Halfway through this series by @annabel_deas on @bbcsounds and it’s SO GOOD. Does such a brilliant job of capturing the hope and heartbreak of at-risk children and their families in Britain today
📚’Poignant, thought-provoking and very funny’ Joanna Cannon
📚 ‘Darkly comic and deeply felt’ Grace Flahive
Proofs are making their way out into the world to prepare you for Ghost Month this September, where the spirits of the dead will return before vanishing four weeks later in a puff of green ash. Happy Haunting.
‘Perhaps you’ve already noticed little things, strange details. A shadow not attached to anything. A face in a window which might be a trick of the light. They come at dusk. Today.’
Introducing Ghost Month by award-winning author Simon Wroe, arriving 27 August.
Every September, the spirits of the dead return before vanishing four weeks later in a puff of green ash.
The haunting has become a holiday – part Christmas, part Halloween, full of annual reckonings with the past. The ghosts aren’t real in any way that can hurt you, so it’s hard to tell the silent spectres from ashen commuters: they linger on train platforms, they crowd buses, they take up space on your sofa. The proper term these days is ‘people without pulses’.
This year, four strangers prepare for a visit from their dearly departed. The season forces them to confront all the things that haunt them, not just their dead. As suppressed truths emerge from the shadows, each of them will end Ghost Month changed in ways they never imagined.
Happy Haunting.
Proofs for GHOST MONTH have arrived! Look at these shimmering beauties, soon to be floating into hearts and minds… Also, small point, but I don’t know whose hand is silhouetted in the corner of the frame 😱
These were my ten favourite books from my year of reading. Presented here in a sort of pyramid or ziggurat of excellence (though they’re all excellent) ascending to the wild heights of The Piano Teacher. What universe did that come from?? Anyway, I loved them all. Also, in books that actually came out in 2025, I’m really enjoying We Do Not Part by Han Kang at the present moment..
Sweet Dreams is now live @factory_international !!!
It’s been such a pleasure to write this with the brilliant brain of director @robinmcnicholas . Factory and the @marshmallowlaserfeast team have done an incredible job of bringing it to life. On until September 1 at Aviva Studios
