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Let's Pause and read the BfS September issue! Starring books from our friends at 404 Ink ScotlandStreetPress Doubleday Taproot Press Saraband Books Salamander Street National Museums Scotland White Rabbit Books Floris Books Bloomsbury Books UK and more! booksfromscotland.com/issue/pause/

Book review: New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan, by Arun Sood trib.al/YG2eNS0 404 Ink

With apologies to others for the trumpeting - to any Plymouth / South West friends I’ll be signing books in Drake Circus Waterstones today from 430 if anyone wants to say hello 👋

Thanks to Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash for capturing this Waterstones Bristol Leonard has a prominent (title) but peripheral (barely mentioned) role in the novel, which touches on how pop music can form as well as transcend friendships, time, place...it made sense in my head at the time...

A couple of more 📕 events before the year ends, Totnes on 15 Nov; University of Exeter 5 Dec. Thanks to anyone who’s given the book some of their time. Makes it worthwhile.

Treading the boards of Dartington Trust bookshop in #totnes last night with Arun Sood who was in fine voice talking about his fascinating debut novel New Skin for the Old Ceremony published by 404 Ink

📖 New Skin for the Old Ceremony: A Kirtan 🗓5 Dec 📍 University of Exeter Streatham Campus Exploring the changing notions of home, heritage, & belonging among the South Asian diaspora in Scotland, join Arun Sood as he launches his debut novel. Register: buff.ly/3tEF0Dp

A nice day for the niche Scottish psycho-geographer ambient droneheads with a penchant for place (I did say niche....) Congratulations to fellow awardees @Archieislander and K I N B R A E for Burl of Unmap.

Breaking an attempted social media break to say I am really looking forward to being back in Glasgow for this.

Arun Sood at Creative Conversations, University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, Monday 6 March at 1 p.m. Arun Sood Louise Welsh Samina Chaudhry Zoe Strachan Colin Herd Kerry Hudson FRSL glasgowwestend.co.uk/arun-sood-at-c…

Now available to read Project MUSE “We were amused by an itinerant singing-man”: Print, Writing, and Orality in Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, by Arun Sood Arun Sood muse.jhu.edu/pub/50/article… 18thCentury ECF 35.2 (2023) WhatWeDo AcWri

Spotted in the wilds with Ali Millar . Paperback summer reads... 404 Ink Penguin Books UK Books from Scotland

First morning commute to new job as Lecturer in Global pre-1800 Liteartures at University of Exeter. Exciting new start but also a big thanks to the many friends and collegaues made at English - University of Plymouth. No forever farewells.

Very excited to be heading to Aberdeen for the WayWORD Festival. Chatting with another debut novelist Arun Sood about stories and writing. And maybe #IREvSCO? Book free tickets from waywordfestival.com #Aberdeen #TheDeadwoodEncore

Looking forward to this tomorrow! Sadly I am now unable to travel but will be joining KathleenMurray and my former - and very inspiring - undergraduate supervisor Dr Wayne Price of University of Aberdeen online.

Good to see the special Race & Racism cross-journal issue out from Edinburgh University Press Including contributions from Burns Chronicle Arun Sood & Innes Review SCHA @DrStephenMullen John Reuben Davies @DrRonnieYoung Well done all! euppublishing.com/cjsf/race-and-…

Congratulations to the five The Kavya Prize 2024 shortlist: The Last to Drown – Lorraine Wilson New Skin for the Old Ceremony – Arun Sood Tapping at Glass – Tim Tim Cheng Belonging – Amanda Thomson At least this I know – Andrés N. Ordorica Learn more ➡️ gla.ac/3zrsSvW

Very honoured by this award (and initially greatly surprised!). Thanks to all involved in the The Kavya Prize University of Glasgow, in particular judges, organisers, and fellow authors tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they) Dr. Amanda Thomson Andrés N. Ordorica Dr Lorraine Wilson (mostly on Bluesky). Scotland's plurality of voices thrive.