M.W. Craven
@MWCravenUK
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Sunday Times bestselling author of the #WashingtonPoe & #TillyBradshaw / #BenKoenig books Winner of CWA Gold/Steel Dagger/ #Theakstons award #mwcraven
#Cumbria & #Newcastle
Joined October 2012
I couldn’t be more thrilled to have signed a new three-book contract with @LittleBrownUK. More Poe & Tilly, and, excitingly, brand-new series as well. As it’s two books a year for the foreseeable I’d better get off social media and start writing. Details 👉
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It feels like it’s time for another book #giveaway! 📚 .RT & follow by midnight on 23/04 for a chance to win a signed proof of #FEARLESS, publishing 29 June. Two lucky winners will be chosen at random on 24/04. UK only. #fearlessbook #BenKoenig #bookgiveaway @dhhlitagency
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Celebrating winning the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year with a pint of CHOCOLATE Theakston Old Peculier in the Kings Head, Carlisle. #TheakstonCrime .#theakstonaward
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Apologies. The obligatory ‘opening box of author copies’ video. I’m such a cliche 🙄
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#WashingtonPoe has a story to tell. #AreYouSittingComfortably?. Proof copies of #TheMercyChair have just landed and they’re just the prettiest things. It’s been a 2-year wait, but Poe & Tilly are finally back in the case that changes EVERYTHING. Literally
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Advance copies of FEARLESS have arrived. Details of how to get hold of a copy coming soon .
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Washington Poe has a story to tell . Are you sitting comfortably?. Out June 24, the case that changes everything . Available to preorder now . #AreYouSittingComfortably?.#TheMercyChair.#WashingtonPoe6.#WashingtonPoe.#TillyBradshaw
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Anyone want one?. Proofs of Dead Ground are in and they look absolutely stunning. Over the next few weeks I’ll be running comps to win some of these so stay tuned. Some will no doubt be on Twitter but most will be via my newsletter; to give yourself the best chance, sign up now
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That’s it. Written my last line of the year and have now downed tools until 2023. Having a couple of beers to celebrate. For those you who are interested, the last line was:. Flynn rolled her eyes and said, “Poe, put the f*****g haddock down.”.
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Starting the new Poe & Tilly today, a perennially daunting prospect. Have 193 words down already, so only 99,807 to go .
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That’s Poe 7 done and dusted (provisionally scheduled for publication June 2025). Celebrating tonight with a beer or two courtesy of the Carlisle Brewing Co. And given what I’ve just written, the name of the beer seems apt . 😬
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Woohoo! #TheBotanist is a @thesundaytimes bestseller! Huge thanks to everyone who bought a copy last week. This is the second Poe & Tilly book in a row to make The Sunday Times list, and this is almost entirely down to the brilliant team at #Constable, @LittleBrownUK 🎉🥂
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I have the BEST publisher! Look what they’ve done to an underpass in #Deansgate, Manchester 😮 And as well as a QR code, those bottles have seeds in them (dare you?) The installation is up for a couple of weeks so grab a bottle while you can . #pickupapageturner
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Something’s coming . Preorder THE MERCY CHAIR now. Links below, more to come 👇.
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#CompetitionTime. Black Summer by @MWCravenUK is now only 3 weeks away and to celebrate I’m giving away a signed and dedicated first edition hardback. For a chance to win all you have to do is follow and retweet. Winner will be randomly selected at 9am on Monday 17th June.
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Dead Ground is published in Japan on September 20th, and as usual, the cover is simply stunning. Think it might be my favourite although I do have a soft spot for Black Summer
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The first tranche of FEARLESS advance copies, locked and loaded and ready to be fired into the ether. And by “ether” I do of course mean post office. And by “fired into” I mean carried there in a box. And by “locked and loaded” I mean put into an envelope .
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One final read through and the 6th Poe novel, scheduled for publication in 2024, will be winging its way to @DavidHHeadley 😬
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The obligatory, ever tiresome unboxing video, this time it’s my author copies of the mass market paperback release of FEARLESS. Excuse the language . 🤬. Standby for comps to win a signed and dedicated copy . And yes, I AM wearing pyjamas. I’ve been wearing them all day 🥱
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Our new bookmarks have arrived — details on how to get hold of them coming soon. Pretty aren’t they?
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Hugely excited to share the cover for the 5th Poe novel: #TheBotanist, out June 22. “I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . ”. For a man who hates locked room mysteries, this is going to be the longest week of Washington Poe’s life .
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Happy publication day to me — Dead Ground is out in Japan today (it’s called THE MURDERS OF THE GREY RAT over there). And what a cover my publisher has come up with! Think it might be favourite so far. Sorry Little, Brown .
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Absolutely thrilled that DEAD GROUND has been longlisted for the @the_cwa 2022 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. What a great list to be part of 😀. That’s an astonishing four-for-four dagger nominations for the Poe series now 😳
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Happy publication day to me 🎉🍻. #TheBotanist is finally out in paperback - available pretty much everywhere but if you want signed and/or dedicated copies then only Bookends in Carlisle ( have these at the mo. @waterstonesncl may have some by the weekend
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For a man who hates locked room mysteries, this is going to be the longest week of Washington Poe's life . 'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home'. Available to preorder now
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Proofs of #TheBotanist have just landed and don’t they look absolutely spiffing? . Anyone want one? . I’ll be running comps over on next year so the best way to win is to subscribe to my newsletter. Don’t worry; I’m bone idle so hardly send out anything
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Copy edits finished on the UK version of FEARLESS. And while I wait to see how much work is going to come from the US copy edits, I shall indulge in beer and salty snacks 🍻
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So glad we can finally reveal the cover of the new #WashingtonPoe/#TillyBradshaw novel. #TheCurator is available to preorder now. #WhatsBehindTheDoor
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He had five million reasons to disappear, it took just one to bring him back . Fearless, coming soon . #fearlessbook #BenKoenig
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Thought I’d check out my competition for the @The_CWA Gold Dagger this year, so dived into November Road by @Lou_Berney. Absolutely jaw-dropping, easily makes my top 3 book of the year. Stunning book
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I am absolutely THRILLED that the 5th Poe & Tilly book, THE BOTANIST, has been longlisted the 2023 #TheakstonAward. It’s a huge honour just to make the longlist but . if you want to help Tilly get onto the SHORTlist, you can vote for her here👇.
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Thank you for doing this, @DuncyLeaths. Great article, hopefully it will draw attention to #burkittslymphoma (or #burkittlymphoma if you drop the S) and the guys at @CR_UK who are developing the treatments and cures.
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Woohoo!.
🗡 THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER.@TheIanFleming.#CWADaggers. Linwood Barclay: Take Your Breath Away.John Brownlow: Seventeen.MW Craven: The Botanist.Robert Galbraith: The Ink Black Heart.Ava Glass: Alias Emma.Alan Parks: May God Forgive
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Woohoo!!! 🎉.
🗡 THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER (1/2).@TheIanFleming.#CWADaggers. Julie Anderson: Opera.Ashok Banker: A Kiss After Dying.Linwood Barclay: Take Your Breath Away.John Brownlow: Seventeen.Harlan Coben: The Match.MW Craven: The Botanist
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Trying put right a heinous wrong by the end of the year. Not read @robertcrais before but he’s already in my top 5 authors of all time. This is BRILLIANT. Like a contemporary Chandler. Who else has read him?
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COVER REVEAL! After #ThePuppetShow🔥, a new storm is coming . #BlackSummer🌪 - available to preorder now
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I'm thrilled to announce I’ve just signed a contract with Little Brown for the rights to my back catalogue: the DI Fluke novels – previously published by Caffeine Nights. They will be published on Jan 9th and at some point there’ll probably be a new Fluke book in the works 😳
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Signing bookplates and showcards for my Japanese publisher to celebrate publication day for #TheCurator. They even sent the pens 🖊😀. #M・W・クレイヴン
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It’s December 1st today and that means only one thing - time to start the new #WashingtonPoe novel. Poe 5, #TheBotanist💐☠️ , out June 2022 . 😬
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The Curator proofs have arrived 😳 #WhatsBehindTheDoor #BSC6 .#TheCurator .Out 4th June in hardback, ebook and audio. Available to preorder now
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The excitement of @HarrogateFest and the #TheakstonCrime award is over, the excitement of the hedgehogs that live in my garden has only just started . I’ve seen at least 5 now. Must be all the slugs 🐌
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Ben Koenig 2: Nobody’s Hero, out October 2024. Available to preorder now. Links to both 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇸 editions below.
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Are you sitting comfortably?. Poe & Tilly 6, THE MERCY CHAIR, coming soon (ish). Signed and dedicated copies below 👇 .
A bit of lunchtime shopping and forward planning for 2024! 🥳.The Mercy Chair by @MWCravenUK.Pre ordered my own March bday treat from @bookscumbria .To be honest, I can't be doing the ungraceful lunchtime 💪 power walking again. it hurts!! 🤣🤣.#bookwitter.#avidreader 💯❤️📚
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That’s that then. Poe 4, The Bad Beat (title tbc), is finished and ready to go to @DavidHHeadley. Only took 10 months 😳 Time for a beer I think .
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Hugely successful day in @wstonesdurham - sold a sh*t load of books, met up with readers and @ryankevin1234, a mate from school who I haven’t seen for 35 years and the UK’s number 1 bookseller, @fionamsharp, got me some IPA to drink when I got home. Wish all days were like this
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Third draft of #TheBotanist in the bag, beta readers have fed back, sensible suggestions acted upon. One final read through and then it’s off to @DavidHHeadley #ComingJune2022
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Getting the foreign editions ready to go to various book/reading charities. We’ve been translated into 27 languages, some of whom have kept up with the UK schedule so they’re 5 books in as well, and we get 6 copies of each book. This will not be the 5-minute job I told Joanne 😬
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Popped into @wstonescarlisle this morning to sign some copies of #TheBotanist, hold a sign, squint in the early May sunshine and generally make a nuisance of myself. #theakstonaward
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Early review copies of FEARLESS have arrived, snazzier hardback proofs coming soon . Out June/July 2023 via @LittleBrownUK in the 🇬🇧 and @Flatironbooks in the 🇺🇸 . For those who want a signed special edition, @GoldsboroBooks have it up for preorder now .
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Well, isn’t this just the prettiest thing. Out June 4th; get your preorders in 😉
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So . after a couple of weeks of being told to shut my trap, the news is finally out. Very pleased obviously. Bravo @DHHlitagency , bravo @TheMarshAgency 👏👏👏.
*BREAKING NEWS*. Japanese rights for @MWCravenUK’s #ThePuppetShow & #BlackSummer have just been sold to Hayakawa for a considerable five-figure sum. Perfect start to the weekend for the author behind the #WashingtonPoe series 👏👏
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Exciting news!. For the very first time @LittleBrownUK are publishing a Poe & Tilly short story. It’s called “Why Don’t Sheep Shrink?”, and best of all, between the 8th and 21st of May, it will be absolutely free. Further details later this week #ShortStory @TheCrimeVault
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That’s my @HarrogateFest hot weather outfit sorted. See you all in the bar . #TheakstonsCrime
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I suspect Poe is going to get annoyed by outrageous heat in this one 🥵
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The New Beginnings panel at @CapitalCrime1. Lots of fun. Don’t know who upset @radiomukhers, but I imagine they paid for it later. Never seen such an ominous look . 😳
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Well, someone’s feeling sorry for himself . And I’m sure I’ve just heard him tell me to stop calling him ‘lampshade head’
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“A life made up of spontaneous decisions . ”. Thank you, @davidmbarnett, for this incredible write up in today’s @guardian . Read the full article here:
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"Among the many fictional police detectives, Fluke and his team stand out. An exceptional first novel"
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Oh my goodness, #TheBotanist is a @TheTimesBooks book of the month 🎉🎉🎉 As @imranmahmood777 keeps saying, someone else must have written this one . .
The mighty @MrMarkSanderso1's latest crime round-up for @TheTimesBooks includes praise for @MWCravenUK @MarkBillingham @figbarton @LesleyjmThomson and newcomer @ByssheShelley (not that Shelley!). Strong list
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Poe and Tilly are back . #TheBotanist, out now in paperback (includes a sneaky preview of the first Ben Koenig book, #Fearless) 🍄⚰️☠️. #crimefiction #WashingtonPoe #TillyBradshaw #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #Poison #LockedRoom #LockedRoomMystery #ToxicCelebrities #ToxicCelebrity
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“Perhaps for the first time, Jack Reacher has a convincing rival. Fighting, sleuthing, escaping, breaking in, working out who the arch-villain is - the tasks are much the same, but everything feels fresher. Highly promising.”. Fearless: the @thetimes #ThrillerOfTheMonth . 💥💥💥
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