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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

/reappears briefly - I'll be at @capitalcrime.bsky.social in London at 11.40am on 13 June, doing an event about chilly crimes in cold climes. Come heckle me about Finn/show me your #DeathOnIce photos in person/throw walruses onto the stage. #capitalcrime25 www.capitalcrime.org/tickets /disappears

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Well. What an intensely miserable honour, to be content-scraped like lichen off a rock.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 13/03/2025

family favorite peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1911

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Last night in People Are Great, Actually: Spouse runs a pub in Ireland, & a non-Irish man was introduced to the idea of a 'pub quiz'. FASCINATION ENSUED. "Where do you get questions?" "We write them!" "What do you mean? You think, 'I know this, I wonder who else does??'" He's quizzing next week.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In other breaking news, magnolias are in full bloom around here.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Because my readers are Fantastic & Understand Priorities, I now have a flood of #DeathOnIce images with pets. Big pets small pets cat babies dog babies. OUTSTANDING WORK. If you have a copy & an animal, please continue this holy trend. (If no animal? Borrow animal!) #CatSky #BookSky #CatsofBlueSky

An extremely beautiful tabby cat looks at the camera while lying beside a copy of Death On Ice by R.O. Thorp published by Faber.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

tinyurl.com/YPostBookRev... "With a twisting plot which quickly runs into deep trouble, some entertaining personality clashes, and lots of dark secrets popping up through the frigid air, Death on Ice is overflowing with cool, contemporary vibes... Don’t miss the boat!"

yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

Death on Ice by R OThorp: packed full of chills, thrills, shocks and sharks – book review –

Welcome aboard the Dauphin, a state-of-the-art ship on its way to the Arctic with a passenger list that includes scientists on a marine research voyage... and a mixed bunch of wealthy passengers looki...

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

im deadly serious here this is a 14th century illustration of a horse dying and going to hell

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Me in @irishexaminer.bsky.social on sophomore syndrome and cosy crime! "The level that you have to write at to make sure that you are entertaining and also baffling people who know and love all of these stories back to front is considerable." www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

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Author interview: A pivot to ‘cosy crime’ requires a high level of literary craftsmanship

The worlds that I’m creating with the detective novels and with 'Learwife' are different. They’re going to do very different things for you

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

On how I wrote a book in 27 days to entertain a friend on maternity leave and ended up working with @faberbooks.bsky.social's incredible Crime team: A Blanchard Twins Tale

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I talked to the deeply lovely @swordsandsapphics.bsky.social about writing a novel in 27 days, the difference between writing literary and crime fiction, and why queer representation is so important in your nan's fave cosy murder mystery novels. Have a read here: tinyurl.com/ROThorpSSP

swordsandsapphics.com

Death on Ice: An Interview with R.O. Thorp

Happy Valentine's Day! If you'd like a dash of murder mystery with your romance today, we have just the guest for you. R.O. Thorp tells us all about her new series with scientists and sleuths, the Bla...

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CJ Colbourn @cjc13.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Death on Ice by R. O. Thorp – a review BLOG TOUR When Faber and Faber got in touch to invite me onto the blog tour for one of their new debut authors of course I said yes! Death on Ice by R. O. Thorp introduces us to the Blanchard twins, Rose and Finn. They are marine biologists who are on a…

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Death on Ice by R. O. Thorp – a review BLOG TOUR

When Faber and Faber got in touch to invite me onto the blog tour for one of their new debut authors of course I said yes! Death on Ice by R. O. Thorp introduces us to the Blanchard twins, Rose and Finn. They are marine biologists who are on a luxury Artic cruise for work, alongside an assortment of passengers who are there to enjoy themselves.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🛳️'A brilliant modern cosy.' Ian Moore, author of Death and Croissants 🛳️'How can something so damn cold be so damn cosy?' Oskar Jensen, author of Helle and Death Death on Ice by R. O. Thorp is out now from all good bookshops 🛳️ www.faber.co.uk/product/97805713865…

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#DeathOnIce IS OUT TODAY with @faberbooks.bsky.social! Find it at all your fave bookshops: Waterstones tinyurl.com/4s4keuuk W.H. Smith tinyurl.com/387vhkzh Foyles tinyurl.com/7zk4pzta Blackwells tinyurl.com/3d64ukwk Dubray tinyurl.com/4jw5aywn Hatchards tinyurl.com/39mn9e5h #BookSky #CatSky

A beautiful white cat with a pink nose sits atop a copy of Death On Ice by R.O. Thorp, a mystery novel with a luxury cruise ship cracking ice across its cover.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: DAY TEN! Out tomorrow! THIS IS MY VERY FAVOURITE WALRUS IN ART. It's by German naturalist Johann Christian Daniel Schreber (1739-1810). Thanks to all the lovely early readers of #DeathOnIce! MY WALRUS SMILES UPON YOU

The most jubilant walrus in all of art stares at the viewer, resplendent with tiny teeth, a feathery tail and what looks like near-human fins. It is coloured gold, for reasons that are unclear. The text underneath reads Phoca Jubata, which was a species description of the walrus before it was reclassified as Odobenus rosmarus.

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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“Pardon the pun, but Franklin seems to have seen the forest through the trees…”—I am so thrilled @sciam.bsky.social says my #FranklinStove book is one of its 10 most anticipated microhistories for 2025 (and a pun is pretty much always forgivable)

scientificamerican.com

Scientific American’s 10 Most Anticipated ‘Microhistories’ Coming Out in 2025

Scientific American’s Brianne Kane can’t wait to check out these fascinating deep dives into ‘micro’ topics that reveal big insights about science and society

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WHO @who.int · 11/02/2025

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day nine! Albrecht Dürer's walrus from 1521, held in the British Museum, is justly famous, partly because the walrus appears crazed with bloodlust. Are the walruses in #DeathOnIce also crazed? PREORDER TO FIND OUT.

Albrecht Dürer's drawing of a walrus head from 1521, in which a walrus looks combative from a page. The text above its head reads: "Das dozig thyr van dem ich do das hawbt conterfett hab, ist gefange worden in der niderlendischen see und was XII ellen brawendisch mit für füssen" (The animal which I have drawn this picture of was captured in the Dutch Sea and was twelve cubits in size with four feet)

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Cat has curled up with full weight on literal palm of hand, writing going super well

A tortoiseshell cat has her full body blissfully inside a white woman's hand and her eyes closed beatifically

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A Mechanical Galleon 1580x1590 from Augsburg (British Museum) An amazing automaton, it even played music.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day 8! This 'Old Man Walrus' is a 1913 colour lithograph by MT 'Penny' Ross, a cartoonist and one of Walt Disney's earliest collaborators. Would not vote this walrus into power, is clearly the 1%. #BookSky #WalrusSky

A colour lithograph in which a beautifully attired walrus in a pink and yellow suit with white shirt and purple cravat sits resplendent on an ice floe. A tiny top hat and monocle complete the look.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Book launch dress. "The Circulating Library", 1830s lithograph from a painting by George Spratt, held in the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social collections. #BookSky #FashionSky

A coloured lithograph of a woman sitting at a table in a dress, hat and shoes entirely made up of book volumes.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day 7! This is A MOST FAMOUS WALRUS: The Horniman Walrus (1880s) in @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social in London, beloved for being egregiously overstuffed by zealous taxidermists. What a gent. No notes. #BookSky #WalrusSky

The Horniman walrus sits on a white plinth against a white wall. it is a taxidermied walrus that has been extremely overstuffed, so that it has no skin folds or pouches, and resembles a sphere with fins and a very handsome tusked face.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

A little wombat indulgence. 🖼️ The Mammals of Australia. Illustrated by Miss Harriett Scott, and Mrs. Helena Forde. Sydney, 1871

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day six! Yes, that's a walrus. It's Plate 3 from towering Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel's Animalia Aqvatilia et Cochiliata, in his Book Of Four Elements (1575-82). Dignified? No. Accurate? Also no. #BookSky #ArtSky

Plate 3 from Joris Hoefnagel's book on aquatic creatures has a beautifully rendered but extremely strange walrus who resembles a sack with fur and tusks, a gorgeous set of pink and yellow sunfish, a splayed blue octopus, and another cephalopod with pink legs, eyeing the walrus with scepticism.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Me: Jutta, #DeathOnIce is coming out NEXT THURSDAY. Jutta: Mrrrrrr. Me: Yes, it is very exciting. Jutta: Mrrrr? Me: Yes, you will get treats on publication day. Jutta at volume of jet engine: MRRRRRRRRRRMPH. Preorder from @faberbooks.bsky.social! #BookSky #cosymysteries #CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Prehistoric #baby feeding vessels: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösensorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe. Photo: Wien Museum 🏺 #archaeology

Four small pottery vessels in the shape animal-like figures with round bodies, short legs, and spouted openings. They are arranged on a green background.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day five! A chromolithograph from the 1880 picture book Dream of the Zoo in which malevolent urchins try to brush a walrus's tusks. Dental health is important. So is staying clear of urchins. #BookSky #ArtSky

A chromolithograph from 1880 in which children clad in blue with bare feet whimsically attempt to brush a walrus's teeth with giant household brushes. The walrus, sitting on ice, looks benevolently upon them. Nobody in this picture is observing health and safety.

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Crime Fiction Lover @crimefictionlover.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Visit our site today and meet new crime fiction author RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social Next week, her novel Death on Ice hits the shelves - a contemporary cosy mystery set on a research vessel in the Arctic, with a Golden Age vibe to it... crimefictionlover.com/2025/02/inte...

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day four! This engraving of a walrus in Svalbard, Norway, is by travelling Dutch cartographer Hessel Gerritsz (1591 - 1632). The colouring was done later. Walruses, to be clear, are not green. #BookSky #ArtSky

A coloured edition of an engraving of a walrus and its pup by Hessel Gerritsz. The two animals are on the sandy foreshore while a boat, several small craft, and an iceberg float offshore. The walruses are, unusually, green.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

diva-magazine.com/2025/02/05/d... Proud to be in DIVA mag today talking about queerness, the mystery genre, power & the status quo. "Murder mysteries restore order after somebody violates it – but if the order isn’t one that loves queer rights and delights, should we restore it at all?"

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How I found queerness in murder mystery novels

R. O. Thorp talks about what inspired her latest novel Death On Ice

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Morning in the Village after Snowstorm by Kazimir Malevich, 1912 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social: day three! This divine print, Three Walrus, is by Inuk illustrator Sheouak Petaulassie (1918-1961). The original English word for a walrus was a morse. Which is why they are such good inspectors. #BookSky #ArtSky

A print of three walrus. Two are clearly heartily borking at one another, while a third looks on in case anybody interrupts the borking. All three are submerged in water, with their lower halves rendered in blue to show their buoyancy.

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

french pinup artists were on a different level

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES for DEATH ON ICE: Day two! This stone sculpture of a walrus by contemporary Indigenous artist Noah Kudluk is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. LOOK AT HIM FACE. Why walruses? Read the book on 13 Feb to find out... #ArtSky #BookSky #WalrusSky

An evocative stone carving of a walrus out of stone in black and white. The walrus is gloriously fat and looks indignant.

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here’s what I read or listened to in January. I listened to A Frightfully Fatal Affair and didn’t actually do any journaling in Words to Live By but read through it. I loved the previous Emily Wilde books so had to start that as soon as it arrived. What was your favourite read in January? #booksky📚

Third Girl, A Frightfully Fatal Affair, Death on Ice, Lovelight Farms, Words to Live By and Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Ten days til publication of #DeathOnIce by @faberbooks.bsky.social means TEN DAYS OF WALRUSES. This glorious engraving plate from Welsh illustrator Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social , shows a walrus clearly experiencing severe existential terror. Relatable!

An engraving plate by Sydenham Edwards in which a variety of seal sand walruses are shown in beautiful detail, including spotted seals, common seal calves, and a walrus staring directly at the viewer with a distinctly upset and angry expression on its moustached face.

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JR RO Thorp @jrthorp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Are you on BorrowBox, which lets you borrow ebooks and audiobooks for free (nada) (nothing) (zilch)? Death On Ice is their book of the day today! NO spoilers for people waiting for the paperback on 13 Feb, please. Install for free here- iOS: shorturl.at/PP7Vh Android: shorturl.at/THD75

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Wishing all a happy Février.

Painting of a woman in black and green gardening in a February garden, snowdrops.

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