Thanks to @tonywhite.bsky.social for joining us to celebrate the publication of his latest, wildly original novel 'Phantom at the Feast.' Audience members - email me your postal address if you'd like the one of the covetable giveaways Tony mentioned at the end

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Thank you, David and all — a great pleasure to talk Phantom etc. with friends old and new this evening 🫡🙏✊

A big new interview as in-depth as this one with James Riley about Phantom at the Feast for the mighty 3am Magazine deserves a big new photo to go with it! Thanks all – and to Chris Dorley-Brown who shot this in subterranean Smithfield last September🫡🙏✊ www.3ammagazine.com/3am/police-p...

Tonight's live online gathering to celebrate the launch of Tony White's 'Phantom at the Feast' starts at 7pm BST. Free to join and all welcome. If you're not already invited and would like to join us, please email your details to me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

“Police, Punk, and Crosswords: An Interview with Tony White” — James Riley interviewed me about Phantom at the Feast for 3am Magazine. Here’s a clip from his intro! Read more www.3ammagazine.com/3am/police-p...

Earlier, in Rex King Country™, Falcon on Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1 — Rex’s home, as featured in The Fountain in the Forest, and Phantom at the Feast (No Exit Press @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social ) — was looking lovely in the evening sun today! bedfordsquarepublishers.co.uk/book/phantom...

Outgoing South West Water boss Susan Davy (pictured) received a £270,000 bonus for 2024-25. She presided over a cryptosporidiosis outbreak affecting 17,000 households in south Devon that made 140 people ill, hospitalising four of them. ‘Turd of the Week’ in the new Private Eye, out now.

Last few days of ‘Crosswords and Constraints: notebooks, plans and ephemera from the writing of the novel Phantom at the Feast’ at Matt’s Gallery, London, Weds-Fri 12-6pm ends Fri 10 July. Includes @theguardian.com crosswords from 1985! #Microdisney Peel Session! www.mattsgallery.org/exhibitions/...

Tomorrow at 7pm (BST). It's free, and all are welcome. If you're not already invited please let me have your contact details via my website email address: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Phantom at the Feast signed copies at wonderful @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing Cross Road, London, to remind you that I’n talking about the novel at @davidcollard.bsky.social ’s online gathering this Thursday 9 July 7pm — follow David for how to get on the list and join us! Looking forward!🫡🙏✊

‘I presumed kids’ books were written by people who were white and dead’: new children’s laureate Patrice Lawrence

Microdisney. Yes.

I’m talking about & reading from my new novel Phantom at the Feast with David Collard this Thurs 9 July at 7pm — free, all welcome! see David’s post below to get on invite list. If you’d like to read Phantom in advance, it’s in stock @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk and more🙏✊

Listen to Andy’s 🔥 1986 Microdisney mixtape 🔥 as part of ‘Crosswords and Constraints’ exhibition Weds—Fri 12-6pm, to 10 July. Matt’s Gallery, Nine Elms, London — an archival display of materials related to and generated by the writing of my new novel Phantom at the Feast published No Exit Press.

Listen to Andy’s 🔥 1986 Microdisney mixtape 🔥 as part of ‘Crosswords and Constraints’ exhibition Weds—Fri 12-6pm, to 10 July. Matt’s Gallery, Nine Elms, London — an archival display of materials related to and generated by the writing of my new novel Phantom at the Feast published No Exit Press.

I’m talking about & reading from my new novel Phantom at the Feast with David Collard this Thurs 9 July at 7pm — free, all welcome! see David’s post below to get on invite list. If you’d like to read Phantom in advance, it’s in stock @foylesforbooks.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk and more🙏✊

Delighted to confirm that Tony will join me for the online launch of his spectacularly entertaining novel on Thursday 9th July at 7pm (BST). Sending out invitations this week. If you're not already on my mailing list you can contact me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

Listen audiobook fans! So glad my new novel Phantom at the Feast is available from ALL your favourite audiobook suppliers — that’s *19 hrs 50 minutes* of Detective Sergeant Rex King, AND in the capable hands of our superb narrator Keith Whickham… Paperback/ebook from @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social

#FallFriday This is how we first heard The Fall on vinyl. The 10" compilation Short Circuit: Live at the Electric Circus was released two months before Bingo-Master's Break-Out. Stepping Out youtu.be/ttjCMYg2nsw Last Orders youtu.be/vB7IwVKU0vU

Yo Yo Yo You don't need a license to play this #PhantomattheFeast playlist! Songs referenced in/related to my new novel Phantom at the Feast, from The Clash to Krome & Time via Maddy Prior and Microdisney!) – Phantom in shops now from No Exit Press! open.spotify.com/playlist/6XT...

I always turn to @bigissue.com’s distinctive books coverage! So I was thrilled to write one of the magazine’s new “Recommended Reads” columns for this week’s magazine, to celebrate publication of Phantom at the Feast. To find out my recommends, do please buy a magazine from your local vendor!🫡🙏✊

Thames in SW London this evening

You don’t have to be on the beach like Wayne here to enjoy my new novel #PhantomattheFeast. There are signed copies in @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing Cross Road, London RN. “White’s epic police thriller…complex and engrossing,” said Mail on Sunday! Out now on No Exit Press. Thanks Wayne🫡🙏🏖️📚✊

My favourite books of 2026 (so far), alphabetically by author. The last on the list is Tony White's 'Phantom at the Feast' which will feature at our next online gathering on Thursday 9th June at 7pm (BST). All welcome!

📢👉🏼If you weren’t able to get to the IRL launch of my new novel Phantom at the Feast from mighty #noexitpress @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social at Matt’s Gallery, London, last week — see below! You are most welcome to join us for this international online gathering courtesy of @davidcollard.bsky.social

Love this Phantom at the Feast serving suggestion from Wayne Holloway — Phantom with a side order of spaghetti alla vongole veraci and a crisp white wine — and what a view😍Phantom at the Feast indeed!🏖️🫡🙏✊Thank you Wayne! #phantomatthefeast @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social

Thames in SW London an hour ago

I always turn to @bigissue.com’s distinctive books coverage! So I was thrilled to write one of the magazine’s new “Recommended Reads” columns for this week’s magazine, to celebrate publication of Phantom at the Feast. To find out my recommends, do please buy a magazine from your local vendor!🫡🙏✊

Is that a gun in your tote bag or are you just PLEASE DON’T SHOOT ME! Loved this from M John Harrison. Like JG Ballard dreaming of David Lynch and John Wyndham. @serpents-tail.bsky.social

I turn off the @404ink.bsky.social bookshop tomorrow FOREVER! It's your absolute last chance to get a book from us directly, all on sale. My final trip to the post office! www.404ink.com/shop

FINAL, FINAL DAY TO GET 404 INK BOOKS! Shop is turned off Tuesday 30th June! www.404ink.com/shop

📢👉🏼If you weren’t able to get to the IRL launch of my new novel Phantom at the Feast from mighty #noexitpress @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social at Matt’s Gallery, London, last week — see below! You are most welcome to join us for this international online gathering courtesy of @davidcollard.bsky.social

Great fun at the launch of Phantom at the Feast from #NoExitPress @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social at a sweltering Matt’s Gallery, London! Phantom at the Feast is in the shops now, with signed copies @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing Cross Road and more to come. I hope you enjoy it! Let us know🫡🙏✊

Yo Yo Yo You don't need a license to play this #PhantomattheFeast playlist! Songs referenced in/related to my new novel Phantom at the Feast, from The Clash to Krome & Time via Maddy Prior and Microdisney!) – Phantom in shops now from No Exit Press! open.spotify.com/playlist/6XT...

Looking forward to appearing on Literature Live on Resonance FM with @tonywhite.bsky.social & @mhayinde.bsky.social on Monday 13 July where I will be talking all things THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY pieceofpaperpress.com/literature-l...

There are signed copies of Phantom at the Feast on the No Exit Press imprint of @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social RN currently at (clockwise from left) @barnesbookshop.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social CXR! Or order Phantom paperback original from your favourite local bookshop🫡🙏✊

It was a great pleasure to go and sign a pile of copies of Phantom at the Feast out now from No Exit Press @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social ) @foylesforbooks.bsky.social CXR this afternoon. Thank you! You’ll find them on the ‘Foyles Favourites’ table ground floor, and in the Crime Fiction section! 🫡🙏✊

Brill, thanks! I'm particularly enjoying the Sheffield parts of the book, by the way (I'm a native) - I also took the cue to pull out Voice of America!

Q. How many bridges can you see in this photo of the Thames in Central London tonight? Bonus point for where the photo’s taken from!

You don't need a license to play this #PhantomattheFeast playlist! Songs referenced in/related to my new novel Phantom at the Feast, from The Clash to Krome & Time via Maddy Prior and Microdisney!) – Phantom out now from No Exit Press! open.spotify.com/playlist/6XT...

Q. How many bridges can you see in this photo of the Thames in Central London tonight? Bonus point for where the photo’s taken from!

@tonywhite.bsky.social in London today 🥵saw this and thought of Rex King #PhantomAtTheFeast

You don't need a license to play this #PhantomattheFeast playlist! Songs referenced in or related to my new novel Phantom at the Feast, from The Clash to Krome & Time via Maddy Prior and Microdisney!) – Phantom out now from No Exit Press @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social open.spotify.com/playlist/6XT...

Amazing! Rex’s local! Thanks for sharing, Lucy🫡🙏✊

📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Tony White (@tonywhite.bsky.social) with ‘Phantom at the Feast’! 🎊 buff.ly/1eHpPVC #BookLaunch #BookRelease #CrimeReads #TonyWhite #PhantomAtTheFeast

St Paul’s looking mighty fine as I left @capitalcrime.bsky.social after the #fingerprintawards this evening!

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave, so I'm recommending five excellent books about the Miners' Strike of 1984-85, if anyone wants to find out more. And there's maybe a surprise in here too... (BTW follow @orgreavejustice.bsky.social 🫡) pieceofpaperpress.com/2026/06/17/f...

Looking forward to picking up a copy and reading Phantom at the Feast. The Fountain in the Forest was dazzling and original

DS Rex King is back! Phantom at the Feast is in the shops today, published by the mighty No Exit Press ⛔️ @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social I hope you enjoy it! It’s #indiebookshopweek (13-20 June) @booksaremybag.bsky.social — support your local bookshop!🫡🙏✊