Andrew Hunter Murray
@andrewhunterm
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A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW - also @privateeyenews writer, @NoSuchThing -er, lush. Agents: RCW (lit) and The Agency (showbizz).
Joined May 2011
Small but exciting announcement.
Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder. Coming soon from @andrewhunterm, a pulsating and grippingly original thriller about bent cops, mysterious houses and a group of young squatters facing deadly consequences. Signed Edition:
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It's going to be a warm weekend. Stay indoors and read - and the good news is that for ten days only, my new book is on Kindle for just £0.99. A SINGLE ENGLISH POUND. Here's the link!
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Too far. NOW we need to act.
theguardian.com
Volatile weather patterns may be altering taste of juniper berries – a key botanical in the spirit – scientists say
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Reminder: for the whole of this month you can get my latest book for a *criminal* (the book is about criminals) 99 pence on Kindle. Yes! Do It! .
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Cheap books! For the month of June, you can get A Beginner's Guide To Breaking And Entering for just 99p. This is the cheapest possible way to get it, short of breaking into someone else's house and nicking theirs. Here it is:
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Literary criticism alert: I have written for the Times about one of the greatest housing novels of all time, High-Rise. It's here, and in the paper on Saturday. If you can't wait until then/if you want a picture of Tom Hiddleston in the buff, here it is:.
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It is the penultimate day of the deal of the century: two books for the price of one on Audible! 'A Beginner's Guide To Breaking And Entering' and 'The Last Day' are both included. Here is the terrific Phil Dunster reading the former. Click here to BUY NOW
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I'm really proud of this one - it has been years in the writing - and I think you'll enjoy it too if you like any of my other stuff. Here's that link again and thank you to everyone who's read/recommended already. It makes a huge difference.
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If you prefer listening, there is a 2-for-1 deal on the audiobook read by the terrific Phil Dunster, i.e. Ted Lasso’s own Jamie Tartt. This deal is now in the last three days – two books for just one Audible credit. Here's the link:
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IT’S PUBLICATION WEEK! ‘A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering’ is out in paperback now. It’s funny, thrilling, and set in some ridiculously nice houses. I’m so excited I sneaked into Waterstones to have my picture taken with it. Order your copy here:
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This was mega-fun to do, and my theory - that we need more empty houses, not fewer - will definitely prove uncontroversial and be interpreted as I meant. Listen here for Spicy Housing Chat!.
NEW EPISODE OF THE ABUNDANCE AGENDA!. 💨 Britain's weird hate for air conditioning.🚄 Even more HS2 delays 😩.🏡 Plus we speak to @andrewhunterm about empty homes!.
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Probably shouldn't have tweeted links to hard-hitting journalism during the Eurovision finals. I stand by it. Anyway, here's part 4 with the excellent @jimwaterson on the curse of Lime Bike Leg. Cycle safely folks. Full podcast available at Page 94.
Jim Waterson (London Centric) revealed the rash of broken legs across London caused by heavy Lime electric bikes falling on their own riders, and asks: who is in charge of keeping commuters safe? #PaulFootAward2025
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And HERE is part 3 of the shortlist - Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff with a very thought-provoking investigation of how missing-people journalism is conducted and who does, and doesn't, get attention from the press .
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (The Guardian/Reuters Institute) wrote about the disappearance of Fiona Holm and why it was overlooked by the press – and how the media chooses which missing people get coverage and which don’t. 🎧 Listen to the full interview with Charlie on today’s
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Whooops well Saturday night is time for Investigative Journalism so here's the second entry - remarkable piece of work about the benefits system and the way it's failing carers .
Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday (The Guardian) uncovered how vulnerable British carers were taken to court for accidentally claiming carer’s allowance while working part-time – even though many had tried to report their earnings to the Department of Work and Pensions. 🎧
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One of my favourite bits of the year: interviewing the shortlistees for the Paul Foot Awards. Amazing journalists with amazing stories. Will be re-posting these over the next week and the full, remarkable mini-episodes of Page 94 can be found here:
private-eye.co.uk
Ian Hislop & Private Eye magazine venture into the world of audio with Page 94, a brand new podcast featuring Helen Lewis, Adam Macqueen and Andrew Hunter Murray. Subscribe at Apple, Spotify, Google...
For six days Page 94 is covering the extraordinary stories of the investigative journalists shortlisted for this year’s Paul Foot Award, before the winner’s announcement next week. First up is Laura Hughes (The Financial Times) for her deep-dive about the abandoned mines
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Nice news: if you head to you can get my new book A Beginner's Guide To Breaking And Entering - read by none other than Phil Dunster - in a TWO FOR ONE deal. He reads it so well. Go go go! The link is up there! Click it!
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It's a GOOD DAY for HALF PRICE AUDIOBOOKS. 'The Last Day' *and* 'A Beginner's Guide To Breaking And Entering' are in the Audible 2-for-1 sale - starting today and running until the 21st of May. But just get them today, yeah? .
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Thank you Lindsay!.
@andrewhunterm I loved this book: it’s a clever, very funny, original, quirky read.
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Not pictured: me crawling under the desk to get into the centre of Book Castle.
Yesterday's fun: here I am surrounded by 500 signed copies of A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering, shortly on their way to independent bookshops around the UK. To get yours. just go to your local bookshop! Here's a handy link. Yes, my hand hurts.
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Yesterday's fun: here I am surrounded by 500 signed copies of A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering, shortly on their way to independent bookshops around the UK. To get yours. just go to your local bookshop! Here's a handy link. Yes, my hand hurts.
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Just THREE WEEKS until my new book is out in paperback. This version is:.- cheaper.- lighter.- has the *same number of jokes as the hardback*.- easier to fit in luggage.- available to pre-order here or at your local bookshop.
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