Jo McMillan
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Fan of alphabets and characters - complex and simplified. Have called Beijing, Melaka and London home. Looking for Utopia. Currently in Berlin.
Great to see the growing enthusiasm for The Accidental Immigrants up and down the country:
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August 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Great to see the growing enthusiasm for The Accidental Immigrants up and down the country:
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Many thanks to Sam Reid from Fieldzine for a great conversation about The Accidental Immigrants.
We talk about the myths of immigration, the far right – and rage, resistance and writing.
Listen to the podcast here tinyurl.com/2z4vu57z
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We talk about the myths of immigration, the far right – and rage, resistance and writing.
Listen to the podcast here tinyurl.com/2z4vu57z
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July 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Many thanks to Sam Reid from Fieldzine for a great conversation about The Accidental Immigrants.
We talk about the myths of immigration, the far right – and rage, resistance and writing.
Listen to the podcast here tinyurl.com/2z4vu57z
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We talk about the myths of immigration, the far right – and rage, resistance and writing.
Listen to the podcast here tinyurl.com/2z4vu57z
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July 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thanks to the Orwell Foundation for a fantastic awards ceremony; to the judges for choosing The Accidental Immigrants as a finalist; to every writer there for deciding to write about things that matter. And many congrats to Donal Ryan. Cheers!
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June 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Thanks to the Orwell Foundation for a fantastic awards ceremony; to the judges for choosing The Accidental Immigrants as a finalist; to every writer there for deciding to write about things that matter. And many congrats to Donal Ryan. Cheers!
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June 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The Accidental Immigrants reviewed in The Irish Times (€)
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![The Accidental Immigrants
By Jo McMillan
Bluemoose Books, £10.99
Writing political fiction is always something of a gamble; writing a political novel about the rise of the far right, which takes as its backdrop the years since Brexit, is even riskier. These are urgent themes, but their immediacy can threaten the imaginative work of a novel. The Accidental Immigrants, however, is no generalising parable. The novel, set on the fictional island of St Mira, is attuned to the insidiousness of xenophobia, the suspicion of “foreign accents”, the “rage that year after year had been thumbed on a whim into phones”. Its plot reveals how quickly this can wreak havoc on the most ordinary patterns of everyday life, how ‘History’ itself ‘depend[s] on who you ask’. Philippa Conlon](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2eibdf4oppyausdve6rf2ngi/bafkreigfmfq5c63kt6ianmeeaa2vatjnxux33pm5gdi5pyodtmmtmt3dze@jpeg)
May 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Accidental Immigrants reviewed in The Irish Times (€)
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We're the filling in the sandwich
May 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We're the filling in the sandwich
The Accidental Immigrants: A story of what happens when there’s talk of ‘an island of strangers’...
This book was only possible with the support and courage and imagination of the lovely people at Bluemoose. Thank you Kevin, Lin and Hetha!
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This book was only possible with the support and courage and imagination of the lovely people at Bluemoose. Thank you Kevin, Lin and Hetha!
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May 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Accidental Immigrants: A story of what happens when there’s talk of ‘an island of strangers’...
This book was only possible with the support and courage and imagination of the lovely people at Bluemoose. Thank you Kevin, Lin and Hetha!
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This book was only possible with the support and courage and imagination of the lovely people at Bluemoose. Thank you Kevin, Lin and Hetha!
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The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Denmark: 22,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Denmark: 22,000.
This story is for you.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Denmark: 22,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Denmark: 22,000.
This story is for you.
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The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Belgium: 23,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Belgium: 23,000.
This story is for you.
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April 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Belgium: 23,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Belgium: 23,000.
This story is for you.
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The Accidental Immigrants: the far-right grip is tightening and it’s coming for immigrants everywhere.
British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
This story is for you.
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April 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Accidental Immigrants: the far-right grip is tightening and it’s coming for immigrants everywhere.
British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
This story is for you.
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The Accidental Immigrants heads to Poland.
For the 37,000 British immigrants living next to a war.
This story is for you.
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For the 37,000 British immigrants living next to a war.
This story is for you.
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April 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Accidental Immigrants heads to Poland.
For the 37,000 British immigrants living next to a war.
This story is for you.
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For the 37,000 British immigrants living next to a war.
This story is for you.
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The Accidental Immigrants: the far-right grip is tightening and it’s coming for immigrants everywhere.
British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
British immigrants in Cyprus: 38,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
British immigrants in Cyprus: 38,000.
This story is for you.
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April 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Accidental Immigrants: the far-right grip is tightening and it’s coming for immigrants everywhere.
British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
British immigrants in Cyprus: 38,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in the Netherlands: 55,000.
British immigrants in Cyprus: 38,000.
This story is for you.
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Soundbites:
Hear why I had to write The Accidental Immigrants, why I did it the way I did, and why it matters – now more than ever:
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Hear why I had to write The Accidental Immigrants, why I did it the way I did, and why it matters – now more than ever:
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April 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Soundbites:
Hear why I had to write The Accidental Immigrants, why I did it the way I did, and why it matters – now more than ever:
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Hear why I had to write The Accidental Immigrants, why I did it the way I did, and why it matters – now more than ever:
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The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Germany: 99,000.
British immigrants in Italy: 66,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Germany: 99,000.
British immigrants in Italy: 66,000.
This story is for you.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Germany: 99,000.
British immigrants in Italy: 66,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Germany: 99,000.
British immigrants in Italy: 66,000.
This story is for you.
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The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Spain: 302,000.
British immigrants in France: 177,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Spain: 302,000.
British immigrants in France: 177,000.
This story is for you.
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April 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The Accidental Immigrants: a hostile environment is taking hold of Europe, no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from.
British immigrants in Spain: 302,000.
British immigrants in France: 177,000.
This story is for you.
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British immigrants in Spain: 302,000.
British immigrants in France: 177,000.
This story is for you.
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March 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Die Brandmauer ist down
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Die Brandmauer ist down
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The Accidental Immigrants
Available for pre-order now from Bluemoose Books
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Available for pre-order now from Bluemoose Books
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January 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Accidental Immigrants
Available for pre-order now from Bluemoose Books
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Available for pre-order now from Bluemoose Books
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A Dream of White Horses by Paul Scraton
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A journey that goes to the heart of friendship and Europe’s fractured past. A lovely read – touching and tender.
From Bluemoose Books
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A journey that goes to the heart of friendship and Europe’s fractured past. A lovely read – touching and tender.
From Bluemoose Books
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January 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A Dream of White Horses by Paul Scraton
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A journey that goes to the heart of friendship and Europe’s fractured past. A lovely read – touching and tender.
From Bluemoose Books
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A journey that goes to the heart of friendship and Europe’s fractured past. A lovely read – touching and tender.
From Bluemoose Books
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Christ On A Bike by @orlaowenwriting – a wise and wicked morality tale of family and money – two of the most relatable human woes! Loved it.
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December 17, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Christ On A Bike by @orlaowenwriting – a wise and wicked morality tale of family and money – two of the most relatable human woes! Loved it.
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"I was amazed by this book. Completely convincing world building, propulsive plot but most importantly so profoundly personalist, political, serious-minded. It’s a soaring feat of imagination tethered firmly to the present."
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November 29, 2024 at 2:10 PM
"I was amazed by this book. Completely convincing world building, propulsive plot but most importantly so profoundly personalist, political, serious-minded. It’s a soaring feat of imagination tethered firmly to the present."
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…with a postcard from St. Mira. Thanks, Kevin!
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November 16, 2024 at 8:49 AM
…with a postcard from St. Mira. Thanks, Kevin!
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