So thrilled to receive proofs of #TheTwoRoberts and #HearttheLover from @annaframe.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk. They’re out in September and October. Thank you!
June 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
So thrilled to receive proofs of #TheTwoRoberts and #HearttheLover from @annaframe.bsky.social and @canongate.co.uk. They’re out in September and October. Thank you!
A trip to #Dublin brings new treasures! W/ thanks to my beloved @gutterbookshop.bsky.social I finally have @damianbarr.bsky.social 's wonderful new novel #TheTwoRoberts + a proof of #PatrickGale 's forthcoming #LoveLane (out March '26). I'm a very happy Bob today! #LGBTQBooks #gaylovestories
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A trip to #Dublin brings new treasures! W/ thanks to my beloved @gutterbookshop.bsky.social I finally have @damianbarr.bsky.social 's wonderful new novel #TheTwoRoberts + a proof of #PatrickGale 's forthcoming #LoveLane (out March '26). I'm a very happy Bob today! #LGBTQBooks #gaylovestories
Head over to #InstaLive at Noon today (Mon 1st Sept) to hear the wonderful #PatrickGale & @damianbarr.bsky.social talking about Damian's fab new book #TheTwoRoberts!
September 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Head over to #InstaLive at Noon today (Mon 1st Sept) to hear the wonderful #PatrickGale & @damianbarr.bsky.social talking about Damian's fab new book #TheTwoRoberts!
‘Nothing you write is as bad as writing nothing.’
- Damian Barr.
#writingadvice #booksky #GetWriting #TheTwoRoberts
- Damian Barr.
#writingadvice #booksky #GetWriting #TheTwoRoberts
January 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
‘Nothing you write is as bad as writing nothing.’
- Damian Barr.
#writingadvice #booksky #GetWriting #TheTwoRoberts
- Damian Barr.
#writingadvice #booksky #GetWriting #TheTwoRoberts
#Confessions was very good ( lucky ARC read). Looking forward to reading #AParticularlyNastyCase and #TheTwoRoberts
Delighted to be on this list with so many people I admire*: Ocean Vuong, Seán Hewitt and Natasha Brown. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
*and the Pope, again.
*and the Pope, again.
Thrilling debuts to big-name authors: 40 of the most exciting books to read in 2025
From the most anticipated literary debuts to the return of heavyweights like Stephen King and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, there's plenty to add to your TBR pile this year.
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January 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#Confessions was very good ( lucky ARC read). Looking forward to reading #AParticularlyNastyCase and #TheTwoRoberts
Thank you to @canongate.co.uk for this eARC of Damian Barr’s The Two Roberts. Just a few pages in & liking everything about it.
#thetworoberts
Good to read eARCs on Kobo via @netgalley.bsky.social Just need more to be available as epubs; hate PDFs!
@mtamblyn.bsky.social @damianbarr.bsky.social
#thetworoberts
Good to read eARCs on Kobo via @netgalley.bsky.social Just need more to be available as epubs; hate PDFs!
@mtamblyn.bsky.social @damianbarr.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Thank you to @canongate.co.uk for this eARC of Damian Barr’s The Two Roberts. Just a few pages in & liking everything about it.
#thetworoberts
Good to read eARCs on Kobo via @netgalley.bsky.social Just need more to be available as epubs; hate PDFs!
@mtamblyn.bsky.social @damianbarr.bsky.social
#thetworoberts
Good to read eARCs on Kobo via @netgalley.bsky.social Just need more to be available as epubs; hate PDFs!
@mtamblyn.bsky.social @damianbarr.bsky.social
Pals, if yer listening to R4, I’ll be on in a bit. After Bryan Adams on Front Row #theTwoRoberts
a man singing into a microphone with the words everything i do i do it for you behind him
ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words everything i do i do it for you behind him
media.tenor.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Pals, if yer listening to R4, I’ll be on in a bit. After Bryan Adams on Front Row #theTwoRoberts
Can
Fan- girling with @damianbarr.bsky.social at Girvan Library. Then greeted by a stupendous rainbow #TheTwoRoberts
Fan- girling with @damianbarr.bsky.social at Girvan Library. Then greeted by a stupendous rainbow #TheTwoRoberts
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Can
Fan- girling with @damianbarr.bsky.social at Girvan Library. Then greeted by a stupendous rainbow #TheTwoRoberts
Fan- girling with @damianbarr.bsky.social at Girvan Library. Then greeted by a stupendous rainbow #TheTwoRoberts
As this is the year of @damianbarr.bsky.social's #TheTwoRoberts, it was great to bump into some of their work in #Dundee's wonderful McManus Art Gallery & Museum, and to see their story told with such kindness and respect in the labels.
September 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As this is the year of @damianbarr.bsky.social's #TheTwoRoberts, it was great to bump into some of their work in #Dundee's wonderful McManus Art Gallery & Museum, and to see their story told with such kindness and respect in the labels.
This… oof. ‘How hate rushes in to take up all the space meant for love’ Wise, vulnerable, strong & tender. Can’t wait to read @damianbarr.bsky.social’s #TheTwoRoberts as a treat for reducing my tbr pile at some point!
When I came out my parents were angry and scared. We talked. I listened. Turns out they weren't scared of me, they were scared for me. They weren't scared of my 'homosexuality'. They were scared of homophobia-of people calling me names, of people hurting me, of the law suddenly not being on my side.
August 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This… oof. ‘How hate rushes in to take up all the space meant for love’ Wise, vulnerable, strong & tender. Can’t wait to read @damianbarr.bsky.social’s #TheTwoRoberts as a treat for reducing my tbr pile at some point!
May 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of The Two Roberts, Damian Barr's brilliant novel based on the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, which deserves all the prizes. @canongate.co.uk #TheTwoRoberts
June 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Friday's reading courtesy of #NetGalley - Just coming to the end of The Two Roberts, Damian Barr's brilliant novel based on the lives of Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, which deserves all the prizes. @canongate.co.uk #TheTwoRoberts
Glasgow is ‘a city of stars in search of an audience.’
It was great to rediscover the city through the eyes of Bobby and Robert.
#thetworoberts
#booksky
It was great to rediscover the city through the eyes of Bobby and Robert.
#thetworoberts
#booksky
Fantastic observation in @damianbarr.bsky.social The Two Roberts about Glasgow: "a city of stars in search of an audience." That's what first drew me to the wonderful Glasgow Arts Centre in 1988-89. Everyone I knew either wanted to write, act, direct and/ or be in a band.
September 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Glasgow is ‘a city of stars in search of an audience.’
It was great to rediscover the city through the eyes of Bobby and Robert.
#thetworoberts
#booksky
It was great to rediscover the city through the eyes of Bobby and Robert.
#thetworoberts
#booksky
Delighted to receive an ARC of #TheTwoRoberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social from #Netgalley. My next read!
June 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Delighted to receive an ARC of #TheTwoRoberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social from #Netgalley. My next read!
@damianbarr.bsky.social what an absolutely beautiful, poignant and fascinating read #TheTwoRoberts is. I devoured it. A painting in words. Incredible and will stay with me. Sorry, I'm gushing a bit but the easiest 5 stars in a long time. Thank you.
June 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
@damianbarr.bsky.social what an absolutely beautiful, poignant and fascinating read #TheTwoRoberts is. I devoured it. A painting in words. Incredible and will stay with me. Sorry, I'm gushing a bit but the easiest 5 stars in a long time. Thank you.
Yay!!! A new series of #BigScottishBookClub starts soon. Can't wait. Too little intelligent book discussion on TV Gives a plug for #TheTwoRoberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Yay!!! A new series of #BigScottishBookClub starts soon. Can't wait. Too little intelligent book discussion on TV Gives a plug for #TheTwoRoberts by @damianbarr.bsky.social
Taking The Two Roberts to Ireland for the weekend- possibly more celebrated here than in their home towns! #TheTwoRoberts #stenaline #MayboletoKildare
September 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Taking The Two Roberts to Ireland for the weekend- possibly more celebrated here than in their home towns! #TheTwoRoberts #stenaline #MayboletoKildare
"Bobby has already committed to memory all the ways Robert occupies space”
I loved every single word of this book. It's beautiful.
Brief review/thoughts here:
rtcmbooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/t...
@canongate.co.uk @damianbarr.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social #thetworoberts #booksky
I loved every single word of this book. It's beautiful.
Brief review/thoughts here:
rtcmbooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/t...
@canongate.co.uk @damianbarr.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social #thetworoberts #booksky
June 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"Bobby has already committed to memory all the ways Robert occupies space”
I loved every single word of this book. It's beautiful.
Brief review/thoughts here:
rtcmbooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/t...
@canongate.co.uk @damianbarr.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social #thetworoberts #booksky
I loved every single word of this book. It's beautiful.
Brief review/thoughts here:
rtcmbooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/t...
@canongate.co.uk @damianbarr.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social #thetworoberts #booksky
Oh the irony. Reading #TheTwoRoberts to Paddington in Newtonards and a man gave me a gospel tract! So, for good measure, I shared #Miriam’sSistersDeborah’sDaughters #IrelandTour
September 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Oh the irony. Reading #TheTwoRoberts to Paddington in Newtonards and a man gave me a gospel tract! So, for good measure, I shared #Miriam’sSistersDeborah’sDaughters #IrelandTour
Can’t wait for @damianbarr.bsky.social’s #TheTwoRoberts, & this piece is excellent. Much chimes with my queer women farmers of the rural homefront in #GhostsoftheFarm (though in a far quieter way!) who were so different from their ‘Bloomsberry’ neighbours. But so much chimes with then & now, look!
"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.
tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu
‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot
Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?
tinyurl.com
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Can’t wait for @damianbarr.bsky.social’s #TheTwoRoberts, & this piece is excellent. Much chimes with my queer women farmers of the rural homefront in #GhostsoftheFarm (though in a far quieter way!) who were so different from their ‘Bloomsberry’ neighbours. But so much chimes with then & now, look!
We are very excited here @Hatchards too, and absolutely thrilled to be welcoming @damianbarr.bsky.social here at the Piccadilly on 4th September!
Hurrah #TheTwoRoberts!
Hurrah #TheTwoRoberts!
We're so excited to share this book with readers, so thank you to the bookshops, the galleries, the libraries & the festivals across the country hosting @damianbarr.bsky.social this autumn, for what promises to be a string of incredible events
Book your tickets: buythebook.online/the-two-robe...
Book your tickets: buythebook.online/the-two-robe...
May 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We are very excited here @Hatchards too, and absolutely thrilled to be welcoming @damianbarr.bsky.social here at the Piccadilly on 4th September!
Hurrah #TheTwoRoberts!
Hurrah #TheTwoRoberts!