Oliver Norek- The Winter Warriors- tr. Nick Caistor "I felt like I knew these people intimately as Norek writes with a perfect blend of objectivity and sensitivity." #OlivierNorek @orendabooks.bsky.social #BlogTour ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/o... #BookSky

It's here! The longlisted books for the #PetronaAward25 and what a cracking line up from Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland. Congratulations to all the authors and translators.... 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇮🇸 🇫🇮 #PetronaAward25 #BookSky 💙📚 ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/p...

Just made a start on this series after seeing so many recommendations. Really enjoyed this introduction to Poe and Tilly and will definitely be reading more. A dark crime thriller with nice touches of humour. @mwcraven.bsky.social #ThePuppetShow

Just finished this extremely well written novel based on a true life murder case in the 1920s. It was gripping, emotional and the research was perfectly balanced with the storytelling. Will definitely be seeking out #LittleDeaths for my next read. @emmaflint.bsky.social #OtherWomen #BookSky 💙📚

What a STUNNING #PublicationDay review of @essiefox.bsky.social's #Dangerous 😍 'Dangerous is a richly detailed and beautifully researched novel by Essie Fox, which opens in 1818, where Byron has decamped to Venice in disgrace following his disastrous marriage.' OUT TODAY!

Have just re-read #TheWrathOfAngels for the #ConnollyReadathon and believe me, just as good now on a second reading! @jconnollybooks.bsky.social @hodderbooks.bsky.social John Connolly- The Wrath of Angels #11 ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/j... 💙📚

Raven reviews-Phil Lecomber- Midnight Streets "I was absolutely immersed in this world and its colourful and nefarious inhabitants from start to finish." #PhilLecomber @titanbooks.bsky.social #MidnightStreets #GeorgeHarley #Soho #1920s 💙📚 ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/p...

#BlogTour Essie Fox- Dangerous "I appreciated not only the dark, brooding atmosphere, but also the intricacy and depth of research that Fox has undertaken to bring a vivid feel to the whole book." @essiefox.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social 💙📚 ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/b...

I have actually written a review. Oh yes, I have. The Players by Minette Walters - a fine novel set during the dark years of the 1680s. forwinternights.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/t... @allenandunwin.bsky.social

In the late afternoon I headed into Oxford - sketching St John's College with that golden light going fast... More on my WordPress site at bryanmatthews.org/2025/02/22/s...

My 14yo built me a bookshop for my office complete with a working light, tiny vases of flowers, and so many books. It took her HOURS. Made me cry when I opened it. #MerryChristmas #BookTwitter

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

Both series of Wolf Hall were outstanding. Television drama of the highest quality.

I'm reading #KillForMeKillForYou @stevecavanagh.bsky.social A real page turner and enjoying very much! @headlinebooks.bsky.social 💙📚 ‪

𝙞𝙣 𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 J. D. Nelson Post-Asemic Press, 2022 madverse.com/p/in-ghostly... “A memorable and brilliant debut.” —Kristine Ong Muslim #poetry #Dada #Surrealism #experimental #book #poem #poet #writer #author #ExperimentalPoetry #ExperimentalWriting #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

#JustRead #Whalefall #ElizabethOConnor- Mesmerising and beautifully written. A wonderful insight into a small and unique community ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ read. #JustStarted #OutOfSight #ElmoreLeonard 💙📚

One of the things I really enjoy about Bluesky is no 'What's Happening' column on the desktop version and no 'Discover' on the app. This always got me riled, so much so, I'd usually set my location to Japan so that I couldn't read it.

www.instagram.com/p/DCos-l_xKO... COVER REVEAL FOR KING OF ASHES!!!!!!

It's lovely finding old and new friends here.

Currently reading @karinslaughter.bsky.social #ThisIsWhyWeLied What a blurb - "Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killler..." Ooh! 😉 💙📚

#JustRead #Whalefall #ElizabethOConnor- Mesmerising and beautifully written. A wonderful insight into a small and unique community ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ read. #JustStarted #OutOfSight #ElmoreLeonard 💙📚

Looking forward to a day of reading,knitting and colouring oh and keeping warm!

This weekend's jigsaw triumph: Video Game Valley!

Just discovered this bookish delight. Apart from anything else, it offers a welcome refuge from the sh** show that is the world today. #Books

To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway. Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100. You have until noon on Sunday 17th November

Here is another #KerbyRosanes picture I have just finished colouring in #WorldWithinWorlds. Absolutely love his artwork... Laser eyes were a happy accident! 😂

Kia ora Bluesky. Have made the jump from the other place. I’m a Scottish crime writer and academic living in Dunedin, NZ. Will mainly be posting about books, cats, rabbits, books, Kilmarnock FC and books…📚

Currently reading @karinslaughter.bsky.social #ThisIsWhyWeLied What a blurb - "Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killler..." Ooh! 😉 💙📚

It's lovely finding old and new friends here.

This place is going to be different, right? All love and support and friendship. Right?

A 5* Review of Eazee Life. ‘This is a really compelling dystopian story, which resonates as being a realistic if pessimistic vision of the future. The characters are excellently drawn, and the world-building is so good. It’s a page-turner because of both the plot and the writing.' amzn.eu/d/aHax9Tv

Chasing the Dragon by Mark Wightman now available in audio! www.amazon.co.uk/Chasing-Drag... www.amazon.com/Chasing-Drag...

💫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 💫 A trio of #TranslatedFiction titles anyone? These three are being published by us THIS month! #TheBeaverTheory by #AnttiTuomainen, T David Hackston #WhiteAsSnow by #LiljaSigurdardottir, T #QuentinBates #Stigma by #ThomasEnger #JornLierHorst T by #MeganTurney #Orentober

Cozy PJs, coffee with heavy cream, kittens, and a knitting project- perfect morning even if the rest of the day will be a haze of housework and craziness :) 🧶 Finished the second sleeve yesterday, on to the body :)

#ghosts of an Elizabethan bookshop; the castle ruins and graveyard; dark Victorian buildings; an archaeological dig; old houses too... Don't look behind you! Click the link... for Amazon near you bookgoodies.com/a/B08Q2419L4 💜 #KindleUnlimited #ghoststories #Books 📚

Looking at 'X' is like walking down the Charing Cross Road and seeing former much-loved antiquarian bookshops turned into nail parlours, tacky souvenir outlets and garish money-laundering confectioners. It's not just the sad loss of what went before; it's rage and disgust at what we have now.

Here’s a poem about how relaxing Sundays are.

Just finished reading The Fury by Alex Michaelides brilliantly written great read.

The 1962 club reading event starts next week. Earlier this afternoon, I finished my first book from 1962. An Error of Judgement by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Now charging up my Kindle to start book 2 later. I think it might be Ngaio Marsh. @stuckinabook.bsky.social @kaggsy59.bsky.social 😊

Well. We have deliberated, read and re-read, but we have finally decided! We will announce the winner of The Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel 2023 tomorrow. You will not want to miss it... #PetronaAward23

THE DRIVER’S SEAT / IDENTIKIT (Giuseppe Griffi, 1974) l love how unhinged this is, Elizabeth Taylor plays Lise in this adaptation of Muriel Spark’s novella The Driver’s Seat. Also featuring a surprise cameo! (BFI Player)

This week’s Writer Wednesday guest is author and podcaster, Mr Mark Stay - @markstay.bsky.social

📚FOLLOW FRIDAY 📚 OK, so this could be a tumbleweed moment, but seeing as we're all still trying to find our friends here... how about #authors #bloggers #readers #writing Like and Comment on this post, and follow everyone who does the same. (And repost to get it out there 😀)

Wow gorgeous! 😍😍😍

#amreading 📚

Books I got from London! Due to the massive devaluation of the rupee, I couldn't buy as many books as I'd have liked, but plenty of friends and publishers gave me lots. Slowly making my way through them now! #WritingCommunity

What I read in September…

Current read and it's flippin' brilliant 🙌🏻 This is number 2 in the series, and I'm going to have to go straight into number 3 afterwards because it's so good Bravo @davidbishop.bsky.social 👏

Today I’ve reviewed The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi kashiwai, translated by Jess Kirkwood. 📚 fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com/2023/09/22/t...