Dear people citing The Bible: It’s a cool book with some wonderful passages but it also has ghost sex & giants & super babies & demons. It’s why we don’t make laws based on Game of Thrones, My Little Pony or Legend of Zelda.

.James Lee Burke’s kindness and humanity are palpable in his writing. x.com/alafairburke/s…

We all go a little mad sometimes. (Psycho, incidentally, is a rare example of film surpassing book. The book is lousy.)

If Hans Landa had endured Tenet, he would say this review is "a bingo".

Kia ora rawa atu to everyone who has been in touch about entering the #2022Ngaios. It's shaping up to be another terrific year celebrating #yeahnoir and our local authors. Entries are open for Best First Novel and Best First Novel, until 17 March, for books published during 2021.

MITL news: we've confirmed a fresh and fun panel for our Fri 26 May event in Pt Chev, Auckland. Debut authors Les Allen & simon lendrum will join #2022Ngaios finalist Angelique Kasmara and Auckland author Diane Robinson for a chat chaired by Stephanie Jones. More soon #yeahnoir

My review: the brief 1920s disappearance of Agatha Christie is the subject of Andrew Wilson's A TALENT FOR MURDER bit.ly/2xCxvh9

My review: in Jennie Melamed's terrifying dystopian novel GATHER THE DAUGHTERS, female fertility is currency bit.ly/2vyNCuP

My review: Laura Marshall's debut thriller FRIEND REQUEST invites fresh contemplation of the dark side of social media bit.ly/2wenqaH

My review: Paul Cleave's A KILLER HARVEST is as thick with menace as a Kubrickian maze bit.ly/2vrMABh Upstart Press #yeahnoir

Two superb new novels about women of substance: gabriellezevin's YOUNG JANE YOUNG & Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE: reviews soon

God, can Hilary Mantel write: on Diana and the princess myth theguardian.com/books/2017/aug…

Kiwi writers joining me on a quick trip to Wanaka: thanks Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand and Auckland Libraries #yeahnoir

Congratulations to our 2017 Ngaio Marsh Award winners! So many amazing books this year - finalists, longlistees & more. Yay for #yeahnoir

Reading: Matt Taibbi’s INSANE CLOWN PRESIDENT: “We were a shallow country...And now it is a shallow man who will take us wherever he pleases.”

Heartening to see such enthusiasm among book buyers. Thank you for your promotional efforts on FIRE AND FURY, Donald J. Trump. x.com/chrisgeidner/s…

New Zealand saw him first. x.com/rgay/status/96…

Richly deserved. x.com/donwinslow/sta…

A magnificent book with a bittersweet backstory - and there will be a sequel of sorts, Billy Jensen says. x.com/gregfleming4/s…