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Keiran Goddard
@keirangoddard.bsky.social
Writer.
August 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Spoke to the Guardian about my picks for the Booker ( Szalay, McBride, @katiekitamura.bsky.social ) - I also gave the staggering insight that such lists are … wait for it … “mysterious”
July 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨 News etc
July 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Reposted by Keiran Goddard
"it is hard to shake the feeling that we are in desperate, desperate need of a new story altogether."

@keirangoddard.bsky.social reviewing much more than Irvine Welsh here - and posing a very big question indeed.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Men in Love by Irvine Welsh review – the Trainspotting boys grow up
Three decades on from the author’s breakthrough debut, why are we still trapped in the Trainspotting moment?
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
In a mix up for the ages, rather than copies of my book in translation, I have received in the post approximately 10,000 earrings.

This is under half of them,

Anyway, I guess I’m in the jewellery business now.

💍💍
June 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🎥 🍿
June 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Reposted by Keiran Goddard
What an incredible piece on a book I've been obsessed with and reccing to everybody for months
Me on Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, love, and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower and West Midlands libraries. Read it now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
lareviewofbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Keiran Goddard
Me on Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, love, and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower and West Midlands libraries. Read it now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
lareviewofbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Me on Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social's "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning" is live now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. There's everything here from antiwork utopianism, love, and Palestine, to Grenfell Tower and West Midlands libraries. Read it now: lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-u...
An Unkillable Streak of the Utopian | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sophie Lewis considers Keiran Goddard’s “I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.”
lareviewofbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Lovely to talk to comedy legend Richard Herring about books ( and some other stuff )
#Podcasts #Books
#RHLSTP with Richard Herring
RHLSTP Book Club 137 - Keiran Goddard
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning - Richard @herring1967.bsky.social talks to the novelist @keirangoddard.bsky.social about his second novel, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning.
shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...
RHLSTP Book Club 137 - Keiran Goddard | RHLSTP with Richard Herring
I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
shows.acast.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Shard End absolutely turning out to support 👁️ 🌊 🌆📉 ⚡️ 🎥

🙏❤️
April 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reposted by Keiran Goddard
We're thrilled to announce that we have acquired BAFTA nominee Clio Barnard's upcoming feature I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING, an adaptation of Keiran Goddard's novel starring Anthony Boyle, Lola Petticrew and Joe Cole.
April 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
👁️ 🌊 🌆📉 ⚡️- May ‘25

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April 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Reposted by Keiran Goddard
Brilliant news, congratulations @keirangoddard.bsky.social! I highly recommend his novel, I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING! 📚🤩
April 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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April 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
April 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Hang on?!

THIS is the lad you’ve all been swooning over for two hundred years?

Perverts.
March 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Despite an extremely strong field, this might be the most depressing headline of the week…
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reviewed FLESH

Which was brilliant.

A sort of brutal, flinty, Forrest Gump.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man
From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM