Fiona Brownlee
@fionabrownlee.bsky.social
Publishing consultant. PR & International Rights. Currently working with Canongate. Little,Brown. Hodder. Greystone. Muswell Press. Birlinn. Polygon. Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival. Swim judge. BSL beginner.
Catch them in Waterstones Nottingham this Thursday and St Andrew’s Festival in St Columba’s Church in Knightsbridge, London on Saturday.
@paulcrimetime.bsky.social · 9mo agoNew Ambrose Parry podcast aspectsofcrime @Paulburke apple.co/4p9PCF1 Podfollow pod.fo/e/351577 Spotify bit.ly/488QYtH ambrose parry @canongate.co.uk @fionabrownlee.bsky.social
Lovely morning at Poaches Turned Gamekeepers with former publishers E C Nevin & David Reynolds and former bookseller @richardstrachan.bsky.social talking about their debut crime novels @bloodyscotland.bsky.social @muswellpress.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Starting a Buddy read for the book that’s going to be on everyone’s lips from now until its release next April. ‘The Ending Writes Itself’ by Evelyn Clarke. Out 7th April 2026 from @hqstories.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DMzaE9IIO4...
I hear that Evelyn Clarke is a pen name for two famous writers. Are you one of them? P.S. Just preordered it.
The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke review About The Book Book: The Ending Writes Itself Author: Evelyn Clarke = ? & ?Standalone or Series: Standalone Publisher: HQPublication Date (UK): 7th April 2026 My Review During the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, myself and five other…
The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke review
About The Book Book: The Ending Writes Itself Author: Evelyn Clarke = ? & ?Standalone or Series: Standalone Publisher: HQPublication Date (UK): 7th April 2026 My Review During the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, myself and five other book bloggers were lucky enough to be invited to brunch with HQ. Thankfully, unlike the invitation in the book, we weren’t whisked off to a secluded island and none of us were murdered!
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Word on the street is that #TheEndingWritesItself by Evelyn Clarke is set to be the big book of 2026 👀 Can't quite believe I'm reading a book that's only out in April next year but I love a locked room mystery and the intrigue has got me hooked 🕵🏻♀️ 💙📚
THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF, by Evelyn Clarke: Clearly in the running for the best mystery novel of 2026 (it bows in April). A trove of tropes that mystery-lovers will love, right down to the dark and stormy night in its climax. Funny and scary. It will remind you of AND THEN THERE WERE NONE.
Another day. Another preview. Love this one: Bloody Scotland 2025 Blog Tour - Festival Preview jenmedsbookreviews.com/2025/08/22/b...
Bloody Scotland 2025 Blog Tour – Festival Preview
I genuinely cannot get over the fact that Bloody Scotland starts in just three weeks. Three weeks! That has caught me out completely and I’m still thinking about what tickets I want to buy, s…
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Congratulations to Newcastle Greens on a) their brilliant by-election victory, b) proving Labour and the LibDems wrong and c) this excellent video!
Newcastle Green Party@nclgreenparty.bsky.social · 12mo ago🌱💪 When Rachel Reeves came to South Jesmond, she told people voting Green risked “getting a Reform councillor in here.” The result? Reform weren’t even close. But the Greens won. 🚀
New feature! I'm tempting you with my recommendations for panels to see at @bloodyscotland.bsky.social (@fionabrownlee.bsky.social) - "I am a huge fan of Bloody Scotland because it offers something for everyone no matter what your preference in crime fiction" #BookSky
Feature: Bloody Scotland 2025 highlights
Bloody Scotland 2025 highlights (blog tour) I'm delighted to be taking part in the Bloody Scotland blog tour highlighting events I am excited to see - though to be honest I could recommend the whole programme! However, I have chosen two panels I'm particularly keen to see that I feel show the breadth of the genre, and as a bonus they're in the same venue a couple of hours apart, handy if you are feeling a little weary...
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A day of two halves. Fabulous feel good event with @jennycolgan.bsky.social concluding with the incredibly moving comment from a teacher who had found herself unable to read but resumed thanks to Jenny’s books. Hurrah! @hodderfiction.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social #MeetMeAtTheSeasideCottages
Eloquent & intelligent observations from @frediotto.bsky.social @edbookfest.bsky.social regarding #ClimateInjustice @greystonebooks.bsky.social - Use what agency you have. We can vote, ask our MPs to do better and have conversations with our barbers & the board of governors at schools. Great event.
Mad dash around the bookshops of Edinburgh & Glasgow with the v charming Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, signing copies of #SecondSkin published by @muswellpress.bsky.social. Next stop Linlithgow, Dollar & St Andrews
Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, the current heat in London & most of the UK would not have been a heatwave: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Heatwaves are dangerous. Drink water, lots of it, stay cool, even if you feel invincible, you're probably not.
As I was saying. After the headline being all about @liammcilvanney.bsky.social The McIlvanney Prize @bloodyscotland.bsky.social BookBrunch focus is on @ianrankin1.bsky.social @damedenisemina.bsky.social @dougskelton.bsky.social Congratulations one and all
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... I love how every reporter highlights different authors when they mention the McIlvanney Prize longlist @bloodyscotland.bsky.social
Author Liam McIlvanney longlisted for book prize named after his father
The winner of the McIlvanney Prize will be announced at the Bloody Scotland crimewriting festival in September.
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Hiyah! I have a new book out THIS WEEK and it's about home, family, puppies, love, the seaside, fax machines and Sharpe & Numan's underrated 1986 chart hit 'Change Your Mind', and you can find it HERE! www.hachette.co.uk/titles/jenny...
Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages
'If I could live inside a Jenny Colgan novel, I'd be happy forever' JILL MANSELL 🩷EVERYONE IS SEARCHING FOR THEIR PERFECT HOUSE. BUT HOME IS REALLY WHE...
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I’m impressed Marisa hasn’t murdered him by now. Go along to the event and find out how.
Chris Brookmyre@brookmyre.bsky.social · last yr.Marisa and I are heading to Chelmsford on Friday June 27 as part of the Essex Book Festival. Come and hear us talk medicine, murder and marriage. essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/the-de...
A fantastic launch for the 2025 programme which has now been let loose on the world! Tickets at bloodyscotland.com/whats-on
Always excited to have an author at the Book Festival but particularly excited to welcome @frediotto.bsky.social @greystonebooks.bsky.social to Edinburgh www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Tony Juniper & Friederike Otto: Fighting Climate Injustice
From Tue 19 Aug - The climate crisis isn't just about the environment; it's about the way global inequality means the world's most vulnerable people are being hit first and hardest. So argues physicis...
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Given that "The Death of Shame Tour" already sounded quite metal, our publicist @fionabrownlee.bsky.social got us some actual tour-date t shirts. Zoom in to see where you can catch @ambroseparry.bsky.social.
New review! The Death Of Shame by #AmbroseParry (thx to @canongate.co.uk @fionabrownlee.bsky.social) - "Sarah finds she is not willing to be controlled by men wielding shame, and I cheered at the spark that was lit in her" #books #CrimeFiction #Edinburgh #BookSky
Review: The Death Of Shame
Ambrose Parry - The Death Of Shame Published by Canongate Books, hardback £18.99, also available in ebook and audiobook. I received a proof copy of the novel from the publisher for review purposes - many thanks to Fiona Brownlee for arranging this. (I also bought the hardback edition new). First, the official blurb: Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven’s emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change.
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I'm doing a fancy talk at the Linnean Society in London on 17th of July: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-in...
Climate Injustice | Fighting Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change
Join Friederike Otto for a bracing investigation into extreme weather’s impact on the world’s most vulnerable.
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Tomorrow, 7p.m., I'll be in Oxford talking Climate(In)Justice under the eyes of the Dodo @morethanadodo.bsky.social oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/climat...
"Holly golly," as Johnny Hawke would say! I think The Cracked Mirror is my finest work, so I am elated that it has been shortlisted for the #theakstonsawards, and honoured to see it in such esteemed company.
Harrogate International Festivals@harrogatefestivals.bsky.social · last yr.The suspects are in... 🕵️♀️ We're thrilled to reveal the shortlists for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McDermid Debut Award 2025! Discover who made the cut! 👇 bit.ly/Shortlist2025 @waterstones.bsky.social @express.co.uk
Strong showing from the Bothwell contingent in this year's #theakstonsawards. @radiomukhers.bsky.social representing the unfashionable north of the village, myself the beautiful south.
Ambrose Parry still on the road. A lovely drive over to see them at Toppings, St Andrews to congratulate them on pub date & @brookmyre.bsky.social on being shortlisted for another major crime fiction prize #Theakstons #TheCrackedMirror #TheDeathofShame
and finally big love to the most popular man in publishing @davidreynolds1.bsky.social whose debut crime novel #TheLadyinthePark is launched in London this evening. I’m so sorry to be missing it @muswellpress.bsky.social
David Reynolds (@davidreynolds1.bsky.social)
Author of Swan River, Slow Road to Brownsville, Slow Road to San Francisco. The Lady in the Park, featuring JIm Domino, the Peckham Private Eye, coming June 2025. Co-founder Bloomsbury Publishing. FBP...
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Good luck too to @frediotto.bsky.social as she heads to Cheltenham Science Festival to talk #AngryWeather & #ClimateInjustice
