Crime fiction | WHITE CITY | VINE STREET | AFTER DARK | PAST LIFE | Rep'd @nicolabarr123
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The best crime novel of 2024 is...
WHITE CITY
Looking resplendent in print in today's @thetimes
Out on Thursday from @headlinepg
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An act of grace. Disarmingly, head-noddingly honest. Both familiar and revelatory. There's nothing else like it. One of the books of the year by one of our most exciting voices. If you haven't already, check out Tice's classic debut, KEEPING THE HOUSE. A writer of great wonder.
Grateful to share the cover for my novel SAFE SPACES. Someone looking at the pathways of their own mind, that blue tendril of it.
Designed by the wonderful Rafi Romaya.
Out in September with @GrantaBooks — a portrait of an artist as grieving musician
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"Laughter and humour are for me also a subversive way of questioning received ideas... I have always thought that humour is one of the supreme forms of intelligence."
Amen. Comedy is a higher calling. A lot of my favourite crime right now is coming from right funny fucks.
A great Q&A with Joseph Incardona, author of Holy F*ck, by @deborahkalb
Translated by Sam Taylor and out now in the UK and US!
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Unquestionable classic of film noir & the author of two of my favourite mysteries of the last few years. @NatalieMarlow2's William Garrett brumshoe novels mix the SoCal hardboiled style with the quintessential Englishness of Birmingham's canals and mermaids with vagina dentata 🧜
Apr 11
The filmic version of @HullNoir at @hull_libraries starts tonight at 7pm. We will be watching Double Indemnity and before that we will be having noirish chat with Natalie Marlow - thank you for this fab photo too xxx
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Happy Book Birthday @mazevansauthor!
Much crime writing is 𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨, but Evans is funny, often wickedly so. Funny is the hardest tone to maintain, let alone across a polyphonic chorus of voices and epistolary flourishes.
A DEGREE OF MURDER is out now, if you like laughing.
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Brian Evenson's LAST DAYS, a brilliant millenarian body horror noir about an amputation cult, is one of my favourite novels of the century, and a follow up is finally coming out. Unarmed and very dangerous.
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Dom Nolan retweeted
Mar 10
It’s just ONE month until my next murder mystery hits the shelves and this is my twistiest brain-melter yet… Join the graduates of Bathory College on Graduation Day and their reunion in 2025, when old grudges have deadly consequences… Pre-order now, out with @headlinepg 9 April
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In this age of countless genres and subgenres, it's worth remembering Ancient Greek drama only had three, and there's a reason one of them was comedy. Maz Evans is funnier than a fire at the house of your nemesis, and you can warm your hands on the flames for just 99p right now.
Mar 3
OMDB is just ninety-nine of your pennies this month on The Kindle - have at it xxx
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Tom Benn, excellent on mankind vs machine and the heart of the creative act
I wrote a little piece for the Conversation.
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Saw Maz's musical adaption of her Who Let the Gods Out? last week. Ostensibly for kids, parents will find it just as funny (a laugh out loud political lettuce joke is worth your time alone). Possesses a kitchen sink heft along with sterling numbers and action to stir up the kids.
★★★★ Review: Who Let the Gods Out – Daft, dynamic and touching version of Maz Evans’ children’s tale of Greek gods in modern Britain @polkatheatre 👇 thestage.co.uk/reviews/who-l…
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Blag some free Manchette. It's what he would have wanted.
Feb 15
We've teamed up with @vintagebooks for a giveaway of the February #JamesBondBookClub pick – Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette.
UK readers can be in with a chance of winning an A3 poster print of the iconic Fatale cover artwork, alongside copies of two of Manchette’s razor-sharp noir masterpieces - Fatale and Nada.
Enter here: penguin.co.uk/discover/artic…
Fatale is now available to buy at ianflemingshop.com so pick up a copy and read along with us.
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The most exciting kind of book post - new @ticecin! KEEPING THE HOUSE is one of the crucial London novels of the century, and SAFE SPACES promises to be extra Enfieldier. An imperative voice.
ALT Cover of a proof of Tice Cin's new novel, SAFE SPACES, coming in September from Granta.
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