A stunner of an interview.
06.03.2026 14:04
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A stunner of an interview.
Six books nominated for the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller category, including Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall. It it’s among high falutin company of books by Freida McFadden, Liz Moore, Sally Smith, Dan Brown & Richard Osman.
Nomination card for Death at the White Hart in the crime and thriller category at the British Book Awards.
Bamboozled with delight - Death at the White Hart is shortlisted in the Crime & Thriller category at this year’s British Book Awards.
See you there Paul, in mutual feelings of mistakenness!
Death at the White Hart has been nominated for Best First Novel at the International Thriller Writers Awards taking place in New York in May, at ThrillerFest. 🤯🥳
A robin, on a bramble bush, in Dorset in February 2026
February POV
Copies of Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Mystery (2026 edition) and Chris Chibnall’s Death at the White Hart sit ona round white table next to a red and white Agatha Christie mug of tea, which says “Partners in Crime”.
A cushion with a pink typewriter sits on a blue chair in front of of a bookcase at the offices of Agatha Christie Ltd.
Martin Freeman on the red carpet in front of a giant clock backdrop at the premiere for Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials on Netflix
Chris Sweeney, Helena Bonham-Carter,Mia McKenna-Bruce, Martin Freeman and Chris Chibnall stand in front of the Kings Library door at the British Library.
January POV (it was a whirl)
I do not write much but there is not a day goes by that I do not think of you.
Brilliant film, David. First profile and interview I’ve ever seen with him. Thanks for posting it.
The Netflix UK page for Broadchurch, featuring the cast of season 1 standing on a beach with a crime scene incident tent lit up behind them.
All three seasons of #Broadchurch are coming to Netflix UK from Tuesday 18 November.
Exactly how I felt being at the birth of our son.
I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This piece, as cited by @emilybell.bsky.social & @taraconlan.bsky.social, is the big picture of what’s going on. The playbook successfully deployed in the US is happening here.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned-influencers-media-emerge-new-mainstream-2025-11-08/
Superb, old school, independent local journalism, in a new model of collaboration and funding. Not seen the conclusions of this reporting picked up/acknowledged yet by other outlets. This is the sort of reporting they used to do.
https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/
Been enjoying watching videos of Radiohead’s return to the stage last night. What a setlist! Anyway, seemed like a good excuse to repost this old favourite I drew a few years back.
Agatha Christie invites you to a Netflix mystery…
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January on Netflix, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.
Coming in 2026 📚💙
Congratulations Martin!
How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
Dad's Army - Getting The Bird (27th October 1972). A moment of Croft/Perry pathos.
The cover art for the Japanese edition of Death at the White Hart - the winding street of a Dorsetvillage at night with the coast on the distance. A white silhouette of a deer peeps out from between the thatched houses.
Love the cover art for the Japanese edition.
News on that soon!
Tomorrow: Dorchester!
Friday: Yeovil!
Last Death at the White Hart events.
Thanks so much! Thrilled you liked it. News on next book coming soon!
Why, yes, @helenlewis.bsky.social did go to the Riyadh Comedy Festival
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Was simultaneously thrilled and slightly terrified to be subjected to The Shoot Treatment by the brilliant @4hundredblows.bsky.social for @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
This show - and Martin himself - always manages to provoke conversations few other interviews get to.
Final Death at the White Hart events next week, back in the South West. Dorchester next Thurs (23rd) and Yeovil on Fri (24th)
https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/chris-chibnall-death-at-the-white-hart/
https://www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/chris-chibnall/10069
Thanks Martin!
#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop
