Mark Billingham
@MarkBillingham
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Crime writer. Formerly very average actor and comedian. Member of @funlovinwriters Looking out of the window a speciality.
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My wife doesn't use Twitter (very sensible) so won't see this...but anyone who knows her, or has even met her for five minutes, also knows that when I married her, 25 years ago today, I got SERIOUSLY lucky.
#PunchingAboveMyWeight
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Best job I ever had.
The brilliant Maid Marian And Her Merry Men,
@Tony_Robinson
's children's sitcom, aired for the first time on this date in 1989.
@adammorris101
@DannyJohnJules
@MarkBillingham
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A birthday present from my amazing publishers
@BooksSphere
@LittleBrownUK
Twenty years’ work in 1000 pieces.
#JigsawOfCrime
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SO excited about the year ahead. Loads of great stuff on the way to celebrate 20th book and 20 years of Tom Thorne in 2020. NONE of it possible without readers, of course, so thanks for everything, and a heartfelt and humongous happy new year to one and all.
#2020
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Still the best job I’ve ever had...
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men,
@Tony_Robinson
's beloved kids' sitcom, is 30 years old today.
@adammorris101
@DannyJohnJules
@MarkBillingham
@dave_backwell
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Now that SAS TV show has started again, am swamped with tweets from folk who can't tell their Mark Billinghams apart. Please stop! I'm the weedy writer. Much as I enjoy being told I'm a "well hard geezer" and the "dog's bollocks" I was never in the SAS.
#CouldHaveBeenThough
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Every night when getting ready for bed, I try to flick my underwear up with my foot and catch it on my head. I look for applause when I succeed. I am a grown man.
#HelpMe
#NotJustMeRight
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Ok, asking for a friend. Does ANYONE know of someone who charges their own family for Christmas lunch?? I’m talking about mother, sister, nieces, nephews. They are all CHARGED. £45 a head this year (up from £39 last year due to ‘inflation’). I’m gobsmacked. So, is this common?
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I know, horribly tossy to retweet, but look...it's in a frame and everything!
We would like to congratulate
@MarkBillingham
on his GOLD award for 'Sleepyhead' - 500,000+ sales! 📚 ✨
@BooksSphere
@LittlebrownUK
@TheCrimeVault
Featuring a superstar detective, this is a disturbing and unforgettable classic. What a great achievement!
#BestsellerAward
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Only an hour and a half of this shocker of a year left. Raising a glass to all those who’ve sought solace, escape or simply entertainment from books this year. Here’s to all the readers. Wishing everyone a happier and healthier 2021.
#ItCouldntGetNoWorse
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Ok, so, deep breath and…here we go. My brand new series hits the shelves TODAY. DS Declan Miller is putting his best foot forward. When he’s not putting it in his mouth. You dancin’…?
#TheLastDance
#PublicationDay
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Oh Lordy, here we go...Cry Baby hits the shelves TODAY!
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Happy new year, everyone. It’s GOT to be better, right…?
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@Joannechocolat
@jk_rowling
I think he prefers a few more pictures. Maybe a nice pop-up book.
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Horrible news about Mo Hayder. She was a lovely woman and an amazing writer. One of a kind. I'm so happy to have known her and, like so many others, to have had the chance to read her fabulous books.
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So, on a half hour drive, they had to stop because his son needed a wee. Stroke of luck that nobody needed a wee on that 270 mile drive to Durham...
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Loving The ABC Murders. The adaptation by
@PhelpsieSarah
is masterful and Malkovich is riveting. You know what? Murder SHOULD be dark and disturbing...
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Help me out, Twitter. When it comes to toast, I leave it to go cold and crispy before adding butter and Marmite/peanut butter/jam/anything. I can't BEAR warm, soggy toast. Friends have suggested I am weird. Is this correct? (I don't mean generally...just the toast thing) Am I?
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So, RABBIT HOLE is coming in July and the first draft of the book after THAT is done. Some old friends, and an old enemy coming back.
#Thorne
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So, Thorne
#19
delivered to editor. Coming atcha next year. Now, the waiting…
Reposted with different pic as my attempt to mask the title was pathetic. If you DID see it, please don't share.
#KeepTheTitleSecret
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Waiting for luggage at Gatwick (an hour and a half and counting) is not how I’d planned to spend publication day. Still, at least The Murder Book has arrived…
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Check out tonight’s brand new episode of VERA. Based, of course, on the iconic character created by
@AnnCleeves
and directed brilliantly by my hugely talented wife,
@cjwinyard
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Thar she blows, peeps! Out TODAY in all its paperbacky majesty. Like, right now! Waiting for you in a shop. RUN!
#TheMurderBook
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Wishing one and all a very happy Christmas. To those who continue to read the books, thank you for giving me the best Christmas present of all every year.* *Except for the chocolate orange.
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I don't know who Larry was or what he was so happy about, but I'm even happier than Larry that The Times has picked RABBIT HOLE as its star pick in the round-up of best crime novels of the year. Happy as a dozen Larrys and in some fine company.
#RabbitHole
#GoAskAlice
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At Bouchercon, I provide a safe space for a baby squirrel...
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OK, I need help. Is there ANYONE out there crazy enough to have read all the Thorne novels who has a really good memory? I know I should have this stuff on file but I don't. So, can anyone remember the name of DCI Brigstocke's wife? And how many kids he's got (I THINK three). x
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Twenty years on from SLEEPYHEAD, the prequel is out TODAY in paperback. Tom Thorne goes back to 1996 (not in a time-machiney way, that's just when it's set) in CRY BABY.
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It begins again. New SAS Who Dares Wins series starts tonight, so I'm getting loads of tweets and messages that are meant for my namesake. For the love of God, I'm NOT THAT Mark Billingham. Do I LOOK like I was in the SAS??
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Jigsaw From The Black Lagoon: Day 10. Let joy be unconfined. Here's the final piece going in and I have never been prouder of anything IN MY LIFE! Pic courtesy of my wife who had a lot to do with getting it finished. Ok, bring on 'Abbey Road'.
#Ecstatic
#BigDrink
#BackToTheNovel
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OK, so this little beauty is out in a fortnight. Buy, borrow or steal, I really don't care.
#yesidocare
#pleasedonotsteal
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The prequel to SLEEPYHEAD is just a month away. Back to a time when mobile phones barely existed, you used an A-Z to get around, England were quite good at football and Tom Thorne was a lot younger...
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Best job I ever had.
The really rather brilliant Maid Marian And Her Merry Men first aired 29 years ago today.
Get the series on DVD:
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If there is anything all but guaranteed to cause panic buying, it’s telling people there’s really no need to panic buy.
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THE WRONG HANDS is out today and there are plenty of signed copies available at
@GoldsboroBooks
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Almost everyone I know thinks that movies are too long these days. Oppenheimer - three flipping hours! It actually puts people off. So, genuine question. Movies cost a fortune to make, so why don't the filmmakers save themselves millions of dollars and make shorter films??
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I signed a LOT of books yesterday. It's fair to say there will be a good number of signed copies of THE WRONG HANDS out there, come June 20th.
#TheWrongHands
#OneVeryTiredHand
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Close the door on your way out, 2023. Here’s hoping for a better 2024. Wishing one and all a hugely happy new year.
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If you look carefully, you MIGHT just spot me cowering behind the mountainous pile of books I signed this morning. It's fair to say there will be a LOT of signed copies of the new book round and about.
#TheLastDance
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Jigsaw From The BlackLagoon: Day 9. And in the end...
#RidiculouslyProud
#IGotByWithALittleHelpFromMyWife
#ALotOfHelp
#BringOnYellowSubmarine
#EveryAlbumByTheEndOfLockdown
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I'm hugely chuffed to be on the shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024. The shortlist is now open to vote until July 11. Congrats to all the other amazing shortlistees.
#TheakstonsAwards
#TheakstonsCrime
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Doesn’t matter how many books you’ve written, it’s always exciting when finished copies arrive.
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Only four weeks until the brand new Thorne and Tanner thriller is released into the wild. Four weeks. That's like...a month.
#TheirLittleSecret
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Blimey. Sorting through some old notebooks and came across the original, hand-written opening for SLEEPYHEAD.* Not very different from the version that was eventually published twenty years ago this summer. *
#AlsoDoodles
#AndVeryBadPoetry
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So, blue tick has gone, but it’s still me. Tickless but happy…
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I could not be more thrilled. Thanks so much to everyone who's shelled out for a copy. Or just borrowed one. Or even pinched one. You're the best.
#RabbitHole
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DC Alice Armitage has been unleashed upon an unsuspecting public. Rude, stubborn and almost certainly unreliable. I hope you enjoy following her down the rabbit hole...
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Hugely enjoyed recording the audiobook of CRY BABY with an amazing cast. Fantastic to have the fabulous Robert Glenister on board and of course
@davemorrissey64
playing Tom Thorne again. Coming next month.
#crybaby
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So...we've discovered a ref to 4 kids in Scaredy Cat and then 3 kids seven books later. So, that cock-up has inadvertently provided another interesting, if heartbreaking detail about Brigstocke's personal life. Thank you. And I don't THINK I ever named his wife.
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So, it’s pub day and DS Alice Armitage is finally unleashed. Apologies in advance to those of a nervous disposition...
#RabbitHole
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Just to say that Tom Thorne WILL be back, but in the meantime, thanks to all those who've given Declan Miller a warm welcome. I'm hugely grateful for all the support for my new series...
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Just 4 weeks until I take Tom Thorne back in time...
If you haven't tried a Billingham before this is the perfect place to start.
#CryBaby
by bestselling author
@MarkBillingham
is the shocking first case for one of British crime fiction's most iconic detectives and it's available to pre-order now 👉
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My Marmite jigsaw was predictably divisive, but I think most people will like this one. Ok, you can only pick three. What would be your trifecta of choccy delight?
#PlainBounty
#Crunchie
#Toblerone
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Oh my God. Just...OH MY GOD!
And as it's a special (he's 60!) birthday,
@MartynWaites
,
@CraigRobertson_
and I arranged something special for
@MarkBillingham
...
IT'S ELVIS!
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So, maybe a 1000 piece jigsaw was a tad ambitious...
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We’re happy to give it s go.
@Tony_Robinson
@MarkBillingham
I think you guys could run the government better than the current one at the moment
#Brexitornobrexit
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This may sound a trifle harsh to some, but I believe that, when a plane has landed, airline crew should be permitted to TASER anyone who leaves their seat before the seatbelt sign has been turned off.
#lifelesson
#zap
#sitdownyoutwat
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OK, so I'm thrilled to reveal the cover for the new Tom Thorne novel. It's published on June 1st.
#lovelikeblood
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I could not be more thrilled, especially for this book which, for all manner of reasons, means a great deal to me. Thanks to
@edwoodeditor
and the amazing team at
@BooksSphere
and
@LittleBrownUK
and at
@LandRAgency
and to everyone who has taken the trouble to read it.
#GoAlice
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@valmcdermid
@RaithRovers
Kudos to you for taking this stance, Val. I know what a wrench this must be. X
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Employing Twitter as a repository for useless trivia as opposed to....AAARRGGH...I just discovered that Kit Kats damaged during production are crunched into a paste which is then used as...filling for Kit Kats.
#YouAreWelcome
#KeepKitKatFairTrade
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Last year (feels good to say that) was horrible in so many ways, but we’re still here, so onwards and upwards. Wishing one and all health, happiness and peace for 2019.
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Oh dear. In work in progress, Tom Thorne has just...gulp...defaced a library book. I know! When it comes to no-nos, that's probably only a notch below harming a dog. Will readers ever forgive me?
#BearWithMe
#FullyJustified
#Honestly
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Ok, so now it's just a little over ten thousand minutes until this one hits the shelves. Fewer than that now. Even fewer now...you get the picture.
#TheirLittleSecret
#ThorneIsBack
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Sad to see latest from Lee Child & Michael Connelly reviewed as "guilty pleasures" or "throwaway lit" in today's Times. Snobbish bullshit.
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Well this is very lovely. I'm thrilled that THE MURDER BOOK has made the longlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year. Thanks so much to all at
@HarrogateFest
and huge congrats to all the other nominees. It's a hell of a list.
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It's now just 4 WEEKS until DS Declan Miller returns in THE WRONG HANDS. Gangland skullduggery, murder and at least one psychotic welder. Will readers find out what happened to Miller's wife? (Yes) Will Miller finally master the foxtrot? (Doubtful) Will there be jokes? (What do
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I’m hugely grateful to
@The_CWA
and to all those librarians who nominated me and honoured to have received this year’s Dagger In The Library. Thank you.
#CWADaggers
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Sandra Oh is, of course, fabulous in Killing Eve and we were immensely lucky to have had her in the Sky adaptation of Scaredy Cat a few years back...
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If there are any librarians about, I would LOVE to pick your brains about joining procedures, ID checking etc. Basically how to get a library card using false information. It's for a murder thing, obviously...
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Always nerve-wracking waiting for that first review. Relieved and delighted that
@MrMarkSanderso1
‘s early review in
@thetimes
today is a goodie. Have cropped the accompanying photo which makes me look a bit crazed.
#CryBaby
#IAmCrazed
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Ooh, pretty! Now that's what I call a birthday present!
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Thank you SO much to
@edwoodeditor
, the amazing team at
@BooksSphere
&
@LittleBrownUK
and most of all to the readers for making THEIR LITTLE SECRET number 1 in the ST Bestseller list. I couldn't be more thrilled if Elvis Costello popped round for tea and cake.
#TheirLittleSecret
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And I wouldn’t be a writer without libraries. They need our support urgently.
@MarkBillingham
could you please give a big up to the library system in UK. If it were not for the libraries, I would never have read the Thorne series which by the way are amazing. you are a top writer
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On the way home from an AMAZING festival weekend. Huge thanks to the incredible team from
@HarrogateFest
for putting together such an incredible event in trying circumstances. What other team would, on top of everything, locate a badger costume, just because it would be fun?
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Thanks so much to all the readers who have taken a punt on my new series and on DS Declan Miller. I’m thrilled that THE LAST DANCE has waltzed on to the bestseller list at number 5!
#HappyDance
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Very kind words, freely given by Mr Connolly, whose family are really no trouble at all.
A welcome delivery this morning: the second instalment of a fine, funny new series by
@MarkBillingham
, a young writer who may go far if he watches his language. He’s also handsome, kind to animals and is h̶o̶l̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶f̶a̶m̶i̶l̶y̶ ̶h̶o̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ hospitable to strangers.
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About to watch Our Girl, on BBC1, directed by my fabulous wife. It would be lovely if you did the same.
#OurGirl
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Why has nobody made a live action movie of Joe 90? WHY?? Also, second best theme tune/title sequence ever, after The Persuaders, obvs.
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Jigsaw of DELIGHT: Day 4. It’s done! Jeremy and the blue meanie and Sgt Pepper and whatever the hell that scary elephant thing is. And the Fab Four, obvs, whose timeless brilliance and adventures in jigsaw land are getting me through all this.
#YeahYeahYeah
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Jigsaw Jollies: Day 4. It’s DONE! Having done the big Abbey Rd, the miniature one was definitely easier, but nevertheless I feel TRIUMPHANT. These days, I am easily pleased. So, what’s next? Please, no more jokes about doing the White Album.
#HardBecauseItsAllWhite
#IGetIt
#White
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Just seven days until the paperback of CRY BABY. It's a prequel to SLEEPYHEAD, so I've taken Tom Thorne back to 1996. No mobile phones, no internet. England were quite good at football. Murder was still murder though...
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Stupidly excited about this and will probably be a gibbering wreck by the time this baby hits the streets in just 14 days.
#CryBaby
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@Beathhigh
This was a lot of fun. Bloody hell, though, Edinburgh has a LOT of chimneys…
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It is a blood-red letter day for crime fiction fans. Happy pub day to
@valmcdermid
@ellygriffiths
@Simon_Lelic
@doug_johnstone
@FitzHelen
@jconnollybooks
@cjtudor
@DameDeniseMina
@harriet_tyce
@AnthonyHorowitz
@simonmayo
Go buy them ALL, you lucky people.
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Stupidly late to the party, but Strange Sally Diamond by
@lizzienugent
is simply magnificent. Call it a crime novel if you want but it's so much more than that. A hugely disturbing yet deeply moving portrait of damage which I can't recommend highly enough.
#StrangeSallyDiamond
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Ok, today’s the day. We’re heading for Glasto! Come and see us…
Come and find us! We're on The Acoustic Stage, 3pm Saturday. Can't wait!
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Seven days, that's all. SEVEN! Just one week before Tom Thorne is back. And this time it's personal.
#notreallypersonal
#thekillinghabit
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Only a week until the latest Tom Thorne comes atcha in all its paperbacky gorgeousness.
#TheKillingHabit
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The toast wars are at an end. 34% of you are on my cold-and-crispy team and the other 66% are wrong. So let’s draw a hot-and-floppy veil across the subject and return to a programme of bad jokes, jigsaws and book pimpage. Thanks for all your toasty contributions to the debate.
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My (hugely enjoyable) past catching up with me...
Brit Box hits the target - the return of Maid Marian! 🎯
[timeless stuff from
@DannyJohnJules
@MarkBillingham
@Tony_Robinson
and the merry gang]
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