Louise Fairbairn
@scarletrix.bsky.social
...sometimes you wake up. sometimes the fall kills you. and sometimes when you fall you fly...
www.crimebookgirl.com
www.crimebookgirl.com
Listening to random internet radio 70s/80s. Chuck Mangione Feels So Good just popped up and now I might have to watch Doctor Strange tonight 😂🎶 (IYKYK)
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Listening to random internet radio 70s/80s. Chuck Mangione Feels So Good just popped up and now I might have to watch Doctor Strange tonight 😂🎶 (IYKYK)
We don’t want to value or reward creativity and yet our hunger for the products of creative minds is at such an all time high we steal their work and outsource creativity to LLMs that are trained by stealing the work of creative minds
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Really rather excited to have this one arrive at my door 😁
There's book post, and then there's OMG BOOK POST!! So excited to get my hands on the new Jack Parlabane adventure 🎉🎉🎉 thanks to @thecrimevault.bsky.social @fionabrownlee.bsky.social @brookmyre.bsky.social
If you've not read the almighty Quite Ugly One Morning, get to it!
#BookSky 📚💙
If you've not read the almighty Quite Ugly One Morning, get to it!
#BookSky 📚💙
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Really rather excited to have this one arrive at my door 😁
Libraries and librarians in every school and community would be a start.
Not policing what kids read - comics are a great gateway, esp for boys.
And check in with organisations already doing this and seeing what govt could do to support and extend their work, eg the Book Trust.
#BookSky 📚💙
Not policing what kids read - comics are a great gateway, esp for boys.
And check in with organisations already doing this and seeing what govt could do to support and extend their work, eg the Book Trust.
#BookSky 📚💙
Ahead of the National Year of Reading, the Education Committee has launched a new inquiry to understand how reading can be nurtured following the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure 👇 #BookSky
MPs launch inquiry into how the joy of reading can be kept alive
ebx.sh
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Libraries and librarians in every school and community would be a start.
Not policing what kids read - comics are a great gateway, esp for boys.
And check in with organisations already doing this and seeing what govt could do to support and extend their work, eg the Book Trust.
#BookSky 📚💙
Not policing what kids read - comics are a great gateway, esp for boys.
And check in with organisations already doing this and seeing what govt could do to support and extend their work, eg the Book Trust.
#BookSky 📚💙
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Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke BLOG TOUR #HerManyFaces #NicciCloke @RandomTTours #BookReview
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November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke BLOG TOUR #HerManyFaces #NicciCloke @RandomTTours #BookReview
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randomthingsthroughmyletterbox.blogspot.com/2025/11/her-...
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Today on the blog Imam sharing my thoughts on the debut novel from Joey Batey, It's Not A Cult.
#bookthreads #books #bookstagram #booksky #joeybatey #ravenbooks #itsnotacult
#bookthreads #books #bookstagram #booksky #joeybatey #ravenbooks #itsnotacult
It’s Not A Cult by Joey Batey
today I am sharing my thoughts on the debut novel from Joey Batey, It's Not A Cult. I picked this book up at Bloody Scotland having heard the author on a panel and being very intrigued by the premise. Here's what it's all about: Source: Owned CopyRelease Date: 23 October 2025
jenmedsbookreviews.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Today on the blog Imam sharing my thoughts on the debut novel from Joey Batey, It's Not A Cult.
#bookthreads #books #bookstagram #booksky #joeybatey #ravenbooks #itsnotacult
#bookthreads #books #bookstagram #booksky #joeybatey #ravenbooks #itsnotacult
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#BookReview
There Came A-Tapping by Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social
Unsettling and tense with cinematic scenes
Set in a very dramatic Irish rural landscape
A psychological chiller that will play with your mind.
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/there-came-a...
#booksky
There Came A-Tapping by Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social
Unsettling and tense with cinematic scenes
Set in a very dramatic Irish rural landscape
A psychological chiller that will play with your mind.
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/there-came-a...
#booksky
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#BookReview
There Came A-Tapping by Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social
Unsettling and tense with cinematic scenes
Set in a very dramatic Irish rural landscape
A psychological chiller that will play with your mind.
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/there-came-a...
#booksky
There Came A-Tapping by Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social
Unsettling and tense with cinematic scenes
Set in a very dramatic Irish rural landscape
A psychological chiller that will play with your mind.
Read my full thoughts:
www.swirlandthread.com/there-came-a...
#booksky
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Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Delighted that Upon A White Horse has made it into the Financial Times’s Books of 2025. The full list is in this weekend’s paper. Many thanks to Tom Robbins for choosing my book.
Out end of Jan '26 from @canongate.co.uk is the 3rd Rilke novel, THE CUT UP. Rilke's like a gay, Glaswegian Philip Marlowe; rumpled, morally righteous but legally dubious. & Welsh's stripped back prose sings. Absolutely superb, as always, from the awesome @louisewelsh00.bsky.social. (read via e-arc)
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Smashing #BookPost from @birlinn.bsky.social @allangaw.bsky.social - out in January so you've time to catch up with this excellent series!
For a review of bk1, @bloodyscotland.bsky.social debut prize winner The Silent House Of Sleep, click here: crimebookgirl.com/2025/02/21/r...
#BookSky 📚💙
For a review of bk1, @bloodyscotland.bsky.social debut prize winner The Silent House Of Sleep, click here: crimebookgirl.com/2025/02/21/r...
#BookSky 📚💙
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Smashing #BookPost from @birlinn.bsky.social @allangaw.bsky.social - out in January so you've time to catch up with this excellent series!
For a review of bk1, @bloodyscotland.bsky.social debut prize winner The Silent House Of Sleep, click here: crimebookgirl.com/2025/02/21/r...
#BookSky 📚💙
For a review of bk1, @bloodyscotland.bsky.social debut prize winner The Silent House Of Sleep, click here: crimebookgirl.com/2025/02/21/r...
#BookSky 📚💙
@scotlandchris1.bsky.social @portybelle.bsky.social
No boards but the first perfect accuracy in a while - and I did it without looking at the hints! Plus a speedy pa on the express too 😁
I played squaredle.com 11/22:
*38/38 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 43
No boards but the first perfect accuracy in a while - and I did it without looking at the hints! Plus a speedy pa on the express too 😁
I played squaredle.com 11/22:
*38/38 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 43
Squaredle
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November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@scotlandchris1.bsky.social @portybelle.bsky.social
No boards but the first perfect accuracy in a while - and I did it without looking at the hints! Plus a speedy pa on the express too 😁
I played squaredle.com 11/22:
*38/38 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 43
No boards but the first perfect accuracy in a while - and I did it without looking at the hints! Plus a speedy pa on the express too 😁
I played squaredle.com 11/22:
*38/38 words (+3 bonus words)
🎯 Perfect accuracy
🔥 Solve streak: 43
Subtweet of the day yet again...
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Subtweet of the day yet again...
Reading this story about peace discussions this morning? You should read Andrey Kurkov's diaries of life in Ukraine during wartime.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#BookSky 📚💙
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#BookSky 📚💙
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Reading this story about peace discussions this morning? You should read Andrey Kurkov's diaries of life in Ukraine during wartime.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#BookSky 📚💙
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#BookSky 📚💙
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Out today, the new thriller from Tom Bale, #DeadlyGames, published in all the formats by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
My thanks as ever to the publisher and @netgalley.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.
Book Review:
My thanks as ever to the publisher and @netgalley.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.
Book Review:
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Out today, the new thriller from Tom Bale, #DeadlyGames, published in all the formats by @boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
My thanks as ever to the publisher and @netgalley.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.
Book Review:
My thanks as ever to the publisher and @netgalley.bsky.social for the opportunity to read this ahead of publication.
Book Review:
I can solve that one for them...
(Also "money psychotherapist" is surely a bs made-up not remotely real job title created specifically to fleece people with more money than sense)
(Also "money psychotherapist" is surely a bs made-up not remotely real job title created specifically to fleece people with more money than sense)
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I can solve that one for them...
(Also "money psychotherapist" is surely a bs made-up not remotely real job title created specifically to fleece people with more money than sense)
(Also "money psychotherapist" is surely a bs made-up not remotely real job title created specifically to fleece people with more money than sense)
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Today is paperback publication of #TheRestIsDeath, so of course I've been out dealing with coos all day. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today is paperback publication of #TheRestIsDeath, so of course I've been out dealing with coos all day. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
✨ GIVEAWAY ✨
To celebrate #TheNancys publication we’re giving away 3 limited-edition tote bags & 3 finished copies!
To enter:
👭 Follow us
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🇬🇧 UK only. Ends 30/11
#BookSky #Books #Mystery
To celebrate #TheNancys publication we’re giving away 3 limited-edition tote bags & 3 finished copies!
To enter:
👭 Follow us
✔️ Like & RT
🏷️ Tag 2 friends ( and your fave #Bookshop for an extra entry!)
🇬🇧 UK only. Ends 30/11
#BookSky #Books #Mystery
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The Nancys and The Case of the Missing Necklace by R. W. R. McDonald @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years…
Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years…
The Nancys and The Case of the Missing Necklace by R. W. R. McDonald @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand – the town her Uncle Pike escaped as a teenager, the moment he got a chance.
liveanddeadly.net
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Nancys and The Case of the Missing Necklace by R. W. R. McDonald @OrendaBooks @RandomTTours
Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years…
Source: Review copyPublication: 20th November 2025 from Orenda BooksPP: 320ISBN-13: 978-1916788909 My thanks to Orenda Books for an advance copy for review Meet the Nancys… Tippy Chan is eleven years…
I'm EXTREMELY excited for this, and you've plenty of time to catch up with the adventures of Jack Parlabane before it arrives, should you somehow have missed reading Mr Brookmyre's excellent novels (Quite Ugly One Morning has probably the best first line and chapter in crime fiction 😂)
#BookSky 📚💙
#BookSky 📚💙
A (very early) Book Review! Quite Ugly One Evening by the rather wonderful @brookmyre.bsky.social is out in May and those lovely folk at @littlebrown.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social sent me an advance copy. Never too early to pre-order!
November 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I'm EXTREMELY excited for this, and you've plenty of time to catch up with the adventures of Jack Parlabane before it arrives, should you somehow have missed reading Mr Brookmyre's excellent novels (Quite Ugly One Morning has probably the best first line and chapter in crime fiction 😂)
#BookSky 📚💙
#BookSky 📚💙
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Another opportunity to get those pre-orders in! Thanks to @panmacmillan.bsky.social and @netgalley.bsky.social for the early reading opportunity.
Book Review: Eye Spy by @chrisewan.bsky.social will be published in March.
Book Review: Eye Spy by @chrisewan.bsky.social will be published in March.
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Another opportunity to get those pre-orders in! Thanks to @panmacmillan.bsky.social and @netgalley.bsky.social for the early reading opportunity.
Book Review: Eye Spy by @chrisewan.bsky.social will be published in March.
Book Review: Eye Spy by @chrisewan.bsky.social will be published in March.
Well this is pretty amazing value! The whole Wyndham & Banerjee series, including a hardback of the new book, The Burning Ground, on sale for under £30.
Could make a great Christmas present! Only a few left in stock.
amazon.co.uk/Wyndham-Bane...
Could make a great Christmas present! Only a few left in stock.
amazon.co.uk/Wyndham-Bane...
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I'm excited to be chatting to good pal @valmcdermid.bsky.social TONIGHT about this lovely book, tickets here:
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
😂
Lionel Messi wears Scott McTominay pyjamas.
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
😂
Whoop!!
🗓📖
25/02 @dougjohnstone.bsky.social will be in convo with Chris Brookmyre at The Portobello Bookshop to celebrate his reissued, ICONIC #Debut #Tombstoning.
In-person & online tickets: bit.ly/4oLeK4W
Includes a brand new intro from Chris Brookmyre
SIGNED & DEDICATED edition: bit.ly/49rMfEQ
25/02 @dougjohnstone.bsky.social will be in convo with Chris Brookmyre at The Portobello Bookshop to celebrate his reissued, ICONIC #Debut #Tombstoning.
In-person & online tickets: bit.ly/4oLeK4W
Includes a brand new intro from Chris Brookmyre
SIGNED & DEDICATED edition: bit.ly/49rMfEQ
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Whoop!!