Hollie McNish is a poet and author based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She was the first poet to record at Abbey Road Studios, London and won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and most recently Slug and Lobster, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. She really loves writing.
"Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest" - Sarah Millican
“Her writing is sublime” – Ellie Taylor
"This book is so good" - Musa Okwonga
“Makes me cry and howl with laughter” - Paapa Essiedu
“like Pam Ayres on acid” – Lemn Sissay
“One of the best poets we have”. – Matt Haig
''Never have we needed her more' - Stylist
Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber to rave reviews and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. He’s unfurled three collections of poetry, the most recent being The Cat Prince & Other Poems — which won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and The Scottish National Book Awards, and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has attracted praise from the likes of: Stephen Fry, Shirley Manson, Jackie Kay, Irvine Welsh, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Sturgeon & many more. His debut novel (Muckle Flugga) will be published by Faber in May 2025.
‘Uncommonly romantic, irreverent and, at times, laugh out loud funny.’ —Shirley Manson
'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured'.’ — Stephen Fry
'A master of words. He plays them like music.' —Kae Tempest
'Lucid, lyrical, loaded, BOY FRIENDS is a love letter to friendship.' —Jackie Kay