Charles Beaumont
@aspyalone.bsky.social
I write books about spies.
Life goals: your book being spotted on a shelf @barnesandnoble.com in NYC.
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Life goals: your book being spotted on a shelf @barnesandnoble.com in NYC.
“Crème de la crime”. Not that I’m really a crime novelist but @waterstones.bsky.social Victoria are paying me a compliment I’ll happily take.
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“Crème de la crime”. Not that I’m really a crime novelist but @waterstones.bsky.social Victoria are paying me a compliment I’ll happily take.
Super gratified that A Spy at War was in @thetimes.com list of best thrillers of 2025.
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Super gratified that A Spy at War was in @thetimes.com list of best thrillers of 2025.
A Spy at War is currently a #3 bestseller.
August 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A Spy at War is currently a #3 bestseller.
Some signed copies of A Spy Alone in @blackwells.bsky.social in Oxford.
July 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Some signed copies of A Spy Alone in @blackwells.bsky.social in Oxford.
Completely delighted to be picked as one of the summer books of 2025 by @ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Completely delighted to be picked as one of the summer books of 2025 by @ft.com
“First as a case officer then agent runner” 🤔
And the difference is?
And the difference is?
June 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“First as a case officer then agent runner” 🤔
And the difference is?
And the difference is?
So, when guided to the information, it finally gets it right. But asked why it guessed, it can't explain.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
So, when guided to the information, it finally gets it right. But asked why it guessed, it can't explain.
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And when I point out it's still wrong, it just comes up with another seemingly random date... and another...
And asked if it's guessing, it denies and digs itself a hole about posthumous work.
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And asked if it's guessing, it denies and digs itself a hole about posthumous work.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
And when I point out it's still wrong, it just comes up with another seemingly random date... and another...
And asked if it's guessing, it denies and digs itself a hole about posthumous work.
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And asked if it's guessing, it denies and digs itself a hole about posthumous work.
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If you ask who's Charles Beaumont, did he write A Spy Alone, it says he did (one of us did!) Inexplicably, it also says it was published in 1963, not 2023. Since AI works mostly by looking stuff up, it must just be guessing. And when I point out the date is wrong, it guesses again, wrongly.
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June 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If you ask who's Charles Beaumont, did he write A Spy Alone, it says he did (one of us did!) Inexplicably, it also says it was published in 1963, not 2023. Since AI works mostly by looking stuff up, it must just be guessing. And when I point out the date is wrong, it guesses again, wrongly.
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A Spy at War is now at #3. Take advantage of the crazy low price to get your Kindle copy.
May 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A Spy at War is now at #3. Take advantage of the crazy low price to get your Kindle copy.
No idea why, but A Spy at War is now at knockdown price on Kindle.
May 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
No idea why, but A Spy at War is now at knockdown price on Kindle.
In A Spy at War, dramatic events unfold in the undramatic setting of Geneva.
“They had reached the Jardin anglais, a pretty park by the side of the lake complete with bandstand and wrought-iron benches. Its pretensions to Englishness were undermined by an absence of public drunkenness or litter.”
“They had reached the Jardin anglais, a pretty park by the side of the lake complete with bandstand and wrought-iron benches. Its pretensions to Englishness were undermined by an absence of public drunkenness or litter.”
April 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
In A Spy at War, dramatic events unfold in the undramatic setting of Geneva.
“They had reached the Jardin anglais, a pretty park by the side of the lake complete with bandstand and wrought-iron benches. Its pretensions to Englishness were undermined by an absence of public drunkenness or litter.”
“They had reached the Jardin anglais, a pretty park by the side of the lake complete with bandstand and wrought-iron benches. Its pretensions to Englishness were undermined by an absence of public drunkenness or litter.”
On his show today @mrjamesob.bsky.social gave the most brilliant shoutout for A Spy at War.
April 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On his show today @mrjamesob.bsky.social gave the most brilliant shoutout for A Spy at War.
Delighted to hear that @mrjamesob.bsky.social has been enjoying A Spy at War.
April 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Delighted to hear that @mrjamesob.bsky.social has been enjoying A Spy at War.
Lots of copies available at Heathrow Terminal 5.
April 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Lots of copies available at Heathrow Terminal 5.
Yep, we have Moldovan election interference in A Spy at War, along with all the other stuff.
April 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Yep, we have Moldovan election interference in A Spy at War, along with all the other stuff.
🚨TODAY’S THE DAY🚨
“Beaumont must surely be the most plugged in spy writer of the day”
“Beaumont is increasingly a name to watch as he moves into the first division of spy writers”
“Absolutely riveting”
“A worthy sequel to his debut masterpiece”
Out in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
“Beaumont must surely be the most plugged in spy writer of the day”
“Beaumont is increasingly a name to watch as he moves into the first division of spy writers”
“Absolutely riveting”
“A worthy sequel to his debut masterpiece”
Out in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
March 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚨TODAY’S THE DAY🚨
“Beaumont must surely be the most plugged in spy writer of the day”
“Beaumont is increasingly a name to watch as he moves into the first division of spy writers”
“Absolutely riveting”
“A worthy sequel to his debut masterpiece”
Out in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
“Beaumont must surely be the most plugged in spy writer of the day”
“Beaumont is increasingly a name to watch as he moves into the first division of spy writers”
“Absolutely riveting”
“A worthy sequel to his debut masterpiece”
Out in paperback, ebook and audiobook.
Only a day to go. The cover of A Spy at War is St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery- one of the symbols of Ukraine. Built in the Middle Ages, demolished by the Soviets in an attempt to destroy Ukraine's culture and heritage. Rebuilt at independence, it stands proud to this day.
March 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Only a day to go. The cover of A Spy at War is St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery- one of the symbols of Ukraine. Built in the Middle Ages, demolished by the Soviets in an attempt to destroy Ukraine's culture and heritage. Rebuilt at independence, it stands proud to this day.
Only 2 days to go until the launch of A Spy at War! Early in the novel, the protagonist Simon walks along the Peizazhna (Landscape) Alley in Kyiv, sits on a certain bench, and has a rather important meeting.
March 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Only 2 days to go until the launch of A Spy at War! Early in the novel, the protagonist Simon walks along the Peizazhna (Landscape) Alley in Kyiv, sits on a certain bench, and has a rather important meeting.
3 days to go until A Spy at War comes out. It’s been listed as book of the month by @thetimes.com which was a lovely surprise. In the novel, Simon finds himself in wartime #Kyiv, through sleepless nights from constant air-raids to streets lined with tank traps and bombed out buildings.
March 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
3 days to go until A Spy at War comes out. It’s been listed as book of the month by @thetimes.com which was a lovely surprise. In the novel, Simon finds himself in wartime #Kyiv, through sleepless nights from constant air-raids to streets lined with tank traps and bombed out buildings.
Now only 5 days left until the launch of A Spy at War. I'm sharing another photo from visits to #Ukraine. At the end of the first book in the series, A Spy Alone, Simon, the protagonist, finds himself at Lviv's elegant railway station. #Lviv is of course one of Europe's most beautiful cities.
March 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
With only a few days left until #ASpyatWar comes out, I thought I’d share some photos of my own journeys to Ukraine. Like almost all visitors to that country Simon in my novel A Spy at War got there in Ukraine’s famously reliable trains, travelling across from Poland.
March 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
With only a few days left until #ASpyatWar comes out, I thought I’d share some photos of my own journeys to Ukraine. Like almost all visitors to that country Simon in my novel A Spy at War got there in Ukraine’s famously reliable trains, travelling across from Poland.
I got a Literary Review review for A Spy at War. So you can now all do a Literary Review review review.
March 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I got a Literary Review review for A Spy at War. So you can now all do a Literary Review review review.