Charles Beaumont
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I write books about spies.
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On his show today
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
gave the most brilliant shoutout for A Spy at War.
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Well, that was intense. Excellent show at Soho place theatre - the first stage adaptation of Le Carré's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. Bravo.
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Yes I also enjoyed it very much. Definitely recommended. (And in a sample of one - my companion - you don’t need to have read the book.)
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Life goals: your book being spotted on a shelf
@barnesandnoble.com
in NYC.
21 days ago
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Laura Rozen
22 days ago
Listened to the audible, it is very good and disturbingly prescient
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Marc Polymeropoulos
22 days ago
Great book!
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🚨🚨Very excited to share that A Spy Alone is now out in the US🚨🚨 Order your copy now!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813559...
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A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont: 9798217253067 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC 'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator 'Exceptional' David McCloskey, author of The Seventh ...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/813559/a-spy-alone-by-charles-beaumont/?ref=PRHB47CAA04E528&aid=8084&linkid=PRHB47CAA04E528&brid=fcTlRIQiOaiNLlIK9rC9EQ
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Mdh
26 days ago
Although it’s fiction there’s a really interesting book from
@aspyalone.bsky.social
on this called “A spy alone” which explores exactly this topic in the modern age through the eyes of someone who recently retired from about 20 years inside of SIS and was very familiar with the topic in real life.
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“Crème de la crime”. Not that I’m really a crime novelist but
@waterstones.bsky.social
Victoria are paying me a compliment I’ll happily take.
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Super gratified that A Spy at War was in
@thetimes.com
list of best thrillers of 2025.
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about 2 months ago
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Eliot Higgins
3 months ago
Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup
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Jack Murphy
3 months ago
People should ask themselves why it isn't.
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This was a really thoughtful and lovely review. Thank you
@thebookstack.org
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3 months ago
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Bookstack
3 months ago
New book review: Charles Beaumont's debut novel "A Spy Alone", from 2022. "The coolest thing I noticed about Charles Beaumont's 2022 debut ‘A Spy Alone’ is..."
newbooks.substack.com/p/a-spy-alone
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A Spy Alone
Book by Charles Beaumont (2022)
https://open.substack.com/pub/newbooks/p/a-spy-alone?r=4yinnn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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@unatiers
3 months ago
Because he’s a Russian asset. How much did he transfer to spsteen?
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Chris Buijink
4 months ago
Just finished the prequel after reading the sequel.
@aspyalone.bsky.social
Charles Baumont’s
#ASpyalone
. Masterful & simply
#unputdownable
. A
#greatread
& a mirror of our troubled times
#mustread
@canelobooks.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Gosh what an honour! thank you for these kind words
@chrisbuijink.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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sianushka.bsky.social
4 months ago
Russia’s cruelty and lies - this is what terrorist state looks like.
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A Spy at War is currently a #3 bestseller.
4 months ago
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It was my pleasure to appear on the Disorder podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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Ep 134. Why Spying is vital in our age of Disorder
Podcast Episode · Disorder · 05/08/2025 · 46m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/disorder/id1706818264?i=1000720663509
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It was my pleasure to appear on the Disorder podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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Ep 134. Why Spying is vital in our age of Disorder
Podcast Episode · Disorder · 05/08/2025 · 46m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/disorder/id1706818264?i=1000720663509
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dag
4 months ago
So much is going on in US law and policy that this event might get lost in the noise. But this appointment is indicative about how far (and bad) things have gone. And it is the Senate that is culpable for not blocking this.
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sianushka.bsky.social
4 months ago
If you read one thing today make it this by
@lukeharding1968.bsky.social
on the frontline of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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‘That idiot Putin wants to take it all’: Russia’s kamikaze tactics fuel a slow advance in Ukraine
Latest wave of displaced citizens curse ‘imperial ambition’ that has led to an estimated one million Russian casualties
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/27/that-idiot-putin-wants-to-take-it-all-russias-kamikaze-tactics-fuel-a-slow-advance-in-ukraine
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Chris Buijink
4 months ago
Great
#SummerRead
: Charles Beaumont’s
@aspyalone.bsky.social
#ASpyatWar
: a gripping tale of betrayal and revenge
#unputdownable
#mustread
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Jeff Popple
4 months ago
Here are my favourite crime and thriller books of 2025 so far - Part 2!
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Matthew Spencer
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John Lawton
murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/mid-year-rev...
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MID YEAR REVIEW: THE BEST CRIME AND THRILLER BOOKS OF 2025 … SO FAR!
I am about to head off on a seven week holiday, and thought it would be a good time to look back over the books I have read so far this year and sort through some of the main releases for the rest …
https://murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/mid-year-review-the-best-crime-and-thriller-books-of-2025-so-far/
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mitch
5 months ago
Just finished a couple. A Spy Alone - Charles Beaumont. Really good. A clever Le Carre style plot overlaid on the politically apathetic society that began to emerge in the twenty teens. I’ll absolutely read this again.
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Some signed copies of A Spy Alone in
@blackwells.bsky.social
in Oxford.
4 months ago
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This was such a good episode with
@tim-weiner.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Go and buy this book
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Laura Shepherd-Robinson
5 months ago
My new book, THE ART OF A LIE, is out in the UK next week! It's a tale of murder, trickery, love, betrayal & Georgian London's first 'iced cream' parlour. I can't wait for you to meet Hannah & William, my two favourite characters of any of my books 💚🍍🍦 💚
www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Lie-Grip...
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Claire Carter
5 months ago
It’s a fantastic book. As was A Spy Alone
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Quick update for the case officer.
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Gail Helt
5 months ago
Trump said today he doesn’t think a nuclear deal with Iran “is that necessary,” and said they’ll just go back to their world and essentially rebuild. Um. No deal means no monitoring nuclear sites and that Iran is more likely than not to resume a nuclear program. What was the point of bombing?
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Impossible to find these in the States but on a WH Smith shelf at Terminal 5. Both are great reads.
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Oh brilliant! I think you can order them from Amazon or Barnes&Noble etc but yes, they don't seem to be generally on shelves.
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Sara Rich Dorman
5 months ago
My second hand copy came with these useful annotations on the endpapers…🤔
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5 months ago
Just finished "A Spy at War" by Charles Beaumont
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IntelArchive
5 months ago
New addition Book: A Spy at War: Former MI6 Operative by Charles Beaumont (published 27-03-2025)
https://www.canelo.co/books/a-spy-at-war-charles-beaumont/
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A Spy at War by Charles Beaumont | Canelo
Ebook and Paperback
https://www.canelo.co/books/a-spy-at-war-charles-beaumont/
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Completely delighted to be picked as one of the summer books of 2025 by @ft.com
5 months ago
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sianushka.bsky.social
5 months ago
Today is set to be an historic day: the decriminalisation of abortion in England and Wales. No more women questioned and criminalised for exercising our human right to bodily integrity.
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“First as a case officer then agent runner” 🤔 And the difference is?
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Matt Fulton
6 months ago
Temu RQ-180 just dropped.
www.twz.com/air/massive-...
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Massive Stealth Flying Wing Emerges At Secretive Chinese Base
It's possible we are seeing a very large high-flying stealth drone or China's long awaited H-20 stealth bomber.
https://www.twz.com/air/massive-chinese-stealth-flying-wing-emerges-at-secretive-base
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AI - a little story (thread). My pen-name is one I share (accidentally, I'm ashamed I'd never heard of him) with a far more eminent writer who died nearly sixty years ago. (No, that good-looking guy isn't me.) This is impossibly confusing to AI. 1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
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Charles Beaumont - Wikipedia
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6 months ago
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AI - a little story (thread). My pen-name is one I share (accidentally, I'm ashamed I'd never heard of him) with a far more eminent writer who died nearly sixty years ago. (No, that good-looking guy isn't me.) This is impossibly confusing to AI. 1
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Charles Beaumont - Wikipedia
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David Higham
6 months ago
Why does Britain have low productivity growth? Time for your periodic reminder that Sir Alec Cairncross wrote this 55 years ago. This is a problem of politics and governance, not analysis. There are no magic bullets.
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Simon Edmonds
6 months ago
Two great novels by
@charlesbeaumont.bsky.social
@aspyalone.bsky.social
The second A Spy at War chillingly set in the Russia war against Ukraine.
#SlavaUkraini
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thank you
@bunnymcgee.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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7 months ago
joy of a holiday is a book & double the joy when written by friends or relatives A Spy at War a super sequel to A Spy Alone - Charles Beaumont set in Ukraine A Casterbidge Tale - another lovely sequel to The Second Mrs Clare - Mike Langridge No Last Word a tribute to Harold Pinter - David Erdos
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