viipyi postissa niin kauan, ja kun aloin tarkastella asiaa, kävi ilmi että se johtuu siitä etten tullut tilanneeksi sitä. Onneksi Rosebud Sivullisessa oli muutama, ja hain eilen runopiirin jälkeen omani.

✨ A brand-new poem to celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek! We're thrilled to share Lines on Glister & Glow by Michael Pedersen, written exclusively for Independent ... Exclusive new poem by Michael Pedersen for #IndieBookshopWeek 📚💫

It's #IndieBookshopWeek and we're so happy to be celebrating with 2x Forward Poetry Prize Shortlisted Poet Michael Pedersen! This poem is a love letter ❤️ to independent bookshops and the many ways they enrich our communities and lives!
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‘In my role as Edinburgh’s Makar, I’m constantly paying tribute to a whole gallimaufry of lexical butter churners.’

Michael Pedersen shares some of his favourite Scottish authors and writing, including those that inspired Muckle Flugga.

faber.co.uk/journal/in-praise-of-scottish-literature/

Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga: Isolation, Grief & Lighthouses - SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland Michael Pedersen discusses his debut novel Muckle Flugga, a haunting tale of isolation, grief, lighthouses—and avoiding toxic masculinity.

Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga: Isolation, Grief & Lighthouses
Following the release of his debut novel MUCKLE FLUGGA, @michaelpedersen.bsky.social speaks to @snackmag.bsky.social about turning lighthouses into legends, the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson, & more
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July & August’s flume-ride of a show tour looks a lot like this: Lerwick to Lisbon, London to Ledbury, hometown Edinburgh & Glasgow bashes, & bashes beyond. &, yes of course, alongside some of the most sparkling of humans I know.

Come glister: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

🚨 Poet-turned-novelist @michaelpedersen.bsky.social drops by to talk ghost boys, gothic islands, grief & lighthouses 💡
His debut novel Muckle Flugga is weird, wild, & wonderfully Scottish.
🎥 Watch the clip – full interview at SNACK.

#MichaelPedersen #MuckleFlugga #ScottishLit #BookTok #SNACKmag

YouTube video by Books Are My Bag Exclusive new poem by Michael Pedersen for #IndieBookshopWeek 📚💫

We love Michael Pedersen! (Have you read Muckle Flugga yet?) And we love his new poem Lines on Glister & Glow, written exclusively for Independent Bookshop Week (14-21 June).

A love letter to independent bookshops.

#ChooseBookshops ❤️ #IndieBookshopWeek

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With the soppiest of swoon, tickets for me & the marvel Russell Tovey at @edbookfest.bsky.social are now loose, and zooming. Come join the love parade 🧡🩵💜💙💛

🎫: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

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Front Row - Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live - BBC Sounds Mercury Award-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie performs live in the Front Row studio.

A sparkling turn from @michaelpedersen.bsky.social on Front Row, talking about and reading from his novel Muckle Flugga. I had the delight of hearing him read his poetry at King's Place a while ago. Note to Reading Self: book sounds great; it's got a lighthouse!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

✨ A brand-new poem to celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek!

We're thrilled to share Lines on Glister & Glow by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
written exclusively for Independent Bookshop Week

A love letter to independent bookshops

We 🧡 Michael’s poetry! Also check out Muckle Flugga his new novel

I’m on BBC Radio’s Front Row tonight chatting to the conversational dynamo Kirsty Wark about both my novel, Muckle Flugga, & my new poem for Indie Bookshop Week 2025.

On your airwaves at 19:15 and then on catch up: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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