Sharon Duggal

Stormy/v.rainy weekend in central London, happily signing copies of Light Across The Plains & chatting to fab booksellers. Great to see it out and about, on shelves and display tables. Signed copies now at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk & various @waterstones.bsky.social.

Good morning. Many thanks to @foylesforbooks.bsky.social for highlighting Light Across the Plains by @sharonduggal.bsky.social Marvellous. @theguardian.com @inpressbooks.bsky.social

Our next online gathering is on Thursday 29th October and celebrates 20 years of mighty independent publisher Bluemoose Books. Join co-founders Kevin & Hetha Duffy and & Sharon Duggall. Free, and all welcome. If you're not on my mailing list email me via m'website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Am forward to this! Are you free on Thursday 29 Oct at 7pm? David’s events are so wonderful & you’ll get to see @sharonduggal.bsky.social talk about her new book & @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social talk about publishing - what’s not to love? 💙📚💙 #books #booksky #LightAcrossThePlains

@sharonduggal.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social I have my copy ! Top of TBR pile.

A HUGE happy publication day to @sharonduggal.bsky.social for her new book #LightAcrossThePlains 🩵🧡 Loved her other 2 books and can’t wait to read this. Have fun celebrating!! 🎉📚🎉 #books #booksky @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Good morning. Cracking launch of @sharonduggal.bsky.social third novel. Light Across the Plains last night @waterstones.bsky.social Brighton Thanks to the 80+ folk who joined in the fun.

Publication day .....

Tomorrow we publish Light Across The Plains by @sharonduggal.bsky.social Launching @waterstones.bsky.social Brighton. Magic. @theguardian.com @thebookseller.com

Sometimes a book comes along, And you just know, know that it is storytelling at Its very, very best. A truly remarkable novel and a shadow history of the 20th century. Light Across the Plains by Sharon Duggal. Remarkable.

Thank you to my brilliant publisher @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social for their amazing support, and for always putting storytelling first! I am very proud to be a Bluemoose author.

New arrival. Heth reading Light Across the Plains by @sharonduggal.bsky.social It looks absolutely stunning. @waterstones.bsky.social

Oh my goodness... it's arrived!

Good morning. Light Across the Plains by Sharon Duggal is arriving today. In the warehouse. You lucky, lucky readers. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social

My new novel is published on 8th Oct @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Here's what the excellent 2025 Goldsmiths Prize-winning author C.D. Rose says about it. You can pre-order a copy online, or through your local bookshop by asking them to order it for you. Thank you in advance if you do!

Autumn Books from Bluemoose. Post - it Notes from Underground by Simon Crump. Pbk Light Across The Plains by Sharon Duggal. Oct 8th. Bluemoose Books - Hebden to Hollywood - 20 years of Independent publishing by Kevin Duffy. Nov 12th. @thebookseller.com @bookcornerhx.bsky.social

Thank you bookseller Robyn @waterstones.bsky.social for this great review. Light Across the Plains - 4 weeks to publication @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Available to pre-order now.

Thank you to all the wonderful writers who have taken the time to read & comment on my forthcoming novel, Light Across the Plains. I am blown away by their generous feedback. Big thanks to Ruth at www.storystuudio.co.uk for putting some of their quotes together here ...

Light Across The Plains by Sharon Duggal October 8th. @inpressbooks.bsky.social @theguardian.com @gowerst-books.bsky.social @thetimes.com

When Kevin and Hetha Duffy founded independent publisher Bluemoose (@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social) from their Hebden Bridge living room in 2006, “it was just: let’s go from year to year,” Kevin Duffy explained, not knowing that by the year 2026 it would have a clutch of awards and nominations 👇

I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me? goodlaw.social/625453

"Hensher doesn’t bring his account right up to date, preferring to stop in 2000 – at Zadie Smith and her “wonderful ear for speech” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a.... We need a history of the novel over the past quarter century, with a focus on indie presses.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the wonderful @salenagodden.bsky.social for this ...

Good morning. Lottie's having a lie in. She was stressed yesterday with new windows being put in. We've just had a brilliant review in for Sharon Duggal's new book from the 2025 Goldsmiths' winner CD Rose. What a cracking start to the day. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social

Sylvia Purr-lath appreciating ‘Light Across the Plains,’ forthcoming from @sharonduggal.bsky.social and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social

Proofs have arrived of: Light Across the Plains by @sharonduggal.bsky.social Publishing this October. @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @toppingsbath.bsky.social @drakebookshop.bsky.social @forumbooks.bsky.social

Love this stunning cover of my forthcoming novel, designed by @feekra.bsky.social for @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social - out in early October 2026.

Sharon Duggal is a marvellous writer. Do look out for her first two novels 'The Handsworth Times' (2016) and 'Should We Fall Behind' (2020), both published by Bluemoose Books. My TLS review of the latter here: sharonduggal.com/review-the-t...

Isn't this a cracking cover. Designed by @feekra.bsky.social _Light Across The Plains_ by @sharonduggal.bsky.social We publish October 8th. @rsliterature.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @toppingsbath.bsky.social

To celebrate our 20th birthday We're having a Bluemoose Books day At Leeds Central Library on June 13th together with Leeds Lit Festival. Our authors. @sharonduggal.bsky.social Simon Crump & Rob Potts will be reading from their new books. Tickets here. www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/bluem...

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£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

2020 #77 Staying in the realm of @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and now it's the second novel by @sharonduggal.bsky.social . The uplifting tale of a young, homeless man who meets and loses track of a friend then sets off across the city in search of her and finds so much more. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky

2020 #63 Amongst the disruption of 2020 I found myself looking at many small publishers for new reading matter and @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social was one of the very best I came across. This excellent novel set in the early 1980s West Midlands was an early find. See alt text for more. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚 #booksky

@cdrose.bsky.social massive, massive congratulations on the @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social win. Bravo!

In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here: neglectedbooks.com/?...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @ZackPolanski your message of hope is the way to go. Would be amazing if you could now visit #Handsworth to counter Jenerick's misrepresentation of our global society here in #Birmingham

Chris, @cdrose.bsky.social massive congrats on this - fantastic news x

Next up: Should We Fall Behind by @sharonduggal.bsky.social from the fantastic @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Looking forward to it. #booksky #books #literature

Many thanks to Lancashire Libraries. Without the support of libraries we simply wouldn't be around to celebrate our 20th year of publishing in 2026. @cilip.bsky.social @thebookseller.com @ronanhession.bsky.social @sharonduggal.bsky.social @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social

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Call out for writers with lived experience of homelessness or poverty to submit monologues for a new anthology to highlight the complexity of the experiences of homelessness and poverty – struggles, resilience, hope, humour. Please share :) mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/

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