#wildflowerhour Our garden today & recently.

🎉Celebrating 1 year of What Would You Say To An Astronaut 🎉 👩‍🚀🐕⭐️⭐️⭐️ Written Adam & Charlotte Guillain Designed by Gray Lyus Published by Hachette

"A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD is a tireless read and easily might be one of the best Charlie Parker novels that John Connolly has written thus far." Thanks to @bookreporter.bsky.social for this review: www.bookreporter.com/reviews/a-ri...

Here's a Page from my sketchbook, I decided to colour it up. I don't have a scanner anymore so had to take a pic with my ropey phone and use some photoshop skillz but I'm happy with how it turned out 😁👍 #illustration #sketchbook #photoshop #alien

When he’s not whining, he’s avoiding scrutiny, and when he’s not avoiding scrutiny he’s spending the money he secretly accepts from billionaires set to benefit from his ‘policies’.

Hi. Its been a while. Here are a couple of #mastersoftheuniverse pics I did (yesterday and today-so fresh!). REALLY enjoyed the movie, so daft, colourful, noisey and fantastic.

"I'm not trying to do anything spectacular except to change the fabric of our society and bring down the Government." It was twelve years ago today that comedian and actor Rik Mayall died unexpectedly aged 56. What a sad loss.

There are many reasons not to use ChatGPT, but one of them is that when you generate text any part of that text could’ve come from Mein Kampf. 😓

Oh my gosh. So sad to lose him. Always glad to see him wherever he appeared.

Delighted that Apple Books has also chosen the @simonaudio.bsky.social production of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD as a "Must Listen" for June! apple.co/mustlistens

Well, this is lovely: AppleBooks has chosen A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD as one of its Best Books of June. apple.co/bestbooks

Just a reminder: The Guardian entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI a little while back, so any time you see an article like this from them, you can immediately dismiss it as not credible journalism but just Sam Altman getting his money’s worth.

"Ian McShane should play Ahab in Muppet Moby Dick" is the most correct I've ever been about anything.

The first Greystones summer market was on Sunday. And I’m not there! Gotta say I really miss it this year- in particular chatting with people about my photos & Pippin. But there’s always Christmas! Regardless, do pay the market a visit if you. It’s a lovely day out. ☺️🙌

A conversation with John Parker of SHOTS magazine about A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, Charlie Parker's future, and more: wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ri...

Blog of the week: https://www.samanthawardsmithwriter.com/post/research-fact-v-fiction How I use fact and fiction in my debut novel #TowerofVengeance. #Blog #Book #Research #HistoricalFiction

I've gained new followers off the #AI impersonation debacle, so I'd like to introduce the REAL me. I'm Dr Lindsey Fitzharris & I'm a medical historian. Yes, it's a real job! If you ever wondered how you'd treat a toothache in 1782, or what would happen if you broke a leg in 1845, I'm your gal. /1

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

We’re (almost) going through a heatwave here in France! 🏝️🌸🩷 #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #summervibes #cozy

Twelve generations of Catholic ancestor ghosts are doing an end zone dance right now.

Dillon made the original "Look who finally decided to leave their room!" meme

"This one owned me from the first page until the last." Thanks to Seattle Book Mama for her review of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD: seattlebookmamablog.org/2026/05/25/a...

One week to the US launch date for A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD! A newsletter went out last night with links to stores that have the signed Parker's Maine map: hosted.verticalresponse.com/205621/0fb9c...

Look for a newsletter next Tuesday morning with details of where US and South African readers can get the Parker's Maine map y un boletín informativo para nuestros lectores en español . . . you can subscribe at www.johnconnollybooks.com if you're not already on the list.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, the 23rd Charlie Parker novel, goes on sale in the US 2 weeks from today (June 2). Live & Deadly says it's "crime fiction which is part ghost story, with a strong moral reckoning, and a good dash of existential horror... Another must read." liveanddeadly.net/2026/05/15/a...

A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD in this month's @readbookpage.bsky.social: "an unsettling book and one of the best of the series to date." www.bookpage.com/features/may...

En promotion aujourd'hui: the French edition of THE DIRTY SOUTH, from Presses de la Cité: www.lisez.com/livres/sud-p...

Some more photos from yesterday’s #Donegal #Inishowen jaunts

Some #Inishowen nature for anyone who needs to hear the sea. Yesterday, at Kinnagoe Bay

A kind review of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD in Shots Magazine: "indeed thrilling, full of twists and turns . . . while fans of the Parker mythology are going to be pleased with what they read, a casual reader will be able to enjoy this exciting novel." www.shotsmag.co.uk/book_reviews...

A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD is officially on sale in all formats today in Ireland, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. www.johnconnollybooks.com/charlie-park...

All are welcome to hear more about A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD tonight at the Cork City Library, but they'd like you to book a ticket: www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/events/an...

Thanks to @ala-booklist.bsky.social for this review of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD: "Dark and unsettling but with a rather impish sense of humor, the novel pulls us into the story on the first page and refuses to let us go until the last." www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

Can't share video longer than 3 minutes here, so you'll need to click the link. Dolly 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/...

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A nice mention for the new book, in interesting Irish company… www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

Beloved newsletter subscribers, our mailing service seems to be offline. While we figure this out, you can read the May newsletter here, con una nota para nuestros lectores hispanos. www.johnconnollybooks.com/news-letter/...

A newsletter's going out overnight, with information about how and where you can get signed copies of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD and/or the signed map of Parker's Maine. Check your mailboxes tomorrow, or sign up for the newsletter at www.johnconnollybooks.com.

US readers! Last day to enter this Goodreads giveaway for an early copy of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD (out June 2 from @atriabooks.bsky.social): www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Miggeldy kicks it way over the cross bar and out of Pearse Stadium. The ball is eventually found floating off Salthill.

Over at www.ciaraioch.com is where legends can support my work, with each archival-quality print on textured heavy fine art paper produced here in Ireland, shipping internationally in eco-friendly packaging, with free lil' mini-treats in every order, AND only 1 in 3 contain Ancient Terrible Curses

Details of the May 8 event for A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD at O'Mahony's in Limerick! 1pm at the O'Connell Street store.

ABC to XTC is next on @rtegold.bsky.social, with music from Erasure, Blondie, The Beat and more. Listen via the RTÉ mobile app or stream the show at www.rte.ie/radio/gold/

An early review of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD from The Express (UK): "another absolute corker from Ireland’s best mystery writer . . . Utterly gripping. 9/10." www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

LOVE this. Once I was walking in the Phoenix Park with a visiting college friend. A passing jogger tutted in disapproval and said, as only a Dub can, ‘Ah here, would you ever hold her hand.’ We laughed but he took my hand. Some shenanigans ensued; our 20th wedding anniversary is in September.

U.S. readers: you have one more week to enter the Goodreads giveaway for A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, the next Charlie Parker novel, goes on sale in the UK only three weeks from today (and a little sooner than that in Ireland): www.johnconnollybooks.com/charlie-park...

I did this memorial portrait of the gorgeous Penny a few weeks ago and now that the recipient has received it, I can share her with the world. Everyone, meet the very much loved and missed Penny!

US Goodreads members! Enter between now and April 30 for a chance to win an early copy of A RIVER RED WITH BLOOD, coming from @atriabooks.bsky.social on June 2: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...