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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thrilled #TheMidnightGuests is part of the @waterstones summer pre-order promotion! Order between now and midnight on Friday for 25% off.

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thrilled @waterstones.bsky.social is offering 25% off preorders on THE MIDNIGHT GUESTS along with thousands of other brilliant upcoming books! #WPreorder www.waterstones.com/book/the-mid....

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Clare Riley @clarer73.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My thoughts on The Queen of Fives by @alexhaybooks.bsky.social is over on instagram now. I do believe I referred to it as “rip-roaring”. It is, and I loved it! 💙📚⏳⚡️ #Booksky www.instagram.com/share/BARNHp...

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Kat Black @katblack51.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Reading @alexhaybooks.bsky.social 's The Queen of Fives. It's so much fun-- a twisty Victorian caper with a great female lead. You never know who's going to wink at the reader next.

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Bookshortie @bookshortie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

📚Paperback Publication📚 Looking for your next read? Why not grab a copy of The Queen Of Fives by Alex Hay which is now available in paperback. A historical heist with a surprising plot twist. www.instagram.com/p/DL0NgIBIt9... @alexhaybooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social 💙📚 #booksky

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Can’t wait for this event with @katiejlumsden.bsky.social and @jessicabull.bsky.social next Thursday 10th July at Waterstones Trafalgar Square!

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Fine people of London! Do join me, @ladydolby.bsky.social and @clarewhitauthor.bsky.social for a brilliantly bookish conversation at the mighty @booksellercrow.bsky.social in Crystal Palace next week! Tickets below… booksellercrow.co.uk/event/histor...

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This thread has MADE MY DAY 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Headline Books @headlinebooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

She plays by her own rules... but has she met her match? ♠️👑 THE QUEEN OF FIVES by @alexhaybooks.bsky.social is out in paperback on July 3! Pre-order today: brnw.ch/21wTjx7 #AlexHay #TheQueenOfFives

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In Bath. Bought @alexhaybooks.bsky.social new book. Self medicating with coffee. Trying to use my talented friend's beautiful writing and the gothic architecture to inspire me TO FINISH MY OWN GODDAMN NOVEL!!!

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Calling all audiobook lovers!! Audible UK is offering a special price on the audiobook of #TheHousekeepers exclusively available to Audible UK members in April. A STEAL!

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Simon Savidge @savidgereads.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Fab night hosting @alexhaybooks.bsky.social, #LoraJones & @emiliahart.bsky.social in Manchester tonight. They were fab to chat to and reading their books in advance reminded me just how much I looooove historical fiction!

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Robin Englehart-Bagley @rubyinsd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

This book! Con artists, deception, inheritance, brilliant characters & a banger of a story. I’ll read anything @alexhaybooks.bsky.social writes!! #booksky

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BookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Plus, the latest cases of crime-solving duos Parker & Pentecost and Delaware & Sturgis in this month’s whodunit column. www.bookpage.com/?p=211981 @randomhousekids.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @alexhaybooks.bsky.social

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Love this piece from the ever-brilliant @orlandomurrin.bsky.social - thrilled to be included! 🤩

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Thank you so much SG Hartnell and @littlebrown.bsky.social for sharing MEDLOCK - a bold & clever reimagining of The Secret Garden, taking the bones of a classic and conjuring something entirely wild and horrifying and new - a totally gripping slice of contemporary gothic! 🙌😱🗝️

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

MANCHESTER! Absolutely can’t wait for this brilliant event with @emiliahart.bsky.social, @lorajones.com and the wonderful @savidgereads.bsky.social - at @WaterstonesMCR on Thursday 20th March. Do join us!!! ☺️📚☺️📚 www.waterstones.com/events/histo...

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Dan Bassett @dman1504.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

✨BRISTOL!✨ This amazing event is a week tomorrow! Few tickets still available so head on over to the Events page on Waterstones.com to book! It’s gonna be a fab night!

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Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A very special evening at the Lincoln Assembly Rooms chatting to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social about his wonderful novel, ‘The Queen of Fives’, for Lindum Books. Victorian con women, the sensation novel, and of course Alex’s brilliant articulation of his writing approaches - we covered a lot 😊

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This has kept me company on the train this week — loved it! Tense, clever, filled with wry observations and claw-sharp plotting — and gorgeous writing. Sevenoaks has never felt so seductively dangerous! Can’t wait to see where @kitconwayauthor.bsky.social goes next… 🔥😻🙌 #CatFight

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Thank you Lincoln! LOVED spending an evening talking subterfuge and sensation fiction with Tim Rideout in the Very Splendid assembly rooms - hugest thanks to the epic @LindumBooks for having me! 🙏💙

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Charlie Place @charlieplace.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Stacey will be joined by @alexhaybooks.bsky.social Lucy Barker and, of course, me, at Goldfinch Books. Tickets at bit.ly/3Das5kn Thanks to @louisemorrish.bsky.social @bookywookydooda.bsky.social

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Jessica Bull @jessicabull.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’m so grateful to the super-talented @alexhaybooks.bsky.social for this wonderful endorsement. And if you like terrifically fast-paced and enticing historical mysteries, featuring irresistible impostors, then you MUST read Alex’s THE QUEEN OF FIVES, out now! ❤️🎉

Sharp, searching and perfectly constructed, A Fortune Most Fatal is glorious - filled with wit, wrong turns and pitch-perfect characters, and a mystery that pulls expertly on the darker threads of 1797 society too. Jessica Bull is the real deal - a storyteller of such skill and empathy and verve, whose prose sings on every page. Jane Austen would adore this series - and so do I!

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hugest thanks to Eithne Farry for these kind words about #TheQueenofFives - very chuffed indeed ☺️☺️ - and very special to share it alongside the brilliant Lucy Steeds and Joseph O’Connor! www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

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Emma's Biblio Treasures @bibliotreaures.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy #PublicationDay to the clever, cunning and fiendishly delightful #TheQueenofFives by @alexhaybooks.bsky.social I'm thrilled to be sharing my review today as part of the #blogtour emmasbibliotreasures.com/2025/01/30/b... @headlinebooks.bsky.social *Resharing due to an error #BookSky

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Caitlin Raynor @bookywookydooda.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Launching #TheQueenOfFives @alexhaybooks.bsky.social chaired by amazing #ErinKelly at Waterstones TCR

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🤴🏾 Kingsley Pearson 🍐 @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Delightful evening hearing about @alexhaybooks.bsky.social writing process in conversation with @mserinkelly.bsky.social. #QueenOfFives

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Sarah @herreadingroom.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I’ve just shared my review for this rip roaring book - The Queen of Fives. You can check it out over on my insta page via this link ⬇️ www.instagram.com/p/DFfC2QUgiy... @alexhaybooks.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social @annerandomthings.bsky.social

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Caitlin Raynor @bookywookydooda.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

OUT TODAY!! Huge congrats to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social It’s a corker!!

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Lauren Sparks 🧜🏽‍♀️Book Siren🧜🏽‍♀️ @thickthighnolie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy Publication Day to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social for #QueenOfFives ♠️They whisper her name in every corner of town. ♥️The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives. ♣️Five moves, five days - for such are the rules of her game. ♦️If you want something to keep you gripped, this is it 😍

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Reading For Leisure @debbiehartuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Happy publication day @alexhaybooks.bsky.social and @headlinebooks.bsky.social for #TheQueenOfFives I loved the setting and subterfuge in this atmospheric 4⭐️ tale of a Victorian con woman out to ensnare a wealthy husband. Reading For Leisure review (Audiobook): tinyurl.com/5hdkt3rt

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The Queen Of Fives by Alex Hay (Audiobook)

Quinn Le Blanc is the best con woman in Victorian London. Working with her team of likewise criminals she sets out to ensnare a wealthy hu...

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s UK publication day for #TheQueenofFives - so happy the day is here! And also, you know, faintly terrified! HUGEST thanks to everyone who has given such mammoth support at every stage - my heart is very full. 💙

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

We have just 3 #SIGNED editions of The Queen of Fives by @alexhaybooks.bsky.social 💙🖤💙🖤 Nothing is quite as it seems in Victorian high society, in the twisty and original new novel from the author of THE HOUSEKEEPERS 🖤💙🖤💙 www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh how I loved this!! Sharp, searching, PERFECTLY constructed - filled with wit, wrong turns, pitch perfect characterisation, pulling on the darker threads of 1797 too. @jessicabull.bsky.social writes with such skill and empathy and verve - Austen would love this series, and so do I!🙌📚

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Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Don't miss former student @alexhaybooks.bsky.social in conversation with CBC tutor @mserinkelly.bsky.social at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road next Thursday 🍸 Celebrate the publication of Alex Hay’s new novel #TheQueenOfFives! 🎟️ Book your ticket here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🤩🤩🤩🤩 Thank you so much to brilliant @bertsbooks.bsky.social. Very happy to see my blue book added to those iconic blue shelves 💙

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

UK publication week is here! #TheQueenofFives is out this Thursday (🎉🤪🥹🤩). Do join me and brilliant @mserinkelly.bsky.social at Waterstones Tottenham Court Road for the launch! Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Of all the things on this mad publishing journey, getting my first PLR statement is actually one of the MOST SPECIAL. 🥹🥹 Thank you SO much to library readers everywhere for taking #TheHousekeepers out on loan. With special thanks to my own beloved Bromley and Lewisham Libraries! #supportlibraries

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Marvellous readers of Bristol!! Do join the brilliant @dman1504.bsky.social and @lorajones.com and yours truly for a very lovely chat at Waterstones Clifton, 18th Feb at 18:30. Tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/a-lit...

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It’s North American publication day! Hugest thanks to everyone at brilliant @htpbooks.bsky.social - and long live the Queen! #TheQueenofFives 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Publishing rite of passage! So happy to pop into legendary @goldsborobooks.bsky.social to sign copies of #TheQueenofFives - thank you so much for having me 🙏🥰

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Alex Hay @alexhaybooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Very chuffed INDEED to see The Queen of Fives featured in @thetimes.com list of best historical fiction in 2025 so far. Thank you so much! 🥹🥰🥹🥰 #TheQueenofFives

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Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

‘The Queen of Fives’ is the stirring tale of Quinn Le Blanc, Victorian London’s most talented con woman. Sensation fiction at its best. I’ll be chatting to @alexhaybooks.bsky.social for Lindum Books on Tuesday Feb 2025 at the Assembly Rooms, Lincoln. Do join us 😊 allevents.in/mobile/amp-e...

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