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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A reunion of old friends: lost hopes, bad blood and murder. Our new book is published in paperback today

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Our new book, a story of friendship and betrayal, is now crazy cheap on Amazon Kindle

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Quick Book Reviews Podcast @quickbookreviews.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I had the best time chatting to @niccifrench.bsky.social on the podcast and you can listen to our chat right now! Links: podfollow.com/quick-book-r...

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Our tale of reunions, lost youth and revenge is published in the US today. We’re so excited for people to read it

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Our story of lost youth, reunions and revenge is now published in the US.

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Our story of lost youth, of reunions and revenge is published today!

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Is there anything scarier than a reunion with old friends? Our story of reckonings with the past and lost youth is published this Thursday

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Quick Book Reviews Podcast @quickbookreviews.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Today you can hear my interview with @niccifrench.bsky.social as we discuss their brand new book What Happened That Night. You can listen to the discussion here: podfollow.com/quick-book-r...

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Is there anything scarier than a reunion with old friends? Our story of reckonings with the past and lost youth is published this Thursday

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Hitchcock made some strange films but Rope is one of the very strangest. We tried to make sense of it in a conversation with David Runciman

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

It’s always a thrill. Our new book has arrived! Out in February

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Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

An utter masterpiece. It couldn’t be more different from our work, but it’s one of our great inspirations. It’s now on BBC iplayer and not to be missed!

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

What an extraordinary (and terrifying) statistic!

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

A child seems to have witnessed a murder. But there doesn't seem to be a victim. Puzzled? You can find out the truth on Kindle for less than a pound.

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Today is Angela Lansbury’s 100th birthday. 📸 Yousuf Karsh (1946)

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James McKenzie @jamesmckz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

There’ll be lots of people queuing up to say nice things about Danny Thompson but for me it’s those double bass contributions on the life changing Spirit of Eden . Cheers Danny youtu.be/HSfGvuiFOWI?...

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Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988) FULL ALBUM

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Danny Daly @rebels4ever.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for a screening of #Rope, followed by @ppfideas.bsky.social live podcast recording with #DavidRunciman and @niccifrench.bsky.social 👏

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🔔 First in our ‘Films of Ideas’ live recordings coming up next Friday. Join us, we’d love to see you there! ⬇️

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

'Believe nothing, trust no one'. We're talking about our bleak philosophy of fiction and of life at 2.30 Saturday 13 September at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

You can get The Memory Game, our very first book, for just 99p on Kindle. So old it has no mobile phones, no internet, no AI and the female protagonist smokes like a chimney. We're still rather proud of it, though.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

New post: "The Radicalisation Spiral" Why are so many people becoming radicalised? Is there any way to stop it? With an antivaxxer running the US health dept + extreme discourse dominating politics it's an increasingly pressing question. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

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The radicalisation spiral

Why does it happen and can it be stopped?

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Why would you clean up a murder scene? The Lying Room is now so cheap on Kindle that we're virtually paying you to read it.

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Forget your enemies. What if it’s your friends and neighbours you can’t trust? Out now in paperback!

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

You can now 'buy' our recent book, Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?, for basically no money at all.

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It's not your enemies you should be frightened of, it's your friends. Our new book is now available for less than the price of something that costs a pound.

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Chris Brookmyre @brookmyre.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Heading to Aberdeen tomorrow for Granite Noir. Marisa and I will be talking @ambroseparry.bsky.social with @niccifrench.bsky.social on Saturday night at the Music Hall, and there are still tickets to see the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers on Sunday night: www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/gra...

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Granite Noir 2025: The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers | Aberdeen Performing Arts

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

What if your friends were also your enemies? Published tomorrow!

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

What if you had visions and one of them was of a murder? People don’t believe you. Can you even believe yourself? Our new book is published next week.

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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Happy Santa Lucia to all who celebrate today ✨ Sharing a flashback to a Lucia mini procession in an Oslo kindergarten, for some reason I was trusted with the Lucia crown and lit candles 🫠 If anyone fancies baking lussekatter (Lucia saffron buns) this weekend I’ll gladly share a recipe 🎄🧑🏻‍🎄🥨🇳🇴👸

A mini Santa Lucia Day procession in an Oslo kindergarten. Amazingly I was trusted with both the Lucia crown and lit candles 🫠

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Really good and absolutely terrifying movie!

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niccifrench.bsky.social @niccifrench.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Lovely to see this in Alison Flood’s thrillers of the year in today’s Observer New Review

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