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David
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Oxford, UK. When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? No pasarán. He/him. https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
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Today I’m joining the blogtour for The Wee Small hours by Rosa Temple, an engaging small-town romance featuring insomniac Annie. Thank you @annerandomthings.bsky.social for inviting me to join the tour.

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Blogtour poster for book “The Wee Small Hours” by Rosa Temple. Shows the addresses for stops on the tour, and the book cover. On the cover, against a nighttime background, a woman with curly dark hair sits knitting. The wool from her needles reaches back past a sleeping dog to a stepladder, below which is a football.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Just arrived - thank you so much @orendabooks.bsky.social - “Sharks” by @ohneklippo.bsky.social (trans @racheltranslates.bsky.social). More Chastity Riley! Due out Feb 2026!
Book “Sharks” by Simone Buchholz. A nighttime cityscape of neon haze. Above, a pair of red lips - with sharp teeth - biting on a set of green keys, all done in glowing, fluorescent colours.
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Joining the #RandomThingsTours #blogtour for #BlackAsDeathby @liljawriter.bsky.social, out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social. Many thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social! An excellent end to this series, full of peril and poignancy. (And revelations). bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
Blog tour poster for book "Black as Death" by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, showing sites supporting the tour.
October 29, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Joining the #blogtour for Secrets of the First School by TL Huchu from @panmacmillan.bsky.social @torbooksuk.bsky.social - final epic part of Edinburgh Nights, and what a finale! 💙📚#booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
Blog tour poster for book “Secrets of the First School” by TL Huchu, listing the sites taking part in the tour.
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Today - joining the #blogtour for #TheWinterJob by Antti Tuomainen, #crime caper out soon from @orendabooks.bsky.social to whom and @annerandomthings.bsky.social I'm very grateful. Great fun, and touching. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
Blog tour poster for book "The Winter Job" by Antti Tuomainen, listing sites that will feature the book.
October 20, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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New #Blogtour #Review - The Space Between the Trees graphic novel by Norm Konyu, out 21 October from @comicstitan.bsky.social - #horror in the forest! bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog... #booksky 💙📚
Blog tour poster for graphic novel “The Space Between the Trees” by Norm Konyu. There is a list of blogs taking part in the tour. There is also an image of the the book cover, which is drawn in an angular style showing a woman and a man standing in a forest graveyard. Tendrils of mist resembling tentacles wind towards them.
October 18, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Joining the #blogtour for A Lethal Legacy by
Guðrún Gúðlaugsdóttir (trans by @graskeggur.bsky.social) from @corylusbooks.bsky.social). A death on a remote farm leads journalist Alma into a complex & almost Gothic affair. #BookSky #crime #Iceland 📚💙

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Blog tour poster for Icelandic crime novel A Letha Legacy by Guðrún Gúðlaugsdóttir (translated by Quentin Bates). The black and white cover image of the book, which is on the poster, shows two young girls - one with light hair, one dark - each holding a large doll. The landscape behind them is bleak and stony.
September 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Joining the @annerandomthings.bsky.social #blogtour for The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder by @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social, out now - a devilish dance through Victorian fakery. Great reading! Many thanks for advance copy. #Booksky 💙📚 bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/blog...
Blogtour poster for book The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder by Stephen Cox
September 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Today - joining the #blogtour for The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social. I've an extract from this story of intrigue and war. Thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/blogtour-extract-from-winter-warriors.html
Blog tour poster for book "The Winter Warriors" by Olivier Norek
September 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Happy publication day to Mick Herron for Clown Town, out now from Baskerville @johnmurrays.bsky.social to whom thanks for advance copy. Slough House gets even darker! My review: bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...
Cover for book "Clown Town" by Mick Herron. A street scene at night. It is raining. A man in a formal suit walks carrying a briefcase. Something about the size of his head and his large shoes suggests a clown. He seems small, out of scale to the building front behind and the road crossing marker in front of him.
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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New #review - For the Road by @starkholborn.bsky.social. Very grateful to the author for a copy of this gritty, myth-haunted weird Western fantasy, a young man faces truths and consequences. An absorbing read. bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...
Cover of book “For the Road” by Stark Holborn. A right hand held up with a heart in its palm. Wrapped around it, an infinity of looped railway track.
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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My second #BookPost to share, The Great Deception by @sydmoore.bsky.social out soon from @oneworldbooks.bsky.social Magpie, to whom many thanks! 📚💙
Book "The Great Deception" by Sid Moore. Against a blue background, images in white lines of a country cabin, bombs, canoes and WWII single seat fighter aircraft. The overall impression is ornate, with scrollwork and crown motifs from which dangle icicles.
August 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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New #Bookpost, part 1 - this intriguing novel from @saltpublishing.com, The Fox of Kensal Green, by Richard Tyrrell out January 2026. Suspicions in a long-established London community following a brutal assault... Thanks for this! 📚💙
Book "The Fox of Kensal Green" by Richard Tyrrell. Against a green background, a man in a long brown coat and with a blue scarf over his shoulder looks away from us. In front of him, a road or path made of three large yellow blocks. Behind him, his shadow is that of a fox.
August 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Joining #blogtour for #TheTranscendentTide by
@dougjohnstone.bsky.social out now from
@orendabooks.bsky.social. Thanks to
@annerandomthings.bsky.social. In this excellent 3rd part of the trilogy, #Sandy & the #Enceledons face the greatest threat yet 📚💙
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Blogtour poster for "The Transcendent Tide" by Doug Johnstone
August 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Proud to be joining the @annerandomthings.bsky.social tour reposting my review for for #TheBurningStones by Antti Tuomainen (translated by David Hackston) - out now in PB from @orendabooks.bsky.social #Crime #Finland #Saunas (yes, saunas...) bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/08/blog...
Blog tour poster for book The Burning Stones by Anita Tuomained Cover for book "The Burning Stones" by Antii Tuomainen. Against a red background, a figure in a suit, legs uppermost, is disappearing into the ground as though melting - you can see that the top half of their torso has turned into a puddle, with only the legs remaining. The figure is shaded yellow-orange. On the cover are the words "Love, murder and a sauna to die for".
August 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Well aren’t I lucky today? Thank you so much @johnmurrays.bsky.social for #ClownTown - out 11 September!
Book “ClownTown” by Mick Herron with press notice and a card showing a cassette tape. The book cover shows a man with a briefcase walking down a street in the rain. Above him the phrase “Spies Lie. They Betray. It’s What They Do.”
August 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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What a lovely surprise from @gambit589.bsky.social @orbitbooks.bsky.social - "Slow Gods" by Claire North! Space opera, let's see where she goes with this... #BookSky #Bookpost 💙📚
Book "Slow Gods" by Claire North. A group of planets hangs in a dark sky. At the centre, a reddish disc in which are clouds and a grainy landscape. Spreading out from this central feature, thin concentric rings. Behind them, a speckling or red dust. Travelling towards the central disc, a stylised rocket ship leaving a plume of speckled exhaust.
August 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Out today: The Good Liar by @damedenisemina.bsky.social. A seething mass of wealth, money & influence has to come down but what might it cost Claudia if to do that? Tense, exciting & human. Thanks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for access via #Netgalley bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/07/revi...
Cover for book "The Good Liar" by Denise Mina. Aerial view of London from Regent's Park with the Post Office Tower in view and the skyscrapers of The City in the distance under a stormy sky. A trickle of blood runs down the letters of the title.
July 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Honoured to be on the #blogtour for Home Before Dark by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, tr by Victoria Cribb - out now from @orendabooks.bsky.social bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/07/blog.... This chilly, dark book is a great way to escape the heatwave! #crime #Iceland Thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social
Blog tour poster for book Home Before dark by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (tr Victoria Cribb). Lists the blogs and SM sites on the tour. Cover for book Home Before dark by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir (tr Victoria Cribb). A field of snow with deep footprints heading into the distance. Just in sight is a young woman with her back to us, walking away into a red haze. She is dressed in a short white coat.
July 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Happy publication day to @zenaldehyde.bsky.social for Behind Frenemy Lines, from @panmacmillan.bsky.social, a book I ready enjoyed #romance #lawyers #cosplay bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/07/revi...
Cover for book "Behind Frenemy Lines" by Zen Cho. A woman wearing round sunglasses in front of a skyline which includes Big Ben and the London Eye. In the sunglasses is the reflected image of a man in a dark suit and red tie.
July 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Fleeing the heatwave to join the blogtour for #MurderTide, the new Stella Blómkvist novel out this week from @corylusbooks.bsky.social to whom many thanks. Let the chilly waters take you in this #Icelandic #Crime... #BookSky 📚💙 bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/07/blog...
Blog tour poster for book "Murder Tide" by Stell Blómkvist Cover for book "Murder Tide" by Stella Blómkvist. Against a purple yellow sky, two buildings in silhouette. In front of them a bay, with a dark wake across the water.
July 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Peanut decided he wanted to lick the lily in the garden pond…
A Bichon dog standing with his front paws in a pond, looking a pink water lily which he can’t quite reach A Bichon dog who has ventured into the pond to lick a pink lily flower
June 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Today, I'm joining the #blogtour for @willcarver.bsky.social's #KillThemWithKindness, the new pandemic fuelled novel from @orendabooks.bsky.social. Very, very dark and also very, very entertaining. Thanks @annerandomthings.bsky.social for including me!

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Blogtour poster for book Kill Them With Kindness, listing web addresses for the tour participants Cover for book Kill Them With Kindness by Will Carver. A smiley, happy medicine capsule in yellow and white. There is a smiley happy face drawn on it in black. Behind, a wisp of golden smoke. On the cover, the words "Don't fear the virus. Fear the cure."
June 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by VE Schwab, is out today! Read this story of despair, revenge and loss... thanks @panmacmillan.bsky.social for advance access via @netgalley.bsky.social! #review #booksky 📚💙 bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi...
Cover for book "Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil" by VE Schwab. A dark, dark cover - inky blue - with strange white growths, perhaps roses or perhaps not, behind the title text and author's name, which are in yellow.
June 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Happy publication day to @sarahpinborough.bsky.social for #WeLiveHereNow out now from @orionbooks.bsky.social to whom thanks for #Netgalley access. A #horror that crept up on me stealthily… my #review #Booksky 💙📚https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/06/review-we-live-here-now-by-sarah.html
Cover for book We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough. In the distance, a solitary house with a round attic window. Three birds circle over it. In cross section beneath tendrils reach into the ground.
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM