Glen James Brown
@glenjamesbrown.bsky.social
Writer. New novel 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 out now! Also IRONOPOLIS (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize & Portico Prize & Winner Prix Millepages).
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Delighted to be a guest on the brilliant podcast Lost Ladies of Lit! Thanks Amy and Kim for inviting me to talk about #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe and my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN with you! 📚
www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/236-...
www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/236-...
236. Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have been more different. One tra...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Delighted to be a guest on the brilliant podcast Lost Ladies of Lit! Thanks Amy and Kim for inviting me to talk about #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe and my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN with you! 📚
www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/236-...
www.lostladiesoflit.com/podcast/236-...
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It's always 'more people are pretending to have poor mental health'. Never, 'piss poor governments and predatory, unregulated capitalism is making more people ill'
March 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's always 'more people are pretending to have poor mental health'. Never, 'piss poor governments and predatory, unregulated capitalism is making more people ill'
In further fun, Mother Naked also made the shortlist for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize. A shortlist reading is March 13th in London. Links below. And the prize is announced on the 1st April. If you're down there, it'll be nice to see you x
libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794
libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794
February 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In further fun, Mother Naked also made the shortlist for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize. A shortlist reading is March 13th in London. Links below. And the prize is announced on the 1st April. If you're down there, it'll be nice to see you x
libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794
libraries.lewisham.gov.uk/events/199794
MOTHER NAKED is on the longlist for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction!
Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place.
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media
Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place.
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media
February 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
MOTHER NAKED is on the longlist for the 2025 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction!
Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place.
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media
Thank thee to all at Prize for recognising my work, and to Peninsula Press for taking a punt on auld Mother in the first place.
www.walterscottprize.co.uk/news-and-media
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"Old Soul" by Susan Barker. A protagonist to die for?
horror #suprenaturalfiction
endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...
horror #suprenaturalfiction
endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...
Old Soul by Susan Barker
Mainly book reviews, occasional poetry and short fiction, musings about literature and classical music
endsoftheword.blogspot.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"Old Soul" by Susan Barker. A protagonist to die for?
horror #suprenaturalfiction
endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...
horror #suprenaturalfiction
endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/02/old-...
Excellent review of an excellent book
I reviewed Old Soul by Susan Barker for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social and used this as an opportunity to waffle on about my teenage love for Stephen King by way of introduction.
February 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excellent review of an excellent book
Sublime Eternal Love
The last song on David Lynch's last record. A fine way to bow out
youtu.be/i4ECf-sElcY?...
The last song on David Lynch's last record. A fine way to bow out
youtu.be/i4ECf-sElcY?...
Sublime Eternal Love
YouTube video by Chrysta Bell - Topic
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January 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Sublime Eternal Love
The last song on David Lynch's last record. A fine way to bow out
youtu.be/i4ECf-sElcY?...
The last song on David Lynch's last record. A fine way to bow out
youtu.be/i4ECf-sElcY?...
The wonderful @jenbowden12.bsky.social had me on her equally wonderful #NorthernVoices to chat about Mother Naked, but also language, place, and the obstacles we often self-impose when it comes to creative expression.
Even if my voice does your nut, do listen to Jen's other 59 episodes!
Even if my voice does your nut, do listen to Jen's other 59 episodes!
'I'm still trying to figure out why it took me so long to give myself permission to write about the North East.'
Episode 60 of #NorthernVoices features writer @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social on his new novel Mother Naked and Northern myth, legend and language.
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Episode 60 of #NorthernVoices features writer @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social on his new novel Mother Naked and Northern myth, legend and language.
on.soundcloud.com/4s32VpWgaWhV...
January 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The wonderful @jenbowden12.bsky.social had me on her equally wonderful #NorthernVoices to chat about Mother Naked, but also language, place, and the obstacles we often self-impose when it comes to creative expression.
Even if my voice does your nut, do listen to Jen's other 59 episodes!
Even if my voice does your nut, do listen to Jen's other 59 episodes!
This is the most wonderful, considered - and insightful - discussion of my book I've ever read. Thank you @lmcraeandrew.bsky.social
I'm humbled and awed.
I'm humbled and awed.
For the new year, I've started a new blog for writing on recent fiction (and perhaps other things, eventually) - starting with last year's 'Mother Naked' by @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social lauriemcraeandrew.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/m...
Mother Naked by Glen James Brown
Glen James Brown’s second novel takes its cue from a minor fragment of recorded history: an entry in the ledger of the Bursar of Durham Priory that records the lowest-paid entertainer ever employed…
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January 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This is the most wonderful, considered - and insightful - discussion of my book I've ever read. Thank you @lmcraeandrew.bsky.social
I'm humbled and awed.
I'm humbled and awed.
Frozen cobwebs
November 29, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Frozen cobwebs
