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Jay King
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Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉

Now also Greek.

I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery

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Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social · Nov 16
The cool Greek neo-noir I’ve been translating is on pre-order!
Deepfake by Makis Malafekas, out April 2026
#xl8 #booksky #noir #crimefiction #greek

www.waterstones.com/book/deepfak...
Deepfake by Makis Malafekas, Jenny Steel | Waterstones
Buy Deepfake by Makis Malafekas, Jenny Steel from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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“The Mystery of Syleham Manor” is an hour of fun and very theatrical ensemble audio mystery from the Unscene Suffolk company - just discovered on Scenesaver. Free to listen, recommend.

www.scenesaver.co.uk/production/t...
The Mystery of Syleham Manor - Scenesaver
‘The Mystery of Syleham Manor’ is a brand new ensemble audio drama by Unscene Suffolk, Ipswich’s resident theatre company of visually-impaired adults has been hard at work during the pandemic. Unable ...
www.scenesaver.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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@jomcmillan.bsky.social predicted this in her novel

The Accidental Immigrants - short listed for @orwellprize.bsky.social

@theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity
February 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Haha! Thanks x
February 16, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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I’m Greek now
Blue sign projection in Greek for swearing in ceremony for new Greek citizens Roof of old parliament building where ceremony happened. Neoclassical deco, line of windows with light coming through middle one
February 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes.

Link below

Please share :)
Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize
This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.
bridportprize.org.uk
February 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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Life size model clown on the quiet loutraki corniche with two public beaches dogs sleeping in road That clown full face with sea behind him
February 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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🎉Happy Birthday to #GeorgesSimenon, #bornonthisday in 1903. Belgian master of French-language crime fiction, he created the iconic Inspector Jules Maigret. Author of 400+ books, he explored motive and atmosphere in Maigret tales and dark psychological “romans durs.” #CrimeFiction
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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Fabulous interview with Said Khatibi about his novel The End of the Sahara - out 26 Feb (UK) and 24 March (US) - in
@arablit.bsky.social

He talks about organ theft, the global shifts in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and what he hopes to illuminate with crime novels

bit.ly/4aOW7bJ
February 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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It’s carnival time and the lights are up. Public music of the “boom boom boom” type is playing from speakers all over #loutraki
Two clown lights hung over a road against a cloudy sky Clown light on street lamp. Clown holding umbrellt Καλές αποκριες lights hung over the road, “happy carnival” Big mask design street lighting
February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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Doing it now
February 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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Thanks!!
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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I think the interplay and banter of the characters in the detective team. It’s good fun! Plus although generally I’m not into fantasy fiction I do like how she does the ghosts
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Friend accepted book retrieval mission and brought first three of the series back with them from Egypt 🤗
Three Arabic books from the series with same style graphic cover of detective in shadow seen from behind with some cairo scene in front of him (I think it’s Cairo, I can’t quite see.) coloured blue red and green
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Brilliant, thanks!
February 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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I wish I could see it... does anyone know if it’ll ever be online? I’m not on Instagram so I can’t see the link. I’m really getting into global theatre online platforms like Scenesaver
February 11, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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February 10, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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The Blue Wave (1917) by Christopher Nevinson (1889-1946), British figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, and one of the most famous war artists of World War I.

Lithograph

Image 34 x 43 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 10, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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👏👏👏
February 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Had no idea
February 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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It sounds like something out of The Handmaid's Tale, but Reform's Matt Goodwin wants people who don't have kids to pay more tax

By @rachelcdailey.bsky.social

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
As an infertile woman Matt Goodwin's childess tax shows how much Reform hates women
It sounds like something out of The Handmaid's Tale, but Reform's Matt Goodwin wants people who don't have kids to pay more tax
www.thecanary.co
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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🚨Hiring alert!🚨

I'm looking for three new staff members to join my brilliant team

If you're passionate about creating the positive change this country needs, and think you'd be a great fit for any of the roles, find out more and apply

Links below ⬇️
Bold text on a green background accompanied by a photo of Carla Denyer. The text reads: Work with me! Hiring 3 roles: 1 executive assistant, 1 media officer, 1 caseworker. Find out more and apply at greenparty.org.uk/jobs
January 31, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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Bravo 🤩
February 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Quite aside from the fact that it’s none of their damn business whether anyone of any gender wants/can have a child or not
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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And Reform are apparently sending illegal letters from a fake “concerned pensioner” to boost their campaign.
manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-re...

It’s obviously fake because if they were a real reform voter they’d say how much they love Trump and Bitcoin and privatising the NHS
Exclusive: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton
People across the constituency thought they were getting a letter from a concerned pensioner, they didn’t know she was working for Reform
manchestermill.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 9:05 PM