Jon Courtenay Grimwood
@joncg.bsky.social
Maltese born, Edinburgh novelist. ASD. Lapsed journalist. PhD St Andrews. Writes as Jonathan Grimwood, Jack G & Jon Courtenay G. Owns cat that’s a drug addict.
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
he/him
‘Triumphant…’ FT
http://jonathangrimwood.com
http://jackgrimwood.com
http://j-cg.co.uk
Just in case you want to push it over two million...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
September 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just in case you want to push it over two million...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
I guess it was inevitable the moment Starmer announced Mandelson had his full and unequivocal support...
September 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I guess it was inevitable the moment Starmer announced Mandelson had his full and unequivocal support...
Tell them their govt's going back to basics, and reintroducing the England flag carried at Hastings*. Then make drawing at badly a capital offence.
[there are so many things wrong with this statement I'm not going to bother to unpack them]
[there are so many things wrong with this statement I'm not going to bother to unpack them]
September 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Tell them their govt's going back to basics, and reintroducing the England flag carried at Hastings*. Then make drawing at badly a capital offence.
[there are so many things wrong with this statement I'm not going to bother to unpack them]
[there are so many things wrong with this statement I'm not going to bother to unpack them]
Full house, unsurprisingly, for Laurent Binet interviewed by Chris Power at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which is a bit of an ultimate buy one get two...
@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social
#eibf
@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social
#eibf
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Full house, unsurprisingly, for Laurent Binet interviewed by Chris Power at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which is a bit of an ultimate buy one get two...
@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social
#eibf
@chrispower.bsky.social @atahualpavasari.bsky.social
#eibf
M John Harrison at the Edinburgh Book Festival being M John Harrison, which frankly was enough.
August 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
M John Harrison at the Edinburgh Book Festival being M John Harrison, which frankly was enough.
Rereading this for my event with Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and Roland Gulliver at the Edinburgh Book Festival tomorrow, and it's actually not bad, which is a nice surprise.
August 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Rereading this for my event with Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and Roland Gulliver at the Edinburgh Book Festival tomorrow, and it's actually not bad, which is a nice surprise.
If you're at the Edinburgh Book Festival next Thursday, come and watch Eva Björg Egisdóttir (Home Before Dark) and me (wearing my Jack G, Arctic Sun hat) explore getting v v cold as writing method, and why Moominland Midwinter is one of the great unsung existential novels*
[*possibly not]
[*possibly not]
August 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
If you're at the Edinburgh Book Festival next Thursday, come and watch Eva Björg Egisdóttir (Home Before Dark) and me (wearing my Jack G, Arctic Sun hat) explore getting v v cold as writing method, and why Moominland Midwinter is one of the great unsung existential novels*
[*possibly not]
[*possibly not]
Fierce, brilliant, frankly terrifying 60 minute set from Australian artist Sam Kissajukian at Summerhall, talking about the 300 paintings he created in a single manic six month episode...
If you're at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can still get tickets, consider going...
(Seriously.)
If you're at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can still get tickets, consider going...
(Seriously.)
August 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Fierce, brilliant, frankly terrifying 60 minute set from Australian artist Sam Kissajukian at Summerhall, talking about the 300 paintings he created in a single manic six month episode...
If you're at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can still get tickets, consider going...
(Seriously.)
If you're at the Edinburgh Festival, and you can still get tickets, consider going...
(Seriously.)
'...but nothing she might find would be
familiar. other than
by inference: a certain turn of phrase,
the way two bodies touch, that momentary
halcyon of everyone
together, voices, singsong in the dark.'
-
Brilliant, and lyrical, tricksy and sad. As you'd expect from John B's final collection
familiar. other than
by inference: a certain turn of phrase,
the way two bodies touch, that momentary
halcyon of everyone
together, voices, singsong in the dark.'
-
Brilliant, and lyrical, tricksy and sad. As you'd expect from John B's final collection
August 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
'...but nothing she might find would be
familiar. other than
by inference: a certain turn of phrase,
the way two bodies touch, that momentary
halcyon of everyone
together, voices, singsong in the dark.'
-
Brilliant, and lyrical, tricksy and sad. As you'd expect from John B's final collection
familiar. other than
by inference: a certain turn of phrase,
the way two bodies touch, that momentary
halcyon of everyone
together, voices, singsong in the dark.'
-
Brilliant, and lyrical, tricksy and sad. As you'd expect from John B's final collection
Heading south to a friend's birthday party in London. Newcastle sun (and sea haar around Berwick.)
July 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Heading south to a friend's birthday party in London. Newcastle sun (and sea haar around Berwick.)
Sat on one floor of this cafe,with @theothersambaker.bsky.social sat on the other, occasionally texting each other about how shit writing is (it's still better than not writing.)
July 17, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Sat on one floor of this cafe,with @theothersambaker.bsky.social sat on the other, occasionally texting each other about how shit writing is (it's still better than not writing.)
Thought I'd give Rod S on the pyramid stage a miss and watch a Miyazaki instead.
#glastonbury
#glastonbury
June 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thought I'd give Rod S on the pyramid stage a miss and watch a Miyazaki instead.
#glastonbury
#glastonbury
Paris, innocents and not so innocents abroad, that damn missing manuscript.
Reading this and wondering how much about Robert Louis Stevenson is made up and how much is research...
Reading this and wondering how much about Robert Louis Stevenson is made up and how much is research...
June 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Paris, innocents and not so innocents abroad, that damn missing manuscript.
Reading this and wondering how much about Robert Louis Stevenson is made up and how much is research...
Reading this and wondering how much about Robert Louis Stevenson is made up and how much is research...
'From the pine tree, learn of the
pine tree; And from the bamboo,
of the bamboo.'
Spent the morning with Sam looking for hidden pandas at the Botanics in Edinburgh. I mean, if they didn't want adults looking they wouldn't have put some of them at head height, right?
pine tree; And from the bamboo,
of the bamboo.'
Spent the morning with Sam looking for hidden pandas at the Botanics in Edinburgh. I mean, if they didn't want adults looking they wouldn't have put some of them at head height, right?
June 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
'From the pine tree, learn of the
pine tree; And from the bamboo,
of the bamboo.'
Spent the morning with Sam looking for hidden pandas at the Botanics in Edinburgh. I mean, if they didn't want adults looking they wouldn't have put some of them at head height, right?
pine tree; And from the bamboo,
of the bamboo.'
Spent the morning with Sam looking for hidden pandas at the Botanics in Edinburgh. I mean, if they didn't want adults looking they wouldn't have put some of them at head height, right?
'Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows...'
#FrankieGoesToTheWhiteHouse
#FrankieGoesToTheWhiteHouse
June 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
'Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows...'
#FrankieGoesToTheWhiteHouse
#FrankieGoesToTheWhiteHouse
And it's done and I've successfully defended my thesis and passed my PhD viva, with only literal and missing words corrections.
Think the big shock was discovering it was fun; that, and happily using up more words than I'd usually speak in six months in ninety minutes.
Think the big shock was discovering it was fun; that, and happily using up more words than I'd usually speak in six months in ninety minutes.
May 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
And it's done and I've successfully defended my thesis and passed my PhD viva, with only literal and missing words corrections.
Think the big shock was discovering it was fun; that, and happily using up more words than I'd usually speak in six months in ninety minutes.
Think the big shock was discovering it was fun; that, and happily using up more words than I'd usually speak in six months in ninety minutes.
If you see this, post the most recent picture of you from your camera roll.
May 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If you see this, post the most recent picture of you from your camera roll.
'From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?'
Well, this is the most exciting post we've had in for a while...
Well, this is the most exciting post we've had in for a while...
April 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
'From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege?'
Well, this is the most exciting post we've had in for a while...
Well, this is the most exciting post we've had in for a while...
Holed up last night in a Dundee hotel & discovered I'm too old to pull an all-nighter, so went for a walk instead. Submitted thesis this afternoon - from the outside table of a cafe - & went for another walk, along St Andrews West Beach this time
Now sicker than the proverbial inebriated psittacine
Now sicker than the proverbial inebriated psittacine
March 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Holed up last night in a Dundee hotel & discovered I'm too old to pull an all-nighter, so went for a walk instead. Submitted thesis this afternoon - from the outside table of a cafe - & went for another walk, along St Andrews West Beach this time
Now sicker than the proverbial inebriated psittacine
Now sicker than the proverbial inebriated psittacine
About to start Laurent Binet's Perspectives, having just finished Atsuhiro Yoshida's v fey Goodnight Tokyo...
(Pic of desk in room in London hotel I used last week for work.)
(Pic of desk in room in London hotel I used last week for work.)
March 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
About to start Laurent Binet's Perspectives, having just finished Atsuhiro Yoshida's v fey Goodnight Tokyo...
(Pic of desk in room in London hotel I used last week for work.)
(Pic of desk in room in London hotel I used last week for work.)
Eat the Rich?
She came from Greece?
Mind the Gap!?
So many options.
She came from Greece?
Mind the Gap!?
So many options.
February 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Eat the Rich?
She came from Greece?
Mind the Gap!?
So many options.
She came from Greece?
Mind the Gap!?
So many options.
Some days are better than others. Turns out this is one of them.
February 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Some days are better than others. Turns out this is one of them.