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David Gilman

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Thrillers and Historical Fiction. The Englishman: Betrayal: Resurrection: Master of War series: Night Flight to Paris: The Last Horseman: Young Readers Monkey & Me: YA Danger Zone series: A Touch of Frost tv scripts. www.https//davidgilman.com/

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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An exquisite video showing the creation of Lama d'Ombra: The Glass Blade That Will Crown Venice Noir 2026 from @davidhewson.com Llama-dombra-venice-noir-award/
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Lama d'Ombra: Venice Noir's 2026 Award Sculpture
Unveiling of Lama d'Ombra — the blood-red glass and charred-wood sculpture Andrea Morucchio made as the festival's 2026 award.
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Sally Rose @sallyrose.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Just finished. Superb. #Blueskybooks @davidgilman.bsky.social
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks to Annie for spending time with me on this interview. Always a pleasure to share thoughts on writing.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's Publication Day for The Knife Maker of Venice and I'm pleased to announce the book's blog tour programme. Thanks to everyone involved.
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
‘Dark and compelling’ – S.W. Perry THE KNIFE MAKER OF VENICE by @davidgilman.bsky.social is out today from @headofzeus.bsky.social!⚔️ A young Englishman captured by slavers must survive the snake pit that is seventeenth-century Venice. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Book Notification @booknotification.com · 13/08/2026
It's #LefthandersDay! ✋ Today's #newbook highlights ✨ The Knife Maker of Venice by @davidgilman.bsky.social The A-Listers by #BerlinWick My Twin Sister by #AleshaDykema #booksky
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In The Knife Maker of Venice, brother and sister, Richard and Elisabeth, live in Dartmouth when Barbary pirates arrive. This fortification was known as Bears Cove (now Beyards Cove). It's upriver from Dartmouth Castle and was manned to protect Dartmouth town.
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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is outrageous. Newham Bookshop is a beacon of learning and social involvement. Please support this fantastic institution. It has certainly supported me and I will be writing to the Mayor and Sir Stephen Timms MP. Please share and circulate.
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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Why we won't be using the new "Reading" Banner on Instagram just yet www.tripfiction.com/why-we-wont-... It's not fit for purpose #blueskybooks #booksky
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Why we won't be using the "Reading" Banner on Instagram - TripFiction
There has been a lot of enthusiasm - apparently - for the "Reading" Banner on Instagram, which has quietly been introduced on the platform in recent
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In my latest book, ‘The Knife Maker of Venice’, one of the characters tells our hero he served during the sea battle when the English defeated the Armada. I was in Exeter last week and found Drake’s favourite watering holes from those days. The Ship Inn. It’s still there in St Martin’s Lane.
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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Day 2 and I have given up on the “Reading” banner over on Instagram #amreading The Knife Maker of Venice by @davidgilman.bsky.social and you don’t get very far with only 20 characters 🤔 and never room for the author’s name #notfitforpurpose #blueskybooks #booksky @headofzeus.bsky.social
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There were two notorious pirate captains in early 17C, the time when The Knife Maker of Venice is set. Jack Ward, had Tunis as his base, and a Dutchman, Simon de Danser,in Algiers. Here are some amazing figureheads used on tall ships - displayed in the Maritime Museum, Amsterdam.l
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Always a good read and at this price? A giveaway.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Many thanks to author Kate Furnivall for her review. 'I absolutely loved it. Every page is thick with tension, ablaze with fear and thrilling action... a story driven by a love so strong, a mighty evocation of seventeenth-century Venice...A story that will stay with you for a long time.'
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thanks to Boyd & Beth Morrison for giving my new book a super review. @boydmorrisonwriter.bsky.social @blakefriedmann.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
March 1594 - North Atlantic "He did not want the sea to be his mother, he insisted. The men around him laughed but his father’s voice was stern. They would sail for Newfoundland." davidgilman.com/site/knifema... @blakefriedmann.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social
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The Knifemaker of Venice - Preview
PROLOGUE March 1594 North Atlantic The terror roared out of the night. White-tipped mountainous seas overwhelming the black horizon, tearing sailors from decks and ripping iron-hard sails from…
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There's a Waterstones promotion for my new book The Knife Maker of Venice starting today until the 24th July. Please quote the promo code if your order.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Knife Maker of Venice, my new novel, has a different narrator from my Master of War books. I had the pleasure of meeting and then being interviewed by the multi-talented Ben Cura. Actor, writer, director, who's done a wonderful narration of my book. @HoZ_Books @BlakeFriedmann #Venice
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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🖤OUT NOW!🖤 #Dangerous by @essiefox.bsky.social is a dark, dazzling historical thriller for readers who love gothic atmosphere, real-life literary figures and twisty mysteries😱 GET YOUR COPY NOW! 🔗https://geni.us/dBOXX
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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A piece by me on "The Venetian Redemption" for "Aspects of Crime" magazine.
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The Venetian Redemption by Philip Gwynne Jones - Aspects of Crime
Nothing will ever prepare you for the late-night phone call from a familiar number. My mother had been very frail for many years. I would go back to visit her in her nursing home in South Wales for a ...
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Back from a busy time in London. Interviewed at @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social & @headofzeus.bsky.social for my new novel The Knife Maker of Venice. The audio version narrated by the multi-talented Ben Cura. Then a book signing at @goldsborobooks.bsky.social. Thanks Pavla!
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
On this day, Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Gardening therapy. Perfect after a hard slog.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There's a promotion to help support indie bookshops for my new standalone novel due Aug. Pre-order a copy of THE KNIFE MAKER OF VENICE from Bookshop.org between 13-17 May and save 20% with the code PREORDER20. Every sale supports real independent bookshops across the UK! #Venice #HistoricalFiction
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The paperback edition of Rage of Swords my 9th book in the Master of War series is being published on 7th May. And there's a bonus chapter added at the back = Chapter 1 of my new standalone novel The Knife Maker's Apprentice.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Vance: "We want you to make a decision about your future with no outside forces pressuring you or telling you what to do. I'm not telling you exactly who to vote for." Vance 20 minutes later: "Go to the polls at the weekend. Stand with Viktor Orbán!"
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I get a dozen emails/day offering to promote my work at fake festivals/radio and bookclubs. For anyone starting out as an author there's also this scam impersonating editors at publishing houses including Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury, HarperCollins, Hachette. New authors be aware.
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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
COVER REVEAL: 1604. Headstrong Richard and his sister Elizabeth are torn from their Devonshire home by slavers. He vows to save her but first, he must survive the snakepit that is Venice... THE KNIFE MAKER OF VENICE by @davidgilman.bsky.social is out 13 August 2026 from @headofzeus.bsky.social.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I planted a nice patch of crocus and my resident pheasant trampled them and then ate all the flowers. He'd better watch out or he'll be on borrowed time.
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David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Any readers in south Manchester or Stockport on 19th March, come along to Cheadle library and be entertained by a group of crime writers. @cazengland.bsky.social @matthewboothauthor.bsky.social @thedecentbrief.bsky.social
Poster for a free panel event at Cheadle library on 19th March at 18.30
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Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We are so excited to share that @essiefox.bsky.social will be speaking at the YMCA Theatre about her newest release #Catherine: A Retelling of #WutheringHeights💙🕯️ GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! 🗓️ Friday 5 June 2026 🕛️ 12:30pm 📍 Queen Street Methodist Church 🎟️ £9 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ybdsxv4n
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Rome's Capitoline Museums offer free guided tours in English of the exhibition ‘La Grecia a Roma’ every Sunday afternoon until 12 April.
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Rome's Capitoline Museums offer free tours in English of exhibition La Grecia a Roma
Rome's Capitoline Museums will offer free guided tours in English of the exhibition La Grecia a Roma every Sunday afternoon at 16.30, until 12 April 2026.
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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 21/02/2026
Read this if you’re thinking of travelling to the US. Absolutely shocking. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When has POTUS ever got his facts straight?
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PAUL FINCH @paulfinchauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
THE ENGLISHMAN by David Gilman A former Foreign Legionnaire takes on the Russian mob. Classic @davidgilman.bsky.social. Teak-tough thriller ranging from the backstreets of Britain to the snows of central Russia. Immersive and uncompromising. Full review: paulfinch-writer.blogspot.com/2021/11/neve...
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Some good news from Germany. My German edition of Rage of Swords -- 'Schwerter des Zorns', has just gone into the top 20 at Der Spiegel best seller list. Thanks to all my German readers and publisher Rowohlt Verlag
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Cathy J @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My review of action-packed historical adventure Rage of Swords by David Gilman @headofzeus.bsky.social @davidgilman.bsky.social #books #bookreviews #historicalfiction #booksky
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Book Review – Rage of Swords by David Gilman @AriesFiction @HoZ_Books
About the Book 1368. Amidst the Hundred Years' War, alliances must be brokered. The Duke of Clarence, second son of King Edward III, journeys from Paris to marry the daughter of the powerful Lord of Milan. Little does he know that he is heading into a trap. Luckily the Duke is preceded on the road to Milan by Sir Thomas Blackstone, Master of War, on an urgent mission of his own.
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Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
David Gilman's new novel, Rage of Swords, is the latest in his Master of War series and sees Thomas Blackstone in action in Italy. Congratulations, David! He tells Historia about the ideas and research behind his book at historiamag.com/historia-interview-david-gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Publication day today for the 9th book in my Master of War series, so a signing session at @goldsborobooks.bsky.social for these first editions.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Just unpacked the latest Master of War pre publication date 3rd November. It's always a moment of satisfaction to see the effort all tidied up.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
While researching Castelvecchio in Verona I discovered this wonderful library. La Capitolare is the oldest library in the world. Once a Scriptoruim dating back to 517 A.D. 100,000 books,1,280 mss, 11,000 parchments. My illuminatrix in Rage of Swords would have had her work archived here.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
An excellent opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of La Serenissima and the insight and intrigue of splendid crime writing. And there's a bonus of seeing the casino in the Hotel Monaco where Casanova gambled, a room that is seldom open to the public. And it's all free. A real gift.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Venice. A delight for individual shops. Here's Shanti Daan down a narrow Calle. Hand made Italian designs & clothing (among other things). Stefano & his cat Ravi. (Stefano studied sitar with Ravi Shankar) When in Venice & your wife's birthday looms make sure your credit card is fully loaded.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I'm researching my next book in Italy and I see there's a fuss at home about the English flag. In Verona's Castlevecchio art gallery is the Resurrection of Christ, Jacapo da Valenza 1478-1509. Now, I know it's said 'God is an Englishman' but this suggests it might run in the family. Just saying.
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David Gilman @davidgilman.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In Venice for 2 weeks researching novel due next year (The Knife Maker of Venice). Always fun to find something new (to me at least). Saturday market in Campo S. Maurizio is wonderful. And in Museo Carrer good to see Venetian resident & author @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social propped up nicely.
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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
It's not long now...here's @davidhewson.com to tell you all about this year's Venice Noir!
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David Hewson @davidhewson.com · 01/09/2025
The full paperback cover of The Four Deadly Seasons. Many thanks to @philipgwynnejones for the smashing quote.
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Dr Ian Sturrock @sturrock.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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