niccifrench.bsky.social
@niccifrench.bsky.social
Frightening people for a living
A child seems to have witnessed a murder. But there doesn't seem to be a victim. Puzzled? You can find out the truth on Kindle for less than a pound.
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Today is Angela Lansbury’s 100th birthday.

📸 Yousuf Karsh (1946)
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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There’ll be lots of people queuing up to say nice things about Danny Thompson but for me it’s those double bass contributions on the life changing Spirit of Eden . Cheers Danny youtu.be/HSfGvuiFOWI?...
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988) FULL ALBUM
YouTube video by lazlo74
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September 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for a screening of #Rope, followed by @ppfideas.bsky.social live podcast recording with #DavidRunciman and @niccifrench.bsky.social 👏
September 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Rope is one of Hitchcock's weirdest, most disturbing works - which is saying something. We'll be talking about it with David Runciman for the @ppfideas.bsky.social podcast. www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/ropeli...
Rope + Live Recording of Past Present Future Podcast with David Runciman, Nicci Gerrard, Sean French
Rope (1948): Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, this psychological thriller explores crime as an intellectual exercise. Based on the notorious real-life case of Leopold and Loeb,...
www.regentstreetcinema.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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🔔 First in our ‘Films of Ideas’ live recordings coming up next Friday.

Join us, we’d love to see you there! ⬇️
August 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
'Believe nothing, trust no one'. We're talking about our bleak philosophy of fiction and of life at 2.30 Saturday 13 September at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling.
August 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Edge of Darkness
Take away all the GOAT candidates: The Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and Lost.

What’s the best show outside of that group?
August 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
You can get The Memory Game, our very first book, for just 99p on Kindle. So old it has no mobile phones, no internet, no AI and the female protagonist smokes like a chimney. We're still rather proud of it, though.
August 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rope is one of Hitchcock's weirdest, most disturbing works - which is saying something. We'll be talking about it with David Runciman for the @ppfideas.bsky.social podcast. www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/ropeli...
Rope + Live Recording of Past Present Future Podcast with David Runciman, Nicci Gerrard, Sean French
Rope (1948): Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart, this psychological thriller explores crime as an intellectual exercise. Based on the notorious real-life case of Leopold and Loeb,...
www.regentstreetcinema.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A really illuminating piece
It's closely related to my last post on why Britain isn't broken because so much of the hyperbolic discourse around the state of the nation is driven by the radicalised.

samf.substack.com/p/britain-is...
Britain isn't broken
We have our problems but the doomerism is getting out of hand
samf.substack.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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New post:

"The Radicalisation Spiral"

Why are so many people becoming radicalised? Is there any way to stop it?

With an antivaxxer running the US health dept + extreme discourse dominating politics it's an increasingly pressing question.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The radicalisation spiral
Why does it happen and can it be stopped?
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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youtu.be/frAEmhqdLFs?... RIP to a true GOAT
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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July 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Why would you clean up a murder scene? The Lying Room is now so cheap on Kindle that we're virtually paying you to read it.
July 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Forget your enemies. What if it’s your friends and neighbours you can’t trust? Out now in paperback!
June 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
You can now 'buy' our recent book, Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?, for basically no money at all.
May 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It's not your enemies you should be frightened of, it's your friends. Our new book is now available for less than the price of something that costs a pound.
April 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Heading to Aberdeen tomorrow for Granite Noir. Marisa and I will be talking @ambroseparry.bsky.social with @niccifrench.bsky.social on Saturday night at the Music Hall, and there are still tickets to see the Fun Lovin' Crime Writers on Sunday night:
www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/gra...
Granite Noir 2025: The Fun Lovin' Crime Writers | Aberdeen Performing Arts
www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hear us tomorrow talking about two of our favourite books. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French
The husband and wife writing duo pick favourite reads.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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RIP Marianne Faithfull. Four years I ago I sat in on a conversation between her and Courtney Love. She was very ill but indomitable.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Marianne Faithfull and Courtney Love talk romantic poetry, cheating death and the joys of sober sex
Friends since the '90s, two of rock's grandes dames gather to discuss Faithfull's new album, “She Walks in Beauty,” and their near-death experiences in 2020.
www.latimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Bowled over by Alison Flood's review of The Last Days of Kira Mullan in this week's Observer www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
Nicci French’s latest gem; an unsettling brainteaser from Japanese enigma Uketsu; the tensions that mar the maiden voyage of an airship; and a sojourn on a scary Scottish island
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In all good bookshops now!
January 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
What if your friends were also your enemies? Published tomorrow!
January 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM