It definitely deserves a new home.

!!!
Kind words for my Saltire first book winning collection, now heading out of print due to @404ink.bsky.social shuttering. I hope it will find a home somewhere. Still quite proud of this one

My intro to @helenmcclory.bsky.social What a fascinating, refreshing approach to the short form. And such a command of language, creating beautiful arrangements and then butchering them in a truly exciting way.
Thanks to Karen Sullivan @orendabooks.bsky.social, who gave me this as a present.

Cover the book "Under the Blazing Sun" by Jenny Lund Madsen. The front of a house. Four windows are visible. The one at tope right has open shutters, the rest are closed. The front of the house is a pink-purple colour, matching the sky around it although above the house the sky darkens to blue. In the distance is a setting or rising sun, and a town with some lights on in the houses. In front of the house is superimposed a wine glass, broken and with dashes of red on its jagged edge. The bottom of the glass also contains some red liquid, it could be wine or blood or something else.

Joining the cover reveal for #UndertheBlazingSun by Jenny Lund Madsen - coming on 21 May from @orendabooks.bsky.social - see bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/03/cove... for more! Thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social

HELSINKI, 1982.

Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble...❄️

From Antti Tuomainen, the author of the Netflix hit #LITTLESIBERIA, and translated by David Hackston is a darkly funny #suspensenovel you won't want to put down!😍

AVAILABLE NOW🙌

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War. Survival. Resistance.

From one of Ukraine’s most vital voices comes the next instalment in his extraordinary diaries.

#ThreeYearsOnFire is OUT NOW💙💛

Read the story behind the headlines.
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Auckland’s forgotten are being hunted.

Max Grimes knows the streets… and he knows he could be next.

Don’t miss #Reaper, the GRIPPING second book in the #CityOfShadowSeries by @vandasymon.bsky.social😍

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Ebook: 🔗https://geni.us/XuHBs

Intrigued by this collection of fiction/poetry/prose from Akutagawa, a writer new to me. Out from @prototypepubs.bsky.social next month. Thanks for the early copy!

The gentrification machine is rolling on… and someone is sending a very clear message🦈

Simone Buchholz’s #SHARKS (tr. @racheltranslates.bsky.social) is a searing investigation into greed, power and corruption in Hamburg.

DIVE IN!
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The FINAL instalment of #AnÁróraInvestigationSeries by @liljawriter.bsky.social (t. Lorenza Garcia) is HERE😍

When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Áróra's sister is found dead, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything😱

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The clocks are ticking towards midnight…

#Blackwater, the electrifying #Y2K thriller by Sarah Sultoon is OUT NOW😱

They prepared for system failure.
They didn’t prepare for murder.

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#TheHope — the FINAL book in #TheForcingTrilogy by the BRILLIANT Paul Hardisty — is OUT NOW🔥

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In Norway’s frozen north, darkness hides deadly secrets…

#IntoTheDark, BOOK TWO in the #ArcticMysteriesSeries by Ørjan Karlsson (t. by @iangiles.bsky.social) is OUT NOW💙

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#IntoTheDark, the chilling, breathtakingly tense BOOK TWO in the #ArcticMysteriesSeries by Ørjan Karlsson and translated by @iangiles.bsky.social is OUT NOW!💙

In Norway's far north, something unspeakable is surfacing...

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The year is 2028. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. Could this be our future?

#TheHope, the FINAL book in #TheForcingTrilogy by WORLD LEADING Environmental Scientist Paul Hardisty is OUT NOW!

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In Hamburg’s troubled Wilhelmsburg district, the bodies are piling up…🦈

#SHARKS by Simone Buchholz (tr. @racheltranslates.bsky.social) is a gripping investigation into greed, power & resistance🙌

OUT NOW!
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Ebook: 🔗https://geni.us/UAc9t9

#wintereads❄️

The FINAL instalment of the #AnÁróraInvestigationSeries by @liljawriter.bsky.social (t. Lorenza Garcia) is OUT NOW😍

Perfect for readers of Camilla Läckberg, Karin Slaughter, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir and Jo Nesbø.🙌

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#TeamOrenda #nordicnoir

We still can't get over the #10thANNIVERSARYEDITION of Ragnar Jónasson's seminal, multi-million-copy bestselling #nordicnoir mystery, #Snowblind (t. by @graskeggur.bsky.social)😍

This edition includes #Fadeout, a BRAND NEW prequel your collection NEEDS

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THRILLED to announce that Simone Buchholz's #Sharks (t. by Rachel Ward) has been reviewed in @thetimes.com !!😍🙌⭐️

'As much a character study as the story of a crime … full of startling images and sudden movements, that will thrill cynics and romantics alike'

Read the rest here😍:
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A very Norfolk scene with the old gatehouse to some hall or other, blue sky with white clouds, a barred gate, a finger signpost to Wymondham and a hawthorn hedge coming into blossom

My hand holding a copy of Sharks by Simone Buchholz above the box in which they were delivered. You can see the back covers of two more, one right way up and one upside down. The cover is dark blue with neon green for the title and a neon sign of a shark jaw in pink and a bunch of green keys above the Hamburg skyline. Text: For the first time in a long time, I found a book I simply couldn't put down-and I didn't want it to end... A truly fantastic read Leye Adenle SIMONE BUCHHOLZ WINNER OF THE CWA CRIME IN TRANSLATION DAGGER SHARKS A CHASTITY RILEY INVESTIGATION "Taut, compulsive and laced with humour as dark as its selling... Chastity Riley is the perfect anti-hero for our times' Rod Reynolds

Gorgeous morning for a bike ride and then home to exciting book post from @orendabooks.bsky.social

My translation of #Sharks by @ohneklippo.bsky.social !

🦈😎💙📚🍻🥂🍾🥳🚲🚴‍♀️

#booksky #ChastityReloaded #QueenOfKrimi

Out now: a new Chastity Riley from the inimitable German crime fiction poet Simone Buchholz!

Preorder Jenny Lund Madsen’s Under the Blazing Sun (tr. @paulrussellgarrett.bsky.social), at @waterstones.bsky.social and get 25% off.

Razor-sharp crime-fighting/slash literary antics from the inimitable Hannah, on Sicily…

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Offer ends Friday.
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IMPORTANT pls RT

My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all

The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct)

If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

🇨🇦🇺🇸ATTENTION USA & CANADA🇺🇸🇨🇦

#TheSevenDoors, the LONG-AWAITED #PsychologicalThriller by Agnes Ravatn (translated by Rosie Hedger) is on SALE NOW for just $0.99 on #kindle in the USA and Canada for the month of February❄️

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🚨#DEALALERT🚨

#TheWinterJob by Antti Tuomainen is on #sale EVERYWHERE for JUST £0.99 FOR ONE WEEK!😱

A desperate father’s Christmas promise sparks a wild Finnish road trip you won't want to miss!🙌

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Delighted to help Elisa’s reach readers.

I think it's my favourite of hers. I really hope it finds the readers it deserves - quiet novels can have impact too!! - so thank you for this beautiful, thoughtful review, as I defo think it will help...

It’s a tremendous novel!

I missed this gorgeous review by @westcamel.bsky.social back in Dec of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) for European Literary Network: 'A major piece of work that deserves repeated rereading to unpack each of its mythic items.' www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

New: RWR McDONALD chats to Craig Sisterson
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