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Word / Aberdeen May Festival 2016

Posted on April 23, 2016 by iainmaloney — Leave a comment

I’ve been desperate to share this with y’all for ages but was bound to silence by higher powers. I’ll be appearing as part of the Word Festival / Aberdeen May Festival on Sunday May 29th at 2pm. I did…

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Looking Forward to The Waves Burn Bright

Posted on January 11, 2016 by iainmaloney — Leave a comment

I was very pleased to wake up this morning to the news that the lovely people at the Scottish Book Trust have included The Waves Burn Bright in their list of novels to look forward to in 2016. Considering there’s new…

Tagged with: AL Kennedy, David Bowie, Gutter, Helen Sedgwick, Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, James Yorkston, Scottish Book Trust., The Waves Burn Bright
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This One Book

Posted on June 20, 2014 by iainmaloney — Leave a comment

Simon Sylvester, author of The Visitors, recently wrote about a book that means a lot to him both as a reader and as a writer. He wrote eloquently on Roald Dahl’s Henry Sugar and then urged me to do the…

Tagged with: 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time, A. L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Alisdair Gray, Blood, Clara, Duncan McLean, Foreign Parts, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, Janice Galloway, Lanark, Liz Lochhead, Roald Dahl, Simon Sylvester, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, The Visitors, Tom Leonard, Trainspotting, Where You Find It, Willy Maley
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Flash! Aha!

Posted on August 15, 2013 by iainmaloney — 1 Comment

Good news! After a number of recent rejections I received, this morning, an acceptance from Flash: The International Short-Story Magazine for my story “A Trolley Full of Marx.” Flash has an illustrious list of previous contributors including James Kelman, Margaret…