Val McDermid
@valmcdermid
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Crime writer, broadcaster, Scottish, mother, bidie-in, lesbian, feminist, McDermid Ladies fan, singer with Fun Lovin' Crime Writers, loves the sea & ellipses...
Joined March 2009
I’ve made lots of friends and valued connections here on Twitter. But I’ve had enough of the vitriol, the lies, the apparently endless faking of the truth for hideous ends. Thank you, all of you who have interacted with me over the years. But I’m out of here. See you on Bluesky.
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RT @scarletrix: this will be great fun! . as the main website is. not entirely helpful, here's a direct ticket link: .
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WRONG DATE!!! The event is 15th December!!!.Sorry….
Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon to visit Edinburgh this Christmas for in-conversation event
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Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon to visit Edinburgh this Christmas for in-conversation event
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RT @IndexCensorship: Iranian rapper and human rights activist Toomaj Salehi was arrested two years ago today in #Iran. He remains unjustly….
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Brilliant news for book lovers and authors alike! .Topping & Company to open ‘largest independent bookshop in the country’ in York
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Independent booksellers Topping & Company will open a new bookshop over multiple floors in central York in autumn 2025.
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
Very honoured to win this award. I owe so much to the wonderful booksellers who have championed my work. Thrilled to see @ellakroftpatel win publicist of the year too 😊.
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What Can ‘Slow Horses’ Tell Us About Modern Britain?
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Apple TV’s ‘Slow Horses’, now in its fourth season, reflects contemporary Britain’s psyche through its flawed but unvanquished spies and their battles with cynicism, bureaucracy and decline.
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I'm so excited at the prospect of a new book from the insightful and compassionate Gwen Adshead!.
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BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine
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RT @ScotsWhayHae: 🎙️📚 The latest podcast, in collaboration with @BloodyScotland, is with the finalists for this year's McIlvanney Prize, wh….
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RT @sarahMo3W: Particularly sadistic murders take place in Germany and the Netherlands, but nobody makes the connection apart from two fema….
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‘Talent is classless’: bold project launched to create centre for writing in north-east England
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Refurbishing Newcastle’s Bolbec Hall could be first step in a mission to build up region’s creative industries
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RT @craigsisterson: Looking forward to hanging with Māori writer Michael Bennett in UK next week. I first met Michael when he was part of a….
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RT @BloodyScotland: We were lucky to have McIlvanney Prize finalist @valmcdermid help us launch our 2024 programme back in June. Her latest….
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You wrote it, I just read it!.
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RT @Anna_Mazz: Death of a Court Lady. From a series of eighteenth-century Japanese watercolours depicting the nine stages of a decaying cor….
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Thank you so much, I really enjoyed stretching myself to write something so different!.
@valmcdermid I just read your stellar Queen Macbeth, which is so incredibly satisfying on so many levels. I don't understand how you managed to do that in the space of 150 utterly fascinating pages. I totally believed every single word.
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Bloody delighted to be on this bloody terrific shortlist ! 🤞🏻🤞🏻.
⭐️The finalists have been selected for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize! Congrats!.@davidbishop A Divine Fury @panmacmillan .@cbrookmyre The Cracked Mirror (Sphere).@valmcdermid Past Lying (Sphere).@radiomukhers Hunted (Vintage).@kimtsherwood A Spy Like Me @HarperCollins .@CreativeScots
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RT @BloodyScotland: ⭐️The finalists have been selected for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize! Congrats!.@davidbishop A Divine Fury @panmacmillan .@….
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