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Orenda Books@orendabooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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Currently reading The Hope, by Paul Hardisty, published recently by @orendabooks.bsky.social. It grabs from the offset

!!! Kind words for my Saltire first book winning collection, now heading out of print due to @404ink.bsky.social shuttering. I hope it will find a home somewhere. Still quite proud of this one

West Camel@westcamel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My intro to @helenmcclory.bsky.social What a fascinating, refreshing approach to the short form. And such a command of language, creating beautiful arrangements and then butchering them in a truly exciting way. Thanks to Karen Sullivan @orendabooks.bsky.social, who gave me this as a present.

My intro to @helenmcclory.bsky.social What a fascinating, refreshing approach to the short form. And such a command of language, creating beautiful arrangements and then butchering them in a truly exciting way. Thanks to Karen Sullivan @orendabooks.bsky.social, who gave me this as a present.

Joining the cover reveal for #UndertheBlazingSun by Jenny Lund Madsen - coming on 21 May from @orendabooks.bsky.social - see bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2026/03/cove... for more! Thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social

HELSINKI, 1982. Sofas, secrets and a snowbound road to trouble...❄️ From Antti Tuomainen, the author of the Netflix hit #LITTLESIBERIA, and translated by David Hackston is a darkly funny #suspensenovel you won't want to put down!😍 AVAILABLE NOW🙌 🔗 geni.us/bvcxI

War. Survival. Resistance. From one of Ukraine’s most vital voices comes the next instalment in his extraordinary diaries. #ThreeYearsOnFire is OUT NOW💙💛 Read the story behind the headlines. 🔗 geni.us/dYAWxN

🔪OUT NOW🔪 Auckland’s forgotten are being hunted. 
Max Grimes knows the streets… and he knows he could be next. Don’t miss #Reaper, the GRIPPING second book in the #CityOfShadowSeries by @vandasymon.bsky.social😍 Print: 🔗https://geni.us/oAz7oGg
 Ebook: 🔗https://geni.us/XuHBs

Intrigued by this collection of fiction/poetry/prose from Akutagawa, a writer new to me. Out from @prototypepubs.bsky.social next month. Thanks for the early copy!

The gentrification machine is rolling on… and someone is sending a very clear message🦈 Simone Buchholz’s #SHARKS (tr. @racheltranslates.bsky.social) is a searing investigation into greed, power and corruption in Hamburg. DIVE IN! 📖: 🔗https://geni.us/exQQI0 📱: 🔗https://geni.us/UAc9t9

The FINAL instalment of #AnÁróraInvestigationSeries by @liljawriter.bsky.social (t. Lorenza Garcia) is HERE😍 When the chief suspect in the disappearance of Áróra's sister is found dead, she is drawn into a shocking case that threatens everything😱 CLICK HERE: 🔗 geni.us/v0avX

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We still can't get over the #10thANNIVERSARYEDITION of Ragnar Jónasson's seminal, multi-million-copy bestselling #nordicnoir mystery, #Snowblind (t. by @graskeggur.bsky.social)😍 This edition includes #Fadeout, a BRAND NEW prequel your collection NEEDS GET YOURS NOW: 🔗 geni.us/a0tqMI

THRILLED to announce that Simone Buchholz's #Sharks (t. by Rachel Ward) has been reviewed in @thetimes.com !!😍🙌⭐️ 'As much a character study as the story of a crime … full of startling images and sudden movements, that will thrill cynics and romantics alike' Read the rest here😍: t.co/ACwznwOoY9

Gorgeous morning for a bike ride and then home to exciting book post from @orendabooks.bsky.social My translation of #Sharks by @ohneklippo.bsky.social ! 🦈😎💙📚🍻🥂🍾🥳🚲🚴‍♀️ #booksky #ChastityReloaded #QueenOfKrimi

Out now: a new Chastity Riley from the inimitable German crime fiction poet Simone Buchholz!

Orenda Books@orendabooks.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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IMPORTANT pls RT My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct) If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

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I think it's my favourite of hers. I really hope it finds the readers it deserves - quiet novels can have impact too!! - so thank you for this beautiful, thoughtful review, as I defo think it will help...

I missed this gorgeous review by @westcamel.bsky.social back in Dec of Elisa Shua Dusapin's THE OLD FIRE (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) for European Literary Network: 'A major piece of work that deserves repeated rereading to unpack each of its mythic items.' www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingrevi...

New: RWR McDONALD chats to Craig Sisterson pod.fo/e/34a79e apple.co/3znb7b5 @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social

nordiclighthouse.blog/2025/10/19/t... #TheWinterJob by Antti Tuomainen, translated by David Hackston #Finland 🇫🇮 @orendabooks.bsky.social @westcamel.bsky.social

The Winter Job by Antti Tuomainen

Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he’s desperate. A last-mi…

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