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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 4d

Publishing January 2026...

In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of all: what if there's still time?

#TheHope the searing finale to Paul E. Hardisty's critically acclaimed #ClimateEmergency trilogy - an absolute MUST-READ!

🌎 bit.ly/48mRk0m

#BookSky #Books #CliFi #ClimateChange

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Lilja Sigurðardóttir @liljawriter.bsky.social · Aug 7

She went to Iceland to look for her missing sister…for just .99p you can follow Árora’s trail.
#ColdAsHell is on a #kindle #Kobo #Apple #deal until tomorrow!

Dive into the #NordicNoir that chills to the bone! 🥶

geni.us/yQOAl

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

Last week, #OlivierNorek signed 1,500 copies of his EPIC #Historical #Thriller #TheWinterWarriors at the printers!❄️📖

A story of unimaginable courage, brutal resilience & the best sniper the world has ever seen.

🇫🇷 T by Nick Caistor
❄️ https://bit.ly/3HoyfzH
##BookSky #BooksWorthReading

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

#TheNancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace is the gripping, glorious and glittering with suspense novel from award-winning author, R.W.R McDonald.

Out 6/11

Pre-order for 25% off via Waterstones using code SUMMER 25

💎 https://bit.ly/44LLNyp
##BookTwitter #Mystery #PreOrder #New

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

LOVE THIS!

'those who love Tuomainen’s sense of humour, there’s plenty to be found in this book. There’s Anni’s husband, the obsessive collector of Formula One memorabilia, such as racing driver’s old socks. Then there’s Anni’s client, an amateur sleuth...'

#TheBurningStones

TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Burning Stones by Antii Tuomainen
TR: David Hackston
Set in rural FINLAND

www.tripfiction.com/murder-myste...

"..a witty and original murder mystery.."
@orendabooks.bsky.social

#blueskybooks #booksky

Murder mystery set in rural FINLAND - TripFiction

The Burning Stones by Antii Tuomainen, murder mystery set in rural Finland. TR: David Hackston The Burning Stones by Antti Tuomainen is an intense and

www.tripfiction.com

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

#AriThor is BACK...

Pre-order the STUNNING sprayed edge 10th Anniversary edition of Ragnar Jonasson's #Snowblind, inc. a NEW Dark #Iceland #Series prequel #Fadeout👀

Pre-order via Waterstones for 25% off with SUMMER25

T. Q.Bates & L Kyzer

😱 https://bit.ly/46VsqnV
##BookSky #PreOrder #NordicNoir

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Pre-order Olivier Norek's #TheWinterWarriors T N Caistor via @Waterstones with the code SUMMER25 for 25% off!

An astonishing story of #Finland’s defiance against #Soviet invasion and of Simo Häyhä the legendary #WhiteDeath❄️

❄️ https://bit.ly/3HoyfzH
##BookSky #Historical #Thriller #Books

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Pre-order the GRIPPING finale in @DougJohnstone.bsky.social's Enceladons Trilogy #TheTranscendentTide for 25% off at @Waterstones with the code SUMMER25

A devastating yet ultimately life-affirming ending to an UNFORGETTABLE #Series!

🌊 https://bit.ly/44FSLoB
##BookSky #PreOrder #SciFi #Books

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jul 28

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Pre-order Olivier Norek's #TheWinterWarriors T N Caistor via @Waterstones with the code SUMMER25 for 25% off!

An astonishing story of #Finland’s defiance against #Soviet invasion and of Simo Häyhä the legendary #WhiteDeath❄️

❄️ https://bit.ly/3HoyfzH
##BookSky #Historical #Thriller #Books

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Alice Banks @alice-banks.bsky.social · Jun 26

Publication day! 🥳
It was a joy to work on this beautiful novel with @annesenes.bsky.social and @orendabooks.bsky.social

From lengthy, bilingual exchanges with Anne, to delighting in
@westcamel.bsky.social 's incredible edits, Double Room is finally in the hands of readers!

tinyurl.com/yv3bybvf

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Jun 5

❄️COVER REVEAL❄️
##OlivierNorek's #TheWinterWarriors T N Caistor 11/09

An astonishing story of #Finland’s defiance against #Soviet invasion and of Simo Häyhä the legendary #WhiteDeath

An extraordinary, richly imagined and researched #Thriller

❄️ https://bit.ly/3HoyfzH
##WW2 #HistoricalFiction

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West Camel @westcamel.bsky.social · Apr 18

To The Wallace Collection yesterday for Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur. Multi-layered with multiple personas, this was a visual and cerebral feast, & it was a great exercise to walk the main collection rooms afterwards to see what GP is responding to.

www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/exh...

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur

Book your ticket for our upcoming major exhibition, Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur.

www.wallacecollection.org

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West Camel @westcamel.bsky.social · Apr 17

Over to Hackney Wick yesterday to see The Glass Menagerie at The Yard Theatre. Powerful production with excellent performances from all players. Lots of contemporary touches but Williams’ text is allowed to shine as brightly, and as devastatingly, as ever.

www.theyardtheatre.co.uk/events/the-g...

The Glass Menagerie | The Yard Theatre

Reimagines theatre to reimagine the world

www.theyardtheatre.co.uk

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Apr 4

Check this article from #SmallFires author, @ronnieturner8702.bsky.social, out in @scifinow.bsky.social, where she shares her Top 5 #Folklore Stories in Literature and Film, from #Midsommar to The Lonely, get ready to add these #Book & #Film recs to your TBR and watchlist ASAP!

🔥 bit.ly/4iclyoo

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · Apr 5

Starting Saturday with excellent company: These two and the latest thriller from @evesmithauthor.bsky.social
The Cure is out next week!!

@orendabooks.bsky.social
#BookSky

A paperback book lies on a bed by two black Labrador cross dogs. The book is The Cure by Eve Smith with the tagline: Living forever can be lethal

The blurb on the back of the book, The Cure by Eve Smith.
Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets.

Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life.

But Ruth’s cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve – a premium upgrade – was created, driving human lifespan to a new high. The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket.

Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences, and as the planet is threatened, the population rebels, and laws are passed to restore order: life ends at 120. Supers are tracked down by Omnicide investigators like Mara, and executed…

Mara has her own reasons for hunting Supers, and she forms an unlikely alliance with Ruth to find Grundleger.

But Grundleger has been working on something even more radical and is one step ahead, with a deadly surprise in store for them both…

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Apr 5

EXCELLENT review of @burhansonmez.bsky.social's #thriller #LoversOfFranzK t S Hêzil @financialtimes.com

'Presented largely as a play, the novel vaults from interrogation to trial to poetic accounts of Ferdy’s youth, rendered in Samî Hêzil’s lyrical translation'

www.ft.com/content/3079...

#Kafka

Lovers of Franz K — a meditation on the afterlife of a writer’s archive

Fact and fiction merge in Burhan Sönmez’s novel about a man out to avenge the wrong done to Kafka

www.ft.com

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Apr 3

We are on the way to the printers TODAY!
Just WAIT until you see the finished, sprayed edge HB of @essiefox.bsky.social's INCREDIBLE #Historical #Thriller #Dangerous, out in 3 WEEKS!

Can #LordByron prove his innocence after he is suspected of murder?

🩸 geni.us/gIKYY4

#CrimeFiction #Venice

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Apr 1

#Cambridge #Book EVENT!

The wonderful @burhansonmez.bsky.social will be @heffers.bsky.social on 17 April to launch his powerful #LoversOfFranzK, trs Semi Hêzil.

An interrogation-room drama and literary thriller, touching upon love and revenge – Who would kill for #Kafka?

Details⬇️

#BookSky

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Mar 12

Did you miss our cover reveal of
Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir's INCREDIBLE and chilling new standalone #Thriller, #HomeBeforeDark, #Translated by V. Cribb?

Well here it is in ALL its glory, publishing this
July in #Hardback and #eBook!

#Iceland #Mystery #NewBooks

Sue Thomas @brownflopsy.bsky.social · Mar 12

I am thrilled to bring you the #CoverReveal for #HomeBeforeDark the new standalone thriller by one of my favourite Icelandic writers Eva Börg Ægisdottir. Tns by Victoria Cribb. 💙📚

Coming from @orendabooks.bsky.social 17th July!

Preorder now: Orenda Books: shorturl.at/hDv2t
#NordicNoir #Iceland

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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · Mar 14

Cover Reveal!

A #Thriller of love and revenge, and an imaginative literary obituary for #Kafka, bringing the Cold War to life, from Paris and Istanbul to West Berlin and Tel Aviv.

#LoversOfFranzK by Burhan Sönmez, #Translated by Sami Hêzil - out April!

geni.us/PAh7ra

#Mystery

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Lilja Sigurðardóttir @liljawriter.bsky.social · Mar 14

BETRAYAL is on a #kindledaylydeal in the US and Canada today!
a.co/d/aI5YPcf

@orendabooks.bsky.social

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Dave G @dakegra.bsky.social · Mar 13

Book 12 of the year: Kill Them With Kindness by @willcarver.bsky.social. You never quite know what to expect from Will, but you know it’s going to be a wild ride. Fantastic, high concept, thought provoking stuff. Out in June from @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social · Mar 15

Excited to read @alice-banks.bsky.social translation of DOUBLE ROOM by Anne Sénè, pub. @orendabooks.bsky.social

👀 📚 🇫🇷

Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · Mar 15

Lazy/perfect start to Saturday with my baby girl
#BookSky

@orendabooks.bsky.social
@annesenes.bsky.social

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Katie Allen @katieallenauthor.bsky.social · Mar 15

Lazy/perfect start to Saturday with my baby girl
#BookSky

@orendabooks.bsky.social
@annesenes.bsky.social

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David Warriner @thewarrinerd.bsky.social · Mar 13

Look what just arrived!

Time for a little pre-translation reading, @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social #amtranslating #Scarsofsilence #johanagustawsson

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