Tim Hannigan
@timhannigan
Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Another day, another preorder discount... 25% off #ThePathlessLand and pretty much everything else due for publication in the next couple of months - discount code SUMMER26, available until day's end Friday: www.waterstones.com/book/the-pat...
Excellent second #travelwriting workshop day on Whiddy Island for @wcorklitfest.bsky.social with a great gang of participants - dolphins on the way over and a bit of lunchtime exploration built in. #wclf2026
Under the lip, evening bodyboard session in the Gwenver shorebreak, approximately thirty years ago. Where did those decades go?
Not the actual book yet, but the rough beast known as an "uncorrected proof". Nice to see a hard copy, though, with Matt Johnson's brilliant cover art. Final version out 3 September. #thepathlessland
A Writer's Progress, 1999-2011 - exactly as is should be (and those first four attempts are securely entombed in a box under the bed - as they should be). I am very grateful that my only source of information on publishing during that journey was The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook...
A Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Chef, c.1999. (And a photographic record from a few years later - self at left.)
Penzance Litfest next week, and I'm on interviewing duty for the travel writing sessions as usual. They've given me excellent ones this year. First up, Katie Carr, talking about Thundery At Times (part of the most unusual travel writing projects I've come across): www.pzlitfest.co.uk/event-detail...
Here - have some more #ThePathlessLand "assets"... (Book's out 3 Sept.; it's available to request on Netgalley and the publisher also has hard-copy proofs for interested reviewers, bloggers etc. If that's you, send me a message and I'll put you in touch): www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
This little phrasebook, which I wrote a decade ago, has ended up in the AI-driven machinery of a particularly persistent book marketing spammer. They "think it deserves more visibility"! They can help! Am tempted to actually reply to this one...
Full cover wrap for the new book - out early September in hardback, eBook and audio... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathless-...
And the daily tide of AI-generated author spam begins with one for... a phrasebook! They "keep thinking about" it, apparently. Who are the "right people" to place a short 2017 guide to colloquial Indonesian in front of, pray tell - and how will they find them?
Oh god! They've found my academic email address now too! Will it never end?
This stuff is incoming daily now. There's an uncanny horror in what AI spins from the limited information on a book which hasn't yet been published: words with some kind of syntactical coherence but no meaning. It's like trying to drink a glass of water but finding no actual liquid passing your lips
This is a new one in the incoming barrage of author spam... You want to go make a Wikipedia page for my obscure 15-year-old not-very-good debut? And on the basis of a hostile review at that? Fire away - but you're getting no money from me!
These are what the marketing folks call "assets". Have some assets for #ThePathlessLand, which is out in early September...
Old-school selfie outside Baba Ghundi in the Chapursan Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, late autumn 2004. The snow had fallen in the night and scuppered my plan to walk up to the border.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Final day to get the 20% discount (code: PREORDER20) on #ThePathlessLand - and a bunch of other forthcoming titles - via bookshop. org. It's about a long walk across Ireland, footpaths, countryside access, land history etc... uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
An old image, thrown up by Facebook: the game of kings; a polo match in Gilgit, northern Pakistan, autumn 2009.
In today's spam-scam author mail, "Deb Mayer's" AI has produced an interesting interpretation of my next book. Anyway, #ThePathlessLand is out in September, and is *not* about the "tension between visible architectural surfaces and the concealed historical layers". www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathless-...
A sneaky small-wave session at Strandhill between classes and meetings is definitely one of the perks of teaching at ATU Sligo...
Gentle reminder that if you're looking for a nonfiction book about a long walk with "wild camping" in Cornwall in which the author politely paid at all the campsites he used and didn't make anything up, there's this thing called #TheGraniteKingdom by some bloke called Hannigan...
On the home-cliff this evening. Penwith, #TheGraniteKingdom, Cornwall
A hefty groundswell, nicely combed by the strong southeasterly but with a certain unruliness still, thumping in at the fracture-point between the granite and the killas in good light yesterday afternoon.
At the proof stage now. The new book - #ThePathlessLand - is inching towards tangible existence. Due out early September. (Cover art again by the brilliant Matt Johnson.)
And in today's incoming author spam-scam-mail, I am being "invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair" to promote my not-very-good debut, which appeared 15 years ago! Yay! Finally the chance to earn out on that one, maybe...
One for the #TravelWriting scholars. Samia Ounoughi and I seem to have been working on this book forever, but it's out at last! It features a great range of contributions. If you have access to an academic library and an interest in travel writing scholarship, please request a copy!