Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Congratulations to our spectacular cast and crew on DEXTER PROCTER: THE TEN-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR and everyone at Terrible and Various Artists for their nomination for an International Emmy 🏅 050
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Looking for something to do with the kids at half-term? STOP LOOKING IMMEDIATELY! Me and Henry Paker have a show called KAY'S GRUESOME GAMES at Leicester Square Theatre on 24th and 25th October. And here's a link: www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/kays-gr... 041
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEAR SOUTHPORT! Come and support the Southport Comedy Festival. In particular, come to see me performing THIS IS GOING TO HURT on 11th October. Tickets via adamkay.co.uk and some photos of Southport attached to get you in the mood. 052
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I've written a new book! KAY'S GRUESOME GAMES is out today! It's for children (with strong stomachs) aged 7+ and it's crammed with (pus-filled) puzzles, (queasy) quizzes, (bloodthirsty) brainteasers and (another adjective) activities. www.penguin.co.uk/books/464328... 050
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Have I got a deal for you! (If you want a funny/disgusting/educational kids' book.) KAY'S ANATOMY is today's Kindle daily deal at 99p. Quick! www.amazon.co.uk/Kays-Anatomy... 084
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Love the idea of a darkly funny murder mystery set in a hospital but hate the idea of a hardback book? Great news: my debut novel A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is out in paperback on 2nd July geni.us/Particularly... 0140
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 14/06/2026ROLL UP, ROLL UP! My second kids' novel, Dexter Procter and the Case of the Disappearing Doctor, is a Kindle daily deal today. Snap it up for 99p, or 0.002p per word. 081
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 02/04/2026DEXTER PROCTER AND THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING DOCTOR is out today!🩺 For readers age 8+ and packed full of hilarious illustrations by Henry Paker✏️ Funnier and even more disgusting than the first Dexter Procter book. (And that was pretty disgusting.) www.penguin.co.uk/books/458805... 0100
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026BOOK NEWS! Dexter Procter and the Case of the Disappearing Doctor is out on April 2nd! It's ever funnier (and more disgusting) than the first Dexter book and there's even a special 25% off offer at Waterstones if you fancy? www.waterstones.com/book/dexter-... 1102
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 03/02/2026In Dublin? Want to watch my tour show at the Ambassadors tonight? Don't mind sitting quite near the back? GREAT NEWS - a couple of blocks of seats have just been released. adamkay.co.uk 091
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 28/12/2025BBC ONE! TODAY! 11:35! Dexter Procter: The 10-Year-Old Doctor. Starring a brilliant cast of kids and adults, including Peter Serafinowicz, Sue Johnston, Jameela Jamil, Mike Wozniak, Gemma Whelan. 1152
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 18/12/2025QUITE SPECIFIC PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. If you need a last-minute Christmas present for someone in Ireland, you can book them tickets to see my tour in Jan/Feb. Tickets from adamkay.co.uk 092
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 14/12/2025We are extremely fair weather Chanukah observers, but it felt like the right year to dust down our menorah and light it with the kids. The festival of light, symbolising hope, at a time where hope feels more important than ever. 1615
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Got to buy someone a Secret Santa and the price limit is £7? Want to buy someone a gift and appear much more generous than you are? Well, Amazon have got some kind of deal on A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE where it's only £6.75 for a limited time www.amazon.co.uk/Particularly... 0140
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 04/12/20252025 is 93% complete so you only have 7% of the year left to get A Particularly Nasty Case geni.us/Particularly... 0110
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 03/12/2025DEXTER PROCTER: THE 10-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR is out now on iPlayer and will be on BBC One on 28th December if you prefer to watch on Cathode Ray Tube. 1111
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Dexter Procter: The 10-Year-Old Doctor coming to iPlayer on Monday, then CBBC and BBC One over Christmas. AND LOOK AT THAT CAST! 2113
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 20/11/2025PUBIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. I will be performing at the new @sohotheatre.bsky.social in Walthamstow this Friday and Saturday. There are a handful of tickets left, depending on how big your hands are. sohotheatre.com/events/adam-...sohotheatre.comAdam Kay: UNDOCTORED - Soho TheatreThe nation's twelfth-favourite doctor brings his brand new show on to Soho Theatre Walthamstow, fresh from a record-breaking run at the Edinburgh Fringe and a sell-out season in the West End 160
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025CAN YOU STOP SAYING "I AM AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN A FAITHFUL" YOU CAN'T GO FROM BEING A TRAITOR TO A FAITHFUL SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST SAY "I AM A FAITHFUL" THAT'S ALL THANKS 1440
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 07/11/2025A NEW BOOK! A delicious new side-dish to the main course that was KAY'S ANATOMY, for readers 7-12 ish. The Poo-Tastic Puzzle Book would make an ideal Xmas present if you ask me. (Although I am quite biased.) www.penguin.co.uk/books/464258... 041
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Anyone want to buy a couple of tiaras, couple of brooches, a few earrings and two necklaces? DM for details. 5688
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 12/10/2025If you haven't read A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE yet and (crucially) have a Kobo device, you can download it for just 99p for the next 48 hours in Kobo's confusingly named 'super daily deal'. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/... 3160
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Some people are saying A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is the best EVER funny thriller set in a hospital starring a rheumatologist. If you want to assess this theory, there's a half price deal on now with a certain rainforest-themed online retailer. www.amazon.co.uk/Particularly... 2101
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Very sad to hear of the death of Brian Patten, the rockstar poet of my childhood. Gargling with Jelly was so subversive and funny. "I've never heard the Queen sneeze or seen her blow her nose, I've never seen her pick a spot or tread on someone's toes." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...theguardian.comBrian Patten obituaryOne of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love 1326
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Incredible work from the #LibrariesForPrimaries team at The National Literacy Trust and Puffin/Penguin for making this happen: every state primary school in England will now have a library by 2029. I'm very proud to have played a tiny part in the campaign. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 0357
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 26/09/2025IRISH TOUR! Basically, every time I've played Dublin or Belfast people have reminded me there are other places in Ireland/NI. So I'm taking THIS IS GOING TO HURT to 19 such theatres. (I'm aware you'll still tell me about places I've missed.) adamkay.co.uk for tickets. 0121
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I’ve just heard that A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE (narrated by up-and-coming talent Andy Serkis) is Spotify editors’ pick of the month for September. Come October god knows what they’ll think of it. 0131
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Thrilled to hear that A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is spending a third week in the Sunday Times top ten. Thanks to everyone who's bought the book and all the brilliant bookshops who've sold it, but especially to me for writing it. 2190
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Enjoy my humour but think I spell humour with an unnecessary "u"? Great news, the US edition of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is out today. 1180
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 15/09/2025It is the honour of a lifetime to be offered the role of His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America, and I am delighted to accept. 1450
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Thank you to whoever signed off on us using a minor swear word on our posters for A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE 2372
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Q: What does A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE have in common with Lord of the Rings? A: Well, my one's obviously a much better book, but they both star the great ANDY SERKIS. Listen to a snippet of his fantastic audiobook narration here (seen with the smashing US cover) 0110
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 12/09/2025What are you doing on Weds 17th? INCORRECT! You're coming to hear me talk to @theguyliner.bsky.social about his SENSATIONAL new novel. @WaterstonesTCR 7pm. Only £7! What can you get for £7? I paid more than that for a Cornish pasty at the station yesterday. www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...waterstones.comAn evening with Justin Myers and Adam Kay at Waterstones TCR | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | WaterstonesEvents at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening with Justin Myers and Adam Kay at Waterstones TCR today. 082
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Big love to the brilliant independent bookshops for all their support of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE and double love to everyone who buys local and supports them. 0150
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 10/09/2025COMPETITION! Order a copy of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE from @bookshop.org and you could win a year’s worth of some of my favourite crime and thriller reads, to fill up a particularly nasty bookcase (see what I did there?) Quick! Closes midnight tomorrow uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-ad... 041
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Just had the rather fun news that A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE will debut in the Sunday Times bestseller list at #2, and is the fastest-selling crime book of the year so far. Thank you to everyone who has bought, sold or stolen a copy! 0243
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Happy birthday to my latest, A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE, out today wherever you buy or steal books from. 2183
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I'm going to be in Bloody Scotland on 14th September if anybody wants to attend a Stirling event. bloodyscotland.com/event/a-part... 0120
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I will be talking A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE tonight and tomorrow at the Edinburgh Fringe, in the poky little McEwan Hall at 7:20pm. Your first chance to get your foul hands on my lovely new book. Some tickets still left from adamkay.co.uk 1101
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I’ve just left a signed first edition of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE (out next week) in the charity bookshelf at Carlisle station. 0291
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025If you (or more likely your kid) was a fan of KAY'S ANATOMY, then you might like what me and Henry Paker have up our disgusting sleeves. A funny and revolting puzzle book, with hundreds of quizzes and codes. Out in October! Which is two months before Christmas! 092
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 20/08/2025EXCITING (for me) NEWS www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...bbc.comBBC Children’s and Education announce new adaptation of Dexter Procter: the 10-Year-Old DoctorWritten by BAFTA-winner Adam Kay, the new series is coming to iPlayer, CBBC and BBC One 3292
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Tomorrow I start my book tour of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE. Tomorrow's sold out, so don't come to that. So's the day after. And the day after that. But there are some left in Edinburgh and various other shows. Come along! Get the book before anyone else! adamkay.co.uk 0161
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 16/08/2025A few people have been asking if there's an audiobook of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE. Good news: there is! Even better news: I don't read it! We've found a very talented up and coming actor called Andy Serkis to do it instead. Find it on Audible, Spotify etc geni.us/Particularly... 2414
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 15/08/2025At bedtime I asked Ziggy (aged two and a half) "Do you want to hear a secret?" then whispered "I love you" into his ear. He then asked me if I wanted to hear a secret, and when I said yes, whispered "There's a spider in your ear" then stuck his finger inside my ear. 4970
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 14/08/2025My debut novel A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE is published in two weeks today, and I'm hugely grateful that some brilliant people have been saying such nice things about it (and only a few have commented on how filthy it is). Do feel free to order it. geni.us/Particularly... 1151
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Here I am after signing 4,000 copies of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE on Friday. 2412
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Thrilled to announce the brilliant guest hosts for my book tour of A PARTICULARLY NASTY CASE. Your attendance is required. Tickets from adamkay.co.uk 2120
