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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Enjoyed moderating a discussion about Marilyn Monroe this afternoon with Julie Owen Moylan and Andrew Wilson at the @burylitfest.bsky.social . We drew a good crowd!

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

47: "The voice of a man who was willing to give up everything to help others could never be denied."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

46: "Sorry I'm a bit late back. I was trying out crown green bowls. All a bit violent for me!."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

45: "It takes only a few minutes, a few seconds, to become a murderer."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

44: "'There was something special about her,' he said, 'a luminous quality to her face, a fragileness combined with astonishing vibrancy. This girl was going places.'"

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Delighted to announce that my short film, "Armadillotown", is a nominee in the Experimental category at the London Night Film awards. Many thanks to @london.nff for including it in their selection. Awards take place on the 22nd October at Everyman King’s Cross 14–18 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN.

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

43: "It could be said that each of his investigations in Paris had its own pace, with its pauses in particular cafes and bars, particular smells and particular quality of light."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

42: "The point of life is to create, isn't it? Only creating can bring real pleasure. The pleasure of enjoyment is very superficial and fleeting."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My favourite Belgian metro stop.

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

41: "Ten seconds go by, fifteen seconds go by, and then, very abruptly, the screen goes black and the film is over."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

40: "I emptied the buckets into the toilet and watched the dirt, the history and story of our relationship get flushed away down the drain."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

39: "I'd prefer to be seen as a self-made lunatic, pulling myself up into madness by my bootstraps."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

38: "He's a man who suffers a lot. I've always known that. When I married him, there was a certain amount of pity in my love."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

37: "She saw someone, pale and stricken, screaming in a kitchen on Rightmove."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

36: "Sleep would be better than being awake."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

35: "But there was no bad or good in the city of impermanence. There was only harm or harm's absence. The world, that slow and breathing animal. Alive to the fluctuations they lived within."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

34: "...but rereading at a later date so much had leaked away of the living memory it had become incomprehensible useless to my purpose."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

33: "My murderer will be (or, more specifically, is) a person of very special character."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

32: "At first sight, they look badly matched, him all honey, her all vinegar, but deep down, they're the same."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

31: "Belgium's artistic pedigree is out of all proportion to its size."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've had the following published since October last year. Available from all the ususl outlets.

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

30: "I closed my eyes and visualised an undulating line, leading from the centre of my chest toward the Thames in the distance."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

29: "A man who isn't satisfied with the pleasures a woman can give him in one night is putting a noose around his neck."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New film project. Script written. Actors sourced. Still lo-fi. Bullet engraved. Title familiar to some...

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Will be dipping my toe in Suffolk on Saturday...come along!

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

28: "a neon at a vacant mall / dusty with sunset rags / broadcasts quarantine bingo / free penguin parade on a virtual bridge."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

27: "The man sitting next to Janvier was a whole different person now, a human mass on whom no one had any purchase, an almost frightening monolith."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

26: "I suppose that nobody really knows anyone - particularly if you all you see are the expensive dresses and glittering jewels - for everyone has their private sorrows."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My 13th short story collection is now available from the World Fantasy Award Winning @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social Copies arrived today! blackshuckbooks.co.uk/somnambulant...

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

25: "Perhaps he had been afraid all his life."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

24: "It is an unacknowledged fact that pain can be infinite, but goodness never loses its capacity to surprise."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yesterday I attended the brilliant SykeHouse Film and Writer’s Festival where my short film, "Armadillotown", not only premiered and was well-received, but which later went on to win in the Best Experimental Short Film category. It was an absolute blast! Thanks to Dave Jeffery for the photo.

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

23: "You see, each one of us has our own way of thinking and behaviour which others find incomprehensible."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

22: "If it is possible to feel grief for the first time - without someone being dead - this is the moment."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Next Saturday we're running this event at The Forum (@theforumnorwich.bsky.social) in Norwich. Over 40 creatives from publishers to authors to zinemakers. Please share and pop along!

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

21: "I've continued researching men who were madly in love with women they barely knew."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

20: "If they were quick, they could still have their glass of beer."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

As it's been announced in the Black Shuck Books newsletter, I'm delighted to confirm that my (appropriately) 13th short story collection, "Somnambulant Hearts", will be published by them in June. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/somnambulant...

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

19: "They drank in what they saw. A dying star, bloated, cool and vast. A red ember, defiantly swollen, teetering on the edge of collapse."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

18: "Maigret was looking at the budgerigars in the cage, through which a sunbeam passed."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

17: "These nights, the whistle got the coyotes started, and then the wolves."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

"The Good Men" can be read as a riff on the 1962 film, "Les Bonnes Femmes", directed by Claude Chabrol, but with the genders reversed and the action relocated from a Parisian domestic appliance store to a Birmingham garage... Only a fiver (plus postage) here: www.salopress.com/store-2/the-...

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Salò Press are now publishing short stories under a new imprint named Infidelities (with poetry distinct under the Flirtations imprint). The first five are up for pre-orders (including my short story, The Good Men), available individually or in a bundle. Check out the link: www.salopress.com/store/

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

16: "The Fool sees in the hearts of the so-called ordinary people he has met that they are not in fact ordinary at all."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

15: "It had been a love affair fuelled by the adrenalin and fury of war."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

14: "That evening the villagers gathered around the box spinney, linking hands with their children, singing softly as they circled the trees."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

13: "If I'd gone into the ground, I'd have been killed."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

12: "Their scorched beaks have been torn free and sealed tight with honey."

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

For those who missed the unboxing yesterday, my copies of "Union City" arrived. It's truly a beautiful book! It's not only about a film, but about filmmaking itself. I hope those who read it enjoy it! #blondie #deborahharry #unioncity

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Unboxing video for my new book! (low res, badly scripted, the film is way better 🙂 )

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