Brilliant animated cover reveal for Can You Solve the Murder? book 2: The Forest of Death! A new case, new setting, and new suspects for YOU to solve! (But don't worry, Sgt McAdam and the other police return 😀) Coming in July – pre-order it now 🔍
@transworldbooks.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Excellent article 💚
In fiction, meet my peatland expert, Elizabeth, in ALSTON MOOR as she endeavours to restore the North Pennines peatbogs. Coming September 2026 from @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to the magnificent Liliane Lijn whose extraordinary memoir and portrait of a trailblazing artist as a young woman
LIQUID REFLECTIONS is out in Penguin paperback.
‘Utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining — and important. I can't recommend it highly enough'
Jennifer Higgie
This was such good fun!
That means so much, thank you Antony.
Great news to end the week. My wonderful agent @sarahsuch.bsky.social has been shortlisted (for the fourth time!) for Literary Agent of the Year in the @thebookseller.com's British Book Awards:
www.thebookseller.com/british-book...
Wonderful news 📚 Congrats @sarahsuch.bsky.social 🙂
Thank you so much, Anne!
Such a thrill and an honour to be shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2026 at The British Book Awards. Congratulations to my fellow nominees and all those shortlisted for the #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies #TheBookseller
The international world of books buzzing at London Book Fair 2026, a wonderful few days of meetings with old friends and new at Olympia. And a humbling experience and reinforcement in the National Year of Reading 2026 that the importance of authors, books and of reading has never been greater.
One week left to apply!
More details about the position here: www.lrb.co.uk/pages/standa...
I’m a big fan of Sandra Newman’s novel The Heavens with its time slip from noughties New York to Elizabethan England. So, I’m pretty overwhelmed to read this early response.
Coming: September 2026
@goldsf.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Get 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social preorders for the second Can You Solve the Murder? instalment, "The Forest of Death", until midnight tomorrow! Just use code FEB26 at checkout: www.waterstones.com/book/9780857...
#WPreorder @transworldbooks.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
So chuffed to have my climate short story in this anthology’s wonderful lineup! Life in far-future biodomes saving temperate ecosystems 🙂 Thanks to editor @wishusdonna.bsky.social and NewCon Press.
Yes, you will I’m certain, it’s made such an impact on readers’ lives. Nothing out there like it.
Such a huge body of work, congrats Andy. It has been one of the most innovative and influential things to have happened in publishing for years. I’m hoping that once rested & reinvigorated that some ‘specials’ may pop up perhaps. Too good not to continue. Meanwhile raising my tea to you all, bravo!
Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media.
* Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...
For those of us who read The Fountain in the Forest in 2018, this is very exciting news indeed!
*DRUM ROLL* – cover reveal! My new novel Phantom at the Feast, the follow-up to The Fountain in the Forest, is out from No Exit Press on 18 June ’26. It has a stunning cover designed by Mark Ecob, with image by the great London photographer Chris Dorley-Brown... www.waterstones.com/book/phantom...
"A proper mystery with interesting and varied characters, and Ace the border collie is absolutely fabulous! Another entertaining read in one of my favourite new series"
Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead from The Puzzle Doctor:
So great to see ALSTON MOOR here.
So pleased to see ALSTON MOOR on this great list. Many of the recs on my own TBR! 📚📚📚
@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
A lovely early shout-out for ALSTON MOOR, coming September 2026. 📚🥰📚
Thank you! (I’m also eager for the new Ben Tufnell) @solarisbooks.bsky.social
Lovely news! Congratulations @antonyjohnston.bsky.social whose cracking novel THE DOG SITTER DETECTIVE PLAYS DEAD has been shortlisted for the inaugural Pen and Cob Award - with the winner announced at the Bloody Barnes Crime Writing Festival in Feb. @allisonandbusby.bsky.social
I've just been informed that The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead has been shortlisted for the inaugural Cob and Pen Award, organised by the new Bloody Barnes festival (at which I'm also a guest this Feb). Congrats to my fellow shortlistees! 🎉
@allisonandbusby.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
Grey and yellow/gold colours, cover showing sketch of a moorland ruin and a curlew, spine in yellow with detail image of cover's line drawing
I’m thrilled to reveal the stunning cover art for my novel, ALSTON MOOR. Coming 29 September! I’m so grateful to cover designer Heather Ryerson and the team at @goldsmithspress.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social. 📚@unamccormack.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social
More: annecharnock.com/alston-moor/...
Happy publication day to the exceptional Sabrina Pace-Humphreys whose excellent expert running guide START WHERE YOU ARE is now out from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Beautiful book post - START WHERE YOU ARE! by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys out from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social on 15 Jan.
ICYMI The wondrous Christmas episode (and last in this series) of BBC Radio 4’s sublime ADD TO PLAYLIST co-presented by #JeffreyBoakye is now available to playback on BBC Radio Sounds, along with all episodes in the series.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!
