David Hayden
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‘Clouds of Albion, For Max’, a new short story of mine published online @stingingfly
https://t.co/sTKkGipwgD
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murder for the sheer fun of it Michel de Montaigne, from ‘On Cruelty’, tr M.A. Screech
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The final volume of Peter Weiss’s novel ‘The Aesthetics of Resistance’ was published recently in a translation by Joel Scott, completing the work of Joachim Neugroschel. A novel of & against violence, personal & systemic, & for hope, in spite of everything. Published @DukePress
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Michael S. Begnal's 'Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972-74' is an in-depth musical history of the Raw Power era. Begnal uncovers lost archives and draws on new interviews with James Williamson & Scott Thurston. Coming from @reaktionbooks May 2026 commissioned & edited by me.
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My story ‘Taints’ published last year in @bansheelit is now available to read online. https://t.co/a6m2MNsWv7
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My short story ‘Wonder Meadow’, recently published @xraylitmag
xraylitmag.com
The night trees were blue by the Wensum. Eels seethed in a ditch. In the flint wall of a garden a door trembled. A green man sat naked on the riverbank, his feet in the water, head nodding, vines and...
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dull shabby human mediocrity Graham Greene, from ‘The Ministry of Fear’
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Tim MacGabhann’s ‘The Black Pool: A Memoir of Forgetting’ goes into and under the surface of memory in a powerfully charged narrative that’s raw and fine, agonising and funny, sobering and unforgettable. @SceptreBooks.
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Arrived home to my contributor copy of the new @stingingfly. An outstanding gathering of writers, superbly edited by Lisa McInerney.
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The forthcoming Claire-Louise Bennett novel, ‘Big Kiss, Bye Bye’, is utterly engrossing and unsettling. From @FitzcarraldoEds in October.
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A book of short stories variously described as deep, uncanny, witty, troubling, sensuous, perspicacious, subtle, beautiful, unsettling, brilliant, refined and fearless (references available on request).
transitbooks.org
David Hayden Driven hypnotically forward by a powerful, deeply felt narrative force, the stories in this debut collection pull off that rare trick of captivating the reader, while twisting the form...
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Very happy to have this new selected poems of Tove Ditlevsen, ‘There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die’, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, with an unmissable introduction by Olga Ravn.
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New online @xraylitmag my short story ‘Wonder Meadow’. https://t.co/ofh46nprT1
xraylitmag.com
The night trees were blue by the Wensum. Eels seethed in a ditch. In the flint wall of a garden a door trembled. A green man sat naked on the riverbank, his feet in the water, head nodding, vines and...
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In my @theguardian review of Krystelle Bamford's fine novel 'Idle Grounds' I quote Robert Aickman and namecheck Shirley Jackson and E.F. Benson, if that's up your street. @HutchHeinemann
theguardian.com
An unsettlingly funny debut explores memories of a perilous birthday party, with dark echoes of Grimms’ fairytales and gothic fiction
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