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One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read… Check out this extract! Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda #translator R Diver 📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE 📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv

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With a tagline of 'Living forever can be lethal...' this one is definitely on my wishlist radar. I really love speculative, futuristic fiction like The Cure by Eve Smith @evesmithauthor.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social #TheCure #LivingForeverCanBeLethal #Wishlist

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#PublicationDay🔥 Lit suspense meets #folkhorror in 2025’s most mesmerising #gothic thriller… Evil runs through this island & these wicked sisters are about to make it burn... #SmallFires by @ronnieturner8702.bsky.social is OUT NOW! 📲https://geni.us/9fhYU 📙 geni.us/Q4HyH

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#PublicationDay🔥 #Midsommar meets #MidnightMass & #TheBloodyChamber in this year's most hypnotic gothic novel… @ronnieturner8702.bsky.social's mesmerising, deeply unsettling #SmallFires out today! 📲https://geni.us/9fhYU 📙 geni.us/Q4HyH #folklore #suspense #HorrorCommunity #booksky #newbooks

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#PublicationDay One of the most powerful stories of #courage you will ever read… Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s urgent memoir #TheConvoy documents her escape from the 1994 #genocide in #Rwanda #translator @ruthdiver.bsky.social 📲https://geni.us/j0NwPE 📙https://geni.us/zv5Ytrv #BookSky #memoir

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#PublicationDay🔎 Saltire Prize shortlisted @dfr10.bsky.social returns with an extraordinary, dark #mystery… The deaths of young women in Glasgow lead to a stately home in the Scottish countryside, and back to #WW2 in #TheWeekenders 📕https://geni.us/WVluqX 📲https://geni.us/Ir9dR9s #CrimeFiction

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OUT TODAY🔎 The deaths of a series of young women in Glasgow leads to a stately home in the Scottish countryside, and back to #WW2, where a group of young soldiers made their own shocking rules… #TheWeekenders by @dfr10.bsky.social 📕https://geni.us/WVluqX 📲https://geni.us/Ir9dR9s #CrimeFiction

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First impromptu signings … @waterstones.bsky.social Sauchiehall St. THE WEEKENDERS, published by @orendabooks.bsky.social Out, em, now … I guess.

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FANTASTIC! @dfr10.bsky.social #TheWeekenders @heraldscotland.bsky.social 'All of Ross’s novels so far have been accomplished works, but The Weekenders is certainly one of the most compelling, with the dynamism of a thriller and the power of a stirring sermon' www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...

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Bit late posting about #GraniteNoir but I'm home now so there's time! Brilliant 'Lost In Translation' panel Sun chaired by the fab @jackycnoir64.bsky.social, with @graskeggur.bsky.social, @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social & @orendabooks.bsky.social's Ørjan Karlsson. If the vid available, watch it! 💙📚

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#Son by @engerthomas.bsky.social & Johana Gustawsson is out in MARCH! 'With a cliffhanger on the final line, there’s already eager anticipation for the next instalment of what, if this debut offering is anything to judge by, is set to become a must-read Nordic Noir series'

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Just WOW! The plot hits the ground running and doesn’t release its grip … until the last unexpected final line. There may be two hands at play here writing Son but it’s a seamless merging of voices, with a combined narrative so strong that it’s impossible to tell which writer crafted which line.

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'A fully formed world that gives a solid background for a thrilling plot resplendent with plenty of twists and turns to make this a compelling page-turner' #SON @engerthomas.bsky.social & Johana Gustawsson #CrimeFiction #BookSky OUT IN MARCH!!

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YES! INCREDIBLE review of Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger's #SON. 'Gustawsson and Enger’s creation of Voss is perfectly pitched. There’s a lot of science and psychology at play behind her that could easily turn into an academic thesis, but the writing duo make Voss utterly compelling'

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😯 'Even the most hardened liar finds it hard to control the often minuscule signals the body shows that undermine what they are saying. In Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger’s first writing collaboration, Son, those silent signals become almost deafening' #CrimeFiction #NordicNoir #bodylanguage

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'Amazing' 💙📚 writes @yvonnembee.bsky.social Small Fires by Ronnie Turner @orendabooks.bsky.social #fiction #gothic #mystery #bookreview #TuesdayBookBlog vonnibee.com/2025/02/25/s...

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Small Fires by Ronnie Turner via @yvonnembee.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social #fiction #gothic #mystery #bookreview #booksky

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"...studied and elegant storytelling..." Big Sister by Gunnar Staalesen TR: Don Bartlett www.tripfiction.com/nordic-noir-... @orendabooks.bsky.social

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Hear, hear! LOVE this review of Gunnar Staaelsen's #BigSister t D Bartlett! 'What you do get is studied and elegant storytelling (with an excellent translation). And of course he is renowned for bringing the setting of Bergen and environs to really colourful life' #Norway #NordicNoir #VargVeum

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Today - joining the #blogtour for #TheWeekenders by @dfr10.bsky.social, scouting a darkness in Glasgow... thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/02/blog...

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🥹 'Their voices sing in your head, their lives move and affect, their fates - some of them - sadden you as if they were old friends. Ross shows us real people showing how their desire simply to live and enjoy that living is baffled, diverted, sometimes blocked, but never … wholly defeated'

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THIS! 'This book was, as are all of Ross's stories, also immensely entertaining, featuring rich and vivid characters who don't so much populate the page as march off it and sit down with you for a drink and a chat' #TheWeekenders @dfr10.bsky.social OUT THURSDAY! #CrimeFiction #BookSky

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WHAT a review of @dfr10.bsky.social's brilliant #mystery #TheWeekenders! 'In this book, Glasgow is far from a safe place, whether you're a visiting student, police, nosy reporter or even one of those who think they pull the strings. Glasgow itself will, I think, have the last word here' #Scotland

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'As a background to that, Ross brings alive a raucous, surface-confident, but, I felt, also a hurting, city which both Milloy and Malpass are part of but are also distanced from. They have their roles, yes, but there is an Establishment, which they're not in' #TheWeekenders @dfr10.bsky.social

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'Several years apart, the two investigate the murders of young foreign students which seem to be connected to Raskine House and its rumoured weekend no-holds-barred parties' #TheWeekenders @dfr10.bsky.social

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👀 'While The Weekenders mostly takes place in the later 1960s, it also looks back to the Second World War where a central relationship…is forged when they meet as soldiers in the nightmare of the Italian campaign' EXCELLENT review of @dfr10.bsky.social's #TheWeekenders Out THURS! #Crimefiction

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Save the date! I have been waiting for this!

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'With a cliffhanger on the final line, there’s already eager anticipation for the next instalment of what, if this debut offering is anything to judge by, is set to become a must-read Nordic Noir series.' Read this review! #SON is the first book in written by two world class crime fiction authors!

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'Gustawsson and Enger’s creation of Voss is perfectly pitched. There’s a lot of science and psychology at play behind her that could easily turn into an academic thesis, but the writing duo make Voss utterly compelling. A woman attuned to every gesture, the sheer wave of unfiltered human emotion...'

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Check out this review of #SON! 'Psychologist and police consultant Kari Voss is nicknamed The Human Lie Detector – with good reason. Every conversation with Voss can be read on two levels, the spoken and those unwittingly revealing signals that belie the innermost thoughts.' #NordicNoir #KariVoss

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'The body doesn’t lie, even when the mouth does. For psychologists, body language can say much more about a situation than words ever can. Even the most hardened liar finds it hard to control the often minuscule signals the body shows that undermine what they are saying.' #SON - out THIS MARCH!

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'I found The Forcing to be quite a moving book; Teach tries not to lose his humanity and compassion but there are times when saving lives depend on him becoming ruthless and cruel. Is there any hope for the future in The Forcing? Maybe. A little.' #TheForcing #ClimateEmergency #Climate #Thriller

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'This quote begins a chapter called “The Destruction of Order” and I immediately understood the narrator’s fears. The apocalyptic novels I’ve read typically have a supernatural element to them.' If there was EVER a time to pick up the incredible CLIMATE EMERGENCY #Thriller, The Forcing, it is NOW!

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🎉Antti Tuomainen deserves all the fame and glory this world can give a writer and Little Siberia is one of my fave books of his. HUZZAH @netflix.com HUZZAH! 🇫🇮♥️

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