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David Fennell

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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 πŸ™ πŸ™ vote for my novel in the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards. Voting closes tonight. Thank you. β™₯️

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31.05.2025 13:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meta Protest – The Society of Authors Β« All Events

πŸ“’Join 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 πŸ‘‡

02.04.2025 08:45 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ™πŸ™ as always

03.03.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is incredible. Thank you Andy. #Booksky

03.03.2025 11:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

27.02.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Diana! X

27.02.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Ben.

27.02.2025 11:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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David Bowie, The Lord of The Rings and a pint of Guinness - three of David Fennell’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 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you ☺️ Out today, people! πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡ #booksky

27.02.2025 08:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“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 they’re selling fast!

25.02.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“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 they’re selling fast!

25.02.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Richard.

24.02.2025 12:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

In today’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 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hope to be in Dublin early July.

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

21.02.2025 10:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Meanwhile in Dublin’s Kills and Thrills department …

21.02.2025 10:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha. Great picture x

21.02.2025 10:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice. Thanks for sharing. Is that Easons?

21.02.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That final scene. πŸ₯Ί Took me a day to get over it.

18.02.2025 08:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Saw it last week. It’s brutal theatre at its very best.

17.02.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“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 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

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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 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Will give it a shot.

01.02.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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

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