Big new exhibition on Ranjit Singh & the Sikh Empire opens at London's Wallace Collection & it's being reviewed by Tom Sutcliffe, Bidisha & Dreda Say Mitchell on this evening's BBC Front Row radio show. Listen & learn... #RanjitSingh #Punjab #Sikh
wallacecollection.org/whats-on/event…

If you like secrets & intrigue, this is for you - In The Shadows Of Love by Awais Khan

BARGAIN ALERT!!!

My latest #Dempsey & #Devlin thriller #TheShadowNetwork is available on Audible UK 🎧 for just 99p!!

It’s a VERY limited time offer, so get yours today!!

bit.ly/3U9AeLT

I love fiction dealing with less prominent points in Irish history - my own Blackwatertown is 1950s, Cauvery Madhavan’s The Tainted is 1920s (&80s) but Irish in India. So thank you very much Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺 for your own Some Service to the State set in 1925. Happy Reading ahead

Delighted to speak with Paul and Steven from We’d Like A Word back in the summer, thank you gents. AND I manage to not sound like a complete idiot which is a bonus...

Serendipity Arts Festival one of the largest multi-disciplinary arts festivals in South Asia is accepting applications for theatre for December 2024. Open call covers two categories: Ready Productions & Commissions,
deadline 15th
May SerendipityArtsFestival serendipityarts.org/open_call/open…

Come and visit our gardens to enjoy the thousands of tulips that are blooming lovely right now!

The Garden Room is serving a selection of teas and the most delicious homemade cakes!

A perfect way to spend a couple of hours with friends, family or solo

Mondays & Tuesdays 2-5pm

Ever wondered how book cover designs are made? All is revealed by award-winning designer Mecob Design in the new 3-part episode of We’d Like A Word with hosts Paul Waters, Blackwatertown & Stevyn Colgan - hat tips to Ben Tallon Mark Swan & Piers Torday #bookcovers podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wed-l…

My comic fiction #ANovelSolution was published 19 March.
'Warm, knowing humour' says The Bookseller.
Others agree:
‘A book to romp through’
‘A fantastic read’
‘A clever... novel of comedy and suspense’
SRL Publishing The Bookseller
Find out what the fuss is about!

The bloke with whom I host the We’d Like A Word books & authors podcast - Stevyn Colgan - has a v popular YouTube channel called Colganology, about the countryside, the #arcane , the #esoteric , #Cornish #folklore & on this time - me & a pint in The Harp youtu.be/qqWVmLADADI?si…

The weather is DUFF but it looks like I'm more or less thru the #Menopause SO here is a 🧵 of things that have helped me. Eating enough easily available protein turned out to be important. It defo helped my bladder function (I don't know WHY OK) at least 100g a day. /1

So apparently #ONE is at the ridiculous price of 99p all month on kindle and for a couple of weeks on kobo (starting tomorrow), so you can snap up a good climate thriller for less than a cup of coffee. Enjoy!

Kindle - geni.us/KF6plA
Kobo - bit.ly/453jOr6

I’ve read this, the latest in Ajay Chowdhury’s Kamil Rahman series (and all the rest). You should too! #recommendedread

Happy publication day to Ajay Chowdhury and THE SPY!

THE SPY is a pulse-pounding undercover thriller that will have you gripped from the first page.

Available here: penguin.co.uk/books/455373/t…

Today is the publication day for AFRICA - a new illustrated history that spans 200,000 years of African history and culture - with a foreword by me.

The link to buy the book is here and in my bio. Get your copy today.
geni.us/AfricaBook

Really enjoyed our discussion on BBC Front Row last night with the wonderful Greg Mosse & Nick Ahad about the rise of the eco thriller.

If you missed it, catch it here: enjoy a blast of Abba first, then Greg & I talk fear & thrills around 30 mins in!
bbc.in/4cEGzq5

Delighted to be on BBC Front Row this evening, chatting with Nick Ahad & Greg Mosse about the rise of the ecothriller, so do tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 7.15 or check it out BBC Sounds.

Also on is 50 years since ABBA's Waterloo so bring your spangly boots.
bbc.in/4cEGzq5

Looking forward to The Black Loch another book from Peter May - if you can’t wait till then, you’ll enjoy A Winter Grave by Peter, which got a mention on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row just now

I’m delighted to announce that my new thriller THE BLACK LOCH, publishing in September, will see Fin Macleod return to the Isle of Lewis.
You can pre-order your copy here, with signed copies available in the UK where indicated: geni.us/THEBLACKLOCH