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Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller, Death at the White Hart, OUT NOW Previously: Broadchurch; Doctor Who etc Next: Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials (Netflix)

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 15d

Paperback publication day today in the UK! 🥳

* Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller
* One of Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year
* Amazon’s Best Books of 2025
* Good Housekeeping’s Good Books autumn selection

Your perfect pocket paperback companion. Available all over the gaff.

The front cover of the paperback edition of Death at the White Hart showing a Dorset village pub (with a deer on its sign) against a distant coastal background.

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Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 1d

Get your guesses in today. You may not have to know all of them to win — the three people with the most correct get a pack!

Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · 6d

WIN a set of postcards of TV crime series as Penguin book covers. Simply guess which series is depicted on each cover. The earliest was broadcast in 1969. All originated on TV (so no Morse, Marple etc). Email [email protected] & I'll pick three from a digital deerstalker. Deadline: 10 Oct.

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lovely hour’s listening. Not just the unheard-since-1975 audio with Lennon, but Nicky Horne recounting the experience of travelling to New York as a 24 year old and interviewing his musical hero at the Dakota.

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Nicky Horne on Lennon - Boom Rock

On what would have been John's 85th birthday, Nicky opens up about his 1975 New York encounter with him and plays part of the interview.

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 1d

Really loved those diaries. Generous, insightful and a great record of what it was like to work with Mike Nichols.

Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that’s a good reminder to watch S2 of the NZ version, thank you!

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! (On all counts)

Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 2d

US #Traitors casts sneaky & backstabbing celebrities to amp up drama. UK celeb version already feels smart for the opposite instinct: national treasures, Olympians and overall sound types. Their liking for each other makes the game more challenging and the programme funnier & warmer. Great first ep.

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 2d

In the creative industries/the media and want to mentor? @artsemergency.bsky.social is looking for enthusiastic professionals

Although we have lots of great potential mentors, we are still short of applicants in the Merseyside region and we could do with more applicants in London working in the following career areas:

- Gaming and animation
- Fashion design
- Broadcast journalism
- Visual arts: illustrators / people with illustration experience or any experience relevant to character design
- Performing arts: musical theatre performers or people with experience in the musical theatre industry
- Film & TV - on screen
- Architecture and interior design

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Agatha Christie Festival @agathafestival.bsky.social · 3d

Last few tickets left!
A Christie for Christmas
Organised by HarperCollins on Thursday 20 November. Taking place on the 17th Floor of The News Building in London, it promises to be a wonderful evening!
@harpercollins.bsky.social
#agathachristie

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 3d

a man wearing a cowboy hat and scarf with the word grit on the bottom right

Alt: Sam Elliott saluting while wearing a cowboy hat and scarf, with the word grit on the bottom right

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 3d

It was amazing. Might need to try it in Vistavision next time! And yes what a soundtrack!

Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 3d

Unsurprisingly, strong recommend:

The pre screening card for One Battle After Another at BFI IMAX in London

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Mark Aldridge @markaldridge.info · 3d

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-christie...

A Christie for Christmas

Join us for the return of A Christie for Christmas – a festive celebration of all things Agatha Christie!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to be doing this next month!

Mark Aldridge @markaldridge.info · 3d

Looking forward to returning to HarperCollins' A Christie for Christmas event on 20 November. I'll be chairing an event about murder mysteries on page and screen with Ben Miller and @chrischibnall.bsky.social. A brilliant selection of guests - tickets on sale now! #AgathaChristie

Photos of Chris Chibnall, Ben Miller and me

Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks for sharing these!

Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 4d

And further updates.

Did You See? @tvdidyousee.bsky.social · 4d

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible clipping from 1992, and the internal machinations it hints at.

Did You See? @tvdidyousee.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDay 6 October 1992 #EastEnders
EASTENDERS WRITER 'SACKED FOR KILLING OFF STARS' - bomb plot devised to boost ratings of TV soap

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 7d

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The Age of Enshittification

In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 8d

Would’ve loved to have got there too. Beautiful country, isn’t it?

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 8d

Yep! Split.

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 8d

Nudge nudge wink wink say no more etc

The Monty Python cafe bar in Split, Croatia

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 9d

That Ishiguro quote, one more time.

A quote by Kazuo Ishiguro:

But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying?
Does it feel this way to you?"

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 9d

Death at the White Hart is @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller of the Month for October!

www.waterstones.com/book/death-a...

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 12d

Absolutely gorgeous.

TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 12d

Back when Twitter was just about bearable I sent out a hopeful
Tweet asking for Lovely Beatles Moments.

Not songs or albums - just shards of Beatleness that make people happy.

I turned the responses into a little zine.

Here it is. Hope you like it.

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