Buying a cheap day return at the railway ticket office, the woman asked me if I had a railcard. No, I replied, and almost added cheerfully, I know I look young, but I'm not that young! It was only sitting on the train that it occurred to me she wasn't referring to THAT kind of railcard...

Grazie @annerandomthings.bsky.social‬ for the tour of my alter ego #alexmakepeace. "It's been a very long time since a novel sunk its hooks into me to such an extent." @edwinhayward.com "Brilliant, compelling, unsettling." @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social @elsewhen.press Buy: tinyurl.com/36mx6h62

One for your diaries!

#booklaunch #ukcrimebookclub
#crimefiction #speculativefiction
@sambrownley.bsky.social @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social @ukcrimebookclub.bsky.social @elsewhen.press

Today is the final day of the @annerandomthings.bsky.social for @tombenjamin.bsky.social latest novel #TheBolognaVendetta bk 6 in the Daniel Leicester series set in Bologna. There are lots of other great reviews to check out. @littlebrown.bsky.social
peterturnsthepage.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/t...

Grazie Peter!

From yesterday's #coppaitalia victory parade by
@bolognafc1909.bsky.social #bolognafc #bologna

Bananas, booze, and the Backwards Machine Why authors need a 'Human-made Mark' sooner rather than later

My latest substack. This on AI and fiction and why we need labelling sooner rather than later.

open.substack.com/pub/tombenja...

The Bologna Vendetta by Tom Benjamin #BookReview #BlogTour Hair Past A Freckle - For the love of books! Reviews and more....

#BookReview #TheBolognaVendetta by @tombenjamin.bsky.social This brilliant series is consistently unmissable and The Bologna Vendetta is no exception; intriguing, intelligent and thoroughly compelling, it's the best yet! hairpastafreckle72.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... @annerandomthings.bsky.social

Many, many congrats to @tombenjamin.bsky.social on publication of “The Bologna Vendetta”!

If you love Italy, if you love crime fiction … you need to be following this series!

Congratulations to @tombenjamin.bsky.social as his sixth Daniel Leicester novel #TheBolognaVendetta is published today by Century
@littlebrown.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing my thoughts on this later in the month as part of the
Random Things blog tour

📖 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Tom Benjamin @tombenjamin.bsky.social with ‘The Bologna Vendetta’!

Grazie!!!!

Other readers monsters Why crime and fantasy have more in common than you might think

To mark publication of #thebolognavendetta I penned a substack post. I'm going to try and post more often, although the last time I said that was July 2024...

#Fantasy #crimefiction #romantasy

tombenjamin.substack.com/p/other-read...

⭐️ Excited that the launch of the sixth in my Bologna-set crime series, which is currently #99p on Amazon (link tinyurl.com/52btm46t ) and @thecwa.bsky.social 'read of the month' will be marked by a blog tour with the fantastic @annerandomthings.bsky.social ⭐️😁 #CrimeFiction @littlebrown.bsky.social

Grazie! I was just about to post this, but you have done my job for me! 🙏 So honoured! 😁

The CWA's Read of the Month for May is The Bologna Vendetta by Tom Benjamin! Read more about it here! buff.ly/7riAc6w #crimewriter #crimefiction #cwareadofthemonth

Polish troops battle for Bologna – a home far from home "Other soldiers were here in transit and had a "return ticket" home. The Poles acted as if they had come home. Why? Because they had no home. Poland had been taken over by Stalin. They had no intenti

Great piece on the liberation of #Bologna by the #Poles on this, Liberation Day 😁

polishatheart.com/polish-troop...

Sadly only a sash!

Yes, that's a cake 😁 A perk from my role as author ambassador to Bologna Book Plus which included a fantastic interview with @bookbrunch.bsky.social in print and online (in profile)!

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

@thecrimevault.bsky.social @billgoodall.bsky.social
#CrimeFiction #Bologna

Q&A: Crime writer Tom Benjamin BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine

Delighted to share my Q&A in advance of my role of "ambassador" for Bologna Book Plus, which kicks off next week 🙂

#Bologna #BolognaBookPlus

www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...

⭐️ When Hollywood comes to Bologna... Italian Rules, just #99p 'A really great read' @ianmooreauthor.bsky.social ⭐️

www.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Rule...

Whoop!! When a bestselling top notch author you hugely admire says THIS 👇👇

"An emotional rollercoaster of mounting tension. England fills the story with twist after agonising twist."

#TheReturnOfFrankieWhittle is out now! Find it here:

#eBook: amzn.to/3DrRA16

#paperback: amzn.to/43t3qmb

As Picasso remarked - he was not impressed by computers, they only provided answers.

A Quiet Death in Italy (Daniel Leicester Book 1) A Quiet Death in Italy (Daniel Leicester Book 1) eBook : Benjamin, Tom: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

⭐ LAST DAY at #99p ⭐

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

🚨#NewRelease #TheReturnOfFrankieWhittle🚨

'Full of twists and turns, I couldn't put this down. A taut, claustrophobic thriller that left me breathless' SIMON McCLEAVE, multi-million selling author

#KindleUnlimited: amzn.to/4aUxPvn

#Paperback: amzn.to/40QQXWF

A cheeky 12k to ##sanluca dragged up by doggo.

Books by Tom Benjamin on a bookshop shelf

Further to my bookshop observing…
Waterstones Llandudno:
No @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social or @davidhewson.bsky.social but @tombenjamin.bsky.social see attached…

That's only because thebothets have sold out!

Thanks Miles, I never say no to a Negroni (could be a 70s ad slogan?) Esp. By @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social 😆

Likewise with Phil... once before Covid I believe that was the plan, but then... thanks for checking though. I was actually in T3 Manchester the other week (but I've given up looking!).