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Cover Reveal!

Beautiful to behold! Here is the cover of my new book, The Japan Lights, out this summer on Tippermuir Books. It was designed by Matthew Mackie and I think we can all agree I owe him some pints for this effort (in addition to him being properly paid, obvs). I think it captures the dichotomy ofContinue reading “Cover Reveal!”

Posted byiainmaloneyApril 10, 2023Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Cover Reveal!

Substack, Baby, Substack

To the tune of Love Shack by the B52s. Yes, after months of pondering and the odd Twitter poll, I’ve decided to follow in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie, Chuck Palahnuik and many others and see what this Substack thing is all about. My reasoning, and my plan, can be summarised thusly: Publishing as weContinue reading “Substack, Baby, Substack”

Posted byiainmaloneyNovember 21, 2021January 7, 2023Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Substack, Baby, Substack

Good Day Sunshine

Good morning, good morning, as the Beatles famously said. It’s Saturday and I’m at my desk preparing to go live to a potential audience of 7 billion. Potential. Japan Writer’s Conference has kicked off and sadly we’re online again. Still, that means potentially 7 billion of you could attend (could Zoom handle that? Wanna findContinue reading “Good Day Sunshine”

Posted byiainmaloneyOctober 16, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Good Day Sunshine

A Flurry of Activity

Hey there folks of world, I’ve been meaning to do an update for a while but life got in the way. I needed a moment of procrastination on something else to kick my arse into updating the site and here it is! So the book is out in the world and is being well receivedContinue reading “A Flurry of Activity”

Posted byiainmaloneyOctober 10, 2021Posted inUncategorized2 Comments on A Flurry of Activity

Unboxing (my favourite sport)

After a few days of camping and hiking in northern Gifu, I returned to three boxes waiting patiently in my garage. Better than Christmas morning, you can see my reaction to clapping eyes for the first time on the amazing work Liminal Ink has done putting this book together. The book is out on SeptemberContinue reading “Unboxing (my favourite sport)”

Posted byiainmaloneySeptember 8, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Unboxing (my favourite sport)

Cover and Quotes

This is my sixth book and the excitement never lessens. If anything it increases with each book as the anxiety about “what comes next” decreases with experience. Not that there’s no anxiety, just that it’s tempered with understanding. The cover was designed by Paul Docherty, one of the founders of Liminal Ink, and I absolutelyContinue reading “Cover and Quotes”

Posted byiainmaloneyAugust 10, 2021Posted inUncategorized2 Comments on Cover and Quotes

Live(ish) at the BBC

It came around quicker than I thought, and here it is: me talking about Japanese literature on Radio 4’s Open Book. It’s also available as a podcast (under BBC Books and Authors). I haven’t listened to it yet because… well, if it’s bad I’ll have to curl up somewhere and never speak to the worldContinue reading “Live(ish) at the BBC”

Posted byiainmaloneyJuly 11, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Live(ish) at the BBC

Lakeland Lectures & the BBC

So Thursday night was a busy one for me. At 7pm I gave a lecture/reading about me/my work as part of Lakeland University Japan’s ongoing series. It’s a great scheme they’ve got going, bringing in people of all different walks of life to talk to their students and the wider public and I was delightedContinue reading “Lakeland Lectures & the BBC”

Posted byiainmaloneyJuly 9, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Lakeland Lectures & the BBC

New Book!

You may have seen a few social media posts regarding this, but here’s the full story about my new book! It’s called Life is Elsewhere/Burn Your Flags, and is a novella set during the pandemic in Japan. Here’s the official blurb: Christmas Day, 2020 and in Japan, Cormac is headed for the hills. In theContinue reading “New Book!”

Posted byiainmaloneyJuly 4, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on New Book!

Live at the FCCJ

So this was a thing! On Wednesday last, as I type, I did an event at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Japan. Hosted by Swiss journalist Christoph Neidhart, I did some readings from The Only Gaijin in the Village, and then we did a Q&A. The FCCJ is a pretty big deal and just getting invitedContinue reading “Live at the FCCJ”

Posted byiainmaloneyApril 16, 2021Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Live at the FCCJ

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Important Dates

May 27th: Red Flag Waltz @ Atlantika, Toyohashi

August 2023: New book is out (details to be announced)

Aug 10: TBA

Aug 16: TBA

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Goodreads

Aberdeen A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding Adrian Searle Alan Spence Anneliese Mackintosh Bantuan Coffee Foundation Cargo Publishing Chiew-Siah Tei China David Mitchell Dog Mountain Dundee International Book Prize Eastlit Edinburgh Edinburgh International Book Festival Endo Shusaku First Time Solo Fishnet flash fiction Fractures Freight Freight Books Gaijinpot Glasgow Gutter Haiku Iain Banks interview In The Empty Places Jackie Copleton James Hogg James Kelman Janice Galloway Japan Japan Times Kazuo Ishiguro Ken MacLeod Kirstin Innes Kirsty Logan Lian Hearn Linda Cracknell Looking Glass Books Metropolis Mishima Yukio Nicholas Hogg No Alibi Nothing in the Rule Book Not The Booker novel Oe Kenzaburo Piper Alpha Pippa Goldschmidt poetry redraft review Robert Louis Stevenson Roddy Doyle Rodge Glass Scots Whay Hae Scottish Book Trust. Scottish Gothic Shoreline of Infinity short story Silma Hill Simon Sylvester Tapsalteerie Tendai Huchu The Guardian The Scotsman The Visitors The Wasting Embers The Waves Burn Bright Tokyo Toni Davidson Waterstones

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