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richardstrachan.bsky.social
Writer, debut novel 'The Unrecovered' from Raven Books Feb 2025. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and many more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/society/2025... The best thing about being from Generation X is that none of this makes any fucking sense.

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An Antony Gormley on the Water of Leith

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Another little plug for my novel The Unrecovered, available wherever you buy books, and/or from these links: linktr.ee/richstrach

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Edgar Allen Poe keeping an eye on things

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Happy St George's Day/Shakespeare's birthday! (And Shakespeare's death day, strangely.)

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Time to break the big guns out ...

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Heron in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

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richardstrachanwriting.blogspot.com/2025/04/even... A new blog post - events and interviews

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Rare documentary evidence from Starbank Park of Edinburgh not being miserably grey and freezing cold.

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Walk around Cramond.

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An embarrassing and shameless ask, but if anyone enjoyed The Unrecovered, then leaving a rating on Amazon and/or Goodreads would be much appreciated!

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Always a satisfying thrill to see your book in the wild! (Toppings Edinburgh). I signed a few copies while I was there as well

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The first episode of our podcast has, as they say, dropped! You can listen on most of the main platforms. Or, click this link bloodyscotland.podbean.com

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Incredibly good event at Night Owl Books this evening, huge thanks to Rebecca for hosting, and to everyone who came along. Once again, a humbling experience to have people so enthusiastic about the novel.

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A full house ...

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Off to Night Owl Books in East Linton to talk about The Unrecovered at 8pm!

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Top quality bat action

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An absolute pleasure to talk with Bob and Lin on the very first episode of the Bloody Scotland podcast!

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Thoroughly enjoyed the event at St. Stephen's Church in Linlithgow this evening, thanks to Sally @ffmaddingcrowd.bsky.social and to everyone who came along! Genuinely humbling to have the chance to talk about my novel in front of an audience, I very much appreciate it.

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On my way to Linlithgow as we speak, for this event at Far From the Madding Crowd!

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Today is the day my debut murder mystery is published! 🎉 I wrote my first crime novel when I was fifteen, and thirty years later, it's beyond exciting to finally be sharing a book with the world. Thanks to @bloomsburyraven.bsky.social for believing in me and this story.

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Not long to go now!

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The ALCS fairies have been! What a delightful time of year.

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Looking forward to this on Thursday!

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A blog essay about Ted Hughes: richardstrachanwriting.blogspot.com/2025/03/but-...

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I'm actually shocked at how much stuff they've pinched off me here.

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What could be nicer than grabbing a coffee and sitting down to listen to Bloody Scotland: The Podcast? We launch on 28th March, when we'll be chatting with the wonderful @valmcdermid.bsky.social, and debut writer @richardstrachan.bsky.social Check us out, wherever you get your podcasts...

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Reading over some work from a decade ago, when I last thought I should try writing poetry, and have cringed myself inside out ...

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#2 most gifted on Amazon in, er...Italian Poetry! Move over Dante, your time is up.

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If anyone's in the area, this should be good!

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Fair enough, that's pretty spectacular.

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No other books required now for the rest of the year.

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Hello, Second Winter...

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Spotted down by Newhaven Harbour.

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My novel touches to a very small degree on Browning's poetry, and this makes me realise how much I absolutely do not know about it ...

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Interesting design choice for Dubliners ...

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Don't be fooled by the nice weather - this is just Fake Spring, with Second Winter following close behind.

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Big fan of these fancy bookmarks for The Unrecovered! Available (as far as I know) in branches of Waterstones.

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Have the times ever been certain?

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