Thrilled to be longlisted for a CWA Dagger—it's a real pinch-me-dream-come-true moment. As much as anything, it's a fab list of fellow authors to be amongst, even if, as my photo suggests, I look like a vet who's about to give you bad news about the family Labrador... thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-c...

Skip to 30 second in if you want get to the meat of it, but I defy you to watch this and not have a quiet weep...

Get your 6pm whisky ready! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cGh...

Thanks to the SCOTUS* ruling on tariffs, price reductions are being passed on to the consumer with immediate effect! Until the end of today, you can pre-order the paperback of The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts and pay 25% less! [* This is not true] www.waterstones.com/book/the-mys...

Only 27 days to have your say over the future of the BBC! Don’t leave it to other people - take part!. You love it? You think it could be better? There’s something special you don’t want to lose? Tell the government! Closes Tuesday 10th March. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Thank you, @marlowbookshop.bsky.social, for such a wonderful event - and I'm delighted to see that I seem to have an orange face to go with the orange book. (Gosh, just realised that orange is quite a triggering colour at the moment... sorry, everyone).

As part of Week Of Me™️ (i.e. it's pub week for my new book), I'm on Jeremy Vine's show on Channel 5 in a few minutes. Sadly no Jeremy today, but I get to talk to the wonderful Susan Calman instead. (And BTW, can I start the campaign right here and now of #RadziForPM)

The longest word you can write using only the top row of letters on a typewriter is ‘typewriter’

It’s true, it’s true, I shall soon be emerging from my wintery hutch like Punxsutawney Phil.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

marlowbookshop.co.uk/talks-and-ev... We're looking forward to celebrating The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts. Who would like to join us? Call 01628 473240 to reserve your place and have a chance to meet the author and have your copy signed. #MarlowMurderClub

Jeff Bezos has decided he has enough money and is now offering Murder on the Marlow Belle for half price! I don't know for how long his largesse will last, but buy it as the PERFECT Christmas present before he decides to up the price again to build more rockets. www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Marlo...

It's always exciting to receive uncorrected proofs in the post, and I can't wait to dive into these two books that arrived within 24 hours of each other (what are the chances!), but... um... it also feels a bit like pigeons coming home to roost.

Happy Advent to you and your kin! And everyone else's kin too, come to that. As every December so far this decade, I'm going to do an Advent Calendar of beautiful and brilliant carols, with each day's added to a YouTube playlist and also to the ongoing Spotify one, now in its sixth(!) year. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Well this is very exciting - the arrival this morning of the FIFTH Marlow Murder Club book, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts. Immediately absorbed onto the bookshelf with her sisters and looking mighty fine.

Since when did Microsoft Word become a distributed array / hive mind / swarm? Is this new or have I just never noticed before that it now thinks it's more than one entity?

Chuffed to bits to see that Murder on the Marlow Belle was won an audiobook award in the USA. Nicolette McKenzie is brilliant as the narrator of the series, and I am never surprised that the books win more awards for how they sound than for how they read. www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

Can concur. And I keep hoping my Finnish publisher will invite me back to Helsinki so I can do it again….

Okay, so we have a cover for the next Marlow Murder Club book! What do you think? While you're watching the vid, I'll be popping over to the sideboard to get myself just a small glass of whisky... (Thank you, as ever, to @manpreeteditor.bsky.social & @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social)

Another week on the USA Today Bestseller list! It's so very, very thrilling to know that so many Americans want to spend time with Judith (and therefore, by proxy, my Grandma Betty, Great Aunt Jess, and all of my other dotty female relatives who are in Judith's DNA). Go Team Marlow!

So excited - finally - to share some of the the AMAZING actors who signed up to S3 of The Marlow Murder Club. Each and every one of them was brilliant and I can't wait for the new series to land next year! uk.news.yahoo.com/jo-martins-d...

Just found out that Murder on the Marlow Belle is a USA Today bestseller in the States. Yee, as I'm sure no-one actually says, ha! Thank you to EVERYONE who's bought the book, and to the brilliant team at @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social who've helped Judith & Co. find so many new friends in the USA 🇺🇸

Heys pals, fill out this form with updated details(like country) @philipwblood.bsky.social @benskipper.bsky.social @martindbbrown.bsky.social @warmatters.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social @snellarthur.bsky.social

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A beautiful obit of Cleo Laine in The Times this morning. I spent hours and hours listening to her albums as a teenager. Just adored her. I'm also delighted to report that the Beneath The Line comments absolutely delivered as I hoped they would. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

I'm tin-rattling! The primary school writers room I run has produced a cracking script for our latest short film (comedy, time-travel). If we can muster a decent total by next Monday (July 21st) we can apply for matching funding from the county council and we hope go for a Spring shoot. 1/2

It’s lunch at Lord’s and so far it’s been a ‘three cravat’ morning. Wonder what the next two sessions will bring…..?

🇺🇸 America! 🇺🇸 For a short while, you can get 25% off the cover price on the latest Marlow Murder Club novel – in audiobook, digital or hardback – if you pre-order from Barnes and Noble. Coupon code at checkout: PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/s/murder%20o...

On set this morning, about to murder The Mayor of Marlow….

We are used to seeing The Marlow Murder Club filming all around the town centre, but it seems Marlow Bottom isn’t being left out and will feature in the next season🙌 Filming taking place there today 😊 @robthor.bsky.social

Roll up, Roll up, it's paperback pub week of Murder on the Marlow Belle! Your local Indie bookshop has it early! With sprayed edges, ooh! And signed by me, ahhh! And if you're quick, you even get a tote (AMAZE!) and tea towel (DOUBLE AMAZE!) #themarlowmurderclub @marlowbookshop.bsky.social

…and relax.

Come to set they said. It’ll be fun they said. (Luckily all interiors today - and it’s ALWAYS goosebumpy being on actual real live set with real live cast and crew…. #deffolivingthedream)

And to end this short flurry of posts, I had a fabulous (best?) outing to CPI Print to sign a bucketload of paperbacks with special sprayed edges (I WILL NOT CALL THEM SPREDGES THIS IS THE HILL I'M DYING ON) for all of the Indie bookshops in the UK. They look GAWJUS. Out on the 19th!

An amazing weekend at Fête du Livre D'Hyères: two full days behind a desk hawking books like a Covent Garden flower girl. I'd have gone mad (we all went a *bit* mad) if I hadn't had the brilliant Valerie Beuf from La Martinière at my side, and the hilarious @abirm.bsky.social across the way.

Posting v late, but it’s been a bit bedlamy finishing book 5 and kicking off series 3 of TMMC at the same time. Had a fab jaunt to New York for the @mysterywriters.bsky.social #Edgars2025. Lost (very happily) to Scott Frank, and hung out with @ianmooreauthor.bsky.social and Steven Sheil. Net win.

This was such a great day - the Agatha Christie festival is the best - but why oh why at an Agatha event of all things would I panic over the seven dials?! What an idiot.

Sitting in the sunshine in Uxbridge waiting for my son to take his driving theory test, and really very happy to be keeping company with this fabulous piece of art deco architecture.

Oo, 99p for MURDER ON THE MARLOW BELLE! (don't know how long for) If you were curious to read the latest Marlow Murder Club book, but didn't want to pony up the full price, now is your chance! www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Marlo...

This should be fab - do come along if you're in the area!

Morning, everyone, it's Marlow Murder Club Series 2 day! You can watch RIGHT NOW on the "U" app on any smart tv/device (just download it and create an account), or you can go old school and wait until 8pm tonight and watch it live on a telly on the U&Drama channel. u.co.uk/shows/the-ma...

It's Mothering Sunday in less than a fortnight. I'll be reading out the names of our #RememberedMums in church on the morning of Sunday March 30th. If you'd like to add your late mother's name, let me know. It can be oddly comforting to know her name will sound out once again. Reposts welcome. ❤️ 👑

@merylbrowntobin.bsky.social Hello! Just wanted to thank you for getting in touch with my agent about the fake facebook account, it's greatly appreciated. (I've reported the fake FB account, but I can't really fathom what it's doing. Is it scamming people? But how?) Anyway, thank you again! x Robert

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Can't wait for this, it's a real honour to be involved, but also quietly tickled by the BBC referring to me as Mr Thorogood. (In my head, Mr Thorogood is still very much my dad)

Just thrilled to bits to be on this list, it's real pinch yourself territory.

They came for the books, but stayed for the Des O'Connor songs. Thank you for having us, Chorleywood Bookshop!

It was a brilliant evening, superbly MC-ed by Janice - thank you, Chorleywood Bookshop, for having us!