Joel Hames
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Joel Hames
@joelhames.bsky.social
Author of the Sam Williams series, co-author of the Cumbria Crime series, crossword enthusiast and owner of long-suffering liver. Outstandingly talented, yet modest with it.
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We live in an age where every single day you can read a book you’ve never read before, and think, ‘that might be the best book I’ve ever read’, and then read another book, and have precisely the same thought. There are so many astonishing books out there.

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On my way to Birmingham for lunch with fellow authors and industry people.
CCTV? Generally good.
Seeing myself on live CCTV? Always alarming.
December 3, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Would you like to be shouted at by a furious, vicious, pointy-nosed avian? No? Exit it is, then.
November 25, 2024 at 3:48 PM
First snowball fight of the season last night. Please excuse the casual-wear.
November 19, 2024 at 1:40 PM
We live in an age where every single day you can read a book you’ve never read before, and think, ‘that might be the best book I’ve ever read’, and then read another book, and have precisely the same thought. There are so many astonishing books out there.

Add the latest books you’ve loved below.
November 17, 2024 at 12:56 PM
I suppose I’d better post something. Here’s a peahen outside the Eltermere Inn, snapped during a location research trip earlier this week with Rachel McLean. And sunrise over Elterwater that morning.
November 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM