www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2... Let's be honest, *so much* would be explained if those photos do exist ...

Current reading: Middleland, by Rory Stewart

A proof copy in the wild ...

Dean Village. The last in my series of drawings of Edinburgh neighbourhoods. #art

Last day - Happy Hallowe'en!

It's the last week of October (and it's almost Hallowe'en), which means it's also the last week of The Unrecovered being Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month! Probably worth another boost then, and available here: www.waterstones.com/book/the-unr...

The perfect birthday present for this old Manics fan - and signed by the band!

Superb.

Proofs of my second novel are off to the printers! Soon I'll have the nerve-wracking experience of seeing what it looks like as a proper book ...

Spot the wood pigeon chick

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Glasgow's turn: all signed at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social, Sauchiehall Street and Byres Road!

I was hoping to get to Glasgow at the weekend to sign copies of the paperback, but couldn't make it. Aiming for tomorrow (Tuesday) now.

We’re delighted that Richard Strachan’s The Unrecovered has been chosen as Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month! Unsettling and evocative, deeply atmospheric and brilliantly engaging, The Unrecovered is an unforgettable historical debut inspired by a real life legend.

Just some of the thrilling research going into my third novel

Blogged a bit, signing books etc: richardstrachanwriting.blogspot.com/2025/10/scot...

A busy day going round Edinburgh signing copies of the paperback: Waterstones West End and Gyle, Toppings, and Golden Hare!

Yaaaaay! My beloved dark, unsettling, mad and truly wonderful The Unrecovered by @richardstrachan.bsky.social is the Scottish Book of the Month for @waterstones.bsky.social! Thank you so so much booksellers for championing such a brilliant book.

Delighted that The Unrecovered is Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for October!

One week until the PB of The Unrecovered is published! I'll be signing copies at Waterstones St Andrews and Dundee on Fri 3rd October, at 12pm and 2.30pm respectively. Looking forward to it!

Only two weeks until my Bloody Scotland debut-shortlisted and Saltire-longlisted novel The Unrecovered is published in paperback! Pre-orders are always important, so find links to preorder here: linktr.ee/richstrach

Blog: richardstrachanwriting.blogspot.com/2025/09/back...

Lovely morning at Poaches Turned Gamekeepers with former publishers E C Nevin & David Reynolds and former bookseller @richardstrachan.bsky.social talking about their debut crime novels @bloodyscotland.bsky.social @muswellpress.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

On my way to #BloodyScotland in Stirling ...!

Absolutely delighted to be longlisted for the Scottish National Book Awards this year, for The Unrecovered!

It was brilliant to chat to @richardstrachan.bsky.social about his debut novel, The Unrecovered, which has been nominated for the @bloodyscotland.bsky.social debut prize. Just search In My Good Books wherever you listen to podcasts!

The time for the West to start arming democratic Ukraine to the teeth and imposing crippling sanctions on fascist Russia was... over three years ago. Putin has been given time to switch his economy to a war footing. Stopping him now will be much more costly - and risky.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08... Fascinating article, a site to add to the Brutalist bucket list. (Archive link here: archive.ph/50hfx)

Carl Spitweg's 1848 painting of The First Railway. Just 8 years before the discovery of the Neanderthal human, this image of human progress, subterranean worlds and mythic beings resonates. 🏺🦣

Coming up this evening, 7pm!

Apply now!

Some M. John Harrison up next. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is one of the best novels I've read in the last ten years, but criminally I've never read anything else by him!

Only a few more days to go!

Blogging a bit, about fantasy and genre: richardstrachanwriting.blogspot.com/2025/08/fant...

"Most objections to AI do not arise through fear of the future, or inability to change. They arise because the people who control these AI platforms are dicks."

argonautbooks.co.uk/product/murd... Looking forward to doing this event with Lucy Ribchester at @argonautbooks.bsky.social on the 14th!

Finally getting round to some China Miéville, it's taken me long enough.

The Unrecovered is in Amazon's Kindle Monthly Deal promotion this month. A bargain to be had here: www.amazon.co.uk/Unrecovered-...

#WritingCommunity! Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

The Unrecovered is in Amazon's Kindle Monthly Deal promotion this month. A bargain to be had here: www.amazon.co.uk/Unrecovered-...

It all looks a bit Rocky Horror at the Botanic Gardens today.

Boosting this again, if you want to get a bargain

Delighted that the paperback of The Unrecovered (pub 9 Oct) is in the Waterstones 25% off pre-order! www.waterstones.com/book/the-unr... Offer runs until 23.59 on Thursday 31st July, enter: SUMMER25 to redeem the offer and receive 25% off on the Waterstones website and app #WPreorder #Booksky

Delighted that the paperback of The Unrecovered (pub 9 Oct) is in the Waterstones 25% off pre-order! www.waterstones.com/book/the-unr... Offer runs until 23.59 on Thursday 31st July, enter: SUMMER25 to redeem the offer and receive 25% off on the Waterstones website and app #WPreorder #Booksky

After extensive research into the current book market, I’ve identified five potentially award-winning concepts for my next project. But which one should I go with?

Some interviews up on the blog: richardstrachanwriting.blogspot.com/2025/07/vari...

Current reading: Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books. (Actually rereading for about the 50th time, I love them)

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

I've had this on the shelf for ages, finally getting around to it. I'm very much in the mood for earlier, pre-Tolkien fairy tale fantasy.

Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-p...