Need a podcast for your Sunday morning? Check out our latest episode in which @mattfulton.net chats with former MI6 (SIS) officer @aspyalone.bsky.social

Gets everywhere…

Great to see A Spy at War on sale in Melbourne airport!

I wrote a SubStack about my books of the year, enjoy! The photo is in no way related to the books, it is just from the section feat. links to my latest articles. open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

I wrote for #SpyReads about why spies write about spies. crimereads.com/spies-writin...

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.

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.)

Life goals: your book being spotted on a shelf @barnesandnoble.com in NYC.

Listened to the audible, it is very good and disturbingly prescient

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...

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.

“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.

Super gratified that A Spy at War was in @thetimes.com list of best thrillers of 2025.

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

People should ask themselves why it isn't.

This was a really thoughtful and lovely review. Thank you @thebookstack.org

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 @canelobooks.bsky.social @aspyalone.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social #ubergroup #bookreview

Because he’s a Russian asset. How much did he transfer to spsteen?

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.

Gosh what an honour! thank you for these kind words @chrisbuijink.bsky.social

Russia’s cruelty and lies - this is what terrorist state looks like.

A Spy at War is currently a #3 bestseller.

It was my pleasure to appear on the Disorder podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

It was my pleasure to appear on the Disorder podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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.

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...

Great #SummerRead: Charles Beaumont’s @aspyalone.bsky.social #ASpyatWar: a gripping tale of betrayal and revenge #unputdownable #mustread @canelobooks.bsky.social

Here are my favourite crime and thriller books of 2025 so far - Part 2! @fionathehardy.bsky.social Matthew Spencer @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social @mbrisso.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social @angiefayemartin.bsky.social @aspyalone.bsky.social John Lawton murdermayhemandlongdogs.com/mid-year-rev...

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.

Some signed copies of A Spy Alone in @blackwells.bsky.social in Oxford.

This was such a good episode with @tim-weiner.bsky.social

Go and buy this book

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...

It’s a fantastic book. As was A Spy Alone

Quick update for the case officer.

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?

@aspyalone.bsky.social Impossible to find these in the States but on a WH Smith shelf at Terminal 5. Both are great reads.

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.

My second hand copy came with these useful annotations on the endpapers…🤔

Just finished "A Spy at War" by Charles Beaumont

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/

Completely delighted to be picked as one of the summer books of 2025 by @ft.com

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.

“First as a case officer then agent runner” 🤔 And the difference is?

Temu RQ-180 just dropped. www.twz.com/air/massive-...

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...