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Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator.

Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

!! Hope you have fun! I enjoyed following your slow Shakespeare Richard II a while back.

Thank you!

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.

Last day to submit!

Judged by Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price, the winning stories will receive cash prizes and publication in The London Magazine.

Submissions close at midnight. More details here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

Signed a few copies of Henry Henry in Heffers and Waterstones Cambridge

Putting HBCUs and Hispanic Serving institutions at the beginning of the list and Asian Americans at the end of it thinking people will just skim and be like ah yes very progressive and miss the 'make x x again' stuff in the middle lol like why even try at this point we all know the score

Also found this beautiful edition of SJ Naudé's Fathers and Fugitives which I read and enjoyed as an ARC last year

Spotted Henry Henry in the front window of my beloved Hodges Figgis

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Would red legs continue to proliferate if importation was limited, or is the population being sustained purely by repeated seasonal imports?

Peak UK moment

I'm always hearing about these

Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts.

The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts
🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j...
/ email info@ncfa.ie link with your local constituency

Finally faced a long-standing fear (watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back past the scene where Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite that scared me so much when I was like six that I had to turn the VHS off)

Yeah reading through the paperback proofs was one of the most miserable things I've ever done

He must have still been smarting after having returned from the war to find his wife had shacked up with a Free France member

'The upcoming general election' was the one in 1945

The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open!

We are delighted to announce that Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize.

Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...

YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author

Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT

Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...

Oh that's lovely my partner was a bookseller at Heffers many years ago. He took me there last summer and showed me his dim basement corner

Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books.

Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books.

Image of Gay’s the Word pop-up bookshop Interior featuring our new layout and lots of books.

Image of spray painted neon pink triangle sign indicating the location of Gay’s the Word pop-up location at 58-60 Marchmont Street

Gay’s the Word pop-up is NOW OPEN and just in time for Pride London. So come pay a visit at our temporary and rather spacious new premises at 58-60 Marchmont Street (10 seconds from our usual location) and say hi. Please note over the Summer of 2025 we will be closed on Mondays! Happy Pride!

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If anyone's in Dublin, I've just signed a few Henry Henry paperbacks at Dubray Grafton St

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

South Carolinians: Henry Henry is July's pick for Itinerant Literate's Get Lit literary salon, where you can enjoy discussion over wine and a three-course meal. Afterwards I'll join via video call to chat & answer questions.

Only a few tickets left: www.eventbrite.com/e/get-lit-a-...

Dulcibella, after the yacht in The Riddle of the Sands

Buy the @unnamedpress.bsky.social paperback of Henry Henry for your cat:

www.unnamedpress.com/all-books/p/...

Seems like it hasn't been picked up by a US publisher yet which is surprising.

Just finished Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst, translated by Sherilyn Hellberg. The perfect summer novel for the kind of person who can't stop wondering whether they'll ever find their own Bloomsbury Group. Beautifully translated prose.

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