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Ewa Sherman @ewashe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I’m reading another book featuring a cat, already dead, but we’re not talking about it. Erlendur Arason focused on different types of murder in #Iceland 🇮🇸 And he did it so well! @graskeggur.bsky.social @jackycnoir64.bsky.social @liljawriter.bsky.social

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drpeterjmurray.bsky.social @drpeterjmurray.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Excellent #granitenoirx Literature at Lunchtime session with Icelandic Noir author @liljawriter.bsky.social and chaired by @jackycnoir64.bsky.social Covering Lilja's books, coffee and lots else

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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again. The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot. Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Eva Dolan @evadolan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This is always a really fun festival - had the most severe hangover of my life at NN! - so if you haven’t been yet make this the year

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Our AirBnB in Aberdeen in Feb'20 when I went up for my first ever Noir fest - #GraniteNoir with @jackycnoir64.bsky.social! I'm at the top & my pal, whose daughter lived in Abs at the time, hence our visit, is downstairs. Met Sólveig & Óskar from @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #SaturdayStairs #BookSky 🇮🇸

A squared off spiral staircase with knobbly black wrought iron balusters and a wooden handrail. The risers are uncarpeted, brown in the middle and grey at each edge. A woman in a cream winter coat stands at the bottom looking up, and a pair of jean clad legs with black boots are visible at the top on the left hand side

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Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

***#NN2025 ticket update*** A huge THANK YOU to everyone who bought weekend passes to the festival 🖤 Today we were able to release a few more. So if you haven't got yours yet, don't worry, more tickets available here: www.tiny.cc/nnoir2025 We look forward to sharing #newcastlenoir with you 🕵‍♀️💀🪦📓✨️

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Newcastle Noir International Crime Writing Festival at Newcastle City Library

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Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

So grateful for the opportunity to present my developing research project on the costuming of Spanish actor #JoseCoronado at this conference #academiclife #researchjoy @litandlangstirling.bsky.social

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

'Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa’s El buen patrón (2021)', by Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social‬ (Uni. Stirling) & Sarah Gilligan (Northumbria Uni.) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Julio (Javier Bardem) and his employees at the entrance to the Básculas Blanco factory.

Film still from El buen patrón ( Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021).

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Ewa Sherman @ewashe.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Do you have any plans this weekend? Well, whatever you do @corylusbooks.bsky.social’s Senior Manager (Edits) recommends that you chill with Jón Atli Jónasson’s #Broken tr. by @graskeggur.bsky.social #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Caturday 🐈‍⬛ @marinasofia.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social @jackycnoir64.bsky.social

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Hands up (see what I did there!) who can see the woman's profile, facing left, that the handprint also suggests on the lovely @solveigpals.bsky.social's excellent book 'Harm'?! (tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social, publ @corylusbooks.bsky.social) Hmm, @pareidolia.bsky.social, what do you think?

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Wini Davies @winidavies.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@gwylcrimefest.bsky.social in #Aberystwyth April 25-27. Among the great events a session with best-selling authors Mari Hannah & @claremackwrites.bsky.social interviewed by the lovely @jackycnoir64.bsky.social

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Expect lots of laughs, lots of weirdness and - yes- lots of wonderfulness with three weird and wonderful writers in conversation with the brilliant @jackycnoir64.bsky.social ! This isn't one to be missed! @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social @jamesoswald.scot

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Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Incidentally, the most picked up book (hence, the cover that attracted most people) at Alternative Book Fair yesterday was Skin Deep by Antonia Lassa, transl. @jackycnoir64.bsky.social

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Mari Hannah @mariwriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just love Wales! I’m going to @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social in Aberystwyth. Looking forward to appearing with @claremackwrites.bsky.social on April 26th, chaired by Dr Noir, aka @jackycnoir64.bsky.social

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Very interesting fact from the 'Lost In Translation' panel at #GraniteNoir: @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social revealed #FictionInTranslation in the UK is just 3% of books, but elsewhere in Europe 70% 😲 @jackycnoir64.bsky.social affirmed the importance of experiencing other cultures thru our reading 💙📚

Jacky Collins, aka Dr Noir, in brilliant conversation with Catalan author and translator Teresa Solana. The Lost in Translation panel obviously struck a chord with its totally engaged audience, as sales of the 3 authors present's books were the greatest of any event at that venue this year! It was also great to meet @vikingporridge.bsky.social, thanks to a shared appreciation of Dr Noir's skillful aplomb in her role of chair!

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Bit late posting about #GraniteNoir but I'm home now so there's time! Brilliant 'Lost In Translation' panel Sun chaired by the fab @jackycnoir64.bsky.social, with @graskeggur.bsky.social, @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social & @orendabooks.bsky.social's Ørjan Karlsson. If the vid available, watch it! 💙📚

4 panel collage showing Jackie Collins ('Dr Noir') interviewing, brilliantly, author and Icelandic translator Quentin Bates (Gunnhildur series, Bk1=Frozen Out), @corylusbooks.bsky.social's Teresa Solana, author (Black Storms, check out this fab cover!) & Catalan translator, and Ørjan Karlsson, Norwegian author (Into Thin Air), translated into several other languages, including, thankfully for us, English!

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Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Call for Proposals: Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures 2025: Fashioning Ageing, Emotion, and Memory in Film, Fashion Media, and Clothing. Proposal deadline: 15 March 2025 For more information click here: ow.ly/Q1OY50UPmlY

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Zaffre Books @zaffrebooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Don't walk, run! Everyone's favourite detective, Scott Jericho, is back in paperback 🎡 Are you ready to return to the fairground? @whusseyauthor.bsky.social loom.ly/Djhq7RU

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Trevor Wood @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm doing a 75-mile sponsored walk/bookshop tour to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK and thanks to your incredible support I've had to increase my original target. Can't thank you enough. Any reposts much appreciated! #dementia #Alzheimers www.justgiving.com/page/trevor-...

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Trevor's fundraiser for Alzheimer's Research UK

Help Trevor Wood raise money to support Alzheimer's Research UK

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Suzy A @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Watch out for this brilliant new thriller, out from Eve Smith in April. Perfect for the strange times we live in and I can’t wait to read The Cure. 💙🩵💉💉💉💉

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Sam Holland @samhollandbooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Three weeks until Memorial Park is out in the world! The finished books arrived this week and they look fantastic (I’ll do something with those soon!) Preorder here: geni.us/MemorialPark

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Who else is really looking forward to not watching the Inauguration? 👀 👎

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Ken Lussey @kenlussey.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

A game of secrets and lies. 'Bloody Orkney' is a fast-paced thriller set mainly in Orkney during World War Two. This tin cottage on the island of Hoy has an important part to play in the book. Available in paperback, Kindle, Kobo or Apple. Find out more: www.kenlussey.com/blork/index....

This modern image shows a tin cottage on the island of Hoy in Orkney. We are looking slightly downhill towards it over long grass. The cottage has green corrugated walls on a main section on the right with two white windows and a porch, and a smaller section on the left with two windows. The building is weatherbeaten, especially its red corrugated roof. There is water in the background and land in the distance. The front cover of ‘Bloody Orkney’ is shown in the bottom right corner.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/01/2025

MAKE POLLUTERS PAY

Chart:

WHO IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS?
Spoiler alert: it's not you.

In order of most emissions: Shell, Chevron, BO, Exxon, Aramco

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hard to reconcile the nation that put a man on the moon is the same nation that put a moron in the White House.

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Graham Bartlett @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Just realised it's only a month until I get to share an evening with @authorbeccaday.bsky.social at Waterstones Horsham. Looking forward to swapping stories & chatting about our latest books with @thestucumminsreads.bsky.social on 13th Feb. These nights are always such fun - come along if you can!

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An Evening with Becca Day and Graham Bartlett | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Becca Day and Graham Bartlett today.

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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 08/01/2025

If you're an independent #bookstore, anywhere in the world, reply to this to be added to my #StarterPack! go.bsky.app/AHQhv2z

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Ewa Sherman @ewashe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you are familiar with Antti Tuomainen’s writing and dark humour then you will accept that danger never sleeps and may find its way into the most ordinary places, even where you go to chill out #Finland 🇫🇮 @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

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#RivetingReviews: Ewa Sherman reviews THE BURNING STONES by Antti Tuomainen | European Literature Network

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Julie Anderson @juliewriter.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A fine writer, walking for a god cause. ( And the book'll be good, too. ) Please share onwards. Thank you.

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Barbara Nadel @barbaranadel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Last minute Christmas present? Just saying….

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Chris McDonald / Chris Frost @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Had an absolute blast at Newcastle Noir. Great panels, great audience, books sold, and I got to hang out with old friends and new. Massive thanks to @jackycnoir64.bsky.social for such a wonderful time! I was having so much fun, I didn’t take any photos!

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Gill @gill99.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Congratulations to @jackycnoir64.bsky.social & all at @toonlibraries.bsky.social & @forumbooks.bsky.social for the wonderfully entertaining & interesting Festival of Crime Fiction that was #NewcastleNoir2024. A milestone 10th anniversary. A brilliant achievement. Roll on 2025! #NN2024

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Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

And just like that #NN2024 was over! What an amazing few days! #DrNoir is rather exhausted as she wends her delayed way back up North, yet she has a heart full of joy & gratitude for all we've shared. Much more detail will be forthcoming tomorrow 🕵‍♂️🖤📚🔥

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Robert Rutherford @robertrutherford.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Happy pub day to me, happy pub day to me, happy birthday dear paperback, happy pub day to me. Cue obligatory Beatles rendition… youtu.be/yYvkICbTZIQ?...

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The Beatles - Paperback Writer

YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO

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Jo Furniss @jofurniss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here I am, “Poundland Oprah”, posing the questions about crime novels set in the US with @erinyoungauthor.bsky.social and @robertrutherford.bsky.social at the fabulous #newcastlenoir

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Robert Rutherford @robertrutherford.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Bringing out the big guns at #NewcastleNoir2024 with @mariwriter.bsky.social @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social and @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social - it doesn’t get much better than this!

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Suzy A @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Round of applause for brilliant #NewcastleNoir icons @mariwriter.bsky.social and @jackycnoir64.bsky.social to celebrate 10 years of Toon crime fiction. Panelliing with @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social & @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social Smashing!!! #CrimeFiction #bookfestivals

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Julie Anderson @juliewriter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Guy Hale rewriting Macbeth's 'Tomorrow and tomorrow' soliloquy for a modern editor. With Howard Linksey at Newcastle Noir @jackycnoir64.bsky.social

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Julie Anderson @juliewriter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Paul Burke speaks with @radiomukhers.bsky.social and Antti Tuoaminen at @jackycnoir64.bsky.social Great fun!

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Julie Anderson @juliewriter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A grand 10th birthday for Newcastle Noir! Thank you @jackycnoir64.bsky.social and the Noir Stars. I had a blast!

Myself and Jacky Collins in front of this year's Newcastle Noir banner.

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Suzy A @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Brilliant fun at Newcastle Noir. Fantastic panels masterminded by @jackycnoir64.bsky.social & her Noir Stars & loved taking part in our #TeamOrenda panel with @orendabooks.bsky.social @dougjohnstone.bsky.social & #HelenFitzgerald A wonderful event to round off the best debut year for #crowmoon

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Julie Anderson @juliewriter.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Great early start to Friday evening with a proof launch for @tariqashkanani.bsky.social's The Midnight King, with @jackycnoir64.bsky.social and @mirandajewess.bsky.social @viperbooks.bsky.social

Pic of Jacky Collinds introducing Tariq, being quizzed by Miranda.

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