Writes about books and the like for the Telegraph and the like. Mainliner of crime fiction.
Joined July 2011
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The full programme for the 33rd St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend with guest of honour @AndrewJRTaylor and a stellar cast of speakers is now online!
In Oxford and online, 4-6th September.
Full programme: st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/asset/cfw…
Tickets: st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/20…
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Probably one of Len Deighton’s least known bits of writing:
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27 Oct 2025
Huge thanks to @JakeKerridge for including Paperboy in this list - The 21 best crime and thriller novels of 2025. Some incredible authors on here. I'm a big fan of Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir series, it's a trip to be listed along with it!
@PushkinPress
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21 Oct 2025
The 21 best crime and thriller novels of 2025 Amazing review. Thank you @JakeKerridge @TelegraphBooks @noexitpress #TheProtocolsofSpying telegraph.co.uk/books/crime-…
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31 Jul 2025
An online ticket to @HildasCrime gives you full access to all sessions inc live Q&As. Plus the chance to win our Whodunnit starring @radiomukhers @Anna_Mazz @RuthWareWriter William Ryan and @JakeKerridge
8-10th August
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25 Jun 2025
Huge thanks to @JakeKerridge for including PAPERBOY in his round up of the best new crime and thriller books of 2025!
"a vision of Glasgow as a technicolor hellhole of corruption, reminiscent of James Ellroy’s Los Angeles" - that really made my day!
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18 Nov 2024
The Peacock and the Sparrow @isberryauthor is @JakeKerridge's THRILLER OF THE YEAR @TelegraphBooks & a TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR!
'the advent of a writer who has both the insider knowledge & the literary chops to convey the flavour of 21st-century espionage'
Thanks, Jake!
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15 Nov 2024
What were the best crime thrillers of 2024? 📚
This year saw a bumper crop of flawed and villainous heroes, some more traditional cops and the thrilling advent of a new spy-writing talent...
Read @JakeKerridge 's picks here:
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22 Oct 2024
'I wonder if Harkaway might feel that he has done too good a job'
Read @JakeKerridge 's 5-star review of Karla's Choice 👇
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20 Oct 2024
…”Harkaway’s new recreation of the Smiley milieu is note-perfect”.
“Readers will respond to KARLA’S CHOICE with pure gratitude”.
Stellar Sunday Telegraph review by Jake Kerridge of Nick Harkaway’s KARLA’S CHOICE, dramatising a few missing events from George Smiley’s life.
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10 Oct 2024
📚The 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Han Kang, has been praised for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas".
Read @JakeKerridge 's reaction here:
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8 Oct 2024
'Librarians: extensively trained professionals whose role in connecting people with books & providing information cannot be supplanted by machines or volunteers' - great to have a chance to input to this article @JakeKerridge @TelegraphBooks @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/books/young-…
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8 Oct 2024
'Berry has all of le Carré’s cynicism about Western intelligence services & outsoars him in her ability to convincingly evoke a love affair against an espionage backdrop. This is a star in the making'
Thanks @JakeKerridge @TelegraphBooks
The Peacock and the Sparrow is out 24 Oct
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8 Oct 2024
Head over to @Shotsblog to read an extract from #ACaseOfMatricide by @GMacraeBurnet
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Catch Graeme at @WaterstonesTraf this Thursday at 7pm in conversation with @JakeKerridge, tickets available here
waterstones.com/events/a-cas…
We hope to see you there!
ALT Graeme Macrae Burnet book events.
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3 Oct 2024
🚨And dear LONDON FOLK, lest you feel left out of the matricidal festivities, a week today (10th), I'll be in conversation with the mighty @JakeKerridge at @WaterstonesTraf 🚨
Would love to see you there!🍷
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27 Aug 2024
Gasp! 😱 Thank you so much to the awesome @JakeKerridge for this wonderful profile feature in today's @Telegraph 🙏 Plus, our new settee makes an appearance in the pics 🛋️
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6 Aug 2024
ICYMI, I was incredibly lucky to visit HMP Bullingdon with #SlowHorses creator Mick Herron to mark 25th anniversary of @PRG_UK for #ExpressFeatures. With 5,000 reading group sessions over 25 yrs, PRG is doing amazing work. Thanks to all involved at Bullingdon, PRG & @MoJGovUK 👏
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5 Aug 2024
The Wasp Factory: How Iain Banks's 'depraved' novel shook the world, by @JakeKerridge telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t…
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1 Aug 2024
‘P. D. James is the crème de la crème of crime authors.’ Ian Rankin
Feast your eyes on our beautiful new editions of P. D. James's bestselling mysteries starring Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. The first five reissues are available now 📚
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31 Jul 2024
@RevRichardColes is in the @HildasCrime #spotlight today. wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com… which artists would he invite to dinner & which concert would he like to attend again? @gigicroft @hilda_beastoxf @sthildas_events @sarah_hilary @JakeKerridge @CrimeReaders @AndrewJRTaylor #HCFW24
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