Deirdre Shanahan
@deirdre2.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Lots in between.
deirdreshanahan.com
'Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind' @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
'Carrying Fire and Water' Splice Books
awards -@societyofauthors.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social
deirdreshanahan.com
'Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind' @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
'Carrying Fire and Water' Splice Books
awards -@societyofauthors.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social
‘Her amazing smile was undimmed, and I would try anything to summon it’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
completely agree
And never understood
why it's sung in England??
And never understood
why it's sung in England??
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
completely agree
And never understood
why it's sung in England??
And never understood
why it's sung in England??
So glad @irishbookawards.bsky.social agree with me
'The Benefactors' @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
is colourful, rollicking journey- such memorable characters
Congratulations Wendy - what a ride- really enjoyed it
'The Benefactors' @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
is colourful, rollicking journey- such memorable characters
Congratulations Wendy - what a ride- really enjoyed it
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
So glad @irishbookawards.bsky.social agree with me
'The Benefactors' @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
is colourful, rollicking journey- such memorable characters
Congratulations Wendy - what a ride- really enjoyed it
'The Benefactors' @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
is colourful, rollicking journey- such memorable characters
Congratulations Wendy - what a ride- really enjoyed it
I learnt a lot about this ever expanding area
from participating in a focus group
from participating in a focus group
My report on the impact of GenAI on the novel is released 20th Nov. It includes some powerful findings from my BRAID UK fellowship research with almost 400 literary creatives across the UK. Honoured to be joined by Gina Neff, Kate Mosse & Richard Combes to launch this report.
Book your place below!
Book your place below!
UPCOMING 📚 The Impact of GenAI on the Novel
Join us for the (online) launch of a new report from Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social (in assoc with @ifow.org) on how generative AI is impacting novelists and the publishing industry.
Book your spot ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
Join us for the (online) launch of a new report from Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social (in assoc with @ifow.org) on how generative AI is impacting novelists and the publishing industry.
Book your spot ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I learnt a lot about this ever expanding area
from participating in a focus group
from participating in a focus group
delighted to hear about the fruits of your research
My report on the impact of GenAI on the novel is released 20th Nov. It includes some powerful findings from my BRAID UK fellowship research with almost 400 literary creatives across the UK. Honoured to be joined by Gina Neff, Kate Mosse & Richard Combes to launch this report.
Book your place below!
Book your place below!
UPCOMING 📚 The Impact of GenAI on the Novel
Join us for the (online) launch of a new report from Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social (in assoc with @ifow.org) on how generative AI is impacting novelists and the publishing industry.
Book your spot ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
Join us for the (online) launch of a new report from Dr @clemicollett.bsky.social @braiduk.bsky.social (in assoc with @ifow.org) on how generative AI is impacting novelists and the publishing industry.
Book your spot ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/gener...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
delighted to hear about the fruits of your research
yes - it is odd at lack of media interest
i keep getting updates from the library and they don't seem to have fully recovered from cyber attack
i keep getting updates from the library and they don't seem to have fully recovered from cyber attack
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
yes - it is odd at lack of media interest
i keep getting updates from the library and they don't seem to have fully recovered from cyber attack
i keep getting updates from the library and they don't seem to have fully recovered from cyber attack
Reposted by Deirdre Shanahan
Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems
Daunt Books has acquired 13 books by five-time Booker-shortlistee Beryl Bainbridge 👇 #BookSky
Daunt Books acquires 13 books by Beryl Bainbridge
ebx.sh
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Enormously proud to be the new UK home of Beryl Bainbridge. In March 2026, we kick things off in earnest by publishing AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE, with an intro by Yiyun Li, and THE BOTTLE FACTORY OUTING, with an intro by A. K. Blakemore. Ruthlessly smart, darkly comic, her novels are sharp-edged gems
Reposted by Deirdre Shanahan
In case you missed it, French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Frienship by Michèle Roberts will be out next month! For charming, witty anecdotes and recipes to share with a loved one along the year, you can preorder here www.lesfugitives.com/cookbooks/fr...
French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Friendship — Les Fugitives
cookery french cookbook michele roberts les fugitives cooking for one cooking for two
www.lesfugitives.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
In case you missed it, French Cooking for Two: Seasons of Frienship by Michèle Roberts will be out next month! For charming, witty anecdotes and recipes to share with a loved one along the year, you can preorder here www.lesfugitives.com/cookbooks/fr...
2 lovely people here
A great first day at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair today! Michèle Roberts came by to sign early copies of French Cooking for Two (here pictured with our SPF neighbour Nick Royles of Nightjar Press)
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
2 lovely people here
terrific that Michele Roberts
is back with this gorgeous array of recipes
from enterprising @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
is back with this gorgeous array of recipes
from enterprising @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO: Seasons of Friendship is out now!
We're feeling well-fed and satisfied here! Michèle's simple yet delicious recipes focus on seasonal ingredients, are full of her distinctive wit and charm and honour the joy of connection over food 🍽️
Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fren...
Out now from @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/fren...
November 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
terrific that Michele Roberts
is back with this gorgeous array of recipes
from enterprising @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
is back with this gorgeous array of recipes
from enterprising @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
Reposted by Deirdre Shanahan
If you missed the limited print edition of The Minute Review's special issue on the Small Publishers Fair, here's a free download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7...
Previous issues are also available here:
derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/
Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7...
Previous issues are also available here:
derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/
Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you missed the limited print edition of The Minute Review's special issue on the Small Publishers Fair, here's a free download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7...
Previous issues are also available here:
derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/
Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7...
Previous issues are also available here:
derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/
Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.
Reposted by Deirdre Shanahan
Book mail! Very grateful to my lovely editor at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for this, it's quoted extensively in Laure Murat's Proust: A Family Affair, which I recently finished translating.
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Book mail! Very grateful to my lovely editor at @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social for this, it's quoted extensively in Laure Murat's Proust: A Family Affair, which I recently finished translating.
I can barely believe this
She was a great journalist
Beloved in our house for all her work
Especially latterly,
on food and cooking
Very sad news.
She was a great journalist
Beloved in our house for all her work
Especially latterly,
on food and cooking
Very sad news.
Extremely saddened to learn of the death of Rachel Cooke. She was a brilliant writer & journalist, great fun to be around. I will miss our emails & dms & occasional get togethers. The world is significantly diminished by her passing. Appreciate this from Tim Adams in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I can barely believe this
She was a great journalist
Beloved in our house for all her work
Especially latterly,
on food and cooking
Very sad news.
She was a great journalist
Beloved in our house for all her work
Especially latterly,
on food and cooking
Very sad news.
Just discovered Olan Monk
so glad
so glad
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #MaryAnneHobbs
Moin:
🎵 Guess It's Wrecked (feat. Olan Monk)
#6music #Moin
#newRelease - 🆕 album
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:
Guess It's Wrecked (feat. Olan Monk), by Moin
from the album You Never End
m-o-i-n.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just discovered Olan Monk
so glad
so glad
Agree, Nicholas.
Wonderful novel
with quiet penetrating humour
Wonderful novel
with quiet penetrating humour
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Agree, Nicholas.
Wonderful novel
with quiet penetrating humour
Wonderful novel
with quiet penetrating humour
Reposted by Deirdre Shanahan
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
love this series
a relief to have focus on one book and its origins
poking behind the scenes is great
a relief to have focus on one book and its origins
poking behind the scenes is great
Listen now to my BBC Radio 4 chat with Chris Kraus on her new “true-crime” novel THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER & her 3 influences including Norman Mailer & Phil Neel 📚🎧👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
love this series
a relief to have focus on one book and its origins
poking behind the scenes is great
a relief to have focus on one book and its origins
poking behind the scenes is great
v moving to see the ballet on BBC 4 last night
reminder of what the BBC does so well
rbo.org.uk
observer.co.uk/news/national/article/i-envy-people-who-can-walk-writer-kureishi-mourns-loss-of-movement-through-ballet
#ballet
reminder of what the BBC does so well
rbo.org.uk
observer.co.uk/news/national/article/i-envy-people-who-can-walk-writer-kureishi-mourns-loss-of-movement-through-ballet
#ballet
Writer Hanif Kureishi mourns his loss of mobility by choreographing a ballet | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
v moving to see the ballet on BBC 4 last night
reminder of what the BBC does so well
rbo.org.uk
observer.co.uk/news/national/article/i-envy-people-who-can-walk-writer-kureishi-mourns-loss-of-movement-through-ballet
#ballet
reminder of what the BBC does so well
rbo.org.uk
observer.co.uk/news/national/article/i-envy-people-who-can-walk-writer-kureishi-mourns-loss-of-movement-through-ballet
#ballet
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Good to see you keep
@chalk-magazine.bsky.social
@chalk-magazine.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Good to see you keep
@chalk-magazine.bsky.social
@chalk-magazine.bsky.social
and you keep contemporary journals
The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
and you keep contemporary journals
Reposted by Deirdre Shanahan
Paul Evans, British (1950- ), The Golden Moon, ink and acrylic on canvas, 61 x 57 cm, private collection
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Paul Evans, British (1950- ), The Golden Moon, ink and acrylic on canvas, 61 x 57 cm, private collection
hi there
any Marketing Comms jobs in London?
Not for me - (asking for a friend)
any Marketing Comms jobs in London?
Not for me - (asking for a friend)
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
hi there
any Marketing Comms jobs in London?
Not for me - (asking for a friend)
any Marketing Comms jobs in London?
Not for me - (asking for a friend)