Hugely excited to announce that the Edinburgh launch of Quite Ugly One Evening on May 7th will see me in conversation with none other than @valmcdermid.bsky.social.
Details here:
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Hugely excited to announce that the Edinburgh launch of Quite Ugly One Evening on May 7th will see me in conversation with none other than @valmcdermid.bsky.social.
Details here:
www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...
And Jet Set Willy will be forty-five.
Boiling A Frog is a Kindle Daily Deal today.
NB. This is not a recipe book.
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10 Great Books to take on a cruise 😉 🛳️
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Look out for Quite Ugly One Evening by @brookmyre.bsky.social coming 7 May 2026
The my-novels-aren't-political-thing probably needs to be wrung out and left to dry at this point; but, obviously, all novels are political, because everything is, and nothing's ever quite as political as preferring the status quo.
I trust you've seen this?
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Cheers, Russel. Chuffed you enjoyed the voyage.
I think you are right to publish, with the context of why made clear. I do think it would be clearer to describe the so-called joke as both homophobic and racist. The clearly conscious homophobic intent of the joke wouldn't take this form without its conscious racialised intent too.
Here's how April through to June looks for us. Thrilled to be welcoming @sarahhilary.bsky.social, @brookmyre.bsky.social and @jaystringer.bsky.social to @hulllibraries.bsky.social (Central and online) 📚🙌
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This song makes me smile every time it comes on, but in the chorus there's an unforgivably lazy rhyme of "back to where we started" with "back before we were broken-hearted" that I edit in my mind to be "back when our love was still uncharted".
Quite Ugly One Morning is stil a monthly deal on Kindle. An iconic jobbie on a mantelpiece for less than a quid.
This is very @brookmyre.bsky.social coded. ‘Bedlam’ is a great read, btw.
(think there's a fine line between needing to understand what's happening online and essentially just advertising the existence of bad guys on the internet and I do slightly worry that the relentless focus on the manosphere has become the latter)
Tickets are on sale now for the Glasgow launch of Quite Ugly One Evening on May 6th, which will be at the magnificent Drygate brewery, and chaired by none other than @callummcsorley.bsky.social.
www.drygate.com/events/whats...
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.
Hmmmmmm.
Grifters have worked out that "I'm just a fearless truth-teller willing to propose the necessary but politically incorrect solution," is a magic formula whereby if you're offensive enough the conversation focuses on whether you should have said it, and misses how your ideas are dumb as hell.
Come and hear me and @brookmyre.bsky.social talk about Tombstoning TONIGHT at @portybooks.bsky.social. There will be banter and music and all sorts.
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I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.
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“What do you want to do on your birthday Andrew?”
“I dunno - surprise me.”
Oh, the grand old duke of york
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Absolutely in love 😍 with these Korean copies of The Space Between Us, published by Moonhak Soochup. So beautiful.
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Tangent: my Japanese tutor finds animal noises in English frustrating. Japanese has one verb for an animal making a noise. We have one per animal and often two, one of them onomatopoeia. Roosters broke her when I said the word for cock-a-doodle-doo is "to crow" despite that being a whole other bird.
