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Author of Murder in Moonlit Square. Pre-order https://tinyurl.com/s7b5kpc8 Rep by Broo Doherty @DHHlitagency.bsky.social Co-host We’d Like A Word books & authors podcast. Co-Founder of @ChilternKills.bsky.social & #BBCWorldService “In The Studio” presenter

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Happy publication to @paulwaters.bsky.social - a streetwise nun and a hotelier take on murder and mayhem in this brand new mystery, MURDER IN MOONLIT SQUARE, out today!

09.10.2025 09:02 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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New We’d Like A Word podcast w @paulwaters.bsky.social Shalini Mullick @jeffreyarcher.bsky.social @authoramish.bsky.social & Amit Roy of the @easterneye.bsky.social newspaper. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

29.09.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not just a proof, a hardback of my new book, Murder in Moonlit Square, 1st in my Irish-Indian cosy crime series set in Chandni Chowk. Will be sharing it with you in Belfast London Delhi Chandigarh Kasauli & Gurgaon @goldsborobooks.bsky.social @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

20.09.2025 11:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New on our database joining curated books set in #DELHI

www.tripfiction.com/books/murder...

Murder in Moonlit Square by @paulwaters.bsky.social
‘Takes us to the colour and crowds of modern Delhi, in pursuit of a killer. A charming start to a vibrant new mystery series’ Vaseem Khan
#bluekskybooks

15.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you @Waterstones.bksy.social for ordering copies of my book Murder in Moonlit Square, the first in my new Irish-Indian cosy crime series, pub Oct 2nd😊Here's where you can get them waterstones.com/book/murder-in… @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

13.09.2025 09:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queens of the Bestseller at @chilternkills.bsky.social crime festival: Claire Douglas @JaniceHallett.bsky.social @NikkiSmithauthor.bsky.social @AnnaMazz.bsky.social & @carolinegreen.bsky.social on Sat 4th Oct Gerrards Cross, in aid of Centrepoint & Big Issue. Tickets from ChilternKills.com

12.09.2025 13:22 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
Tickets for the Chiltern Kills festival via www.ChilternKills.com

Tickets for the Chiltern Kills festival via www.ChilternKills.com

Join @russeldmclean.bsky.social Mason Cross @craig-robertson.bsky.social @edjamesauthor.bsky.social & @neillancaster66.bsky.social for Scottish Crime at the #ChilternKills festival, Sat 4th Oct in Gerrards Cross, 20 mins from London Marylebone. Dozens of top authors. All proceeds to homeless causes

16.08.2025 11:39 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy day - a proof of my new book, Murder in Moonlit Square has arrived. Time for a lightning final read. If some Irish-Indian cosy crime set in #ChandniChowk sounds good, then this is for you. #Ireland #India #delhi #books @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social

13.08.2025 13:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Poster for the Chiltern Kills crime & thriller festival.

Poster for the Chiltern Kills crime & thriller festival.

Tickets open via ChilternKills.com for @chilternkills.bsky.social crime fest 4Oct, Gerrards Cross in aid of @centrepointuk.bsky.social & @bigissue.com. Meet top authors inc @lisajewell.bsky.social @richardcoles.bsky.social @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social @stephmcgovern.bsky.social @jeremyvine.bsky.social

07.07.2025 10:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for providing such great interviewees

30.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Authors Paul Waters and Teresa Solana.

Authors Paul Waters and Teresa Solana.

Cover of the book Black Storms by Teresa Solana.

Cover of the book Black Storms by Teresa Solana.

Authors Paul Waters and Teresa Solana, and translator Peter Bush.

Authors Paul Waters and Teresa Solana, and translator Peter Bush.

Authors and We’d Like A Word podcast co-hosts Paul Waters and Stevyn Colgan.

Authors and We’d Like A Word podcast co-hosts Paul Waters and Stevyn Colgan.

New ep of the #WedLikeAWord podcast on Catalan crime & translator secrets, hosted by @paulwaters.bsky.social & Stevyn Colgan, w Black Storms author @teresasolan.bsky.social Peter Bush & @marinasofia.bsky.social of @corylusb.bsky.social publisher + snoring dogs podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

30.06.2025 09:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Many thanks to #WedLikeAWord (#stevyncolgan #PaulWaters) and guest #ajaychow for their competition in which I won an #MadeByGoogle Pixel Fold - a wonderful podcast, a great guest and a stunning prize!

09.11.2023 09:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

At least one per scene, if Irish.

30.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Pics from Himali at Tate Britain

23.04.2025 07:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In motion: #art from #India from Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser at @tate.bsky.social Britain on the great Indian Salt Hedge. Still pics in linked post…

23.04.2025 07:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Beware! Notorious armed robber Feathers McGraw is loose in London…

17.04.2025 16:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If you enjoy crime fiction or a psychological thriller, this event is definitely for you. Four top authors at one sitting @aachaudhuri.bsky.social @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social @paulwaters.bsky.social @sarahclarke.bsky.social
Tix cranleigharts.org/event/the-cr... #cranleighbookfest

02.04.2025 14:40 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
We'd Like a Word – with Paul Waters and Stevyn Colgan

And Andrew Finkel’s multi-layered book is The Adventure of the Second Wife - The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Sultan. #sherlock #sherlockholmes www.wedlikeaword.com

14.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Paul Waters, Andrew Finkel & Stevyn Colgan

Paul Waters, Andrew Finkel & Stevyn Colgan

Author Andrew Finkel and his book.

Author Andrew Finkel and his book.

Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II loved Sherlock Holmes bedtime stories. More #quirkyturkey on the new 3-part ep of the We’d Like A Word podcast w hosts @paulwaters.bsky.social & Stevyn Colgan + Istanbul author @andrewfinkel.bsky.social. Listen on all platforms & here podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

14.04.2025 13:54 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Artists David Soin Tappeser and Himali Singh Soin on the BBC World Service documentary In The Studio by Paul Waters.

Artists David Soin Tappeser and Himali Singh Soin on the BBC World Service documentary In The Studio by Paul Waters.

Artists David Soin Tappeser and Himali Singh Soin sitting with presenter and author Paul Waters inside the Tate Britain gallery.

Artists David Soin Tappeser and Himali Singh Soin sitting with presenter and author Paul Waters inside the Tate Britain gallery.

Artistic and life partners David Soin Tappeser and Himali Singh Soin.

Artistic and life partners David Soin Tappeser and Himali Singh Soin.

The book cover of Murder in Moonlit Square by Paul Waters.

The book cover of Murder in Moonlit Square by Paul Waters.

I’ve presented a #BBC World Service In The Studio show/podcast w artists Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser on their Indian Salt Hedge art at #SomersetHouse & #Tate Britain + a pre-order plea for my book Murder in Moonlight Square set in #Delhi, #Irish-#Indian cosy #crime crossover. Link in bio

18.03.2025 16:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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There are many amazing photos after a brilliant @chilternkills.bsky.social this Sat

But this is the best one

Me and - as my co-founder of the festival, @paulwaters.bsky.social put it - ‘my sequel’

Note his pride of place ‘Author’ lanyard. As he would tell you: “I’ve written 7 books, you know!”

07.10.2024 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Chiltern Kills is a one-day crime-writing festival co-founded by @tonykentwrites.bsky.social & @paulwaters.bsky.social & held every Oct just outside London

Our patron is thriller legend Frederick Forsyth

Every penny raised in ticket sales goes to youth homelessness charity Centrepoint

20.11.2024 11:44 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
From left to right: author Teresa Solana with grey hair and wearing a black leather jacket, holding her book Black Storms; translator Peter Bush, tall figure in dark clothes wearing glasses; Paul Waters with folded arms, wearing an orange top with a sort of waistcoat over it.

From left to right: author Teresa Solana with grey hair and wearing a black leather jacket, holding her book Black Storms; translator Peter Bush, tall figure in dark clothes wearing glasses; Paul Waters with folded arms, wearing an orange top with a sort of waistcoat over it.

A long display of piles of books Black Storms by Teresa Solana

A long display of piles of books Black Storms by Teresa Solana

View of the panel of author, translator and representative of the Catalan government in UK, in the beautiful Tudor/Stuart room at Catalonia House with wood panelling and carved ceiling

View of the panel of author, translator and representative of the Catalan government in UK, in the beautiful Tudor/Stuart room at Catalonia House with wood panelling and carved ceiling

Teresa Solana in action as part of the panel , sitting with one leg crossed over the other on a bar stool

Teresa Solana in action as part of the panel , sitting with one leg crossed over the other on a bar stool

We laughed, we talked history and class differences, indomitable nuns, and whether foreign authors or their translators should 'pander' to an English-speaking audience. Great evening with Teresa Solana, Peter Bush, @paulwaters.bsky.social at Catalonia House!

11.12.2024 13:35 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
The Crime Collective - Cranleigh Arts

Delighted that I will be at Cranleigh Book Festival alongside the brilliant @aachaudhuri.bsky.social @sarahclarke.bsky.social where you can hear us interviewed by the fabulous @paulwaters.bsky.social - if you are free on 24th April at 10.30am, do come & join us!
cranleigharts.org/event/the-cr...

19.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Thrilled to be at Cranleigh Book Festival this April alongside the incredible @nikkismithauthor.bsky.social & @sarahclarke.bsky.social. The brilliant @paulwaters.bsky.social will be putting us through our paces on all things crime fiction 👀 Hope to see you there: cranleigharts.org/event/the-cr...

19.02.2025 16:49 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Title: Halloween Horror

An upper tier of images labelled "Horrifying" and a lower tier labelled "Utterly Horrifying"
The first column has a floating skull above, and a floating skull who borrows books and never returns them below.
The second column has an evil fog above, and an evil fog with some really awful opinions below. (the fog is saying "we've got the internet so we don't need libraries")
The final column has a slime fiend above, and a slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys online below.

Title: Halloween Horror An upper tier of images labelled "Horrifying" and a lower tier labelled "Utterly Horrifying" The first column has a floating skull above, and a floating skull who borrows books and never returns them below. The second column has an evil fog above, and an evil fog with some really awful opinions below. (the fog is saying "we've got the internet so we don't need libraries") The final column has a slime fiend above, and a slime fiend who browses bookshops then buys online below.

Halloween Horror!!

31.10.2023 11:05 — 👍 968    🔁 469    💬 6    📌 24
Man cleaning other man’s ear in the street in Delhi.

Man cleaning other man’s ear in the street in Delhi.

Man pouring tea through a sieve in to cup beside the street in Delhi.

Man pouring tea through a sieve in to cup beside the street in Delhi.

Man on a ladder held upright by companions so he can adjust wiring above the street in Delhi.

Man on a ladder held upright by companions so he can adjust wiring above the street in Delhi.

Small woman carrying big load in a plastic sack on the footpath in Delhi.

Small woman carrying big load in a plastic sack on the footpath in Delhi.

Around the streets of Chandni Chowk - ear excavation (in the traffic, mind me elbow!), wee cuppa tea, fixing the wiring & a big load on a wee woman. #Delhi #India #streetlife

31.10.2023 10:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Shopping in Delhi

21.10.2023 07:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
15. Jeffrey Archer on storytelling (Part 1) by We'd Like A Word Jeffrey Archer on storytelling (part 1): The globally bestselling (more than 300m books sold) storyteller Jeffrey Archer tells We'd Like A Word hosts Paul Waters & Stevyn Colgan how he does it. ...

As I’m in India, it’s good timing that the latest 4-part We’d Like A Word podcast features one of India’s favourite (& most counterfeited) authors Jeffrey Archer. Learn how to write long & short stories from the bestselling master, here or any podcast platform anchor.fm/wed-like-a-w...

21.10.2023 04:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Authors and festival organisers Paul Waters and Tony Kent in front of a Chiltern Kills crime writing festival sign.

Authors and festival organisers Paul Waters and Tony Kent in front of a Chiltern Kills crime writing festival sign.

The @chilternkills.bsky.social festival 2023 with @tonykentwrites.bsky.social was a blast. Looking forward to 2024

17.10.2023 14:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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