Very excited for this paperback as the hardback is definitely one of my books of the year!

Times top ten bestseller, sure, but also 9 times requested at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social on #buyastrangerabookday! Great stuff from @jamesbluecat.bsky.social and @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social. Have preordered the paperback at my local bookshop, despite the fancy edition being mouthwatering. #booksky

How many other police procedurals have hallucinatory Muppet analogues? HARDLY ANY.

We couldn't be happier to share the pre-order link for the @waterstones.bsky.social special edition of PAGANS in paperback. With a beautiful foiled cover, red spredges and an exclusive short story, it is a treat. Limited numbers, so pre-order now if you want it! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

This has ACTUAL DRUMS! The post, not the paperback, you'll have to imagine those. And yes, Pagans really did hit the top ten hardback fiction list, thanks to lovely people here giving it great word of mouth and amazing booksellers recommending it. MUCH LOVE.

Drumroll please... here is the reveal of the cover for the paperback edition of Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social! Featuring a brand-new colourway by British Book Awards Designer of the Year @jackflag.bsky.social, it is a thing of beauty – and ready for pre-order: www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/pagans

🚨Exciting news for fans of Pagans by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social...🚨 1. The paperback is available for pre-order 2. If you order it now from @waterstones.bsky.social with the code OCTOBER25, you'll get 25% off 3. IT'S GOT THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE SEQUEL IN IT www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/...

🎭 Samuel Pepys is BACK in the new mystery from @jackjewers.bsky.social. Investigating a brutal double murder leads him to in the glamorous yet unexpectedly dangerous world of the Drury Lane theatre. Pre-order now from @waterstones.bsky.social to get 25% off: www.waterstones.com/book/seethin...

Samuel Pepys is back in the newest mystery by @jackjewers.bsky.social, author of Sunday Times historical fiction pick of the year The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys, and we can now reveal the fantastic cover!

It’s the first Thursday of the month which means the latest edition of my newsletter The Dispatch is out. This month’s reviews include PAGANS by @jamesbluecat.bsky.social (@moonflowerbooks.bsky.social), THE MIDNIGHT KING by @tariqashkanani.bsky.social (@viperbooks.bsky.social) and the film WEAPONS👇

Feel like the #CJDaugherty fans need to see this… Yep, a reprint of the fantastic Number 10 is COMING… 👀

Ever more frequent natural disasters. A world on the verge of catastrophe. And an eccentric billionaire pulling all the strings. Sound familiar?! Order now to find out why @gregmosse.bsky.social's near-future thriller is winning such rave reviews: www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Fire-...

Samuel Pepys investigates a brutal murder in the fabulous SEETHING LANE by @jackjewers.bsky.social – pre-order before tomorrow from @waterstones.bsky.social to get 25% off with code SUMMER25: www.waterstones.com/book/seethin... #WPreorder

BARGAIN ALERT: Get 25% off the paperback edition of PAGANS when you pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social before tomorrow using the code SUMMER25! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/... Pagans by James Alistair Henry #WPreorder

We are proud to support @doorsteplibrary.bsky.social, who do incredible work bringing the joy of books to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Their latest video perfectly encapsulates why their work is so vital, and why we're so glad to be involved with them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhtT...

'First came the darkness. Then the storm. Now it’s time to face the fire.' My review of futuristic thriller, The Coming Fire by Greg Mosse @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social #books #bookreviews #TheComingFire #thriller #booksky

Our pals at @waterstones.bsky.social are running a brilliant pre-order offer – 25% off selected titles when you pre-order them between now and Thursday using the code SUMMER25! We have two crackers in the offer – the paperback of smash-hit PAGANS and a brand-new Samuel Pepys mystery, SEETHING LANE.

Congratulations @gregmosse.bsky.social whose twisty thriller, The Coming Fire, earned a fantastic 9/10 rating in today's Daily Mirror! You don't want to miss this one: amzn.eu/d/47FkqYx

First came the darkness. Then the storm. Now Alex has no choice: it's time to face the fire. OUT NOW from Sunday Times Thriller of the Year author @gregmosse.bsky.social: www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/the-coming-f...

Out TOMORROW, the blistering new thriller from cli-fi pioneer @gregmosse.bsky.social. Pre-order now (or get the eBook a day early, shh!): www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Fire-...

First came the darkness. Then the storm. Now special agent Alex Lamarque has no choice: it's time to face the fire. Don't miss this hotly-anticipated read from @gregmosse.bsky.social, author of Sunday Times Thriller of the Year The Coming Darkness. Pre-order now: www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Fire-...

Pagans by James Alistair Henry took me on a journey through ancient beliefs, reminding me of the beauty in nature and tradition. It sparked a yearning for connection. 🌿✨ #booksky Strangers In The Car by C M E

A bit of an out of character read for me because I really can’t stand crime (it’s usually too obvious and/or unnecessarily brutal), but I’m so glad I took a chance on this. It kept me engaged and guessing to the end and I *loved* the brief appearance of my “profession”. 1/2

Discworld … but I also go back to my childhood books (girlie, or adventure) because everything always comes right in the end. You could probably say the same about Discworld…

Lindsey Davis' Falco books. Wonderful setting, great characters and lots of humour

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea books Strandloper - Alan Garner Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman Catch-22 Rubicon Beach - Steve Erickson Invisible Cities Excession - Iain M Banks One Hundred Years of Solitide Alberto Manguel's Black Water & White Fire anthologies Revenge of the Lawn - Richard Brautigan

Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Delightful book.

E.F. Benson, the Lucia books.

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series and anything Pratchett.

Tricky one, but probably Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities". Because apart from being just wonderful, the individual texts are very short, so I can read them even when I'm too sick to be able to concentrate. Like now.

I like the Summer Book by Tove Jansson, Love & Rockets by Jaime Hernandez , any Cook book by Nigel(lla), plus looking up songs in Dave Marsh's 1001 pop and soul book. Oh some Simon Armitage poems

Barbara Trapido - Brother Of The More Famous Jack Or binge-reading favourite crime books where I already know whodunnit, like Agatha Christie

All my comfort books involve some kind of depressing time in history: bubonic plague/big fire, Civil War, AIDS crisis, Thatcher's regime. Maybe it's a "things could be worse" thing

Anything by Raymond Chandler, and I say *anything* because I can never remember any of the plots, or really tell you what's going on at any one time, but the dialogue and descriptions are always so great, it doesn't really matter.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Luis Zafon. Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Cold Comfort Farm, Dorothy Sayers's Gaudy Night and William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (I'm not sure how he'd feel about being a comfort read!)

Anything by PG Wodehouse; conjured an essentially trouble-free world.

1) Another Marvelous Thing, by Laurie Colwin 2) Forspoken, by Ajay Close

Pratchett. Any Pratchett, but mainly the Vimes, Witches and Von Lipwig books

• Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim • Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones • Little, Big by John Crowley • Lud In the Mist by Hope Mirrlees • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth • Blackout by Connie Willis

Apropos of absolutely nothing, we want to know: what are your feel-good reads that you go back to again and again when you need to be distracted from... oh, we don't know, let's say... EVERYTHING? Please drop those happy-making recs here so we can share them with a world that sorely needs them...

OUT 17 JULY 2025: THE COMING FIRE, from the man who put cli-fi thrillers on the map, @gregmosse.bsky.social. French special agent Alex Lamarque is fighting for his life – and the fate of the world. Relentless, prescient and an absolute rollercoaster. Pre-order now: amzn.eu/d/iKTl6Id

Please enjoy this truly EXCELLENT news.

Thank you to the utterly brilliant @louiestowell.bsky.social for this gorgeous review of @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans! If you trust Louie's taste – AND YOU SHOULD, OBVIOUSLY – you can get the hardback, audiobook or ebook of Pagans now: www.amazon.co.uk/Pagans-James...

This was pretty cool. A kind of Yiddish Policeman’s Union deal set in an alt-history contemporary Anglo-Saxon tribal UK. Druids with smartphones, that kind of vibe. Everybody has tattoos. Mismatched buddy cops (one a celt, the other a saxon) solve a grisly murder with POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS

"The action is fast paced, with plenty of shocks and reveals. I found it easy to lose myself in this world and I really hope there are more books in this series... I have to add - this is one of the most gorgeous hardbacks I have ever bought - none of my photos could them justice!" ❤️

Looking forward to the sequel 👍 📖 Great characters & plenty of shenanigans @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social

🚨 CALLING ALL BOOKSELLERS 🚨 Did you love @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans? Do you want to be able to shout about how brilliant it is to your customers? OF COURSE YOU DO (we hope). We have some A3 posters and signed bookplates for you! Just send your bookshop address to [email protected].

Just finished Pagans while on a beach, and DAMN I am glad I knew the second is on the way. That final line made me gasp. Excellent worldbulding, esp as a Tribal myself, but thoroughly a great thriller. Loved the team. Read it: www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/pagans @moonflowerbooks.bsky.social

🚨 CALLING ALL BOOKSELLERS 🚨 Did you love @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans? Do you want to be able to shout about how brilliant it is to your customers? OF COURSE YOU DO (we hope). We have some A3 posters and signed bookplates for you! Just send your bookshop address to [email protected].