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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 17h

Lordy, I'm a Delia book of the month. She's on the board of Norwich City FC but still. Out tomorrow! www.deliaonline.com/whats-new/20...

Books of the Month October 2025

Our book choices for October

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 2h

It's publication day for my debut novel #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency! There's £1 off RRP at Guardian Bookshop, 80p off at Amazon/WH Smith. Order links here. Social shares mutts appreciated! 🐶🔍🐾📕https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/469431/the-dogwalkers-detective-agency-by-hogan-michael/9781405977951

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KarenKisreading @karenkisreading.bsky.social · 1d

🐶I’m thrilled to be sharing my non spoiler thoughts about debut novel, The Dogwalkers’ Detective Agency by @michaelhogan100.bsky.social on the eve of publication day.🐶

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Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Coming soon...
Peter James in Monmouth on Saturday 18th October
Tickets available in store and on 01600 775 572 or via this link:
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Rossiter Books @rossiterbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Let the countdown begin....not too long until our evening with @peterjamesauthor.bsky.social in Monmouth

The Hawk is Dead
There's a killer in Buckingham Palace - this is Grace's highest profile case yet...

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 1d

Two days until publication of my debut novel, #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency, published by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social. Preorders are open and there's £1 off the RRP at Guardian Bookshop (or 80p off at Amazon/WH Smith). Just saying! #firsttimeauthor #cosycrime guardianbookshop.com/the-dogwalke...

The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency

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Graeme Armstrong @graemearmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

Massive thanks to Places for People for organising a run of Edinburgh #StreetBelonging anti-violence events!

Brilliant effort from the youngsters in Craigroyston and Portobello today 👏🏻

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to bits with this review in @Independent. My debut novel, #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency, is out this Thursday, published by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social. Preorders open now! An ideal gift, like it says here! Now my words, theirs!

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 5d

In lieu of flowers, Ann’s family asks for donations to be made to The Book Trade Charity (BTBS): btbs.enthuse.com/cf/celebrati...

Celebrating the life of Ann Granger

In Memory of Ann Granger 12 July 1939 – 7 September 2025 All of us at Blake Friedmann are deeply saddened by the death of Ann Granger, a much-loved client of the agency for many decades. Booksellers,

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 5d

All of us at Blake Friedmann are deeply saddened by the death of Ann Granger, a much-loved client of the agency for many decades.

You can read more about her life here: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/in-memo...

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 5d

Thrilled that the mighty @graziauk.bsky.social has reviewed #thedogwalkersdetectiveagency. Probably the only time I'll appear next to Ian McEwan. Anyway, published by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social on 9 Oct. Preorders open now and help hugely. Link in replies and bio #firsttimeauthor #cosycrime

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 5d

Talking of preorders, ahem, my Amazon page has had a bit of a glow-up. Just saying www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1...

The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency: ‘Brilliant – I inhaled it. I love dogs and I love detectives. This is actually my dream book’ Claudia Winkleman: Amazon.co.uk: Hogan, Michael: 9781405977951: Books

Buy The Dogwalkers' Detective Agency: ‘Brilliant – I inhaled it. I love dogs and I love detectives. This is actually my dream book’ Claudia Winkleman 1 by Hogan, Michael (ISBN: 9781405977951) from Ama...

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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social · 7d

This Autumn marks 10 years since the first publication of Graeme Macrae Burnet's critically acclaimed and award-winning novel #HisBloodyProject and we’re celebrating with a 10th anniversary edition!

Visit our blog for 10 reasons to add it to your tbr!

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His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae: 10th Anniversary Edition by Graeme Macrae Burnet. Published by Saraband.

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 6d

Exciting news – a special edition of the Booker shortlisted HIS BLOODY PROJECT by Graeme Macrae Burnet is published today! Dark, fiendishly clever and sly, it spins a richly evocative tale of murder and truth.

Available now from @saraband-books.bsky.social:

saraband.net/sb-title/his...

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 6d

From Graeme Macrae Burnet comes BENBECULA a tale of darkness, violence and madness which is part of ‪the @birlinn.bsky.social #DarklandTales series.

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Also available in audio from @wfhowes.bsky.social!

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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 7d

It’s the start of the -ber months 🥶 and if you need something warming to read why not enjoy What Happened That Night for only 99p in this months KMD! Sx

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!

I'm taking part in a panel with other women food writers for this year's South East London BookFest.

Come join us at 2pm on Sat 18 Oct!

l'll be alongside Romy Gill,
Pary Baban from Nandine, @foodstories.bsky.social and
The Flygerians!

Free tickets here! 🎟️ tiny.cc/food

A collage of the bright yellow cover of my book ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’, me in a burgundy ‘Original Beef of Chicagoland’ T-shirt (from the tv show The Bear), holding a plate full of Tokyo Disneyland cakes, the poster for the SE London BookFest, and the area around Corner Corner (between Canada Water and Surrey Quays) which is where our panel will be.

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 8d

‘I love this book so much’ – Candice Carty-Williams

Over one relentlessly hot summer, two young women’s lives collide in the most unexpected ways…

ALL THAT WE’VE GOT by Jendella Benson is published in US paperback today!

Available now from Trapeze Books: bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

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Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social · 11d

It’s National Public Libraries Open Day. Visit your library and find a new reading adventure

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Karen Campbell @writerkcampbell.bsky.social · 10d

An amazing surprise to see the cover of my wee book on the Stairs of fame @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social 😀 Festival is in full swing and the buzz is great. Chairing today, tomorrow and Tuesday, then my event is on next Sunday. share.google/gvJofcuU6HiM...

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 13d

Published two weeks today! Preorders open now! Loud noises! Excitable barking! www.penguin.co.uk/books/469431...

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 13d

‘A dizzyingly immersive experience... tragic, cinematic, propulsive.’ – Martin MacInnes

‘Burnet plays metafictional games, but the book pulls off the rare double of being emotionally involving as well as teasingly tricksy.’ – Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph

Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 13d

WINNER: Graeme Macrae Burnet’s Gorski finale A CASE OF MATRICIDE wins the Best International Crime Fiction prize at the Ned Kelly Awards!

Out now in Australia from @textpublishing.bsky.social, and from other publishers around the world

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Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/a-case-...

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 15d

‘Beautiful and important’ – Safiya Sinclair

PASSIONTIDE by Monique Roffey is now available in US paperback from @aaknopf.bsky.social!

When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, outraged local women take matters into their own hands…

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Sue Moorcroft Author @suemoorcroftauthor.bsky.social · 17d

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest portobellobookblog.com/2025/09/22/o...

Only a few days until the third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival! @EdWomensFicFest

The third Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival will be taking place this coming Friday and Saturday, 26th-27th September and I’m delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. If y…

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Michael Hogan @michaelhogan100.bsky.social · 19d

It's published in three weeks by @michaeljbooks.bsky.social but why not "beat the rush" and preorder my debut novel, The Dogwalkers Detective Agency? Dogs, gags and cosy crime in a seaside setting. What's not to love?🐶🚨🔍📚 www.penguin.co.uk/books/469431...

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