Author of The Dice Was Loaded from the Start out now in hardback, and Peterdown out now in paperback, both with @CorsairBooks
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Book number two is out and I am aware that I need to up my ground game, so I'm back on here, cap in hand, begging for attention... Anyway, here it is. It zips along, or so I'm told, and you can buy it in all the usual places.
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Please spread the word as widely as possible. Calling all English teachers but everyone else too! Theme: A Secret. Judge: Philip Pullman
Announcing the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize!
Inspired by the curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills, the prize seeks to give young people a chance to explore new themes in their writing and to get their work published
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Off to Italy tomorrow to do a talk on Architecture and the Novel and play football as part of Writing Solidarity. If you're in Rome come along!
Rome this weekend for this fabulous event... en.writingsolidarity.it
Lots of literary content and, of course, football.
Everyone plays everyone on Saturday - Italy, Sweden, Germany and England.
Sunday
-> 3rd/4th Play Off
-> Final
Catch it all on Sky Italia Channel 4231
It's been a slow burn but this I think is the tipping point. Sleeper hit stardom here we come!
If the following float your boat then this 2022 novel well worth a read: football grounds, local politics, Brutalism, urban planning, northern grit, evils of modern game. Plus @AnnandWriter has it spot on – if @GreggsOfficial it has to be a steak bake. @Groundtastic @WSC_magazine
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'There is, however, one clear-minded actor at work, and that is Lydia Sandgren, who uses Wittgenstein’s 'Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent' as an intriguing central motif, exploring its limitations.' (@AnnandWriter)
the-tls.co.uk/articles/colle…
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NEXT THURSDAY - The Mother-Load! Join @dremmasvanberg & Naomi Annand (@YogaOnTheLane) for an evening of drinks, mindfulness and practical psychology as our experts discuss how to survive and thrive in this mad journey we call motherhood. Tickets link in bio 🎟️
Please share the news of this far and wide.
Announcing the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize for entrants aged 11-14, inspired by the great curiosity and imagination of Martha Mills:
lrb.me/r7u
Founded by @paullaity @meropemills and @LRBbookshop
I went into the loveliest new bookshop on Hackney Road today to sign a couple of books. It's run by illustrator David Ziggy Greene who said told me he decided to stock Peterdown because he loved the cover. So thanks again to the brilliant @nico_taylor!
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Hardback published 2021. Paperback in 2022. Emerges as slow-burn word-of-mouth sleeper hit in 2023. It starts here, people.
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Explore the intersection of architecture and film with Milan-born mastermind, @MatteoPericoli, and wordsmith extraordinaire, @AnnandWriter. Don't miss their discussion on Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect, streaming now on TANKtv.
tankmagazine.com/autumn-2022…
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Get this into your eyeballs, folks. Every second of it.
Awe.
This is in Italy, however
If you’re in the UK - starling numbers fell 87% 1967-2015 … mainly because of farm intensification broke their food webs.
We need to make more space for nature
Bit late to the party with this as one of the kids hid the most recent LRB under the sofa, but this is essential World Cup-reading from @Davidsgoldblatt (who wrote The Game of Our Lives, which is one of the all-time great football books): lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/…
Also at @otsfestival was a privilege to listen in on @johnypitts and @rrobinson72's hilarious and whip-smart conversation about their road trip round coastal Britain for Home is Not a Place:waterstones.com/book/home-is…
Just got back from Sheffield and the brilliant @otsfestival. If you're about on the 22nd be sure to head to Akeem's event @SelmaDabbagh is involved and it's sure to be great.
Words, Vision & Sound: 3 stories projected around audiences, accompanied w/ narrations and sound
Ft. Zaron, Laura Bui, @SelmaDabbagh, James Giddings, Commodo, @_DSLOFFICIAL_, Utah?, Rider Shafique & Georgia Williams
4PM & 6PM Sat 22 Oct Event Central £5
offtheshelf.org.uk/event/wor…
Hurrah for the brilliant people of Sheffield. Only five spots left on my workshop for @otsfestival. Come for chat on High Rises, Howards End and creating your own fictional building: offtheshelf.org.uk/event/arc…
The first Saturday line up for this year's @otsfestival is looking pretty stellar. Do my workshop in the morning, go see @MaddieMortimer in the afternoon, and then @johnypitts in the evening! offtheshelf.org.uk/events/
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Excitement in store today, we've had a visit from a family of authors to sign their books. Thank you Naomi and David Annand!
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@AnnandWriter Really enjoyed Peterdown. Thanks for writing it. I believe I am feeling all the emotions you intended your reader to feel upon finishing it. Boo.