
Fiona Brownlee
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PR: Bloody Scotland. Greystone. Muswell Press. Sphere. Hodder. Canongate. Rights: Birlinn/Polygon. Swim Judge. BSL beginner. Dog convert.
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Thanks Jen Lucas ✍🐈📖🦩📚 for a fantastic round up of our Bloody Scotland influencer selections to date. Really interesting reading & thanks too for your own recommendations…

So looking forward to these q&a’s from the McIlvanney Finalists Bloody Scotland - particularly their challenge to sum up the festival in one sentence: “A celebration of the best of contemporary crime writing, interspersed with fun and conviviality.’ Val McDermid thank you!


Loving the launch of #Oaklore by Jules Acton Greystone Books Hatchards chaired by Patrick Barkham The Guardian


It was a joyful, treemendous launch event for Jules Acton’s #Oaklore Hatchards in London tonight, featuring (courtesy of The English Oak Project) Oscar the baby oak, and brilliantly compered by Patrick Barkham


& we’re off! Bloody Scotland kicking off with a pre rec of BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends in Stirling broadcasting 6.15pm Saturday. Crime writing guests Richard Armitage Chris Brookmyre Ambrose Parry 📚🕷Suzy A #CrowMoon 🖤❤️📚


"You know if you win against Val McDermid, you've written a bloody good book" Chris Brookmyre on winning the McIllvanney Prize for The Cracked Mirror Bloody Scotland #Stirling #bookfestival



.Bloody Scotland audiences up 30% on pre-pandemic record. On-the-ground book sales were healthy too, with Waterstones reporting a 41% increase on last year. Read more 👇 thebookseller.com/news/bloody-sc…

Thank you to Alice Thomson for her glorious interview with Jules Acton in The Times and The Sunday Times today on Oaklore. Alice calls Acton’s writing’s ‘instantly accessible’ and focuses on Jules’ passion to give ancient oaks the same rights as listed buildings: thetimes.com/life-style/wil…

Thanks to Zoe Corbyn for this insightful The Observer interview with Diane Boyd, whose incredible memoir of 50 years of wolf-conservation A Woman Among Wolves we publish this Thursday:

Not one but two outstanding national media interviews with Greystone authors this weekend! Fiona Brownlee

‘This book is delightful…very enjoyable and very readable’ we’ll take that Greystone Books Review: Oaklore by Jules Acton blackberrygarden.co.uk/2024/10/book-r…





I will be talking about The Cracked Mirror at Blackwell's Edinburgh on May 27. Come along and hear about how I almost melted my brain writing it. eventbrite.co.uk/e/chris-brookm…