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Literary crime, thriller & gothic chiller imprint of @johnmurrays.bsky.social. Home to Sunday Times #1 Bestseller Mick Herron.

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · Jan 23

We're delighted that Mick Herron has been awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger!

The award recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre.

Congratulations Mick! 👏

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · 12d

We are so thrilled to share that Mick Herron is the winner of the 2025 Raymond Chandler Award!

Mick Herron will be handed the award on December 4th at the Casa del Manzoni, with a talk alongside Adrian Wooton. Find out more below . . .

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Mick Herron is the winner of the 2025 Raymond Chandler Award

The author of the thrillers Slough House, on which the famous Apple TV+ series Slow Horses is based, succeeds to Joyce Carol Oates and will receive the award on December 4th, at the Casa del Manzoni

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 12d

Baskerville has signed Palestinian author Ahmed Masoud and his crime novel A Death in the Old City, publishing in April 2027 👇 #BookSky

Baskerville signs Ahmed Masoud's crime novel

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · 24d

We are so excited to announce a new 'page-turning' Elizabethan-set crime series from Nick Beckett! Read all about it in @thebookseller.com here:

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Baskerville snaps up 'page-turning' new Elizabethan-set crime series

Baskerville has snapped up a new Elizabethan-set crime series by author Nick Beckett.

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · 27d

An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth.

Down Cemetery Road, based on the book by bestselling author Mick Herron, and starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson premieres October 29.

#DownCemeteryRoad #EmmaThompson #RuthWilson #AppleTV #AppleTVPlus

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Micheline Steinberg Associates @steinbergassocs.bsky.social · Sep 24

📣 The wait is over. 🐌🐎📺📕

#SlowHorses Season 5 from MICK HERRON’s novel #LondonRules streaming now on #AppleTV
Publ. @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

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#GaryOldman #KristenScottThomas #JackLowden #SaskiaReeves #ChristopherChung #JonathanPryce

Watch Slow Horses - Show - Apple TV+

Watch Slow Horses, an Apple Original thriller following a team of dysfunctional MI5 agents. Starring Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden and Kristin Scott Thomas…

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · Sep 24

Chaos at Slough House isn’t optional, it’s guaranteed. Stream Slow Horses season 5 on Apple TV+ today. #SlowHorses #AppleTV

Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · Sep 18

Join Mick Herron and Richard Osman next Tuesday, as the brilliant crime fiction writers are live in conversation for a special Guardian Live event to answer your questions and celebrate their new releases.

Tickets available now!

📅 Tue 23 Sept, 7.30pm
🎟️ cadoganhall.com/whats-on/gua...

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Sue Thomas @brownflopsy.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's an absolute baptism of fire coming into a well established series at book 9, but Mick Herron's writing drew me in beautifully. 💙📚

#ClownTown is out tomorrow, and it's a cracker!

Thank you @baskervillejmp.bsky.social for introducing me to the wonderful #SlowHorses - review brewing! 🤩

A picture of Clown Town by Mich Herron set against a backdrop of cushions.

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Reading For Leisure @debbiehartuk.bsky.social · Sep 11

Happy publication day to Mick Herron & @baskervillejmp.bsky.social for the superb #ClownTown

Plotted like a carefully choreographed game of chess, until the #SlowHorses arrive, then chaos ensues, with devastating consequences

#BookSky #BookBlogger

Reading For Leisure review: tinyurl.com/44sbrck6

Clown Town by Mick Herron

Diana Taverner, First Desk at MI5, is using an old spy network to do her dirty work. When she tries to involve the slow horses in her sche...

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Slow Horses return . . .

The new Slough House thriller, Clown Town, is out now!

linktr.ee/clowntownmic...

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Micheline Steinberg Associates @steinbergassocs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Countdown to September 24 for S5 #SlowHorses from MICK HERRON’s novel #LondonRules on #AppleTVPlus. Prod #SeeSawFilms Publ @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

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Cast includes #GaryOldman, #KristinScottThomas #JackLowden #SaskiaReeves #ChristopherChung #JonathanPryce

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Slow Horses — Season 5 Official Trailer | Apple TV+

A compromised agent, a destabilized London, and a can of paint. Slow Horses returns for a new season September 24 on Apple TV+ https://apple.co/slowhorses This quick-witted spy drama follows a…

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · Sep 9

Welcome to The Bottle Bank Mysteries 🍷

We are so excited to be publishing the first novel from Olly Smith with Death by Noir, available to pre-order now!

linktr.ee/deathbynoir

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Reading For Leisure @debbiehartuk.bsky.social · Aug 19

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#ClownTown from Mick Herron & @baskervillejmp.bsky.social is like a carefully choreographed game of chess, until the #SlowHorses become involved, and then chaos ensues, with devastating consequences.

Published 11/9/25

#BookSky #BookBlogger

Reading For Leisure review: tinyurl.com/44sbrck6

Clown Town by Mick Herron

Diana Taverner, First Desk at MI5, is using an old spy network to do her dirty work. When she tries to involve the slow horses in her sche...

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Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've got it on pre-order but couldn't wait and the lovely folks @baskervillejmp.bsky.social came up with a @netgalley.bsky.social of the eagerly awaited #ClownTown by Mick Herron. Slough House book 9. My review will appear over the weekend. Bloody marvelous stuck, no sign of going stale here!

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Reading For Leisure @debbiehartuk.bsky.social · Aug 14

Apologies if my scream has just deafened you. Many thanks to @johnmurrays.bsky.social @baskervillejmp.bsky.social @netgalley.bsky.social for granting my wish. Full steam ahead with my current read so I can get on to #ClownTown from Mick Herron

#BookSky

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Reading For Leisure @debbiehartuk.bsky.social · Aug 16

#TheDeadTracks from @timweaverbooks.bsky.social moves at a blistering pace. Sleep eluded me last night until I’d finished.
I’m now ridiculously excited to be starting #ClownTown from Mick Herron and @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

#BookSky #BookBlogger

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rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · Aug 16

📚 Forgo to send a huge thanks to @baskervillejmp.bsky.social for providing an ARC of #ClownTown . Can't wait to check up on Jackson Lamb...
#booksky #crimefiction

rowingrabbit.bsky.social @rowingrabbit.bsky.social · Aug 14

📚Been a tough couple of days so beyond surprised & delighted to be sent the ARC for #ClownTown by @mick-herron.bsky.social courtesy of @netgalley.bsky.social Thank you #JohnMurrayPress , you made my week 🙌
#booksky #bookreview #crimefiction

book cover for "Clown Town" by Mick Herron, published by John Murray Press

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Kindig Blog @kindigblog.bsky.social · Jul 25

Currently Reading: #Exiles by Mason Coile (@andrewpyper.bsky.social). Will be published 18th September by @johnmurrays.bsky.social @baskervillejmp.bsky.social. Thank you to them & @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC.

#BookSky 📚💙 #books

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · Jul 17

GUNNER, the first in an exciting new series from @alanparks.bsky.social, is published today by @baskervillejmp.bsky.social!📚

Gunner, a wounded former detective, is reluctantly drawn into the case of a mutilated German found in Glasgow’s bomb wreckage during WW2.

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Baskerville @baskervillejmp.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy publication day to GUNNER by @alanparks.bsky.social! 🪖

Partly inspired by the true story of Rudolph Hess's secret mission to broker appeasement with Britain during the Second World War, GUNNER is an atmospheric and addictive new thriller.

Available here: linktr.ee/readgunner

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Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congratulations to @alanparks.bsky.social on the publication of #Gunner a new series featuring Joseph Gunner. A former cop who is now a former solider because of his war wounds and his Glasgow is a much different city. @baskervillejmp.bsky.social
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Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social · Jun 26

On the blog today the first in a new series by @alanparks.bsky.social . If you like his Harry McCoy books then you are going to love #Gunner which is published 17 July by @baskervillejmp.bsky.social .

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Blake Friedmann Literary Agency @blakefriedmann.bsky.social · Jul 1

NEWS: GUNNER, the first book in @alanparks.bsky.social brand-new WW2 thriller trilogy longlisted for 2025 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year!

Out on 17 July from @baskervillejmp.bsky.social

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Read more: blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/alan-pa...

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Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social · Jun 16

#BookPost Big thank you to @baskervillejmp.bsky.social for this well concealed copy of #ClownTown #MickHerron
Publishing September.

#Booksky 💙📚

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Emma | 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜.𝚌𝚘𝚖 @damppebbles.bsky.social · Jun 18

#fivestarflashback ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#BookReview: Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding @baskervillejmp.bsky.social #SpeakOfTheDevil #damppebbles
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#BookReview: Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding @BaskervilleJMP #SpeakOfTheDevil #BookTwitter #booktwt #BookX #damppebbles

“Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a man’s severed head sits in the centre of the floor. Each of the women – the wife, the teenager, the ex, the journalist, the co…

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