A Publication Day Spotlight – SPIT by David Brennan

A very happy publication day to David Brennan whose latest book, SPIT, is published today by époque press. It’s available to purchase now direct from the publishers. My thanks to the publishers for my digital copy and I promise a review is coming soon!

In the meantime, you can listen to David reading an excerpt from SPIT, and from his previous novel Upperdown, here.


About the Book

Welcome to Spit, where Danny Mulcahy is losing the run of himself, and where, as he and his friends dream of escaping small town life, an unexpected death sets the rumour mill into motion.

Suffering an unexplained, perpetual banishment the Spook of Spit is watching everyone and everything – nothing goes unnoticed. Bearing witness to the village’s half-truths and suppressed secrets, fragments of its own dark and obscured history are unveiled.

As events spiral out of control, the past, present and future are set to collide. Can there be redemption for past deeds? How do you escape when you are fated to remain? What does it take to break free from the confines of Spit?

Find Spit on Goodreads

About the Author

David Brennan won the Frank O’Connor Mentorship Bursary Award in 2016 and in 2017 he was longlisted for the Colm Tobin Award. He was one of the winners of the Irish Novel Fair in 2018 with his debut novel, Upperdown, which was published by époque press in June 2019.

David lives and writes in China. SPIT is his second novel. (Bio/photo credit: Publisher author page)

#TopTenTuesday Books on My 20 Books of Summer 2025 Reading List (Part 2) #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

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  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books on My Summer 2025 To-Read List. I did something similar a few weeks ago listing the first ten titles from my massive TBR pile that I’m hoping to read for the 20 Books of Summer 2025 reading challenge which runs from 1st June to 31st August. Here are the other ten books on my list. Links from the title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

  1. Force of Nature by Jane Harper
  2. The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle by Kirsty Wark
  3. Appetite by Philip Kazan
  4. Tombland by C. J. Sansom (audiobook)
  5. Anna of Kleve by Alison Weir
  6. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
  7. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
  8. All The Lives We Never Lived by Anuradha Roy
  9. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
  10. The Cross and the Curse by Matthew Harffy