My goodness, sounds exciting. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...

Twenty years after CONTROLLED BURN, his utterly essential American stories, there is finally another Scott Wolven collection. Each of his tales do more in a handful of pages than 99% of novels out there manage in hundreds. This is the real fuel.

This book's alright, and now it's incomprehensibly cheap to boot. WHITE CITY for 99p. At that price, you might as well buy a copy even if you own a dead tree edition. (Don't worry, authors don't require food or gas or leccy. We are fuelled by spite alone) www.amazon.co.uk/White-City-s...

🔪 CRIME FICTION EVENT! 🔪 We’ve a fantastic crime fiction event coming up for next week with two incredible authors! Guy Hale and @dominicnolan.bsky.social will be at our Stockport shop on Thursday 31st July discussing their brilliant new thrillers - PUT OUT THE LIGHT and WHITE CITY. 🎫👇🏻

Je suis beach ⛱️

VINE STREET was exceptional, but WHITE CITY goes above and beyond ― Ian Rankin One of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around ― Jane Casey Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel ― Sarah Pinborough Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer ― Mark Billingham

Stuff I liked the taste of from the first half of 2025 (list in alt)

An investigation into the missing occupant of a Margate flat turns into a rumination on the many ways people can disappear from places, and how places change and themselves effectively disappear, and how these things go hand in hand with the various movements of grief. Utterly superb, essential read

Fabulous review of VINE STREET by Jeremy Black in The Critic. Satisfying to see a book a few years old make an appearance in press pages, especially with a reviewer not adverse to putting the boot in. "This is a sprawling masterpiece... A major work of great power." thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-...

The 5AM StoryTalk newsletter has been an exciting space for talking craft, and @colehaddon.bsky.social has turned it into a podcast. Early guests include Thomas Jane, John August, Hart Hanson, and Kevin Peter Hand (director NASA's Ocean Worlds Lab). Give it a spin: open.spotify.com/show/2lAv8DK...

A week on Thursday, I'll be at Waterstones St Albans asking @heathercritchlow.bsky.social wonderfully unanswerable questions, such as why do we write? What is a character? When is crime fiction not a crime novel? And, most crucially, what biscuits go best with writing tea?

The boys are back in town… New Wyndham and Banerjee - book 6 - out 13th November 2025

Might give this a read, I suppose. Heard the writer's not bad.

One of my favourite podcasts that I've done, @nadinematheson.com and I had a good nag about writing these book things, the five ring circus we call publishing, and how failed dreams can lead to new ambitions. Spotify link (others in Nadine's bio): open.spotify.com/episode/19u0...

My latest Substack post is live. A reading report for the last couple of months, featuring Queensland noir, Australia's first female crime writer, Richard Stark’s Parker, Bernie Gunther & the pulp of Mort Kunstler. Free to read at the link below. andrewnette.substack.com/p/reading-re...

Talking to @interviewroomone.bsky.social about writing the past interviewroomone.com/dominic-nola...

Great interview with @dominicnolan.bsky.social, whose novels Vine Street and White City I’d heartily recommend to anyone with a passion for good writing regardless of genre.

Was asked for thoughts on publishing by @interviewroomone.bsky.social "More bang average middle-of-the-road shite from corporate publishers, please. The quicker we get the process of publishing eating itself over and done with, the sooner we can build something interesting from whatever remains."

Here's the top 10 books I've read this year 📚💙 @dominicnolan.bsky.social @meggardiner.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @markleggattbskysoc.bsky.social @jordanharper.bsky.social @louberney.bsky.social @atticalocke.bsky.social @conorniland.bsky.social & Femi Kayode! 👏🫶

Highly recommend this book from Dominic Nolan, le grand fromage

How have I never read anything by @dominicnolan.bsky.social before, Vine Street is an absolute masterpiece (which I ordered having seen the acclaim for White City, also in the TBR pile) will be searching the rest of the back catalogue as well!

We all know our Gallic cousins have superior taste in crime fiction, and to prove the point Télérama have included VINE STREET in their best polars of the year. Je suis un grand nom, as if we didn't know. www.telerama.fr/livre/les-vi...

Some excellent selections from some fine writers in the Daily Express books of the year feature (in print tomorrow and Wednesday), and I don't just say that because White City is one of the picks. "A hard-hitting novel with a very human heart." Cheers, Sir Ian www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1986...

The lord's work

What better way to start a Saturday in February than watching me trying to keep up with @dvbishop.com and @annamazz.bsky.social? @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social better have a decent brew on. Saturday 8th Feb, Stockport Guildhall.

WHITE CITY ranks in The Times 10 best crime novels of the year. Robbery. Race. Riots. From the unsolved Eastcastle Street heist in 1953 to the Bank Holiday weekend Notting Hill Riots in 1958, it's crime fiction as national reckoning. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Good post day

I was fortunate enough to enjoy an early read of THE RUSH by @bethlewis.bsky.social. A bold, bruising, and authentic tale of women forging fresh versions of themselves, and of womanhood, on the frontier. New women for a New World - like Thomas Hardy writes Deadwood. Look out for it next summer.

“I hate Agatha Christie so much, I can hardly bear to say the name of that village of hers.” In SHOTS MAGAZINE, I write about the unseen tradition of British noir and how the Golden Age wasn't just bourgeois sleuths, but teemed with glorious lowlifes too. www.shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view...

A deep rummage in the shelves for @grabthisbook.bsky.social's Decades project. Five authors crucial to me as a reader and a writer - Alexander Baron, Bette Howland, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and the wonderful but woefully underread Mark Costello. Read me evangelize here: grabthisbook.net?p=7840

"Nolan makes you care about his characters. I sometimes wanted to look away but couldn't. Great writing does that." WHITE CITY in the New Statesman books of the year, thanks to Ian Rankin 🙏 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

I'm not going to write a goddamn word today. I'm drinking tea and reading.

Anyone in London know where to buy PERSPECTIVE magazine? They've published probably my favourite review of WHITE CITY and I'd love it in print. Even Good News on Berwick Street didn't have it, and I'm pretty sure they even carry the Junior Gazette. www.perspectivemedia.com/latest-revie...

My new novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, is coming on 2/4/25 from Soho Crime. Cover design by Luke Bird—I love it so damn much. More dope, blurbs, and an excerpt can be found here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768961... Would be grateful as hell if you’d preorder it. Thank you kindly!

Amazing to see @dominicnolan.bsky.social's epic new book #WhiteCity in Laura Wilson's best crime and thrillers round up in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... 🙌

This is how I actually appear at events

Reading REVOLUTION IN 35mm had sent me back to BAMN to see what opportunities there are for complementary/crossover reading

Also grabbed a copy of REVOLUTION IN 35mm, an exciting collection on resistance films, edited by @pulpcurry.bsky.social and Samm Deighan, and superbly illustrated with stills and posters.

New on the doormat, a thunking great volume of collected short fiction by the amazing James Sallis, from Soho Crime. Contains twelve new stories that are also available separately in their own edition from No Exit.

Popped into @jebookshull.bsky.social the morning after @hullnoir.bsky.social and chatted with photographer Darrin Stevens about the Alec Gill Hessle Road collection, and snapped up a copy. Excellent street photography that keeps lost people and places alive.

My words in the words of others "The best crime novel of 2024" — The Times "Superb" — Guardian "Quite breathtaking" — Daily Mail "I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year" — Ian Rankin "Mind-blowing...frankly an amazing piece of work" — Sarah Pinborough WHITE CITY is out now