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David Fennell

@davidfennell.bsky.social

Author. Crime: THE ART OF DEATH, SEE NO EVIL, THE SILENT MAN, A VIOLENT HEART. SciFi/Alternate History: the multi award nominated SLEEPER series. Founder/Director of Beyond the Book Festival. https://linkin.bio/davidfennell

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Please ๐Ÿ™ ๐Ÿ™ vote for my novel in the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards. Voting closes tonight. Thank you. โ™ฅ๏ธ

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31.05.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meta Protest โ€“ The Society of Authors ยซ All Events

๐Ÿ“ขJoin us tomorrow at Granary Square 1pm for a protest Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models. More details below ๐Ÿ‘‡

02.04.2025 08:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 87    ๐Ÿ” 65    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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David Fennell: Investigating the writerly motives of popular crime novelist Losing yourself in a pulse-quickening crime novel is the perfect antidote to humdrum everyday life.

A massive thanks to Helen McGurk at the Newsletter for this weekend feature. #AViolentHeart #BookSky

David Fennell: Investigating the writerly motives of popular crime novelist www.newsletter.co.uk/news/people/...

10.03.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ™ as always

03.03.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Published this week in paperback A Violent Heart by David Fennell another auto buy Author @davidfennell.bsky.social

02.03.2025 18:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is incredible. Thank you Andy. #Booksky

03.03.2025 11:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

27.02.2025 17:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks, Diana! X

27.02.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you, Ben.

27.02.2025 11:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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David Bowie, The Lord of The Rings and a pint of Guinness - three of David Fennellโ€™s favourite things We put performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, Belfast-born crime author David Fennell shares his likes, loves and loathings...

And brown paper packages tied up with string. Thank you @irishnews.com #booksky #AViolentHeart is out today

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27.02.2025 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you โ˜บ๏ธ Out today, people! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ #booksky

27.02.2025 08:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The entire paperback collection of DI Grace Archer & DS Harry Quinn are signed & available to buy in store or online from the brilliant @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social Get in quick cause theyโ€™re selling fast!

25.02.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The entire paperback collection of DI Grace Archer & DS Harry Quinn are signed & available to buy in store or online from the brilliant @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social Get in quick cause theyโ€™re selling fast!

25.02.2025 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks, Richard.

24.02.2025 12:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tastemaker: Crime writer David Fennell on growing up in Belfast, and his love of TinTin David Fennell, author

Tastemaker: Crime writer David Fennell on growing up in Belfast, and his love of TinTin

22.02.2025 06:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

In todayโ€™s @businesspost.bsky.social talking about lots of stuff including Belfast and why TinTin was the boy I wanted to be.

23.02.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A new episode of Confessions of a Book Collector is available. This week, I talked to @nnedi.bsky.social about her brilliant new novel, Death of the Author and much more. I enjoyed our chat.

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22.02.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A massive thanks to Manor Farm Library for hosting me at Coffee & Crime to promote the paperback release of #AViolentHeart. A full house of enthusiastic readers listened to Alex from top bookstore @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social expertly grill me about the Archer & Quinn series. Thanks to all who came

22.02.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hope to be in Dublin early July.

21.02.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Today at 2.30! Iโ€™ll be having a coffee and chatting about A Violent Heart with Alex from @fourbearsbooks.bsky.social Come and join us! Itโ€™ll be fun. A few tickets remaining discover.hillingdon.gov.uk/david-fennel...

21.02.2025 10:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Meanwhile in Dublinโ€™s Kills and Thrills department โ€ฆ

21.02.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Haha. Great picture x

21.02.2025 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice. Thanks for sharing. Is that Easons?

21.02.2025 10:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That final scene. ๐Ÿฅบ Took me a day to get over it.

18.02.2025 08:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Saw it last week. Itโ€™s brutal theatre at its very best.

17.02.2025 18:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Publishing 27 February. Available to preorder from all the usual places. Tell all your friends! #booksky #AViolentHeart

17.02.2025 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

17.02.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Publishing 27 February. Available to preorder from all the usual places. Tell all your friends! #booksky #AViolentHeart

17.02.2025 07:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Will give it a shot.

01.02.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Enjoyed this post. I can so relate. Iโ€™m about to start a new book and am very interested in the Focus app and its inbuilt Pomodorro feature.

01.02.2025 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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