Wendy Erskine
@wednesdayerskin.bsky.social
THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books/ Manifesto of Bliss zine
A book of the year in the Observer today, the Irish Times yesterday and the Daily Mail last week. Lovely, lovely comments. Thank you @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for everything. Also in the top ten sellers at Waterstones Ballymena, which had pleased me no end. Thank you! Really appreciated.
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A book of the year in the Observer today, the Irish Times yesterday and the Daily Mail last week. Lovely, lovely comments. Thank you @sceptrebooks.bsky.social for everything. Also in the top ten sellers at Waterstones Ballymena, which had pleased me no end. Thank you! Really appreciated.
I am delighted to be on the Gordon Burn longlist because number one, I am a Gordon Burn nut, and number two the books I have already read on this list are brilliant. Thank you so much.
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I am delighted to be on the Gordon Burn longlist because number one, I am a Gordon Burn nut, and number two the books I have already read on this list are brilliant. Thank you so much.
The Benefactors is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. I could not be more pleased.
November 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Benefactors is Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. I could not be more pleased.
In terms of shortlists, I can never look at one without thinking about the other books, equally good, that might have been there.
That said, get voting. I’m delighted that The Benefactors is here in such lovely company. www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
That said, get voting. I’m delighted that The Benefactors is here in such lovely company. www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
In terms of shortlists, I can never look at one without thinking about the other books, equally good, that might have been there.
That said, get voting. I’m delighted that The Benefactors is here in such lovely company. www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
That said, get voting. I’m delighted that The Benefactors is here in such lovely company. www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
So great that The Benefactors is up for the best audiobook at the British Audio Awards. Loads and loads of people involved and thanks to each and every one of them.
September 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So great that The Benefactors is up for the best audiobook at the British Audio Awards. Loads and loads of people involved and thanks to each and every one of them.
A consideration of burgundy - burgundy sta press, v necks, loafers and so on - is just the sort of thing I wanna encounter. The 80’s hue phenomenon. Psyched to read George on this!
August 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A consideration of burgundy - burgundy sta press, v necks, loafers and so on - is just the sort of thing I wanna encounter. The 80’s hue phenomenon. Psyched to read George on this!
It’s lovely to be in this anthology of writing about cinema, from #VanguardEditions and edited by @richardnskinner.bsky.social. I write about mothers and sons in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma. I loved doing it. Thanks for asking me.
August 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It’s lovely to be in this anthology of writing about cinema, from #VanguardEditions and edited by @richardnskinner.bsky.social. I write about mothers and sons in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma. I loved doing it. Thanks for asking me.
BBC’s 10 of the best summer reads. Lovely to see The Benefactors there.
July 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BBC’s 10 of the best summer reads. Lovely to see The Benefactors there.
The @financialtimes.com’s fave audio books and one is The Benefactors. Thanks for this lovely description. Yes, I do the narration and a cast of friends, family and readers do the monologues. Very proud of it.
July 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The @financialtimes.com’s fave audio books and one is The Benefactors. Thanks for this lovely description. Yes, I do the narration and a cast of friends, family and readers do the monologues. Very proud of it.
Irish Times Summer Reads: what I’ve enjoyed.Not ‘best’: why should personal pref masquerade as fact? @spacedolphin93.bsky.social @mhut25.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social. Also recommend Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza. @irishpages.bsky.social. Thank you to Sarah Gilmartin for including my book x
July 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Irish Times Summer Reads: what I’ve enjoyed.Not ‘best’: why should personal pref masquerade as fact? @spacedolphin93.bsky.social @mhut25.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social. Also recommend Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza. @irishpages.bsky.social. Thank you to Sarah Gilmartin for including my book x
Me. Lucy Luck. Ansa Khan Khattak.
Just three women having a Baileys.
Just three women having a Baileys.
June 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Me. Lucy Luck. Ansa Khan Khattak.
Just three women having a Baileys.
Just three women having a Baileys.
This Sunday at 4.00pm on BBC Radio 4, Take Four Books focuses on The Benefactors. I’m joined by my brill pal Emma Warren and I talk about, among other books This is the Place to Be by @larapawson.bsky.social, published by @cbeditions.bsky.social. I love this programme so was made up to be on it.
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This Sunday at 4.00pm on BBC Radio 4, Take Four Books focuses on The Benefactors. I’m joined by my brill pal Emma Warren and I talk about, among other books This is the Place to Be by @larapawson.bsky.social, published by @cbeditions.bsky.social. I love this programme so was made up to be on it.
Beautiful review of The Benefactors in @thesundaytimes.bsky.social. Thank you
June 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Beautiful review of The Benefactors in @thesundaytimes.bsky.social. Thank you
It’s been my total pleasure to attend and be involved in events at Belfast Book Festival at @crescentarts.bsky.social. Wed night was very special; I was in conversation with the wonderful @lucycaldwell.bsky.social. Massive thanks to Sophie Hayles and Gail Jones. The festival was fantastic.
June 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It’s been my total pleasure to attend and be involved in events at Belfast Book Festival at @crescentarts.bsky.social. Wed night was very special; I was in conversation with the wonderful @lucycaldwell.bsky.social. Massive thanks to Sophie Hayles and Gail Jones. The festival was fantastic.
Cone along! Youd be very welcome. 19 June. Ulster Sports Club. BENEFACTORS launch. 7.30. Click for free ticket. www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bo...
May 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Cone along! Youd be very welcome. 19 June. Ulster Sports Club. BENEFACTORS launch. 7.30. Click for free ticket. www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bo...
I’m ‘creating compelling characters’ on Friday if anyone fancies it. An Arvon course, by zoom, 11 a.m. No right or wrong with these things. Just my way of working. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
May 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I’m ‘creating compelling characters’ on Friday if anyone fancies it. An Arvon course, by zoom, 11 a.m. No right or wrong with these things. Just my way of working. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
I love #BelfastBookFestival at @crescentarts.bsky.social. I’m getting to talk to some of my favourite writers and people, including @lucycaldwell.bsky.social, @declanmeade.bsky.social, Kathryn Scanlan, @kathrynferguson.bsky.social, Stacey Gregg…..
May 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I love #BelfastBookFestival at @crescentarts.bsky.social. I’m getting to talk to some of my favourite writers and people, including @lucycaldwell.bsky.social, @declanmeade.bsky.social, Kathryn Scanlan, @kathrynferguson.bsky.social, Stacey Gregg…..
It’s so great to be in the company of these writers in @thebookseller.com and to be interviewed by Alice O’Keeffe. Thank you. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/books/debuts...
www.thebookseller.com/books/debuts...
March 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
It’s so great to be in the company of these writers in @thebookseller.com and to be interviewed by Alice O’Keeffe. Thank you. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/books/debuts...
www.thebookseller.com/books/debuts...
Lovely to be included in @thebookseller.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Lovely to be included in @thebookseller.com
Everyone has their fave bookshops and if Waterstones is yours, there’s 25% off The Benefactors pre-orders over the weekend with PREORDER25. Obvs this doesn’t just apply to my own book. If you don’t like the sound of Bennyz what about other novel debuts @cmgleeson.bsky.social or John Patrick McHugh?
February 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Everyone has their fave bookshops and if Waterstones is yours, there’s 25% off The Benefactors pre-orders over the weekend with PREORDER25. Obvs this doesn’t just apply to my own book. If you don’t like the sound of Bennyz what about other novel debuts @cmgleeson.bsky.social or John Patrick McHugh?
Alright so here we have Blindboy www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... on the artisto scene: @roisinlanigan.bsky.social and me. Love it xXx
February 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Alright so here we have Blindboy www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar... on the artisto scene: @roisinlanigan.bsky.social and me. Love it xXx