Daniel Pilkington
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Just books and random thoughts. I would have been considered good looking in the 1950s. These tweets are my own
Joined November 2010
The horror movie A Quiet Place but you’re in my bedroom with a jet lagged 10 month old and if you make a sound she wakes up for hours. My wife and I are terrified. I have a hay fever tickle in my nose.
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📚Action packed #thriller
@bookdout reviews The Forsaken by Matt Rogers #BookTwitter
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Title: The Forsaken {Logan Booth #1} Author: Matt Rogers Published: 2nd July 2025, Simon & Schuster Australia Status: Read February 2025 courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia ++++++++ …
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The response to Three Boys Gone by Mark Smith from his writing peers has been completely incredible. EVERYONE agrees it’s going to be one of the biggest books of the summer that will have everyone asking ‘Would you tried to save them?’
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📚 Exciting News! 🚀 Mark Smith, a successful YA author, is stepping into the thriller genre with "Three Boy Gone" set to be released in January. Get ready for a gripping, twisty, and addictive ride that is bound to be a hit in 2025. 📖🔥 #NewRelease #Thriller#2025Reads
THREE BOYS GONE is a heart-in-mouth psychological thriller by award-winning author Mark Smith, publishing 31 December and available to pre-order now. #ThreeBoysGone #MarkSmith #MacmillanAus
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This book is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
For ten years, Logan Booth served as a contract killer for the CIA – he just never knew it. Finding out destroys him and, adrift in forced retirement, he spirals into a pit of self-loathing. But when his oldest friend is brutally and inexplicably murdered, Logan's fury will
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The time Michael Brissenden didn’t bother to meet John Le Carre!
Travels with my dad
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It's shameful that McBride was convicted, shameful he was given a custodial sentence and shameful that he's been treated so poorly in prison. https://t.co/ZqrnN0Ejyy
An update on David McBride. Info. provided by his lawyer, Eddie Lloyd (with slight edits by us). David McBride has been in jail now for 80 days. He is the first Australian to be jailed for the war crimes in Afghanistan, and he is not the one who committed the crimes. He is the
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The Incendiaries is still one of my go tos when people ask for a rec so I can’t wait to dive into Exhibit @rokwon
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‘Trenchant, vivid and densely plotted, this is Brissenden’s best book so far and it’s a page turner.’ Incredible review for Smoke in today’s SMH.
smh.com.au
Former journo Michael Brissenden has written a cracking novel set in the aftermath of a Californian wildfire.
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#FreeAtena ❤️ Iranian cartoonist Atena Fargadhani sentenced to 6 years in prison. Facing “harshest punishment” for her activism, Atena Farghadani must be released immediately https://t.co/tRx1fOvdyq
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Check out the striking trailer for Smoke by Michael Brissenden. ‘A powerful, haunting and exceptionally well written novel.’ Don Winslow Out 28 May. Pre-order now at your local bookstore and online. #Smoke @mpbrissenden @donwinslow
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May 28 “Readers of Don Winslow and Chris Hammer will delight that there is a new detective on the scene, and she is harder on herself than anyone else. Most of all though…Smoke is an examination of what happens if we do not speak up. It is a story that endorses truth-telling.”
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Reporting on the climate crisis and turning to crime fiction, Michael Brissenden for @GuardianAus. Smoke is out tomorrow! https://t.co/w4NJ3AJKWY
theguardian.com
Cut free from the constraints of reporting, a story can take its own shape, can lead you down rabbit holes you’d never expected
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I just hit my 3 year old with the ‘You’re not hungry, you’re …….’ For the first time
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The reviews are starting to come in. @donwinslow “powerful and haunting’ @hammernow ‘best crime book I’ve read this year’ @dervlamctiernan ‘intense, diabolically smart, unforgettable.' And now this one from @writtenbysime SMOKE hits the shops in Aus/NZ on May 28 @affirmpress
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Warnie 🥲💔
An asteroid that hit Earth’s atmosphere earlier this year was spinning once every 2.6 seconds, faster than any other known asteroid.
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The new book! SMOKE - May 28. Thanks so much for the support and enthusiastic endorsements...@hammerNow @donwinslow @DervlaMcTiernan @mb_randi @TimJAyliffe pre-order now.
Check out the striking trailer for Smoke by Michael Brissenden. ‘A powerful, haunting and exceptionally well written novel.’ Don Winslow Out 28 May. Pre-order now at your local bookstore and online. #Smoke @mpbrissenden @donwinslow
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