jakekerridge @JakeKerridge

Writes about books and the like for the Telegraph and the like. Mainliner of crime fiction. Joined July 2011

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Sarah Hilary @sarah_hilary

a month ago

An online ticket to @HildasCrime gives you full access to all sessions inc live Q&As. Plus the chance to win our Whodunnit starring @radiomukhers @Anna_Mazz @RuthWareWriter William Ryan and @JakeKerridge 8-10th August st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/2025-cr…

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Callum McSorley @CallumMcSorley

2 months ago

Huge thanks to @JakeKerridge for including PAPERBOY in his round up of the best new crime and thriller books of 2025! "a vision of Glasgow as a technicolor hellhole of corruption, reminiscent of James Ellroy’s Los Angeles" - that really made my day! share.google/8u6nrtLhy3uRtK…

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Lisa Shakespeare @ShakespeareLisa

10 months ago

The Peacock and the Sparrow @isberryauthor is @JakeKerridge's THRILLER OF THE YEAR @TelegraphBooks & a TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! 'the advent of a writer who has both the insider knowledge & the literary chops to convey the flavour of 21st-century espionage' Thanks, Jake!

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Telegraph Books @TelegraphBooks

10 months ago

What were the best crime thrillers of 2024? 📚 This year saw a bumper crop of flawed and villainous heroes, some more traditional cops and the thrilling advent of a new spy-writing talent... Read @JakeKerridge 's picks here: telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

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Telegraph Books @TelegraphBooks

11 months ago

'I wonder if Harkaway might feel that he has done too good a job' Read @JakeKerridge 's 5-star review of Karla's Choice 👇 telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

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Patrick Walsh @Walsh_e_Patrick

11 months ago

…”Harkaway’s new recreation of the Smiley milieu is note-perfect”. “Readers will respond to KARLA’S CHOICE with pure gratitude”. Stellar Sunday Telegraph review by Jake Kerridge of Nick Harkaway’s KARLA’S CHOICE, dramatising a few missing events from George Smiley’s life.

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Telegraph Books @TelegraphBooks

11 months ago

📚The 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Han Kang, has been praised for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas". Read @JakeKerridge 's reaction here: telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @LouisMMCoiffait

11 months ago

'Librarians: extensively trained professionals whose role in connecting people with books & providing information cannot be supplanted by machines or volunteers' - great to have a chance to input to this article @JakeKerridge @TelegraphBooks @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/books/young-ad…

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Lisa Shakespeare @ShakespeareLisa

11 months ago

'Berry has all of le Carré’s cynicism about Western intelligence services & outsoars him in her ability to convincingly evoke a love affair against an espionage backdrop. This is a star in the making' Thanks @JakeKerridge @TelegraphBooks The Peacock and the Sparrow is out 24 Oct

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Saraband Books @SarabandBooks

11 months ago

Head over to @Shotsblog to read an extract from #ACaseOfMatricide by @GMacraeBurnet wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2024/10/extrac… Catch Graeme at @WaterstonesTraf this Thursday at 7pm in conversation with @JakeKerridge, tickets available here waterstones.com/events/a-case-… We hope to see you there!

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Graeme Macrae Burnet @GMacraeBurnet

11 months ago

🚨And dear LONDON FOLK, lest you feel left out of the matricidal festivities, a week today (10th), I'll be in conversation with the mighty @JakeKerridge at @WaterstonesTraf 🚨 Would love to see you there!🍷 waterstones.com/events/a-case-…

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Mr Mark Sanderson @MrMarkSanderso1

a year ago

Crosby, thrills and cash: thetimes.com/culture/books/…

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Janice Hallett @JaniceHallett

a year ago

Gasp! 😱 Thank you so much to the awesome @JakeKerridge for this wonderful profile feature in today's @Telegraph 🙏 Plus, our new settee makes an appearance in the pics 🛋️ telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/…

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Matt Nixson @MattNixson

a year ago

ICYMI, I was incredibly lucky to visit HMP Bullingdon with #SlowHorses creator Mick Herron to mark 25th anniversary of @PRG_UK for #ExpressFeatures. With 5,000 reading group sessions over 25 yrs, PRG is doing amazing work. Thanks to all involved at Bullingdon, PRG & @MoJGovUK 👏

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke

a year ago

The Wasp Factory: How Iain Banks's 'depraved' novel shook the world, by @JakeKerridge telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

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Faber Books @FaberBooks

a year ago

‘P. D. James is the crème de la crème of crime authors.’ Ian Rankin Feast your eyes on our beautiful new editions of P. D. James's bestselling mysteries starring Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. The first five reissues are available now 📚 linktr.ee/adamdalgliesh

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Ayo Onatade 🇬🇧🇯🇲🇳🇬 @Shotsblog

a year ago

@RevRichardColes is in the @HildasCrime #spotlight today. wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2024/07/in-st-… which artists would he invite to dinner & which concert would he like to attend again? @gigicroft @hilda_beastoxf @sthildas_events @sarah_hilary @JakeKerridge @CrimeReaders @AndrewJRTaylor #HCFW24

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John Sweeney @johnsweeneyroar

a year ago

"Nothing about the Nazi spy General Vargas shocks the John-Bullish narrator of Cause for Alarm as much as the fact he wears rouge on his cheeks..." H/T @JakeKerridge on Eric Ambler.

indy100 @indy100

a year ago

"Nothing about the Nazi spy General Vargas shocks the John-Bullish narrator of Cause for Alarm as much as the fact he wears rouge on his cheeks..." H/T @JakeKerridge on Eric Ambler.

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Matt Nixson @MattNixson

a year ago

The legend that is @PaulHeatonSolo, as brilliant as ever in #Telegraph today. Tickets prices for a vast amount, possibly the majority, of big artists, have become a huge swizz.