He caused quite a stir when he went to Istanbul too.

Free stuff! My favourite stuff! And I'm going to be there talking about my books.

For fuck’s sake America!

It needs to be held to account right now. People need to understand just who these people are.

Patricia Crowther, known as UK’s oldest witch, dies aged 97

Congratulations to you both! Well, that's my Christmas reading taken care of. Sorry I can't be with you tonight, but have a wonderful time.

Look what the postman brought…

How much longer do we have to listen to this twaddle?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... Yes, please!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Zelenskyy is 100% right. Putin is laughing at us.

😂😂

Wúhú! My fave translator - he brought me my first #IcelandicNoir ( #Snowblind - look out for the fab 10yr anniv edition with gorgeous spredges AND bonus prequel #Fadeout!), and many, many since, including his own wonderful Gunnhildur series! Hours of pleasure thanks to Quentin & others like him! 🇮🇸💙📚

I am so jazzed frog man didn’t get to meet his idol.

Bet there's never been a crime book festival in a place like this. The Ateneo Veneto. Home to Venice Noir in November. All events free. #Venice

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Anyone who thinks that the US and Reform are no danger to our NHS should read this. We will become like those Americans who cannot afford to live.

Right up my street!

Hurrah!

HEH.

Bloody right, Ed Davey

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... What business is it of his?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... There are millions of us who want to rejoin. Maybe like the Brexiteers we should push and push and scream until we get a referendum.

@madocleonard.bsky.social Look in your DMs you have won a copy of The Wooden Library.

Published today in paperback.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... In my opinion he needs to stop trying to appease the right wing, they will never be satisfied. Concentrate on ordinary people and tax the rich. Oh and go for Farage. Investigate his tax affairs, who funds him? Do it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Dangerous as well as laughable. Good heavens Reform you are spoiling us!

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is the way to do it. Tell them to their faces

I wish someone in the UK would expose him like this. Masterful.

Good. Talking us down abroad bloody plastic patriot.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Dictators love this immortality stuff,don’t they.

Ikmen book 27 The Wooden Library published in paperback on 11th September. I’m giving away 2 copies to celebrate. RT and follow to enter. Winners announced Wednesday 10 September.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... Albanian history.

Yay!

Looking forward to this. David’s books are always minutely researched and have something profound to say.

Eels are really important ecologically and spiritually.

Thanks so much

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Why does this irrelevancy get headlines? His party is tiny and incoherent. No more of him and his manufactured outrage.

Venice Noir is going to the Venice Film Festival! Book your free ticket for our presentation there on September 4. Seats limited. www.eventbrite.it/e/venice-noi...

‘Addams Family Values’ (1993) 🎥 🥂 🖤

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Those of us on the Left need to up the ante. People need to known that the Right want to destroy the NHS, leaving the ECHR will leave THEM with no rights, and being effectively a pariah state will mean government sanctioned thugs on the streets.

Thank you

Published 11th September paperback of The Wooden Library.

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025... I am fascinated by how fragrance may affect the mind.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Lost all respect for him but I’m sure he’s right about tech bros. Dull, self-pitying inadequates

#books are awesome.