This is a truly wonderful book. Ambitious, beautiful, using the language of gothic novels to create something both spooky and uplifting. A unique book.

‘Honestly’ is to Gen Z what ‘Like’ was to Gen X.

Asked one of the nursery staff when she’s finishing for parental leave…

You can probably fill in the gaps.

So unfortunately I shall now be emigrating immediately.

Congratulations to Mark Billingham - The Last Dance is genuinely funny, but also moving, thoughtful, surprising. What a start to a new series.

Thanks to the excellent Jo Callaghan for this wonderful write-up of Alexandra Wilson’s debut novel The Witness, coming in June - the most authentic UK legal thriller, full of twists.

3-year-old: “Why is there rain and wind and sun? Why is there all the weathers here?”

Exactly. It’s WEIRD.

Wonderful to see The Last Dance by Mark Billingham sitting at #6 in the Kindle store and NUMBER ONE in the Apple store. Time to get on board with DS Miller ahead of his second appearance in The Wrong Hands.

*BARGAIN KLAXON* The Last Dance - the first Declan Miller novel, is only 99p on Kindle for the whole of this month. Cheap, chips etc. amazon.co.uk/Last-Dance-thr…

See also: the narrator did it or knows who did it and could have told you on page one.

There are a ton of Hachette UK Nibbies nominations this year, and yet again LB is up for publisher of the year - while being a thoroughly decent and kind place to work. Bravo to all the nominated teams.

So much buzz for this tremendous book. The Retirement Plan is a huge launch for us next year, set to be a mammoth global bestseller. It’s dark, funny, kindhearted, twisty, meaningful and very, very fun. Who knew wives trying to murder their husbands could be so entertaining?

Good luck to my fellow sufferers of being absolutely terrible at putting a face to a name this week. Expect lots of 'How are YOU?' #LBF24

The Rumor Game is getting rave reviews both in the US and UK and with good reason - it highlights a history of antisemitism in the US in WWII, showing how thrillers can work powerfully to expose a country's past... and present.

I'm proud to publish All Us Sinners by Katy Massey today, a really fresh and impressive crime fiction debut that pushes at the edges of the genre. Big thank you to those who have reviewed or quoted, especially Chris Whitaker Emma Flint @emmaflint.bsky.social📚💀💙🖤💙📚 Diana Evans and @[email protected]

Tories now polling less than the Lid Dem vote share in 2010 (which was 23%). So very sad.

Incredible writing. Loving the lyrical, poetic descriptions and characters

#AllUsSinners by Katy Massey from
Sphere Books

Not only is this a superb course, but you might get to meet me somewhere along the way (sorry). Plus, all graduating students are entered into the Little, Brown UK UEA Crime Fiction Award, the winners of which win a cash price and have gone on to be successful published novelists.

Mysteries are a search for truth. So happens when no one agrees on truth, or evidence, or facts?
My new essay on CrimeReads, inspired by writing THE RUMOR GAME:
crimereads.com/thomas-mullen-…

Lucky enough to have read this already. Chris Brookmyre always confounds expectations and constantly raises the bar for the rest of us, but his new novel will make your mind explode in the very best way possible. Coming in July and simply extraordinary. #TheCrackedMirror

It is hard to feel compassion towards someone who goes abroad to support a radical group that detests our country's values, but she was clearly not bright enough to know better, and that's why I don't think Liz Truss should be stripped of her citizenship.