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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 7d

Re-upping my review of "A Lethal Legacy" by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir, @corylusbooks.bsky.social translated by @graskeggur.bsky.social

"Guðrún's deceptively simple style is once again irresistible in this new book in the Alma Jónsdóttir mystery series."

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 9d

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

Cover for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir. Black and white photograph of two young children holding dolls.

Blog tour poster for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir

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Sue Thomas @brownflopsy.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir

A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir. Translated by Quentin Bates. Published 20th September 2025 by Corylus Books. From the cover of ...

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 10d

That's a neatly diplomatic response.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 10d

Racking my brains to figure out which festival you could be referring to... Surely not the one I was involved with, once upon a time?

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 11d

Some ships are just unlucky... They don't catch fish, or keep breaking down, accidents happen all the time, crew problems. I worked on one such boat...
No easy explanation for it. You can only put it down to bad juju.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 11d

Picked more than enough this year! Someone told me that at the end of August the devil breathes on any blackberries that are left so they wither away... If so, he's left it late this year.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 11d

These are English blackberries, so probably fairies. Icelandic blackberries (svartber) are crowberries, and I don't know that the hidden people make any special claim to them...

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 11d

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

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David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social · 12d

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 📚💙

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Blog tour poster for Icelandic crime novel A Letha Legacy by Guðrún Gúðlaugsdóttir (translated by Quentin Bates). The black and white cover image of the book, which is on the poster, shows two young girls - one with light hair, one dark - each holding a large doll. The landscape behind them is bleak and stony.

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Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social · 15d

On the blog as part of the @corylusbooks.bsky.social blog tour is my review of #ALethalLegacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir translated from Icelandic by @graskeggur.bsky.social Haunting and powerful story of family disputes and sickening crimes of the past.
peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/a...

A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir #BookReview #ALethalLegacy #GuðrúnGuðlaugsdóttir

A family dispute with a shocking revelation

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for the kind words!

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Ewa Sherman @ewashe.bsky.social · 21d

7 impressive crime novels from #Finland 🇫🇮 #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Norway 🇳🇴 & #Sweden 🇸🇪 are shortlisted for #PetronaAward2025 for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. Congratulations to the authors, translators & publishers @corylusbooks.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social 🎉 nordiclighthouse.blog

Nordic Lighthouse

Spotlight on Nordic / Scandinavian crime fiction... and connections

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you! Might get lucky this time...!

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 22d

The Petrona shortlist of seven Nordic crime novels translated into English is revealed. Congrats to all, and especially to Óskar Guðmundsson... The winner will be announced 16th October.
www.petronaaward.co.uk/2025/09/the-...

Covers of seven Nordic novels in translation shortlisted for the 2025 Petrona Award

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · 29d

Absolutely. I've had so many arguments with editors over this...

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Sep 9

Highly recommended. Although I may be slightly biased.

Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social · Sep 9

Something to curl up with as the nights start to draw in...?
Broken is the first of a razor-edged crime trilogy shot through with black humour and characters who leap off the page
amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7
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Broken eBook : Jónasson, Jón Atli, Bates, Quentin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's not a new expression and pre-dates the internet. To have weight, influence, to have earned respect within a particular circle. I've a feeling this was an English (ie, UK) colloquialism until social media adopted it.
A clout (UK English) is also a blow or a punch. Or it can be a piece of cloth.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Sep 3

'....there’s no attempt to sugarcoat the darkness.'
Cool review of Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson
nordicwatchlist.com/2025/09/01/b...
Thanks, @pearceglen.bsky.social !

Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson - Book Review

Nordic Watchlist reviews Broken by Jón Atli Jónasson. Broken is the Icelandic author's first English language novel and published through Corylus Books.

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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ikmen book 27 The Wooden Library published in paperback on 11th September. I’m giving away 2 copies to celebrate. RT and follow to enter. Winners announced Wednesday 10 September.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Sep 1

Two points. Never listened to a boombox.
I've rented videos, but there was no Blockbuster in Iceland.

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Aug 31

Best ever pulp thriller title, Lady Don't Fall Backwards.

Tony Hancock @tonyhancock.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sid: Come on, come on, tell me. Who dunnit then?

#FridayNightWasHancockNight

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thoughts and prayers...

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Aug 28

Welcome to today's earworm.

Reykjavík

YouTube video by Spilverk þjóðanna - Topic

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Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social · Aug 28

Is Jón Atli Iceland's most exciting new voice in crime fiction?

book_companion @edithz.bsky.social · Aug 27

What happens when a dramatist and crime fiction author explores Iceland's social dynamics through storytelling? Tune in to Book Lover's Companion with Jon Atli Jonasson on Monday. Enjoy the teaser! #AuthorInterview #podcast #Iceland

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