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Val McDermid

@valmcdermid

Crime writer, broadcaster, Scottish, mother, bidie-in, lesbian, feminist, McDermid Ladies fan, singer with Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, loves the sea & ellipses...

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Joined March 2009
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I’ve made lots of friends and valued connections here on Twitter. But I’ve had enough of the vitriol, the lies, the apparently endless faking of the truth for hideous ends. Thank you, all of you who have interacted with me over the years. But I’m out of here. See you on Bluesky.
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this will be great fun! as the main website is... not entirely helpful, here's a direct ticket link: edwinterfest.com/whats-on/va…
Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) profile pictureVal McDermid@valmcdermid8 Nov 2024
Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon to visit Edinburgh this Christmas for in-conversation event list.co.uk/news/45944/val-mc…
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WRONG DATE!!! The event is 15th December!!! Sorry…
Val McDermid (@valmcdermid) profile pictureVal McDermid@valmcdermid8 Nov 2024
Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon to visit Edinburgh this Christmas for in-conversation event list.co.uk/news/45944/val-mc…
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Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon to visit Edinburgh this Christmas for in-conversation event list.co.uk/news/45944/val-mc…
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Iranian rapper and human rights activist Toomaj Salehi was arrested two years ago today in #Iran. He remains unjustly imprisoned and is denied access to health care. Join us in calling for his release. Change your X banner today and #FreeToomaj. @OfficialToomaj @HRF
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scottishbooktrust.com/book-l…

20 brilliant novels set in Edinburgh | Scottish Book Trust

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Brilliant news for book lovers and authors alike! Topping & Company to open ‘largest independent bookshop in the country’ in York thebookseller.com/news/toppi…
Topping & Company to open ‘largest independent bookshop in the country’ in York

Topping & Company to open ‘largest independent bookshop in the country’ in York

Independent booksellers Topping & Company will open a new bookshop over multiple floors in central York in autumn 2025. 

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Elly Griffiths (@ellygriffiths) profile pictureElly Griffiths@ellygriffiths25 Sep 2024
Very honoured to win this award. I owe so much to the wonderful booksellers who have championed my work. Thrilled to see @ellakroftpatel win publicist of the year too 😊
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What Can ‘Slow Horses’ Tell Us About Modern Britain? rusi.org/explore-our-researc…
What Can ‘Slow Horses’ Tell Us About Modern Britain?

What Can ‘Slow Horses’ Tell Us About Modern Britain?

Apple TV’s ‘Slow Horses’, now in its fourth season, reflects contemporary Britain’s psyche through its flawed but unvanquished spies and their battles with cynicism, bureaucracy and decline.

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I'm so excited at the prospect of a new book from the insightful and compassionate Gwen Adshead! bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl…
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🎙️📚 The latest podcast, in collaboration with @BloodyScotland, is with the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize, who include @davidbishop @cbrookmyre @valmcdermid @radiomukhers & @kimtsherwood.🗡️ Full details, & all the ways to listen, are here 👉 bit.ly/4d5T5hj
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Sarah W@sarahMo3W12 Sep 2024
Particularly sadistic murders take place in Germany and the Netherlands, but nobody makes the connection apart from two female police officers chatting online in The Last Temptation by @valmcdermid #bookreview buff.ly/47nYor9
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‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England

‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England

Refurbishing Newcastle’s Bolbec Hall could be first step in a mission to build up region’s creative industries

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Looking forward to hanging with Māori writer Michael Bennett in UK next week. I first met Michael when he was part of a team helping fight against wrongful conviction of a young Maori man who spent 21yrs in prison. Remarkable man, and author #yeahnoir @BloodyScotland @NgatiRanana
Michael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker (@MBennettBooks) profile pictureMichael Bennett, novelist & filmmaker@MBennettBooks6 Sep 2024
Kia ora e hoa! I had a very cool night at the wonderful @mcibooks in North Carolina. Huge thanks to Pete and Keebe and the standing room-only crowd that showed up. Amazing. #yeahnoir @CrimeWoC #OwnVoices #Indigenous @CreativeNZ #ReturnToBlood
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We were lucky to have McIlvanney Prize finalist @valmcdermid help us launch our 2024 programme back in June. Her latest, Past Lying, is "A welcome return for the much-loved Karen Pirie in this satisfying novel which contains a few in-jokes for lovers of Scottish crime writing".
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You wrote it, I just read it!
Steph McGovern (@StephLunch) profile pictureSteph McGovern@StephLunch6 Sep 2024
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Awww thanks @valmcdermid panmacmillan.com/authors/ste…
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Death of a Court Lady. From a series of eighteenth-century Japanese watercolours depicting the nine stages of a decaying corpse or 'kusōzu'. Found in @valmcdermid's brilliant book, Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime.
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Thank you so much, I really enjoyed stretching myself to write something so different!
DailyShot (@1dailyshot) profile pictureDailyShot@1dailyshot4 Sep 2024
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I just read your stellar Queen Macbeth, which is so incredibly satisfying on so many levels. I don't understand how you managed to do that in the space of 150 utterly fascinating pages. I totally believed every single word.
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Bloody delighted to be on this bloody terrific shortlist ! 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Bloody Scotland (@BloodyScotland) profile pictureBloody Scotland@BloodyScotland4 Sep 2024
⭐️The finalists have been selected for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize! Congrats! @davidbishop A Divine Fury @panmacmillan @cbrookmyre The Cracked Mirror (Sphere) @valmcdermid Past Lying (Sphere) @radiomukhers Hunted (Vintage) @kimtsherwood A Spy Like Me @HarperCollins @CreativeScots
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⭐️The finalists have been selected for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize! Congrats! @davidbishop A Divine Fury @panmacmillan @cbrookmyre The Cracked Mirror (Sphere) @valmcdermid Past Lying (Sphere) @radiomukhers Hunted (Vintage) @kimtsherwood A Spy Like Me @HarperCollins @CreativeScots
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