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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 5h

My last two published books have been thanks to social media. Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social and Saltburn @renardpress.com

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 15h

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

The bookshop day poster. It asks you to choose bookshops:

Local jobs
Local economy
Local community
Real passion
Real people
Real conversations
Proper service
Perfect gifts
(and taxes paid!)

The cover of Saltburn. Candy stripes coming from a picture of a seal sitting under a beach umbrella.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 15h

And if you’re in the Derbyshire area on that day, Bookshop Day, 11th October, then you definitely should head over to Little Eaton and visit the one and only Bearded Badger Books pop up shop.

bsky.app/profile/bear...

Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Our next pop up at the brilliant Bouquet in Little Eaton (Derbyshire)… happens to coincide with Bookshop Day! 😊📚🍷

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 15h

It’s bookshop day on 11th October. A day to celebrate your local bookshop.

You could even go totally bananas and buy my latest, Saltburn, which is about, after all, small businesses being assailed by big business. Well, that’s one thing it’s about…

booksaremybag.com/BookshopDay/...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

In,

“On Downsizing”

The 15 minute city, Wim Wender’s Perfect Days, a Parisian garret, a philosophy of living. Of sorts.

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

On downsizing

It was on the cards.

open.substack.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

👏👏👏👏👏

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a plan 😆

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

In,

“On Downsizing”

The 15 minute city, Wim Wender’s Perfect Days, a Parisian garret, a philosophy of living. Of sorts.

open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

On downsizing

It was on the cards.

open.substack.com

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Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social · 1d

LGBTQIA+ TV through the ages!

How has LGBTQIA+ representation evolved on screen? from chaste kisses making headlines, to teen Queer TV going mainstream...

From Queer as Folk to Heartstopper and everything in between!.

www.bishopsgate.org.uk/whats-on/act...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve preordered. Direct from @ortacpress.bsky.social.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 1d

All up-to-date Keshed info inc. pre-orders, endorsements (of which many) and event info/tix links. Also doing @europeanreview.bsky.social in Jan (date TBC) and working on the official online launch too but that's secret for now. More soon!

stuhennigan.substack.com/p/blatant-se...

Blatant self-promotion alert!

Oh please fuck off with that.......

stuhennigan.substack.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 2d

It is.

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant. Will be up there with my films of the year. Brilliant script, acting and shot.

As close to a Raymond Carver short story as you will ever get. Perfectly understated tension.

: Good One mubi.com/films/good-o...

Good One (2024) | MUBI

17-year-old Sam embarks on a backpacking trip in the Catskills with her dad and his oldest friend. As the two men quickly settle into a quarrelsome dynamic, airing long-held grievances, Sam attempts t...

mubi.com

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 2d

🚨RELEASE WEEK🚨

This week, we release one of our most challenging and devastating reads. When Jack and Jill get together at university in the 90s, they vow to leave their tragic pasts behind. But fate has other plans...

Order this incredible, literary noir romance here:
share.google/QJ65Dj3z4lSD...

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Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @abctales.bsky.social for giving Pick of the Day to my short story, Push a Pedal #writingcommunity

ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social · 3d

Some brilliant writing from Mark Burrow today - a nerve-racking tale of the grind. Enjoy!

www.abctales.com/story/mark-b...

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

And here’s that other review 😍. Nice to see 6 months after Saltburn’s release.

bsky.app/profile/drew...

Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 12d

Brilliant new review of Saltburn on GoodReads:

“I love what he represents - a regional, working class voice - that is only sporadically heard and rarely appreciated or encouraged by the UK publishing/literary world.”

@renardpress.com

renardpress.com/books/saltbu...

When I discovered that Drew Gummerson had another book published I wrote and posted the following:

'...could anything else provide more welcome news in 2025? - obviously we all know the big things one could wish for - the death of bogus billionaire presidents, justice in Gaza - I could go on and on - but in the absence of anything on that scale happening a new work from Drew Gummerson is the next best thing I could wish for. You are a fool if you don't go out and buy this book immediately.'

Now that I have read the book I wouldn't withdraw a single one of those words. 'Saltburn' is wonderful - and Drew Gummerson is a writer not simply of genius but the English writer who should have the success and recognition that Alan Hollinghurst has received and so little deserves. Maybe I love his writing because it is so English, and I am not English, but I love what he represents - a regional, working class voice - that is only sporadically heard and rarely appreciated or encouraged by the UK publishing/literary world.

Did I mention how funny this and all his books are? Well they are though again they are very English - I say that in praise and explanation - 'Saltburn' is very, very funny but also always verging on the farce of tragedy - two of the finest stories 'A Piece of Ass' and 'Sven goes to War' have endings that while apparently happy could also be read as tragic because 'Saltburn' is a cri de cœur against a world and circumstances that I believe Drew Gummerson hates and can't quite believe the England he grew up has turned into. Maybe I am seeking or finding my own beliefs in his writings but I don't think I am wrong. Gummerson loves ordinary people, respects them and their small lives and hopes and dreams. I love his beliefs and passion as revealed in these stories.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

The writing life.

Nothing happens forever & then last week a new story published, Collateral, I did an interview (appearing soon) and 2 reviews for Saltburn. @renardpress.com

The latest below. Thanks @dlgladwin.bsky.social for this. It’s lovely.

David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social · 4d

A review for Drew.

@drewgum.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

David Gladwin's review of Saltburn

5/5: As the author points out at the start, this is not the actual Saltburn but a counterfactual, transmogrified version with features, like the nuclear power station, found elsewhere. And others, lik...

www.goodreads.com

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David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social · 4d

Saltburn is brilliant, Drew. Really enjoyed it.

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Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Our next pop up at the brilliant Bouquet in Little Eaton (Derbyshire)… happens to coincide with Bookshop Day! 😊📚🍷

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

Collateral…

In which a New York cabbie picks up a Peruvian hairdresser.

revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/s...

September 29, 2025: Fiction by Drew Gummerson

Then she said, I’d like to see the Empire State Building. I’ve seen that movie. King Kong. Fay Wray in the hands of the beast. And then she, this little Peruvian woman with perfectly blank features…

revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

Loved it.

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

The writing life.

Nothing happens forever & then last week a new story published, Collateral, I did an interview (appearing soon) and 2 reviews for Saltburn. @renardpress.com

The latest below. Thanks @dlgladwin.bsky.social for this. It’s lovely.

David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social · 4d

A review for Drew.

@drewgum.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

David Gladwin's review of Saltburn

5/5: As the author points out at the start, this is not the actual Saltburn but a counterfactual, transmogrified version with features, like the nuclear power station, found elsewhere. And others, lik...

www.goodreads.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d

I put off watching it. And that 1st scene, men with scrolls, wasn’t for me. But I persevered and loved it. Although I’ve not watched part 2 yet.

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David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social · 4d

A review for Drew.

@drewgum.bsky.social

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

David Gladwin's review of Saltburn

5/5: As the author points out at the start, this is not the actual Saltburn but a counterfactual, transmogrified version with features, like the nuclear power station, found elsewhere. And others, lik...

www.goodreads.com

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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks David! That’s brilliant. Cheers.

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