Happy Publication Week to Karen Jennings and the extraordinary, devastating 'Crooked Seeds' 🌱

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family’s troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt 🌿
Lucy Luck

'A man travelling alone in his morbid fifties does not talk to a girl in her teens without family or guardian in sight, especially not in this black romantic mood': a story by Kevin Barry in The New Yorker Monday.

👀 you all have such a treat in store!!!!! Enjoy!!!!

C&W Lucy Luck The New Yorker Naomi Wood We also have a new scholarship! The Breakthrough Scholarship for Short Story Writers with Low Income will award one talented writer of limited financial means a free place on our Writing Short Stories – Advanced course.

Find out more and apply: curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/breakth…

Such a stylish new paperback look for this most beautiful of novels 😍 happy paperback publication day #TheSleepWatcher

I got so excited about yesterday’s cover reveal, I forgot to post this!! Aren’t they stunning in real life?? 📖

Stunning, outside and in.

I have had THE BEST TIME listening to this conversation between ⁦Sheena Patel⁩ and ⁦Nicole Flattery⁩, covering EVERYTHING inc the short story excellence of ⁦Oisín Fagan⁩ and Peep Show. Highly recommend doesn’t cover it, I’m a bit giddy. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Join master storyteller Colin Barrett at Foyles Bookshop for a conversation with Chris Power about Barrett's acclaimed debut novel WILD HOUSES!

🕖Weds 31st Jan, 7pm
📍Foyles Charing Cross Road

Vintage Books Lucy Luck C&W

Just read a proof of Kevin Barry's THE HEART IN WINTER from Canongate out in June.
Holy Damn it's good. Includes (arguably) THE finest American frontier 'shroom scene in the Western Canon.

I promise this is EVERYTHING IT PROMISES TO BE. I cannot wait to share the love in June!!! #TheHeartInWinter #KevinBarry

Tonight at 7pm I'm reading and in conversation at Mrs B's Emporium bookshop in Bath - go on, come along!

mrbsemporium.com/events/2023/12…

👀 #WildHouses and the GOAT 👌❤️

The Times Books Dept drew up a list of our favourite books of 2024 so far. But it’s only late Jan! Which books should we be looking at for the rest of the year?

thetimes.co.uk/article/the-be…

⏰ Set your alarms! The Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize 2024 will open for submissions tomorrow! ✍🏽🔥

🧑🏾‍⚖️ We are thrilled to be joined this year by judges @vanessa_onwuemezi (author, 'Dark Neighbourhood'), Dan Bird (editor Granta Books) and Lucy Luck (agent C&W).

Reviews are pouring in for Colin Barrett's funny and thrilling debut Wild Houses!

A simmering feud between small-time dealer Cillian English and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.

bit.ly/WildHouses

#JustLanded
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett. A #dubrayrecommended read.
Follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
Find this in our shops and online!
Penguin Books Ireland #ColinBarrett
dubraybooks.ie/product/wild-h…

What a reunion gig!

Wild Houses is being launched THIS Thursday at 6pm in Hodges Figgis on Dawson street. The legendary Anne Enright will be introducing. Wine, all welcome x

'In the right hands, fine lines can fill a canvas as effectively as the boldest of brushstrokes': excellent review by Keiran Goddard of Colin Barrett's long-awaited debut novel
theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…