Nicola Upson 🏳️🌈
@nicolaupson.bsky.social
Novelist/arts journalist. Author of CWA Dagger shortlisted 'Josephine Tey' crime series (Faber) & standalone novel STANLEY AND ELSIE (Duckworth).
Christmas come early! Thank you to everyone who's bought and loved #TheChristmasClue. This is amazing.
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Christmas come early! Thank you to everyone who's bought and loved #TheChristmasClue. This is amazing.
So excited that #TheChristmasClue is @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller of the Month for November. Hope you love it.
November 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
So excited that #TheChristmasClue is @waterstones.bsky.social Thriller of the Month for November. Hope you love it.
Meet Anthony and Elva Pratt, the creators of #Cluedo and heroes of #TheChristmasClue, out now @faberbooks.bsky.social. What a very special couple!
September 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Meet Anthony and Elva Pratt, the creators of #Cluedo and heroes of #TheChristmasClue, out now @faberbooks.bsky.social. What a very special couple!
Happy publication day to @mandymorton.bsky.social! SIX TAILS AT MIDNIGHT out today @duckworthbooks.bsky.social - the perfect, spooky Christmas chiller.
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Happy publication day to @mandymorton.bsky.social! SIX TAILS AT MIDNIGHT out today @duckworthbooks.bsky.social - the perfect, spooky Christmas chiller.
Fantastic day at the printer recently, signing the special Indie bookshops edition of #TheChristmasClue, out @faberbooks.bsky.social 25th September. Thanks to everyone who helped me put in a very respectable signing time of 2 hours 12 minutes!
September 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Fantastic day at the printer recently, signing the special Indie bookshops edition of #TheChristmasClue, out @faberbooks.bsky.social 25th September. Thanks to everyone who helped me put in a very respectable signing time of 2 hours 12 minutes!
Bracing but lovely!
September 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Bracing but lovely!
Delighted to introduce you to the beautiful shimmery gold edition of #TheChristmasClue. It's a limited run, specially for indie bookshops, so you'll have to be quick! Out @faberbooks.bsky.social on 25 September.
September 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Delighted to introduce you to the beautiful shimmery gold edition of #TheChristmasClue. It's a limited run, specially for indie bookshops, so you'll have to be quick! Out @faberbooks.bsky.social on 25 September.
How many different kinds of lounging can one cat perfect? Don't tell her the radiators aren't on yet. #BetseyTrotwood
September 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How many different kinds of lounging can one cat perfect? Don't tell her the radiators aren't on yet. #BetseyTrotwood
Happy birthday #JosephineTey! 129 today - and a very good day to finish the latest book in the series.
July 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Happy birthday #JosephineTey! 129 today - and a very good day to finish the latest book in the series.
Lovely to be back at the beautiful St Michael's Mount to sign some books ready for the new season - with my glamorous assistant! #TheDeadofWinter
May 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Lovely to be back at the beautiful St Michael's Mount to sign some books ready for the new season - with my glamorous assistant! #TheDeadofWinter
I know I shouldn't be posting this in one of the hottest weeks of the year, but I'm too excited not to! Proofs for #TheChristmasClue have just arrived. Out @FaberBooks in September. Less restrained Christmassy cover to follow! #Cluedo
May 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I know I shouldn't be posting this in one of the hottest weeks of the year, but I'm too excited not to! Proofs for #TheChristmasClue have just arrived. Out @FaberBooks in September. Less restrained Christmassy cover to follow! #Cluedo
Happy publication day to @Icloudmandy and @hettiebagshot! A wonderful book and one of my favourites in the series. We all need a day at the seaside!
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Happy publication day to @Icloudmandy and @hettiebagshot! A wonderful book and one of my favourites in the series. We all need a day at the seaside!
A handbag?! LOVE this mysterious and slightly creepy find @camartstheatre.bsky.social during the current renovations. WTF?? Might end up in a book...
March 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A handbag?! LOVE this mysterious and slightly creepy find @camartstheatre.bsky.social during the current renovations. WTF?? Might end up in a book...
Very excited about the new radio adaptation of #JosephineTey's #BratFarrar, starting @BBCRadio4 tomorrow at 3, following an Opening Lines discussion of the novel. Love that book, and really intrigued to see how they do it.
March 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Very excited about the new radio adaptation of #JosephineTey's #BratFarrar, starting @BBCRadio4 tomorrow at 3, following an Opening Lines discussion of the novel. Love that book, and really intrigued to see how they do it.
'A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.' Remembering Josephine Tey, who died 73 years ago today and ALWAYS steered her own course.
February 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.' Remembering Josephine Tey, who died 73 years ago today and ALWAYS steered her own course.