allen bratton
banner
allenbratton.bsky.social
allen bratton
@allenbratton.bsky.social
allenbratton.com
Yes!!! Yes!!!
From Dinah Brooke, the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady, a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.
November 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This French website will only let me choose Connacht, Leinster, Munster or Ulster as the region for my shipping address
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Yeah I've really been getting into Richard Nixon. Has anyone heard of him. Crazy guy
We'll finish with book recommendations from our @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club author Allen Bratton- Richard Nixon: A Life, Picture of Nobody and Kitchen Venom.
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Massively enjoyed my evening with the DCU book club -- thanks so much for the warm welcome and the insightful questions. I was very touched that at least one person liked Hal and wanted him to be happy.
Allen Bratton reads from his novel Henry Henry at tonight's @dublincityuni.bsky.social Book Club in DCU Library - a response in fiction to characters in Shakespeare's Henriad
October 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Sick of having to be in someone's vlog every time I go to Trinity
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
Allen Bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social will join us for a Book Club event to discuss his novel 'Henry, Henry' on Thursday, the 16th of October. To register, please go to: launch.dcu.ie/3J0qZLg
October 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator.

Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...
DCU Book Club with Allen Bratton | dcuartsandculture
www.dcu.ie
October 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.
Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Fiction: Henry Henry by Allen Bratton! @allenbratton.bsky.social @unnamedpress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by allen bratton
Last day to submit!

Judged by Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price, the winning stories will receive cash prizes and publication in The London Magazine.

Submissions close at midnight. More details here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 - The London Magazine
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. We are looking for unpublished short fiction, no longer than 4000 words.
thelondonmagazine.org
September 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Signed a few copies of Henry Henry in Heffers and Waterstones Cambridge
August 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Spotted Henry Henry in the front window of my beloved Hodges Figgis
August 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Peak UK moment
August 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I'm always hearing about these
August 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
Minister Patrick O’Donovan has announced a 6-month extension to the Pilot Scheme for Basic Income for the Arts.

The NCFA are raising the profile of the sector call to Retain, Extend and Expand Basic Income for the Arts
🔗 ncfa.ie/2025/06/19/j...
/ email info@ncfa.ie link with your local constituency
August 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Finally faced a long-standing fear (watched Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back past the scene where Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite that scared me so much when I was like six that I had to turn the VHS off)
August 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
August 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
'The upcoming general election' was the one in 1945
July 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
The London Magazine Short Story Prize 2025 is now open!

We are delighted to announce that Gurnaik Johal, Ben Pester and CAA’s Erika Price will be this year’s judges for the prize.

Enter here: thelondonmagazine.org/short-story-...
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hello, my virtual Q&A with Itinerant Literate's Henry Henry book club is going to be livestreamed on youtube tomorrow, Jul 15th, 7:30 pm EDT

Everyone's welcome to tune in, tho if you're near N Charleston SC, you can attend the in-person dinner/book club

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lMs...
Henry Henry by Allen Bratton - Interview with the Author
YouTube video by Itinerant Literate Books
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Oh that's lovely my partner was a bookseller at Heffers many years ago. He took me there last summer and showed me his dim basement corner
Bought this quite randomly in Heffers in Cambridge and enjoyed it very, very much! By @allenbratton.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
Gay’s the Word pop-up is NOW OPEN and just in time for Pride London. So come pay a visit at our temporary and rather spacious new premises at 58-60 Marchmont Street (10 seconds from our usual location) and say hi. Please note over the Summer of 2025 we will be closed on Mondays! Happy Pride!
July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
t.s. eliot
gave a jellytot
he had found
on the ground
to ezra pound
July 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If anyone's in Dublin, I've just signed a few Henry Henry paperbacks at Dubray Grafton St
July 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by allen bratton
hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM