Richard Strachan
@richardstrachan.bsky.social
Writer, novels 'The Unrecovered' and 'Night Fire' from Raven Books 2025/26. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social https://richardstrachan.substack.com/
open.substack.com/pub/richards... I wrote this about having a knackered leg last year. This year, the same problem has come back (with the other leg) and it is absolutely miserable. I will never take mobility for granted again.
Mobility
Anatomy of a mild injury
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The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan | Waterstones
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf@eliaseells.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarket and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist. Market and publicize your backlist.
Just hit that magical moment when the people following me outnumber the people I'm following. (On Blue sky. Not in real life.)
I'm going to be at the Wigtown Book Festival in September, talking about Night Fire. Can't wait! tickets.wigtownbookfestival.com/sales/events...
Richard Strachan - Night Fire
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27% off Night Fire on Amazon at the moment: www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Fire-R...
Night Fire: The moving story of World War II jeopardy: Amazon.co.uk: Strachan, Richard: 9781526670601: Books
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I normally couldn't care less about football, but as a soi-disant England fan, drawn into the World Cup the longer it went on, and watching in a Scottish pub, that game was fucking painful.
I should really try to boost my own work some more - just look at those Goodreads ratings for Night Fire! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
Night Fire: The moving story of World War II jeopardy
'Every page, every sentence bears a remarkable intellig…
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Yet more Nabokov, including this chunky volume
A mere 57,000 people in front of me in the online queue for Bayeux Tapestry tickets at the British Museum. I can do this.
Should writers use unfamiliar or uncommon words? Yes, of course. Grow the fuck up.
For today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social I interviewed Duncan Jones (@manmademoon.bsky.social) about bringing @2000ad.bsky.social ROGUE TROOPER to the big screen. observer.co.uk/culture/film...
How David Bowie’s touring and a love of comics led to Dun...
The film director’s latest movie, Rogue Trooper, is an animated adaptation from British comic 2000AD, discovered when his dad was gigging around the world in the 1980s
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A new Substack post: Influence, Anxiety and Dave McKean open.substack.com/pub/richards...
Influence, Anxiety and Dave McKean
Where influences come from
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Fascinating, from my local area www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Pioneering photography’: early images of Newhaven’s fishers – in pictures
When David Hill and Robert Adamson captured the lives of a small Scottish community in the 1840s, were they creating the first ever social documentary series? A fascinating new book makes the case
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What it took to get a Lancaster in the air - I was obsessed with this picture when writing Night Fire, I always had it in mind.
RG Poulussen@rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2mo ago#OTD in 1942. Lancaster bomber and crew and essential personnel and material. #WW2 #HISTORY
Brief Substack update: at the Cymera Festival richardstrachan.substack.com/p/at-the-cym...
At the Cymera Festival
I was at the Cymera Festival in Edinburgh on Friday afternoon, appearing on a panel alongside Alex Pheby and Hannah Kaner to discuss our essays in Dan Coxon’s Writing the Magic anthology. The book cov...
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Great start to #Cymera2026 yesterday with @dancoxon.bsky.social @richardstrachan.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social and Hanna Kaner discussing character, worldbuilding, magic and some writing advice to take home: “If you think something you’re writing is ‘too weird’ the double down on the weird”
Thoroughly enjoyed being on the Writing the Magic panel at @cymerafestival.co.uk yesterday, with @dancoxon.bsky.social, Hannah Kaner and @alexpheby.bsky.social. Great discussion and audience questions!
A mere two days to go now!
Dan Coxon@dancoxon.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you saw Writing the Magic on the British Fantasy Awards shortlist and were intrigued, you can join me at Cymera Festival on Friday 5 June for a panel with three of the contributors: Hannah Kaner, Alex Pheby & Richard Strachan. Both in-person & livestream. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...
Just under two weeks to go before my event at @forumbooks.bsky.social on 15th June in Corbridge! Tickets still available, shares and reposts much appreciated. www.ticketsource.com/forumbooks/f...
Looking forward to this event in just two weeks with @forumbooks.bsky.social! Details here: bit.ly/4uCSRHU
More copies of Night Fire and The Unrecovered signed at Edinburgh's greatest bookshop, @goldenharebooks.bsky.social (who deserve a prize for selling so many of the paperback!) #booksky
One week to go! Looking forward to being on this panel at the Cymera Festival with Dan Coxon, Alex Pheby and Hannah Kaner.
Dan Coxon@dancoxon.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you saw Writing the Magic on the British Fantasy Awards shortlist and were intrigued, you can join me at Cymera Festival on Friday 5 June for a panel with three of the contributors: Hannah Kaner, Alex Pheby & Richard Strachan. Both in-person & livestream. www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...
Current reading: Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
