Barry Forshaw

In the ever-stimulating company of @PaulVidich, whose The Poet's Game maintains his impeccable standards (our usual bonding over Graham Greene). In the lively disputatious company of Antonia Senior @Tonisenior Andrew Rosenheim, @MerleNygate, Ed Needham @JakeKerridge et al https://t.co/yiaCgxMHrt

Carlo Lucarelli is the King of Italian Noir - but am I inimitable?!?

Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 @OrendaBooks

The inimitable Barry Forshaw and the *King of Italian Noir* Carlo Lucarelli at the launch of #TheDarkestWinter t J Farrell! Unmissable #crimefiction!!

Relished writing a booklet essay for The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (from @ArrowFilmsVideo) @landofwhimsy @sergioangelini @HolmesBooth @MessinaRaphael @FunCityEdition @SecondSightFilm @Eurekavideo @NeoNoirLuke

GEEKchocolate @GeekChocolate

A classic New York thriller of the seventies is restored for Blu-ray later this month as @ArrowFilmsVideo recount The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. https://t.co/cmgTWj7wR3 #BluRay #thriller #classicfilm

Un bicchiere di vino with Carlo Lucarelli. Wrote in the FT: 'The Darkest Winter -- set in the Bologna of 1944 -- finds the thuggish Black Brigades fighting the SS for control of the city, while the conflicted Commissario De Luca struggles to solve three simultaneous murders...' https://t.co/mD8Vnns1dt

Crime-heavy week for me: Carlo Lucarelli Tuesday, Hatchards Authors of the year Party Wednesday (w. crime luminaries) and the CWA Dagger Shortlist announced today – see Crime Time link below.. it's the hardknock life for me keeping up with all this... https://t.co/YFoPRNwuF5 https://t.co/vll7WnhK4z

Excellent evening with two stars of international writing, Carlo Lucarelli and Burhan Sonmez. Carlo and I were reminiscing about the programme we did for BBC TV: Timeshift: Italian Noir (available on YouTube!) @The_CWA @OrendaBooks @Paulodaburka @westcamel @francescosim

Karen Sullivan 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧 @OrendaBooks

Lovely launch party last night at Open Borders Books headquarters, for two IMMENSE international authors – King of Italian Noir @CarloLucarelli6, author of #TheDarkestWinter AND the wonderful Kurdish author of #LoversOfFranzK (and President of PEN International) Burhan Sonmez! https://t.co/Bof6Kae9HN

Enjoyed providing a booklet essay and commentaries (the latter with KIm Newman @AnnoDracula) for TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC, from @Eurekavideo ; also on board: @TimLucasVW Jonathan Rigby et al

Eureka Entertainment @Eurekavideo

#OuThisWeek TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC, five crime thrillers produced by Artur Brauner adapted from the works of British crime writer Bryan Edgar Wallace & his father Edgar Wallace, are OUT THIS WEEK on Blu-ray in the UK and North America. https://t.co/SWhNn6PbiP

Written an essay for the new disc of The Black Torment from @88 (which will hopefully appeal to the likes of @eugenioercolani, @TroyHowarth, @ericmcnaughton, @ramseycampbell1, @EmDarkOfficial , @chrisoneill99 @GrahamHumphrey8 and co.

88 Films Ltd. @88_Films

Gothic chills and sinister secrets incoming in The Black Torment (1964), a haunting British horror classic. Featuring stunning art by @ThatTallGinger Will you dare to revisit its eerie halls? #GothicHorror #88Films #TheBlackTorment https://t.co/CB34KNCxZ2

For the deluxe new Hammer package of Shatter (starring Stuart Whitman and the matchless Peter Cushing), I supplied an essay on Seventies Crime Movies. It was a golden era, and Shatter is an entry in a notably fruitful period for the genre... https://t.co/9O3tIVSzhi https://t.co/czWfFo7Eoe

RT @ThisisWalter89: Released on Monday!

For the @BFI set of Richard Loncraine's Slade in Flame, I've contributed an essay: Britain and the Beat: UK Pop Music Films in the UK (congrats to @vic_pratt & Ben Stoddart @ThisisWalter89) https://t.co/iu3vaFZJGQ

RT @Paulodaburka: Book chat for the weekend https://t.co/C4FFSCQn0V Some of most popular @paulvidich new novel coming June UK THE POET'S GA…

RT @BarryForshaw3: Covering in the FT: The Darkest Winter/Carlo Lucarelli, We Are All Guilty Here/Karin Slaughter, The Girl in Cell A/Vase…

Covering in the FT: The Darkest Winter/Carlo Lucarelli, We Are All Guilty Here/Karin Slaughter, The Girl in Cell A/Vaseem Khan, The Man Made of Smoke/Alex North, Never Flinch/Stephen King, S J Parris, Linwood Barclay, Taku Ashib https://t.co/3W1I8XwuPU https://t.co/CuFpKxVyUq

On Crime Time, Paul Burke (who is writing his own encyclopaedia on the subject) on the best of current espionage fiction... https://t.co/lQtGkIUG9O https://t.co/GU6SAfcLtI

I wrote of M.R. Mackenzie in the Financial Times: 'One of the most consistently accomplished writers on the current scene'. I asked him to talk to Crime Time about his new one, The Secrets We Keep... https://t.co/cTBM1BXT0P https://t.co/tH5KTO74R3

Belatedly caught up with exemplary work by my colleagues across the ocean, Constantine Nasr & Steve Haberman, on a concise Roger Corman documentary for the Blu-ray of Day the World Ended (Shout Blu-rays are bloody hard to obtain in the UK - sent to me by Randy Broecker) https://t.co/UXQXOsAV4v