BIG announcement coming from FunLovinCrimeWriters tomorrow morning! Val McDermid Luca Veste Chris Brookmyre Stuart Neville #BloodLikeMine Doug Johnstone

'You lazy spoilt kids have no idea how hard I had it in my youth, that vastly superior time we should all be striving to return society to.'

ALSO, 100 days to go until The Cracked Mirror from Christopher Brookmyre

Michael is particularly excited about this one...
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Paul is a great historian who does loads of these fascinating trawls through old newspapers, see below 👇

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As well as interviews and prints inspired by various writers' work, this exhibition includes a VR experience based on One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night.
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The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers will be playing live at Capital Crime in London. Saturday, June 1st at 9.00 PM. Tickets available at: capitalcrime.org/product-page/f…
FunLovinCrimeWriters Val McDermid Chris Brookmyre Luca Veste Doug Johnstone Stuart Neville #BloodLikeMine

FunLovinCrimeWriters will be appearing at the Neston Club on the Wirral on Friday April 30th at 7.00. Chat, music and almost certainly some dancing. And of course there will be LOTS of books. linghams.co.uk/event/fun-lovi… Val McDermid Luca Veste Doug Johnstone Stuart Neville #BloodLikeMine Chris Brookmyre

Just reading some concerned handwringing about free speech in a newspaper that asked the police to prosecute me for obscenity because they didn’t like a joke about the Queen

Somebody should warn Brendan that prospective employers are likely to go through his social media history when he's looking for a job in a few months' time.

Thames TV losing their franchise in retaliation by Thatcher's government for airing their Death on the Rock documentary.

I swore off twitter a year ago but...

The righteous outrage around the cancellation of the Aye Write festival is not merely a conversation about the merit of literary festivals, or whether Scotland’s first city deserves one. It is much, much bigger than that...

Sorting through some photos from last year's Bute Noir courtesy of Craig Sisterson and loving the sheer mischief in this pic of Doug Johnstone and Chris Brookmyre.

Somebody tell him the NHS is full of woke spoilsport doctors needlessly objecting to traditional English broken glass sandwiches.

Aye Write A real loss to the writers and readers, present and future, not just of Glasgow but of the whole country. And on the week when the Queen’s Reading Room research reported that just 5 minutes of reading fiction a day lowers stress and raises well-being…

#FridayReads 1 - v.lucky to have an early read of this from Chris Brookmyre ... it's Bosch meets Miss Marple with lashing of Succession thrown in. The most fun you'll have reading this year. In the shops this July.

Now that it's been called off this year, this wee feature is a bit poignant.

Back in the day, I asked Chris Brookmyre, Denise Mina, Alan Bisset, Zoe Strachan, & Louise Welsh about their favourite Aye Write moments.

#AyeWrite #Glasgow

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