The best books of 2024 – recommended by authors from Ian Rankin to Mick Herron
The nation's biggest and best authors share their favourite books of the year with Express readers...
Very pleased to see our co-founder Tony Kent and so many of our Chiltern Kills guest authors featuring in the @dailyexpress.bsky.social best books of 2024 list.
Hit the link to see all of the choices, and please share!
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1986...
09.12.2024 20:20 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
He didn’t cancel twice….
28.11.2024 10:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
A very happy publication day to one of #ChilternKills favourite ‘regulars’, the always brilliant Vaseem Khan and his latest, no doubt soon to be award winning Malabar House Mystery - City of Destruction.
(Although he doesn’t seem to be on here yet, so we probably could have skipped him…)
28.11.2024 10:03 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A very happy paperback publication day to one of #ChilternKills favourite authors, the brilliant @neillancaster66.bsky.social
#TheDevilYouKnow is the latest in the wildly successful #MaxCraigie series, simultaneously the most exciting AND most realistic police procedural series being written today
21.11.2024 09:50 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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If you’ve not got your ticket for #baytales25 yet, the best seats at the best price are available via our website: baytales.com/shop-2/
Do join us, it’s going to be a lot of fun. 🌊
17.11.2024 08:28 — 👍 17 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
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14.11.2024 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good advice, thank you.
Now just have to go find some!!
14.11.2024 21:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
So, how does a Crime Writing Festival go about picking up followers in this place, eh?
Any idea?
14.11.2024 11:25 — 👍 43 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 3
Rise of Germany's Far Right inspired new thriller by 'Day of the Jackal' lege...
Bestselling novelist and former Daily Express columnist Freddie Forsyth is making a literary comeback in a sequel to his SECOND best book
We’re delighted to announce some amazing news #ChilternKills news.
Our patron - the one & only #FrederickForsyth - has teamed up with our festival co-founder @tonykentwrites.bsky.social to co-write a sequel to the bestselling classic #TheOdessaFile
We can’t wait!
www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1971...
12.11.2024 22:16 — 👍 43 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
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
It’s my night before @chilternkills.bsky.social video, when I had lots of grand ideas for the content I’d be making for #tiktok and all that business…
07.10.2024 19:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The following morning I still had big plans. I was going to interview the world, I was. All the @chilternkills.bsky.social grandees. Just needed to stay sharp…
07.10.2024 19:25 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And a little while later I WAS sharper! I even had my sunglasses on. I had this down, this video-blogging thing. Why did people keep saying it was so hard?
Proper doddle…
07.10.2024 19:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And then…I forgot for 5 hours or so.
Because, frankly, who has the time!?!?
Life is for living, not recording.
Or at least that’s what I told the @chilternkills.bsky.social committee when they asked where the hell all my promised videos were!!
I even stopped this one too early!!
07.10.2024 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
And then…there was this one.
The end.
4 hours later.
Well, the end of the non-drunken karaoke part, anyway.
Sorry, @chilternkills.bsky.social. I’ll go better next year. By which I mean I won’t volunteer to do the videos in the first place!!
That way everybody’s happy!!
07.10.2024 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
After the success of the inaugural #ChilternKills, we are delighted to announce the festival’s return on 5TH OCTOBER 2024 for another day of crime-writing fun
Join us in GerrardsX & help #centrepointuk fight youth homelessness
Ticket available now @ www.chilternkills.com
11.11.2023 14:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A big announcement coming this weekend about the next #ChilternKills
One which can only be made once we settle on a name
Most want #ChilternKills2024.
One idiot wants ‘Chiltern Kills 2: The Chalfont Strike Back’!!
We think we know who’s going to lose.
Check back on Saturday afternoon for news…
08.11.2023 16:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lifelong addiction to reading, books and kindle. Mainly thrillers and crime fiction, watching true crime documentaries. Married, mum and nan. Cat slave. Love eccentric people.
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20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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www.manlywritersfestival.org.au
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https://www.beyondthebookfestival.org/
An award-winning independent bookshop with branches in London (23-27 Cecil Court) and Brighton (22b Ship Street) The book collectors bookseller.
We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate