Chris Brookmyre
@brookmyre.bsky.social
Author. One half of Ambrose Parry. One sixth of Fun Lovin' Crime Writers.
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February 19, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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“What do you want to do on your birthday Andrew?”
“I dunno - surprise me.”
“I dunno - surprise me.”
February 19, 2026 at 7:21 PM
“What do you want to do on your birthday Andrew?”
“I dunno - surprise me.”
“I dunno - surprise me.”
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February 19, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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February 19, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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There's 25% off pre-orders for Quite Ugly One Evening from today until February 20.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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There's 25% off pre-orders for Quite Ugly One Evening from today until February 20.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:54 PM
There's 25% off pre-orders for Quite Ugly One Evening from today until February 20.
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Absolutely in love 😍 with these Korean copies of The Space Between Us, published by Moonhak Soochup. So beautiful.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Absolutely in love 😍 with these Korean copies of The Space Between Us, published by Moonhak Soochup. So beautiful.
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Tangent: my Japanese tutor finds animal noises in English frustrating. Japanese has one verb for an animal making a noise. We have one per animal and often two, one of them onomatopoeia. Roosters broke her when I said the word for cock-a-doodle-doo is "to crow" despite that being a whole other bird.
February 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Tangent: my Japanese tutor finds animal noises in English frustrating. Japanese has one verb for an animal making a noise. We have one per animal and often two, one of them onomatopoeia. Roosters broke her when I said the word for cock-a-doodle-doo is "to crow" despite that being a whole other bird.
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
Heading to Greenock for the Beacon Arts Festival on Sunday February 22nd. I'll be chatting about The Cracked Mirror and looking ahead to Quite Ugly One Evening.
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Beacon Arts - Christopher Brookmyre
We are the Beacon, a contemporary theatre and arts venue in the heart of Inverclyde… and a whole lot more besides.
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February 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Heading to Greenock for the Beacon Arts Festival on Sunday February 22nd. I'll be chatting about The Cracked Mirror and looking ahead to Quite Ugly One Evening.
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Gollum & Smeagol have started their own politics podcast.
Gollum & Smeagol have started their own politics podcast.
Jack Brookmyre on Instagram: "Gollum's podcast
If you enjoy impressions like this, please check out my shows! (Ticket links in bio)
#comedy #sketchcomedy #scottishcomedy #impression #lotr #gollum #l...
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If you enjoy impressions like this, please check out my shows! (Ticket links in bio)
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February 4, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Gollum & Smeagol have started their own politics podcast.
Gollum & Smeagol have started their own politics podcast.
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My debut novel, TOMBSTONING, is getting a 20th anniversary reissue with a beautiful new cover and intro by @brookmyre.bsky.social. We'll be chatting at @portybooks.bsky.social on Wed 25th Feb, it will be raucous, I bet.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
My debut novel, TOMBSTONING, is getting a 20th anniversary reissue with a beautiful new cover and intro by @brookmyre.bsky.social. We'll be chatting at @portybooks.bsky.social on Wed 25th Feb, it will be raucous, I bet.
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I am honoured and deeply chuffed to be a Special Guest at the 2026 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival! Join me at the unmissable gathering of crime fans next July. For more info and to book your tickets visit harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime-writin... #TheakstonsCrime
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January 29, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I am honoured and deeply chuffed to be a Special Guest at the 2026 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival! Join me at the unmissable gathering of crime fans next July. For more info and to book your tickets visit harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime-writin... #TheakstonsCrime
The end of January is finally in sight. Downside is only four more days to get The Cracked Mirror for 99p on Kindle.
January 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM
The end of January is finally in sight. Downside is only four more days to get The Cracked Mirror for 99p on Kindle.
Roll on the summertime!
With Lisa Jewell at the helm, we’re thrilled to welcome Chris Whitaker, Ann Cleeves & Brenda Blethyn, Anthony Horowitz, Chris Brookmyre, Holly Jackson, Jane Harper & LJ Ross and Lee Child to Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 🕵️
#Theakstonscrime fans find out more: https://bit.ly/news26
#Theakstonscrime fans find out more: https://bit.ly/news26
January 28, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Roll on the summertime!
Labour are wrong to say Farage is just "stuffing his party with failed Tories". Many of them are disgraced Tories.
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Labour are wrong to say Farage is just "stuffing his party with failed Tories". Many of them are disgraced Tories.
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
The Cracked Mirror is still a mere 99p for the month of January, meaning this deal only has another seventy-eight days to run.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The Cracked Mirror is still a mere 99p for the month of January, meaning this deal only has another seventy-eight days to run.
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Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
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"Meanwhile, Princess Anne went for a ride in Kirkbride, Queen Camilla went shopping in Wapping, Prince Edward dropped a clanger in Bangor, and the young ladies of Buckingham asked Prince Andrew if he'd mind staying at home.
Now it's goodnight from me ...
... and it's goodnight from him."
Now it's goodnight from me ...
... and it's goodnight from him."
Catherine and William enjoy curling in Stirling
Catherine and William enjoy curling in Stirling
The Prince and Princess of Wales also met the Team GB and Paralympics GB curling teams ahead of the Winter Olympic Games.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:22 AM
"Meanwhile, Princess Anne went for a ride in Kirkbride, Queen Camilla went shopping in Wapping, Prince Edward dropped a clanger in Bangor, and the young ladies of Buckingham asked Prince Andrew if he'd mind staying at home.
Now it's goodnight from me ...
... and it's goodnight from him."
Now it's goodnight from me ...
... and it's goodnight from him."
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To be serious, I wouldn’t mind so much about celebrities getting children’s book deals if it worked both ways, and more authors got mainstream TV coverage.
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM
To be serious, I wouldn’t mind so much about celebrities getting children’s book deals if it worked both ways, and more authors got mainstream TV coverage.
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As @stephmerritt.bsky.social put it, “You don’t hear it in other media. Judy Murray’s agent is not saying to her, ‘Oh Judy, you’ve given birth to a famous tennis player, why don’t you have a show at the Royal Academy?’”
January 21, 2026 at 1:17 PM
As @stephmerritt.bsky.social put it, “You don’t hear it in other media. Judy Murray’s agent is not saying to her, ‘Oh Judy, you’ve given birth to a famous tennis player, why don’t you have a show at the Royal Academy?’”
