HAPPY JULY! Coming up on www.kindig.co.uk this month: 7th: #TheNightStairs by @mserinkelly.bsky.social 14th: #HomeSick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 21st: #YouKnowWhatYouDid by @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social 28th: #TheInfiniteState by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙 #books 🩸📚 🪐📚 ⚡️📚

Last night the hugely talented, winner of last years @The_CWA Golden Dagger Award, @Anna_Mazz came to speak at a House of Lords bookclub. She was utterly fabulous as is her book Book of Secrets It is a really good read and I highly recommend it. It’s fabulous

I'm so looking forward to this. I worked with Laura years ago and her debut LITTLE WILD was published last week, and it's everything I hoped for and more.

because i have real work to do, i wrote a substack about two things that have defined my wild and precious life: teenage girl saints and magazine quizzes. which one are you? substack.com/@mserinkelly...

Write a twisty, suspenseful thriller that readers won’t be able to put down on our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course with bestselling novelist @mserinkelly.bsky.social! Course starts this Thurs, enrol now: www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/course/writi...

Calling all thriller writers! 🔎 Join us on Zoom on Weds 1 Jul for a conversation with bestselling author & CBC tutor @mserinkelly.bsky.social. We'll discuss the inspiration behind her addictive new thriller #TheNightStairs and her approach to the craft of crime writing. Get your £12 ticket:

Been a funny old week and still being knocked about by whatever plagued my voice the other week so just starting my 2nd book of the week A The Night Stairs by @mserinkelly.bsky.social Out July 9th from Vintage. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FC65VBP5/ #booksky #amreading #thenightstairs #books

'Nothing is off the table as long as it’s done well' Bestselling novelist and tutor of our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course, @mserinkelly.bsky.social shares her tips for aspiring psychological thriller writers.

Calling all thriller writers! 🔎 Join us on Zoom on Weds 1 Jul for a conversation with bestselling author & CBC tutor @mserinkelly.bsky.social. We'll discuss the inspiration behind her addictive new thriller #TheNightStairs and her approach to the craft of crime writing. Get your £12 ticket:

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

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Fisherman's Pi?

Florence and the Machine John Martyn The Prodigy (with Keith) Kate Bush The Manics (with Richie) Prince Michael Jackson Bjork Suede (with Bernard) Billie Eilish Madonna

A joy to The Skeleton Key still finding happy readers. I am so proud of this book.

Calling all thriller writers! Join us on 25 Jun for an evening in London with @mserinkelly.bsky.social in conversation with @lauramarshall.bsky.social. We'll discuss the inspiration behind Erin's latest novel plus all ticket-holders will receive a hardback copy of #TheNightStairs. Get your ticket:

This is the best pound you'll spend all year. a stunning new crime series, huanting and lyrical - I'm lucky enough to have read both this and the follow-up.

Spotted on Tumblr…

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

unfuckingbelievable (extremely believable)

Currently Reading: #TheNightStairs by @mserinkelly.bsky.social. Will be published 9th July by @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social, thank you to them & @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC. #BookSky 📚💙 #books 🩸📚 ⚡️📚

good news, everyone

My most recent novel, The Last Days Of Summer, pitched to my publisher as “a big sexy tearjerker,” is 99p for all of May. The best 99p you spend this month. Get involved! amzn.to/4vZDj2h

My latest Substack: sarramanning.substack.com/p/novels-abo...

Me when anyone says, ‘you don’t need more books.’ #metgala

what's interesting and encouraging about this going viral much as rosalia's brits and even harry styles' performance did is that in an age of ai slop nothing is as watchable as humans working together in performance

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

It's Stephen Lawrence Day. Everyone should familiarise themselves with the way he, Duwayne Brooks and his family were failed by the state. Crooked police, lawyers, press and politician. It's more corrupt than you remember, I promise you that stephenlawrenceday.org

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

When you’ve got United in the 21st century at 8pm and vigils in the 14th century at 5am

Knock knock. Who’s there? Hike. Hike who? solitary cow standing atop a mountain longs for home – Dundee

Hardman & co glass at Highbury Hall 1880's #owlishmonday #stainedglass

I'm going to be honest, "The Pope vs. the President" feels like the kind of thing Dan Brown would exclaim as he sits bolt upright, ripped from sleep in the middle of the night.

The Drowning Place (D.S. Joseph Ashe #1) by Sarah Hilary @sarah_hilary @VintageBooks liveanddeadly.net/2026/04/13/t... From @bethsy.bsky.social

Twenty years. One unforgettable debut. The #20thAnniversaryEdition of #Tombstoning by @dougjohnstone.bsky.social has arrived💙 With a brand-new introduction by @brookmyre.bsky.social! Dive back into the tension… Print: 🔗https://geni.us/Mb0bqB
 Ebook: 🔗https://geni.us/c10i

My first draft of The Skeleton Key was set in Dunwich rather than Hampstead, but it was too isolated and the lore didn't serve my plot so I had to make some up from scratch. One day I'll write a book set in that ghost city in the North Sea.

'Nothing is off the table as long as it’s done well' Bestselling novelist and tutor of our six-week online Writing a Psychological Thriller course, @mserinkelly.bsky.social, shares her tips for aspiring psychological thriller writers 🔎

A heads up on the new Arnold Clover out in ebook, print and audio on May 7 - and the chance to win an advance reading copy. davidhewson.com/the-new-arno...

a substack about me & all my namesakes mserinkelly.substack.com/p/a-legion-o...

My thriller NOTES ON A DROWNING is 99p in ebook this month and also in the audiobook sale. Two determined women unravel a scandal involving misogyny, conspiracy and murder. A Times thriller of 2025. www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Drowni...

Remember that in the UK, in space year 2026, it is *still* illegal to rip a CD you bought with your own money to play the resulting MP3s (or whatever) on your computer. That is not considered fair use. But AI companies eating all of our creative work for free soon will be. Fuck off, Labour.

Let's keep the good news going. Vote for me and help to banish ALL the creepy men from comedy. You only have til the 1st March!

the brass fuckin neck of this

The Irish alp-luachra - Joint Eater - preys on weary travellers sleeping beside streams or rivers. This newt-like fairy spirit slips down the throat and settles in the stomach, eating any food that enters while the unsuspecting host slowly wastes away. #FolkloreThursday (Image: John Horner)

"An Absolute Joy" - Ayisha Malik. You can preorder a signed copy here: www.waterstones.com/book/the-pin... And please, tell your friends!

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

The Secret Room, one of my all-time favourites, is out in paperback today. 🥰🎉🥳

My debut novel Tombstoning is reborn today! @orendabooks.bsky.social have produced a 20th anniversary edition with a beautiful cover by Mark Swan and fantastic introduction by @brookmyre.bsky.social. Special thanks to Karen Sullivan for making this happen. Print - geni.us/Mb0bqB Ebook - geni.us/c10i

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.