Excellent #granitenoirx Literature at Lunchtime session with Icelandic Noir author @liljawriter.bsky.social and chaired by @jackycnoir64.bsky.social Covering Lilja's books, coffee and lots else
No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again.
The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot.
Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is always a really fun festival - had the most severe hangover of my life at NN! - so if you haven’t been yet make this the year
nordiclighthouse.blog/2025/10/23/w... @eurocrime.bsky.social @westwords.bsky.social @ravencrime.bsky.social @jackycnoir64.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social
A squared off spiral staircase with knobbly black wrought iron balusters and a wooden handrail. The risers are uncarpeted, brown in the middle and grey at each edge. A woman in a cream winter coat stands at the bottom looking up, and a pair of jean clad legs with black boots are visible at the top on the left hand side
Our AirBnB in Aberdeen in Feb'20 when I went up for my first ever Noir fest - #GraniteNoir with @jackycnoir64.bsky.social! I'm at the top & my pal, whose daughter lived in Abs at the time, hence our visit, is downstairs. Met Sólveig & Óskar from @corylusbooks.bsky.social! #SaturdayStairs #BookSky 🇮🇸
@evadolan.bsky.social thanks so much for the fabulous shout-out and for having been part of #NewcastleNoir 🕵♀️📓🖤✨️
***#NN2025 ticket update***
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who bought weekend passes to the festival 🖤
Today we were able to release a few more. So if you haven't got yours yet, don't worry, more tickets available here:
www.tiny.cc/nnoir2025
We look forward to sharing #newcastlenoir with you 🕵♀️💀🪦📓✨️
@westwords.bsky.social @ravencrime.bsky.social @eurocrime.bsky.social @marinasofia.bsky.social @scandiandy.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social @jackycnoir64.bsky.social @angryalgonquin.bsky.social @onefootiniceland.bsky.social @nordicwatchlist.bsky.social @pearceglen.bsky.social @kathall.bsky.social
So grateful for the opportunity to present my developing research project on the costuming of Spanish actor #JoseCoronado at this conference #academiclife #researchjoy @litandlangstirling.bsky.social
Thank you so much for publishing our work 📚🙏
Julio (Javier Bardem) and his employees at the entrance to the Básculas Blanco factory. Film still from El buen patrón ( Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021).
'Dressing, Undressing and Redressing: Costuming Identities in Fernando León de Aranoa’s El buen patrón (2021)', by Jacky Collins @jackycnoir64.bsky.social (Uni. Stirling) & Sarah Gilligan (Northumbria Uni.)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Do you have any plans this weekend? Well, whatever you do @corylusbooks.bsky.social’s Senior Manager (Edits) recommends that you chill with
Jón Atli Jónasson’s #Broken tr. by @graskeggur.bsky.social #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Caturday 🐈⬛ @marinasofia.bsky.social @davidhheadley.bsky.social @jackycnoir64.bsky.social
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Paperback of the book Harm by Sólveig Pálsdóttir, with á cover image of a handprint/shadow in snow/against icy glass. The outstretched fingertips also, possibly unintentionally, also suggest the eye, nose, mouth and chin of a woman in profile, looking to the left
Hands up (see what I did there!) who can see the woman's profile, facing left, that the handprint also suggests on the lovely @solveigpals.bsky.social's excellent book 'Harm'?! (tr. @graskeggur.bsky.social, publ @corylusbooks.bsky.social) Hmm, @pareidolia.bsky.social, what do you think?
@gwylcrimefest.bsky.social in #Aberystwyth April 25-27. Among the great events a session with best-selling authors Mari Hannah & @claremackwrites.bsky.social interviewed by the lovely @jackycnoir64.bsky.social
Expect lots of laughs, lots of weirdness and - yes- lots of wonderfulness with three weird and wonderful writers in conversation with the brilliant @jackycnoir64.bsky.social ! This isn't one to be missed! @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social @jamesoswald.scot
Incidentally, the most picked up book (hence, the cover that attracted most people) at Alternative Book Fair yesterday was Skin Deep by Antonia Lassa, transl. @jackycnoir64.bsky.social
Just love Wales! I’m going to @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social in Aberystwyth. Looking forward to appearing with @claremackwrites.bsky.social on April 26th, chaired by Dr Noir, aka @jackycnoir64.bsky.social
Jacky Collins, aka Dr Noir, in brilliant conversation with Catalan author and translator Teresa Solana. The Lost in Translation panel obviously struck a chord with its totally engaged audience, as sales of the 3 authors present's books were the greatest of any event at that venue this year! It was also great to meet @vikingporridge.bsky.social, thanks to a shared appreciation of Dr Noir's skillful aplomb in her role of chair!
Very interesting fact from the 'Lost In Translation' panel at #GraniteNoir: @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social revealed #FictionInTranslation in the UK is just 3% of books, but elsewhere in Europe 70% 😲 @jackycnoir64.bsky.social affirmed the importance of experiencing other cultures thru our reading 💙📚
4 panel collage showing Jackie Collins ('Dr Noir') interviewing, brilliantly, author and Icelandic translator Quentin Bates (Gunnhildur series, Bk1=Frozen Out), @corylusbooks.bsky.social's Teresa Solana, author (Black Storms, check out this fab cover!) & Catalan translator, and Ørjan Karlsson, Norwegian author (Into Thin Air), translated into several other languages, including, thankfully for us, English!
Bit late posting about #GraniteNoir but I'm home now so there's time! Brilliant 'Lost In Translation' panel Sun chaired by the fab @jackycnoir64.bsky.social, with @graskeggur.bsky.social, @teresasolanawriter.bsky.social & @orendabooks.bsky.social's Ørjan Karlsson. If the vid available, watch it! 💙📚
@marinasofia.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social @jackycnoir64.bsky.social @corylusbooks.bsky.social 😊
Call for Proposals:
Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures 2025: Fashioning Ageing, Emotion, and Memory in Film, Fashion Media, and Clothing.
Proposal deadline: 15 March 2025
For more information click here: ow.ly/Q1OY50UPmlY
Don't walk, run! Everyone's favourite detective, Scott Jericho, is back in paperback 🎡 Are you ready to return to the fairground? @whusseyauthor.bsky.social loom.ly/Djhq7RU
I'm doing a 75-mile sponsored walk/bookshop tour to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK and thanks to your incredible support I've had to increase my original target. Can't thank you enough. Any reposts much appreciated! #dementia #Alzheimers www.justgiving.com/page/trevor-...
Watch out for this brilliant new thriller, out from Eve Smith in April. Perfect for the strange times we live in and I can’t wait to read The Cure. 💙🩵💉💉💉💉
Three weeks until Memorial Park is out in the world! The finished books arrived this week and they look fantastic (I’ll do something with those soon!)
Preorder here: geni.us/MemorialPark
Thank you so much for such a beautiful birthday message! And thank you for the recent book post 🕵♀️📚🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much! Look forward to seeing you at Granite Noir 🕵♀️📚🎉
Who else is really looking forward to not watching the Inauguration?
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