Twenty years after CONTROLLED BURN, his utterly essential American stories, there is finally another Scott Wolven collection. Each of his tales do more in a handful of pages than 99% of novels out there manage in hundreds. This is the real fuel.
August 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Twenty years after CONTROLLED BURN, his utterly essential American stories, there is finally another Scott Wolven collection. Each of his tales do more in a handful of pages than 99% of novels out there manage in hundreds. This is the real fuel.
This book's alright, and now it's incomprehensibly cheap to boot.
WHITE CITY for 99p. At that price, you might as well buy a copy even if you own a dead tree edition.
(Don't worry, authors don't require food or gas or leccy. We are fuelled by spite alone)
www.amazon.co.uk/White-City-s...
WHITE CITY for 99p. At that price, you might as well buy a copy even if you own a dead tree edition.
(Don't worry, authors don't require food or gas or leccy. We are fuelled by spite alone)
www.amazon.co.uk/White-City-s...
August 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This book's alright, and now it's incomprehensibly cheap to boot.
WHITE CITY for 99p. At that price, you might as well buy a copy even if you own a dead tree edition.
(Don't worry, authors don't require food or gas or leccy. We are fuelled by spite alone)
www.amazon.co.uk/White-City-s...
WHITE CITY for 99p. At that price, you might as well buy a copy even if you own a dead tree edition.
(Don't worry, authors don't require food or gas or leccy. We are fuelled by spite alone)
www.amazon.co.uk/White-City-s...
VINE STREET was exceptional, but WHITE CITY goes above and beyond
― Ian Rankin
One of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around
― Jane Casey
Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel
― Sarah Pinborough
Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer
― Mark Billingham
― Ian Rankin
One of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around
― Jane Casey
Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel
― Sarah Pinborough
Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer
― Mark Billingham
July 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
VINE STREET was exceptional, but WHITE CITY goes above and beyond
― Ian Rankin
One of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around
― Jane Casey
Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel
― Sarah Pinborough
Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer
― Mark Billingham
― Ian Rankin
One of the most interesting, brilliant crime writers around
― Jane Casey
Mind-blowing...so much more than a crime novel
― Sarah Pinborough
Dominic Nolan is one hell of a writer
― Mark Billingham
Stuff I liked the taste of from the first half of 2025 (list in alt)
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stuff I liked the taste of from the first half of 2025 (list in alt)
An investigation into the missing occupant of a Margate flat turns into a rumination on the many ways people can disappear from places, and how places change and themselves effectively disappear, and how these things go hand in hand with the various movements of grief. Utterly superb, essential read
June 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
An investigation into the missing occupant of a Margate flat turns into a rumination on the many ways people can disappear from places, and how places change and themselves effectively disappear, and how these things go hand in hand with the various movements of grief. Utterly superb, essential read
I always liked this. Woozy Hollywood vampire noir.
June 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I always liked this. Woozy Hollywood vampire noir.
Fabulous review of VINE STREET by Jeremy Black in The Critic. Satisfying to see a book a few years old make an appearance in press pages, especially with a reviewer not adverse to putting the boot in.
"This is a sprawling masterpiece... A major work of great power."
thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-...
"This is a sprawling masterpiece... A major work of great power."
thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-...
June 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fabulous review of VINE STREET by Jeremy Black in The Critic. Satisfying to see a book a few years old make an appearance in press pages, especially with a reviewer not adverse to putting the boot in.
"This is a sprawling masterpiece... A major work of great power."
thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-...
"This is a sprawling masterpiece... A major work of great power."
thecritic.co.uk/murders-for-...
A week on Thursday, I'll be at Waterstones St Albans asking @heathercritchlow.bsky.social wonderfully unanswerable questions, such as why do we write? What is a character? When is crime fiction not a crime novel? And, most crucially, what biscuits go best with writing tea?
May 6, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A week on Thursday, I'll be at Waterstones St Albans asking @heathercritchlow.bsky.social wonderfully unanswerable questions, such as why do we write? What is a character? When is crime fiction not a crime novel? And, most crucially, what biscuits go best with writing tea?
Might give this a read, I suppose. Heard the writer's not bad.
March 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Might give this a read, I suppose. Heard the writer's not bad.
There's no reason why double entry fiction can't be downright haymakerish.
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
There's no reason why double entry fiction can't be downright haymakerish.
February 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Not completely forgotten: he's briefly mentioned as a character in one of my novels. Obscure punchline to a brick gag, with characters reading The Heart in Exile earlier in the novel.
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not completely forgotten: he's briefly mentioned as a character in one of my novels. Obscure punchline to a brick gag, with characters reading The Heart in Exile earlier in the novel.
We all know our Gallic cousins have superior taste in crime fiction, and to prove the point Télérama have included VINE STREET in their best polars of the year. Je suis un grand nom, as if we didn't know.
www.telerama.fr/livre/les-vi...
www.telerama.fr/livre/les-vi...
December 12, 2024 at 12:22 PM
We all know our Gallic cousins have superior taste in crime fiction, and to prove the point Télérama have included VINE STREET in their best polars of the year. Je suis un grand nom, as if we didn't know.
www.telerama.fr/livre/les-vi...
www.telerama.fr/livre/les-vi...
A deep rummage in the shelves for @grabthisbook.bsky.social's Decades project. Five authors crucial to me as a reader and a writer - Alexander Baron, Bette Howland, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and the wonderful but woefully underread Mark Costello. Read me evangelize here:
grabthisbook.net?p=7840
grabthisbook.net?p=7840
November 26, 2024 at 10:26 AM
A deep rummage in the shelves for @grabthisbook.bsky.social's Decades project. Five authors crucial to me as a reader and a writer - Alexander Baron, Bette Howland, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and the wonderful but woefully underread Mark Costello. Read me evangelize here:
grabthisbook.net?p=7840
grabthisbook.net?p=7840
I received a wonderful handwritten letter via my publisher regarding my propensity for soapmouth language, and they'd even done the maths on it. However - and I believe this speaks volumes to my legerdemain as a writer - there are, in fact, 131 f-words in AFTER DARK, making it 1 every 3⅓ pages.
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
I received a wonderful handwritten letter via my publisher regarding my propensity for soapmouth language, and they'd even done the maths on it. However - and I believe this speaks volumes to my legerdemain as a writer - there are, in fact, 131 f-words in AFTER DARK, making it 1 every 3⅓ pages.
Flair/Heenan 2028
WOOOO Can Do It!
WOOOO Can Do It!
November 19, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Flair/Heenan 2028
WOOOO Can Do It!
WOOOO Can Do It!
This is how I actually appear at events
November 17, 2024 at 11:20 PM
This is how I actually appear at events
Reading REVOLUTION IN 35mm had sent me back to BAMN to see what opportunities there are for complementary/crossover reading
November 16, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Reading REVOLUTION IN 35mm had sent me back to BAMN to see what opportunities there are for complementary/crossover reading
Also grabbed a copy of REVOLUTION IN 35mm, an exciting collection on resistance films, edited by @pulpcurry.bsky.social and Samm Deighan, and superbly illustrated with stills and posters.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Also grabbed a copy of REVOLUTION IN 35mm, an exciting collection on resistance films, edited by @pulpcurry.bsky.social and Samm Deighan, and superbly illustrated with stills and posters.
New on the doormat, a thunking great volume of collected short fiction by the amazing James Sallis, from Soho Crime. Contains twelve new stories that are also available separately in their own edition from No Exit.
November 16, 2024 at 1:45 PM
New on the doormat, a thunking great volume of collected short fiction by the amazing James Sallis, from Soho Crime. Contains twelve new stories that are also available separately in their own edition from No Exit.
Popped into @jebookshull.bsky.social the morning after @hullnoir.bsky.social and chatted with photographer Darrin Stevens about the Alec Gill Hessle Road collection, and snapped up a copy. Excellent street photography that keeps lost people and places alive.
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Popped into @jebookshull.bsky.social the morning after @hullnoir.bsky.social and chatted with photographer Darrin Stevens about the Alec Gill Hessle Road collection, and snapped up a copy. Excellent street photography that keeps lost people and places alive.
My words in the words of others
"The best crime novel of 2024" — The Times
"Superb" — Guardian
"Quite breathtaking" — Daily Mail
"I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year" — Ian Rankin
"Mind-blowing...frankly an amazing piece of work" — Sarah Pinborough
WHITE CITY is out now
"The best crime novel of 2024" — The Times
"Superb" — Guardian
"Quite breathtaking" — Daily Mail
"I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year" — Ian Rankin
"Mind-blowing...frankly an amazing piece of work" — Sarah Pinborough
WHITE CITY is out now
November 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM
My words in the words of others
"The best crime novel of 2024" — The Times
"Superb" — Guardian
"Quite breathtaking" — Daily Mail
"I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year" — Ian Rankin
"Mind-blowing...frankly an amazing piece of work" — Sarah Pinborough
WHITE CITY is out now
"The best crime novel of 2024" — The Times
"Superb" — Guardian
"Quite breathtaking" — Daily Mail
"I very much doubt I'll read a better crime novel this year" — Ian Rankin
"Mind-blowing...frankly an amazing piece of work" — Sarah Pinborough
WHITE CITY is out now