🎥💀 A final reckoning… 💀 Atmospheric, dark & chilling, #BlackAsDeath is the twisty finale to the Áróra Investigation #Series from @liljawriter.bsky.social, t L Garcia As Áróra & her friends search for answers that may lead them to places even darker than death… 23/10 📖 https://bit.ly/4kKvI0u

Can't think of anything better for #StunDay than this short movie (half hr) from the incredible and adventurous @chrisburkard.bsky.social! Cycling & rafting along the very edge of the south coast of beloved #Iceland 🚵🇮🇸 Enjoy and thank me later 😉 watch.plex.tv/movie/the-fo...

On top of many mountains you will find these pedestals with a circular disk on top - you use the spike in the middle to "aim" and read the name of mountains off the far edge. Wind and humidity sometimes form interesting shapes! Oct. 5th 2018 #Iceland #Esja #Outdoors #Landscape #Photography #OTD

My #Caturday was made yesterday meeting the fabulous Albert, 8kg of Maine Coon magnificence - I am in 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 (but they wouldn't let me steal him, SO unreasonable! 🙄) He's my YD's fella's family cat and it was my first time meeting his family, but even so, not allowing me to abscond with him is RUDE 😹

The beautiful, unforgettable and heartbreaking #Beartown trilogy ends with The Winners, a 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read that moved and broke me just like the first two. What a writer, and huge thanks to his wonderful translator too 😍👌 I can't remember who recommended them here on BlueSky but I'm so grateful! #BookSky

2025 (challenge No. 1 - old unpublished pics) Day 279 - Pathway shadows, Arnistapi, Iceland 2018

Research continues, love these stories. Centuries of folklore pasted down to each new generation. New WIP: little mystic, dash of enemies to lovers, baked with romance at the core. Dark, gothic, and lyrical. Who cant love a story like this! #gothic #lyrical #iceland #icelandicfolklore #writer

How gorgeous a tome is this?! And the prequel #Fadeout is a great intro to #AriThór as well 🤩 If you're into #IcelandicNoir, Siglufjörður, #AgathaChristie -style locked room thrillers, Iceland, #FictionInTranslation or just having a bloody lovely looking book on your shelves - this one's for you! 💙📚

"Cancel my one o'clock" (I'm delighted to find a gif of this, altho the Finnish is not the quote!)

Happy #WaterfallWednesday to you all! A cascading collage for you today (might need a click!) from the Jökulsá á Fjöllum river, three wonderful #waterfalls in quick succession torrenting down from the mighty Vatnajökull glacier 🤩 #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #landscape #WaterWednesday

Sending heartfelt thanks on #InternationalTranslationDay to cherished translators @graskeggur.bsky.social & @marinasofia.bsky.social of @corylusbooks.bsky.social, and others like them at @orendabooks.bsky.social, who bring us such wonderful & wide ranging #FictionInTranslation! 🥰 #SupportAnIndie 💙📚

Welcome to my stop on the #BlogTour for #ALethalLegacy by Gudrun Gudlaugsdóttir Trns by @graskeggur.bsky.social - featuring journalist turned sleuth, Alma Jónsdóttir. 💙📚 #NordicNoir #Iceland Out now from @corylusbooks.bsky.social brownflopsy.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-le... @ewashe.bsky.social

Today's my day on the blog tour for Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir's "A Lethal Legacy"! "Guðlaugsdóttir's deceptively simple style is once again irresistible..." www.angryalgonquin.com/a-lethal-leg... @corylusbooks.bsky.social @ewashe.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social

Morning my friends! Enjoy this absolute unit in the misty morning sun 🐑😎 #10minutesfromhome #OneWalkADay #mentalhealthmatters #MobilePhotography 📷

Fresh, razor-sharp edge to Nordic Noir... Jón Atli Jónasson's remarkable Broken digs deeper, goes a step further, hits all the right notes... 'Completely unpredictable, yet bleakly inevitable,' says Antony Johnston. 'Quality Icelandic noir.'

Twisty #crimefiction from #Iceland ON #Sale for ONE week only! #UK #ANZ #Canada #booksky Eva Björg Ægisdottir's chilling Forbidden Iceland #mystery #NightShadows t V Cribb Det Elma faces danger when a young man dies in a house fire and an au pair’s dream job turns deadly… 🔥https://geni.us/pLed9j

Emotionally charged & adrenaline fuelled, #ShinOfTheRavenfin is a wonderful 5🌟 read. A man ending it all is saved by an orca & finds he can understand her. Compelled to seek her out & then to aid whales being captured off Japan, the book narrates from his & her perspectives. #NetGalley #BookSky

Nefarious herring? Hvað segirðu, @graskeggur.bsky.social? 🤔 Or anyone who has read @robinhobb.bsky.social's #Liveships trilogy, you can just imagine Paragon settling down to sink again with a sigh 🥺 #ROTE (oh, those stories...*sigh*...) #BookSky

Joining the #blogtour for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Gúðlaugsdóttir (trans by @graskeggur.bsky.social) from @corylusbooks.bsky.social). A death on a remote farm leads journalist Alma into a complex & almost Gothic affair. #BookSky #crime #Iceland 📚💙 bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/blog...

@angryalgonquin.bsky.social I have a small favour to ask...

The last of the last of this year's blackberries. As tradition (or superstition?) demands, left for the fairies.

Reposting as we're near the end of Sepsis Awareness Month 2025. For details on sepsis see sepsistrust.org/about-sepsis/

Why do velociraptors make bad pets? Because they're all dead

My final few are Miðfoss, Apr'24, Brocken Spectre at Bolafjall, Sept'24, & what we fondly know as the #Prometheus side of Dettifoss (the road only opened literally minutes before!), May'25 🥰 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #WeekendWaterfall #StunDay #SkySunday

One of my favourite road views 😍 #BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸

End of #TheRoad, Grindavík, May'25 #BlueSkyArtShow #Iceland 🇮🇸 #MobilePhotography 📷 #volcano 🌋

Penultimate pick now, some wonderful #landscape memories: Laugavegur hike, Jul'23, Hvítserkur, Aug'23, and Skagaströnd sunrise, Feb'24 🥰 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #scape

If you see this, post a bridge

My next batch of memories!Meeting @angryalgonquin.bsky.social & Jólakötturinn in Nov'22, Drekkingarhylur (the Drowning Pool) for #FossFriday, Mar'23, & meeting the Byko #ravens for #FeatheredFriday, May'23! 🖤 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #FlyDay

It's so nice going back through my albums to choose for #WeekMforMemories! 🥰 Nauthúsagil Jun'22, Jökulsárlón Mar'22 (reminds me of #GOTG Ravager funeral) & Vestmannaeyja Aug'22 (reminds me of a sleeping T-Rex 🦖) #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #JurassicPark #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy

Just seen a job advert for the UK Embassy in Reykjavik. I'd love it except for the tiny flies in the ointment that I don't live there, don't speak/read the language at C1 level (whatever that is, it's deff above my level! 😂) & don't work full time! Apart from that, I'm the ideal candidate 🤣 #DreamOn

Last year I spent a lot of time updating @frommers.com guidebook to #Iceland, which has just come out. Many, many thanks to my Icelandic friends who answered my random questions as they arose - I could not have done it without you. #TravelWriting

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Another exciting release from @corylusbooks.bsky.social, tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social ! Check out the blog tour for A Lethal Legacy below! #Iceland #IcelandicNoir #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙 I have a name quirk that meant it took me a while to get the sisters straight in my head but once in I really enjoyed it! 🤩

A little extra one from the aforementioned May'21 trip just cos it's #WaterfallWednesday! I 🩵 stairs, a combo of Fitbit & a Derby Uni open day are responsible for this quirk, hence Skógafoss is a top fave foss! #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #WaterWednesday

Fagradalsfjall (May'21), taken by @sophiecarr.bsky.social, puffin school - my 1st puffins! (Jul'21) & #Iceland Noir (Nov'21) meeting @olafurdarri.bsky.social (& @michaelridpath.bsky.social & Eliza Reid behind) taken by author Katherine Black #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 🇮🇸🌋

Today's tall trilogy are Sólheimajökull (Feb'18), Arnarstapi (May'19) & Falljökull (Nov'19) Not sure how the layout will present them so they might need a click 😊 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸

As luck would have it, I've made 21 trips to #Iceland, conveniently divisible by 7, so this week, no surprises where my memories will be from! Today's watery triptych are Seljavallalaug (Oct'15), Goðafoss (Oct'16) & Svartifoss (Oct'17) 🥰🇮🇸 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷

This excellent book 2 of a trilogy by @sydmoore.bsky.social can be read as a standalone, and covers the British invasion of #Iceland in 1940. Dept W Agent Daphne is observing a local medium suspected of German sympathies & must find a magical grimoire before the Germans. Unputdownable! #BookSky #WW2

Some wonderful words in this, including the fabulous Skúffuskáld (hope I'm spelling right, you can imagine generated transcripts of #Icelandic are usually way off!) - someone who writes things that will only ever see the inside of a drawer, & þagnarskuld, a debt of silence when you talked too much!

Like yesterday, one this morning from where I am, & one now from where I long to be! Back to Seyðisfjörður in #Iceland for #StunDay and #WeekLforLines 🌈🇮🇸 (if you fancy a giggle, you can see this path at the end of the Hardest Karaoke song in the world on YT!) #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷

Faint trails for #SkySunday and #WeekLforLines! #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷

@oligneisti.social.linux.pizza.ap.brid.gy I loved your Stories of Iceland podcasts, wonderful stories with your brilliant soothing voice!

From 'Where I am' to 'Where I'm always longing to be'! Back to #Iceland for #SaturdayStairs with Saxhóll on Snæfellsnes, a volcanic crater with steps to the top, with thanks to @ambabheg.bsky.social for the inspiration! 🌋🇮🇸 #WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷

Since I'm in this neck of the woods today, today's #SaturdayStairs are from the Fitzwilliam Art Museum 😊 #WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷

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! 🇮🇸💙📚

Crossed under this today, back tomorrow! Was meant to be doing Scafell for my final of the 3 peaks (over VERY extended timeline!) but alas the forecast is rubbish there, altho to add insult to injury to my foiled plans, it's glorious here today 🙄 #WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography

#WeekLforLines #AlphabetChallenge #MobilePhotography 📷 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #scape #landscape #ECK

5🌟 for Arnaldur Indriðason's latest novel about Konráð, still seeking answers about his father's death. He's asked to find a child given up for adoption but declines until it's too late, then he gets caught up in a tangled murder case, tragic from start to finish. My guess was wrong! 🇮🇸 #BookSky 🔎💀📚💙