So I’m going to be at London Book Fair tomorrow, somewhere in amongst the above melee. I’m doing a Creative Scotland event on Tartan Noir with agent Jenny Brown, Denise Mina and Sara Hunt from Saraband. 4pm in The Club Room, National Hall, come find us if you’re about!
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Here are my latest book reviews in The Big Issue magazine. I reviewed Blue Night (Orenda) by Simone Buchholz and The Hoarder (Canongate) by Jess Kidd. Two crackers, very different but both full of dry humour.
Hello peeps! Last chance to pick up FAULT LINES cheap on Kindle and Kobo before it goes back to some non-ridiculous price. Universal 5-star reviews so far. Just saying…
Here’s the final final cover for Fault Lines, with amazing quotes from Mark Billingham, Megan Abbott and Steve Cavanagh on it. Blown away. It’s off to the printers today, out 22nd May!
I was on BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show with Janice Forsyth today, one of the panel doing the Tuesday review, where we blethered about an Agatha Christie adaptation, a Jenny Saville exhibition and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Like you do. Listen from about an hour in.
If you’re on Kobo, a whole bunch of terrific Orenda books are going for 99p for Easter, including Fault Lines. Go check it out!
Amongst all the rock ‘n’ roll debauchery of the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, it would be easy to forget I’m doing an actual book event at Aye Write, Sat 24th March 3pm at the Mitchell Library, talking with Val McDermid, Lin Anderson and Jamie Crawford about the Bloody Scotland short story collection. Come for the banter, stay for, well, more banter. Tickets here!
GLASGOW PEOPLE! The Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers are playing this Friday night at the Tramway. I can guarantee it will be all kinds of AWESOME. Details here.
Brilliantly constructed speculative crime fiction, a classic whodunit and a dark psychological suspense, Doug Johnstone returns with his most explosive and original thriller yet.
In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery.
On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body, and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret. Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she’ll be exposed, Surtsey’s life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact – someone who claims to know what she’s done.
Another day, another Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers gig! Check out this mini-festival in Glenrothes, where we’re playing, and each of us is doing other actual book events too. Get ready, Fife! Saturday 19th May. Tickets here.
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