ALL WELCOME at 10am Wed 1/10 when I'll be saying a few words to welcome Whitstable's new (& only) secondhand bookshop in aid of the gr8 charity Pilgrims Hospices. I'll be signing 25 new books of mine that I've donated to this shop, Horsebridge Books, at 9 Horsebridge Rd CT5 1AF. Pls share news. 🙏

All 3 seasons of Whitstable Pearl are available on subscription on Acorn TV but Season 3 will ALSO join 1 & 2 on Freeview"s @dramachannel on 25/7 July! Season 3 is ot on DVD on 4/8 with a Box Set for 1-3! YOU can win a copy of that Box Set via Community Ad Magazine soon. Watch out for details!

Hi @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Look what my local Reform-led Kent council is doing! I'm writing a press release with comments/reactions from me & fellow authors. If you'd like to message me a quote, that would be brilliant! Jx www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AMAZING DEAL for my US/Canada readers for a LIMITED TIME ONLY. My latest Whitstable Pearl book $2.99 for the Kindle & $12.45 for the paperback! The books are now a hit TV series starring Kerry Godliman as detective, Pearl Nolan. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1... #books #tvseries #america #canada

Get them quick! Tkts & T shirts for A New Day Festival 15-17 August! I'll be there for 3 days of bands 🎼🎵🎶 food 🍔🍗🌮🍿 & drink 🍷🥃 while meeting readers & signing my Whitstable Pearl Mystery crime books 🔍📚 all in the gr8 setting of Mount Ephraim Gardens 🌳🌷🌿 Details below. Be there - or be square. 😉

A new reader!!!! Signed copies available at Harbour Books in Whitstable! (Lots of terriers queueing up for them apparently ... 😉) Jx ❤️ #books

Because every horror writer needs some comedy. ;)

Pathetic. The most successful money laundering operation in the UK. Nationalise it now BBC News - Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty www.bbc.com/news/article...

BREAKING NEWS. Huge thanks to @skwawkbox.org & Whitstable @uklabour.bsky.social member Chris Weller for exposing how an important Canterbury Labour Party motion was blocked from demanding a halt to sending arms to Israel. See: skwawkbox.org/2025/05/22/e... #gaza @captainlibatron.bsky.social

BREAKING NEWS. Huge thanks to @skwawkbox.org & Whitstable @uklabour.bsky.social member Chris Weller for exposing how an important Canterbury Labour Party motion was blocked this week from demanding a halt to sending arms to Israel. Read: skwawkbox.org/2025/05/22/e... #gaza #armstoisrael

It was gr8 to be invited to @whitstabletownfc.bsky.social football ground y'day to talk to Phil Harrison of BBC Radio Kent about our team's match at Wembley on Sunday in the FA Vase final. Tune in today to hear about our anthem sung by Suggs. Come on you Oysters! #favase #Whitstable #football #suggs

My latest novel is a chilling standalone thriller - The Mantuary. Set in #yorkshire and focusing on #domesticabuse and #coercivecontrol, it's available at only £10.11 on Amazon on the following link: www.amazon.co.uk/Mantuary-Jul... Don't have nightmares.... Jx

My latest 5-star novel is a chilling standalone #thriller - The Mantuary. Set in #yorkshire and focusing on #domesticabuse and #coercivecontrol, it's available at only £10.11 on Amazon as below. Don't have nightmares.... Jx www.amazon.co.uk/Mantuary-Jul...

From the Punch archive, 1910: “It’s no good talking to me about Sisyphus: he was only a man.”

Read somewhere that most laugh tracks were recorded in the 40s and 50s. So all those people laughing at Big Bang Theory? Dead.

ALSO my experience but I've had shocking interaction from so-called "feminists" who, while denying #transrights exploit their "victimhood". That includes my MP Rosie Duffield. Read this piece I co-authored with her former staffer Libby Bradshaw: whitstableviews.com/2024/06/23/f... #rosieduffield

"Ms. Giuffre said she was recruited to the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s resort" Fla"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/us/virginia-giuffre-dead.html#:~:text=In%20interviews%20and%20depositions%2C%20Ms,resort%20in%20Palm%20Beach%2C%20Fla.

Giuffre wrote "... no way, shape or form am I suicidal... If something happens to me – in the sake of my family do not let this go away and help me to protect them. Too many evil people want to see me quieted." Read: www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/vi...

The quintessential 70s album, the perfect antidote to late-60s naivety. 'What's going on' is the definitive soundtrack to tumultuous times; an emotional marriage of soul and wisdom; maybe the best concept album ever recorded. And a serious contender for #5albums70sfinal #vinyl #nowplaying #musicsky

News for my US readers! Murder At The Allotment has been chosen for an Amazon US Monthly Deal running from 1-31 May! Priced at 99¢ for that time it will be on the Kindle Monthly Deals page & also in their email newsletters to subscribers. Enjoy. www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Allot...

News for my US readers! Murder At The Allotment has been chosen for an Amazon US Monthly Deal running from 1-31 May! Priced at 99¢ for that time it will be on the Kindle Monthly Deals page & also in their email newsletters to subscribers. Enjoy. www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Allot...

Missing people and feel like going places today. Somehow both very similar sentiments. #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #travel #India #photography

BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

En direct, guerre à Gaza : le nouvel ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en Israël enjoint au Hamas de « signer un accord » en échange de l’entrée d’aide humanitaire

Excellent op ed by my friend Frankie Green. See: "I have the misfortune of having an MP who contributes to a climate of prejudice and ignorance, while claiming to champion women’s rights... " whitstableviews.com/2025/04/21/n... #transrights #rosieduffield

Gr8 op ed by my friend Frankie Green: "If someone defines themselves as a feminist yet finds themselves saying the same things as Putin, Orban, Badenoch, Musk, Farage, Meloni, or the inane, draconian edicts of King Donald himself, they might think again..." whitstableviews.com/2025/04/21/n... #trans

As my Jewish friend, Katy Weitz, noted: THIS is the headline in @haaretzcom.bsky.social - an Israeli newspaper. Tell me, WHEN have we ever seen this level of honesty in the British media? #gaza #FreePalestine

Good advice for Easter - in fact, for any time...

Please consider reading the (queer-friendly) Simon Snow magic series by @rainbowrowell.bsky.social.

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

Spring above the mist in Sussex #mist #sussex #southdowns #ShareMondays2025 @southdownsnp.bsky.social

A true English Rose. We are so sorry to have to say goodbye to actress and author Jean Marsh OBE. Thank you for entertaining us for so many years. Rest in Peace, upstairs.

Thanks to Community Ad Magazine for this 2-page spread in their new issue about our Boycott Water Bills movt & my own 4-year long payment boycott in protest against sewage pollution by Southern Water. For more info see our website: boycottwaterbills.com pls share. #sewage #boycott

Wonderful afternoon spent today in Posillipo restaurant Canterbury with my friends Lois Toogood and film director Katerina Philippou-Curtis, catching up on our project. Always great to see you both. 😉 #Filmmaking #scriptwriters #Canterbury #Kent #authorslife

Hah! Chris Cornell is a LABOUR city councillor in my ward in Whitstable, now standing in the upcoming KCC elections BUT you'd be hard pressed to find LABOUR on his boards/posters. Ashamed? Or does he now recognise Labour is a toxic brand? DM me if you want a VOTE GREEN poster.

Sad! Young @uklabour.bsky.social folk trying to canvass for the Kent County Council (KCC) elections on 1/5 - BUT the posters in the window behind them are GREEN 💚! If you want a Vote Green poster/board, just message me your address & I'll get one to you. Labour is now a toxic brand. Pls RT

#themorningstar report on Whitstable Labour Club dissociating from @uklabour.bsky.social to become Whitstable SOCIAL Club! Come to our FREE launch Sat'day 5 April at 3. I'll be cutting the ribbon, followed by food, drink & music! morningstaronline.co.uk/article/soci... @captainlibatron.bsky.social

Many thanks to @skwawkbox.bsky.social for this report! JOIN US this Sat'day 5 April at 3pm when I'll be cutting the ribbon at the official FREE launch. Read Chris Stone's article about this on a link at the end of this piece. Pls share. skwawkbox.org/2025/04/02/l...

BREAKING! Whitstable Labour Club DISSOCIATES from the Labour Party to become Whitstable Social Club. New name but socialist/community values remain the same. Join me when I cut the ribbon at the official launch this Sat'day 5 April 3pm. Read: whitstableviews.com/2025/03/31/s... Pls RT #whitstable

BREAKING! Whitstable Labour Club dissociates from the Labour Party to become Whitstable Social Club. New name but socialist/community values remain the same. Join me when I cut the ribbon at the launch this Sat'day 5 April 3pm. Read: whitstableviews.com/2025/03/31/s... @captainlibatron.bsky.social

15,000 people protested fascism and racism in Amsterdam yesterday.

Come to Whitstable without coming to Whitstable...10 books in my Whitstable Pearl series, now a FAB TV series, starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles & Frances Barber. Catch Seasons 1 & 2 streaming for FREE on U & Drama. Season 3 streaming on @acorntv.bsky.social & @amazonprime.bsky.social. Enjoy!

@theuk.bsky.social Whitstable Harbour at Christmas

My new Amazon 5-star novel.The Mantuary is a dark psychological thriller set in Yorkshire, focusing on domestic abuse & coercive control. On Amazon at: www.amazon.co.uk/Mantuary-Jul... ... Signed copies at Harbour Books in Whitstable & Waterstones Canterbury. #books #domesticabuse #coercivecontrol

Acorn Media investigates WHITSTABLE PEARL: SERIES 1 AND 2 (review): cineventures.blogspot.com/2024/06/acor... @dvdcompare.net

Popping out for some late night reading on the mean streets of Whitstable…

Een nieuw seizoen van 'Whitstable Pearl' is vanaf 13 december te zien op BBC First.

The Whitstable Museum, like many other little local museums in the UK, is also great. The classic posters! The Invicta! The XtraOrdinary Penny Farthing (check out the pedal mechanism)! The lyrics to a WWI-era music hall song from the section commemorating local soldiers!