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kieransangha94.bsky.social
Literary Queer™️ and Senior Comms Exec @ Picador Books (Pan MacMillan) 📚 PPC shortlisted x 2 📖 Views are mine, not my employers.
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managed to transfer an old pension to my existing one

“Clever, confident and always surprising” 🃏 “An audacious shattering of genre and convention you never saw coming” 🃏 “Ambitious, unpredictable and riotous” 🃏 Think you know the rules of FAIR PLAY? Think again ♠️🃏 finished copies in very soon… Out 03.04.25 💚 @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Caught my mother scrolling TikTok on her sickbed

“We ache for love, but love eludes us” Can’t wait to tuck into this over the weekend 🤍 @penguinhuddleuk.bsky.social

met Sigourney Weaver at stage door for The Tempest and naturally, I panicked and told her how regal she looked and she looked at me like I was a child on a Make a Wish trip

£3.50 for a normal sized glass of Pepsi Max 💔

an incredible quote for FAIR PLAY from none other than Paul ‘The Bee Sting’ Murray himself!! 🐝 ‘Clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death’ 03/04/25 ♠️🃏

googling ‘does my cat have seasonal affective disorder’

Catching up with #TheTraitorsUK and SPOILER [redcated] is so dumb for accepting the offer, saying ‘I trust Charlotte 100%’ when she literally JUST voted out a Traitor

youthful colleague doesn’t know who Cilla Black or Liza Minnelli are - brb, throwing myself down the stairs

Not to be THAT person but I’ve had a super busy few days and I was dreading getting out to run 10 miles but I did it!! 💪🏽🏆✅

I have seen the gates of hell and it’s walking through Canary Warf tower at rush hour

an incredible quote for FAIR PLAY from none other than Paul ‘The Bee Sting’ Murray himself!! 🐝 ‘Clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death’ 03/04/25 ♠️🃏

big thanks to Stylist Mag for including FAIR PLAY in their 2025 Books to look out for coverage 💚🃏♠️ Out in April from Picador

Here it is, my favourite book of 2024 is Thomas Gardner’s POVERTY CREEK JOURNAL 🍂🏃🏼‍♂️ A gorgeous intersection of memoir, nature writing and verse - POVERTY CREEK JOURNAL is a spiritual safe haven for writers, runners and everyone in-between 🤍 @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

There’s a newborn baby next door that only seems to go off late at night when I’m trying to sleep 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Crying at the Doctor Who Proms, how’s your Christmas Eve going?

*playing pass the parcel but at the gym* Me: do I get a Valium at the end?

Man, watching new Simpsons is rough - poor Julie Kavner and her vocal cords! Everytime a new season is announced I imagine her like this

lady at the cinema asked my age (here to see QUEER) and visibly gasped when I told her I was 30, following it up with ‘you look FAR too young to be 30’

£8.50 for a mulled wine??? London, may you never know peace

No one asked but here’s the Kieran’s Book of the Year™️ shortlist!!!

I was excited enough about Anthony Passeron's SLEEPING CHILDREN: when @kieransangha94.bsky.social tells me I'll love a book, he's always right. But then I see it's translated by Frank Wynne?! AND comes with praise from Annie Ernaux?? Er, yes please. Out in March with @picadorbooks.bsky.social

So great to see FAIR PLAY in Prima’s roundup of Books to look out for in 2025 ♠️🃏💚 Out in April ✨

Anthony Passeron’s powerfully moving debut novel SLEEPING CHILDREN is about the impact of AIDS on one working-class family and on French society - for readers of Édouard Louis, Douglas Stuart and Didier Eribon. Out in March from Picador - I’ve got proofs so lmk if you want one 👀

Nothing more humbling than sitting next to two SEVENTEEN YEAR OLDS at the Charli XCX concert and realising you and your friend are basically Armand and Albert from The Birdcage

So glad to see five Pan Mac titles on the Sunday Times Fiction Books of the Year list including BOTY for Our Evenings ✨📖 www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

getting to the age where I grumble looking out the front window because the bins STILL haven’t been collected

still can’t believe my luck that I got to see Max Webster’s Macbeth with David Tennant yesterday - what an extraordinary performance with inspired use of sound design that heightened everything to a haunted degree. Beg borrow or steal to get a ticket 🎭🎟️

I was the BIGGEST fan of Assembly so I’m very excited to read Natasha Brown’s follow up, UNIVERSALITY 👀 ty @faberbooks.bsky.social 🖤 out in March!

I’ve had a pretty good year of hosting events and interviewing the likes of Jessie Buckley and Alan Hollinghurst (!!) so I’d like to try and make a side hobby of this - if anyone knows of any interviewing gigs or press junkets, hit me up!!

OK it seems that a lot of literary event accounts are opening up, pop your name on here or DM me Or let me know your favourite that has an account on Bluesky and I’ll pop a Starter Pack together

Hello #BookSky, a friend has made a pack of some of your favourite publishing professionals - check us out, share the love? (Just in case you need a little help finding us from the OTHER place.) go.bsky.app/G7Lbbv2

“This book will delight readers - then it will haunt them” COLIN WALSH, AUTHOR OF KALA “Ambitious, unpredictable, riotous and yet full of meaning and compassion” LISA MCINERNEY, AUTHOR OF THE GLORIOUS HERESIES Think you know the rules of FAIR PLAY? Think again ♠️💚🃏 April 2025 from Picador ♠️🃏

the sweatiest man in publishing is now on another cursèd app