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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I feel similarly about “The Sea” and “The Sea, The Sea”. Both Booker winners. As far as I know “The Sea, The Sea, The Sea” is yet to be written.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.

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bookluvvr.bsky.social @bookluvvr.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Read @alexpavesi.bsky.social's "Ink Ribbon Red". Really liked "Eight Detectives" when it came out, so I got this when it was released, but for some unaccountable reason took over a year to get around to it. As someone who reads a lot of this kind of thing, I found it as gripping (and clever) 1/2

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Oh, thank you so much! And I'd recommend any of Shirley Jackson's books to be honest.

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Q&A with Alex Pavesi about his new novel, INK RIBBON RED. tinyurl.com/3abvhpp7 @alexpavesi.bsky.social

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Ink Ribbon Red, my second novel, is now out in paperback in the UK. Here are some of my favourite lines (quote cards made by my wonderful US publisher - the book is out in the US next month):

A quote from the novel Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi. “Phoebe had never seen bullets up close before; to her, they looked like fetal mushrooms, or primitive chess pieces.”

A quote from the novel Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi. “After hanging up the phone, Marcin stamped on the accelerator. But he couldn't escape everyone else's bad driving, no matter how fast he went.”

A quote from the novel Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi. ‘"Grief," said Anatol, with a surge of enthusiasm. "Grief is an awkward portmanteau of guilt, regret and disbelief.
Because those are its three main ingredients."’

A quote from the novel Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi. “A heavy, late-morning mist lay on the landscape. Every blade of grass looked haunted.”

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Ink Ribbon Red, my second novel, is now out in paperback in the UK. Here are some of my favourite lines (quote cards made by my wonderful US publisher - the book is out in the US next month):

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 12/04/2025

Again: Britain (not just this government but all of the recent ones) has a problem with knowledge work. Fishing, steel are manly proper jobs with a Victorian sense of place and history. Creative industries & HE are treated as secondary; derided or ignored.

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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Absolutely adore Alex’s deft, brilliantly intricate novels (treat yourself to Eight Detectives or Ink Ribbon Red if you haven’t already) so this has made my Monday.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Thanks Chris! I look forward to seeing DatWH on TV! 🙏

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I've just finished Death at the White Hart, by @chrischibnall.bsky.social, a top-tier murder mystery that is equal parts creepy and compulsive. Out in the UK later this week!

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becca laurie @imbeccable.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

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Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Amused myself with this today (I am easily amused, as we know)

A display header that says ‘The Intriguing Actions of Unusual Name’

A small selection of books on display with titles like The Infernal Riddle of Thomas Peach and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Ah, glad you found it interesting! Thanks for reading

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Thanks for reading, Doug! Leo looks very sweet 🐈‍⬛

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Emily | A Quintillion Words @aquintillionwords.com · 30/12/2024

Well here they are. My top 10 books of 2024! ✨️ What a year. Can't wait to do it all again in 2025 🥰📚 #BookSky

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

So chuffed to be part of this excellent collection.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I've been a bit rubbish with #BertVent this year... We've still been doing it, but I've forgotten to tell you what they are. So we're gonna do a mega-thread! These are the books I've enjoyed the most in this year. Each day during December, we've given one away!

24 books wrapped up and positioned on Bert's bookshelves.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

All of these books are, of course, available to order at bertsbooks.co.uk We accept National Book Tokens (should you get any in the next couple of days) and you'll get free delivery across the UK. Exciting.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

What a fantastic list to be included in ❤️

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Ink Ribbon Red by @alexpavesi.bsky.social is another cleverly constructed murder mystery from the author of Eight Detectives. Don't take my word for it, though, Michael, our resident crime aficionado also loved it.

Ink Ribbon Red held in front of Bert's bookshelves

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Katy Nicholas @k80writes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Email from publisher. Anyone think this is okay ? No, it’s not okay. I’ve spent more money on promo than they’ve sent me royalties. Whereas, the audiobook rights are mine and have paid me way more. This is such a c%nt email.

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KarenKisreading @karenkisreading.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Set up my Bookstagram reviews on Saturday and forgot to share this earlier today🤦‍♀️. Thoroughly enjoyed reading Ink Ribbon Red by @alexpavesi.bsky.social thank to Michael Joseph Books : www.instagram.com/p/DDrBGWSgGh...

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Madelyn Postman - memoir, narrative nonfiction, fiction @madelynpostman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Check out the latest episode of The Spark podcast and newsletter, featuring an interview with author @alexpavesi.bsky.social, plus reading recommendations, writing resources, and updates on my moseying! madelynpostman.substack.com/p/05-decembe...

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I would say The Sound and The Fury but it's definitely the less accessible of the two.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Only 377 days till next Christmas! 😅 can't wait to read it over the coming fortnight 🎄

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Very excited to receive this forthcoming @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social novel, looks and sounds fantastic!🎅🔪

A paperback copy of Mrs Winter in the Library with a Knife, by Martin Edwards

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Tom Mead @tommeadauthor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Tis the season to buy your loved ones SIGNED BOOKS! I was at Waterstones Sauchiehall St. today scribbling in a stack of #Spector books. #christmasgifts... need I say more? Nice to see #CabaretMacabre alongside the new @alexpavesi.bsky.social too; I haven't read it yet but am looking forward to it.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

How does everyone else seem to know which celebrities are / are not writing their own books? I'm so out of the loop 😅

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Emily | A Quintillion Words @aquintillionwords.com · 29/11/2024

Happy Friday, #BookSky! 💙📚 How's your week been? What have you been reading? I wanted to post my November Wrap Up a day early (busy weekend ahead!) My top read of the month was absolutely without a doubt Ink Ribbon Red by @alexpavesi.bsky.social. Was was your favourite read this month? 😊

Stack showing the books I've read this month. Something In The Water cover shown on Kindle, then a stack of the following; Dead Behind The Eyes, Kiss Me At Christmas, Christmas Actually, Ink Ribbon Red and When I Remember.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I do not understand why this doesn't already exist.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Maybe someone in publishing could invent the 'premium paperback' that would be released on the same day as the hardback, but (unlike the hardback) actually be comfortable to read and carry around.

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Emily | A Quintillion Words @aquintillionwords.com · 24/11/2024

I finished INK RIBBON RED by @alexpavesi.bsky.social this weekend - such a mind bending puzzle of a book, an original, complex and utterly engrossing mystery which follows six friends, a seemingly innocent parlour game, and a lot of murder... Read my review! ⬇️ aquintillionwords.com/2024/11/24/i...

A hardback copy of Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Oh my gosh, thank you! Reader responses like this are the reason I keep writing. I'm so pleased you liked it and wrote such a thoughtful and detailed review 🙏

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ah, thank you, so nice to hear. You're quite near the end 👀

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Emily | A Quintillion Words @aquintillionwords.com · 22/11/2024

I love finding a really brilliant descriptive sentence in a book, and then reading it back 3 or 4 times to enjoy it over and over 😆 Recently, @gdwrightwrites.bsky.social did it. Now @alexpavesi.bsky.social has done it. Have you saved any of your favourite book quotes to look back on? #BookSky 💙📚

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

GK Chesterton is my favourite for descriptions. "The small streets were sloppy and full of pools, which reflected the flaming lamps irregularly, and by accident, like fragments of some other and fallen world... at the end of the street, an inch or two of the lamplit river looked like a bar of flame"

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Oh, thank you 😊 may I ask which sentence?

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Crimes of the Recent Past": this is a feature I wrote for shotsmag about why Ink Ribbon Red is set in 1999. shotsmag.co.uk/feature_view...

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CRIMES OF THE RECENT PAST by ALEX PAVESI

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Emily Suhr - Narrator @emilysuhr-narrator.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Now THAT sounds intriguing!!

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We have #SIGNED copies of INK RIBBON RED by @alexpavesi.bsky.social The problem with telling tales is that you might get caught out by the twist: discover one of the most original literary thrillers of ‘24 #BookSky 💙📚 www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

See, they're playing a parlour game where they each pick names out of a hat and have to imagine one another's murders. You will need your wits about you. But everything will make sense by the end. That may or may not sound appealing, but I guarantee you won't have read anything like it before.

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

New followers, hello! I published a book last week. Ink Ribbon Red. It's the story of a murder, told out of chronological order, in short fragmented chapters, which click into place like jigsaw pieces. Except some of the chapters aren't real – they're stories written by the characters!

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Alex Pavesi (Author) @alexpavesi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thanks. I'm not familiar with it but I'll give it a listen. I do like Scrivener.

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