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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 1d

Huge congratulations to CBC alumni @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social & @nussaibah.bsky.social, and @womensprize.bsky.social #Discoveries shortlisted @niamhsquared.bsky.social who have all made the Book Are My Bag #ReadersAward Fiction Shortlist! 🥳

National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social · 2d

The Books Are My Bag #ReadersAwards are one of a kind. They're the only book awards with shortlists curated by bookshops, and winners voted for by readers, like you!

Vote for your favourite books for the chance to win a £100/€120 National Book Token.

Vote now: buff.ly/U5ylHv9

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · 1d

Such an honour to have Ordinary Saints nominated in two categories in the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards. Winners are decided by readers - you can vote at the link below!

National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social · 2d

The Books Are My Bag #ReadersAwards are one of a kind. They're the only book awards with shortlists curated by bookshops, and winners voted for by readers, like you!

Vote for your favourite books for the chance to win a £100/€120 National Book Token.

Vote now: buff.ly/U5ylHv9

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · 11d

Autumn leg of the Ordinary Saints roadshow! Would love to see you there - all tickets at the link in my bio.

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · 25d

Dodgy pics, but loved finding this excellent programme of anti-fascist films advertised at Eden Court, Inverness over the weekend. Great to see a civic arts institution unequivocally stepping up to play its part in the fight.

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Serpent's Tail @serpents-tail.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gurnaik will be part of the New Voices Spotlight panel at
Cheltenham Festival this year, along with authors
Christina Fonthes, @niamhsquared.bsky.social and @spacedolphin93.bsky.social, compèred by Liv Little.

📍 Cheltenham Festival
📅 Thurs 16th Oct
🕡 6:30pm
🎟️ £15 via link

New Voices Spotlight | Cheltenham Festivals

Join us as we celebrate some of this year’s hottest debut fiction in our New Voices Spotlight. Christina Fonthes (Where You Go, I Will Go), Niamh Ní Mhaoil

www.cheltenhamfestivals.org

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks Shane. But very much a collective effort!

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Aug 12

Here you go!

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Vikki Patis @vikkipatis.bsky.social · Aug 8

Open letter on the Polari Prize longlist and the inclusion of John Boyne, who openly expresses his transphobic and misogynistic views.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Author statement on the Polari Prize longlist

We are writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who stand in solidarity with the trans community. We are profoundly disappointed by the Polari Prize’s decision to include John Boyne on the longlis...

docs.google.com

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thanks so much, Hannah!

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you for carrying the good word 🙏

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Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social · Jul 4

Recent reads in the column this week - a brilliant debut short story collection from Shane Tivenan, wonderful novel from @niamhsquared.bsky.social, and the latest in a long line of wonderful books by Annie Ernaux.

In Saturday's @independent.ie Review section or:

www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Rick O’Shea: This book comes in at 25 cent a page, which is steep, but it will stay with you for a lifetime

What they don’t tell you about turning 50 is that if you give yourself a year or two, you’ll find yourself on an early Thursday evening in the IFI at a screening of the 1939 Marlene Dietrich/Jimmy Ste...

www.independent.ie

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thanks Vicky!!

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · Jun 18

Woo hoo! Love this book! Congratulations @niamhsquared.bsky.social, such brilliant news! 🥳

Manilla Press @manillapress.bsky.social · Jun 18

We're thrilled to share that @niamhsquared.bsky.social's Ordinary Saints has been shortlisted for the @waterstones.bsky.social Debut Fiction Prize 2025!

Thanks to all the booksellers who voted for this miraculous story of Catholicism & queer identity in Ireland.

www.waterstones.com/category/cul...

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thanks Wendy! So looking forward to next week!

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jun 18

Could not be more honoured and delighted that Ordinary Saints has been shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize! Thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social and to all the booksellers who voted for it. Huge congrats to the other authors!

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jun 5

Loved chatting to Chloe about Ordinary Saints, creative process, debut life, and writing community. Have a listen!

Chloe Timms @clotimms.bsky.social · Jun 5

Today I'm talking to @niamhsquared.bsky.social about her contemporary novel Ordinary Saints, why she deleted her first 20k words and how entering a competition to give herself a deadline changed her life @manillapress.bsky.social

🎧 bit.ly/COADNniamh

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · May 16

Such a lovely evening - wonderful chair, gorgeous audience, and all in a bookshop ten minutes from my house. So grateful to have such a brilliant local!

Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · May 16

Some books purchased at the wonderful @argonautbooks.bsky.social yesterday! It was a pleasure to chair @niamhsquared.bsky.social's reading of #OrdinarySaints last night - a brilliant novel in a brilliant bookshop! 📚😍

Photo of 2 books, VENICE: CITY OF PICTURES by Martin Gayford and HUNCHBACK by Saou Ichikawa

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · May 16

It was such a delight - thank you!

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · May 13

This Thursday @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith! I'm so excited to be talking about @niamhsquared.bsky.social's wonderful debut novel #OrdinarySaints. Hope to see you there!

Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · Apr 22

Very pleased to be in conversation with @niamhsquared.bsky.social about her stunning debut novel #OrdinarySaints at @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith, Edinburgh, on Thurs 15th May. We'll be talking about faith, doubt, popes and saints in modern fiction! argonautbooks.co.uk/product/15th...

15th May – ‘Ordinary Saints’ by Níamh Ní Mhaoileoin w/ Victoria Mackenzie: Faith & Doubt in Modern Fiction – 7pm

‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’ Ordinary Saints: Faith and Doubt in Modern Fiction with Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Victoria MacKenzie Joi…

argonautbooks.co.uk

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · May 9

New post from me on John Prevost and his little brother, Pope Leo XIV. Turns out you simply can't over-hype conclave. There's nothing like it. furyoryearning.substack.com/p/i-want-to-...

I want to make him laugh about something

On John Prevost and his little brother, Pope Leo XIV

furyoryearning.substack.com

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Emma (emreadsthebooks) @emreadsthebooks.bsky.social · Apr 24

Happy publication day to @niamhsquared.bsky.social for Ordinary Saints (which I just finished this morning)

It's completely original and unexpected and it's some kind of kismet how timely it is

I cannot wait for more people to read it so I can talk more about it!

#BookSky

Book ordinary saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thank you! Thrilled you enjoyed!

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Apr 23

So excited for this conversation with Victoria, whose work I absolutely love. We'll be chatting religious drama - probably against the backdrop of the Conclave?? Come along!

Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · Apr 22

Very pleased to be in conversation with @niamhsquared.bsky.social about her stunning debut novel #OrdinarySaints at @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith, Edinburgh, on Thurs 15th May. We'll be talking about faith, doubt, popes and saints in modern fiction! argonautbooks.co.uk/product/15th...

15th May – ‘Ordinary Saints’ by Níamh Ní Mhaoileoin w/ Victoria Mackenzie: Faith & Doubt in Modern Fiction – 7pm

‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’ Ordinary Saints: Faith and Doubt in Modern Fiction with Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Victoria MacKenzie Joi…

argonautbooks.co.uk

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Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin @niamhsquared.bsky.social · Apr 21

Thanks pal!

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