Chris Lloyd
@chrislloydbcn
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Writer. The Eddie Giral Occupation series (@orionbooks). Winner of the @HistoriaHWA Gold Crown. Shortlisted for @The_CWA Historical Dagger. Agent @elladkahn.
Penarth, Wales
Joined July 2011
RT @MarkEllis15: Reading the latest brilliant offering from @chrislloydbcn in a cafe in Gevrey Chambertin. What am I drinking? A very sm….
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RT @HobeckBooks: Here's the podcast! Super late, sorry, and before Donald Trump slapped his tarrifs, but we do discuss this a little, and o….
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RT @orionbooks: From the winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Best Historical Fiction @chrislloydbcn comes a gripping new murder mystery set in….
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RT @HistoriaHWA: Chris Lloyd's third Eddie Giral novel, Banquet of Beggars, is out in paperback today, so let's revisit the Historia featur….
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RT @orionbooks: Congratulations @chrislloydbcn, the brilliant third instalment in the award-winning Occupation series #BanquetOfBeggars is….
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RT @HobeckBooks: Our last interview was so good we had to split it into two! Here's part one of our fascinating chat with Chris Lloyd, who….
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RT @orionbooks: In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice, and no one knows that better than Detective Eddie Giral. The brilliant third nove….
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Well, this has completely made my day. Huge thank you to the brilliant @books2cover for this wonderful review of Banquet of Beggars. Congratulations also to Simon for such a beautifully-written and insightful article. More books on my shopping list!.
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So lovely to see the brilliant @BethanMay on her last day at @WstonesCarm .Really sad to see such a wonderful bookseller go - I'm so going to miss her 😔 .Thank you for all your support, Beth.
The ever-lovely @chrislloydbcn came all the way down for a surprise visit today to say goodbye to our Bookseller Beth - so of course she couldn't let him go without signing his books! .Thank you so much for calling in Chris!
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A brilliant initiative by the equally brilliant @TrevorWoodWrite .To mark the pb launch of The Silent Killer, Trevor's doing a 7-day sponsored walk, taking in 6 bookshops and 75 miles, to raise money for Alzheimer's Research UK. Please repost far and wide!.
To mark the pb launch of The Silent Killer I'm doing a 7-day sponsored walk, six bookshops and 75 miles to raise money for @AlzResearchUK .There's a link below. It would be great if you could support this brilliant cause by donating or sharing this post
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OK, so I've finally made the move over to the other place. I'll still be here for a while, but. Please come and say hello and connect at
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What an amazing selection of historical fiction and non-fiction to be published in 2025 by @HistoriaHWA authors😍.Huge thanks as always to the brilliant @_FrancesOwen .Honoured to see the paperback edition of Banquet of Beggars included - out in March!.Now to spend. .
📚📚It's here!📚📚.Historia's mega-feature summarising every book by HWA authors (that I know of) published in 2025. 114 books, fiction and non-fiction, to take you through the year. Have a browse at Happy New Reading Year!.#histfic #history #BookTwitter
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As you can tell, I loved Blood and Lies by @GrumpyOldBooks. Out on 22 December - pre-order your copy now!.
Am absolutely bouncing 😁. 🧵.Chris Lloyd .Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award for best historical novel winner and one of my favourite authors has read my book and said this about it. .
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RT @IamnotAndy1: @ChildrenInRead @chrislloydbcn Eddie has arrived, and if you have not read any of this series you are seriously missing ou….
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RT @christempleton6: Great day at the Eden Project Christmas Market today - The Mystery on the Cornish Coast proved popular @thebookfolks @….
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Congratulations @VaseemKhanUK on publication day for City of Destruction. Absolutely love the Persis Wadia books!.
Countdown is over! . CITY OF DESTRUCTION is out today. Here's me telling you a bit about it . History, mystery, heat. If that sounds like your thing, do please consider ordering from your favourite bookshop, etc. Thank you! . Other options here:
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Some amazing books in this list!.And I'm incredibly honoured to see my Eddie Giral books included by none other than @robert_lyman.
#BooksoftheYear.Check out our author recommendations. Featuring books by.@hrcastor @sauldavid66 @dgjones.@KeithLoweAuthor @janethynne @BenMacintyre1 .and more. Let us know your choices. #historybooks #bookrecommendations #bynr
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RT @JLHarlandAuthor: Wanting a stocking filler for a reader? Welsh/Italian connections? Our novella, an imagined memoir, ‘Angelo’s Journey.….
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Today's the last day of bidding in the wonderful @ChildrenInRead auction. Lots of fabulous books to bid for, including a signed copy of Banquet of Beggars, the latest in the Eddie Giral series. Click on the link below to find out more.
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Very happy publication day to the brilliant @Dougwriter - Blood Sacrifice, the second Jan Kalisz book, is out today.
Happy publication day @Dougwriter! 🥳. In a city of the damned and the doomed, one man fights for justice. #BloodSacrifice is the chilling second thriller in the WW2 Warsaw Quartet series . Out now and perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow & Robert Harris 👉
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