Interview Room One
We're a team of crime fiction loving writers and readers bringing authors and readers together via interviews, reviews, articles and from 2025, phsyical and online events. Find out more at www.interviewroomone.com
- Join us this week with @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social discussing turning her obsession with The Traitors into her new book, the importance of treating writing as a job, & the joys of a TBR pile that’s making its inexorable way across her office. interviewroomone.com/ruth-ware-inte…
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- A new week and our first video interview: we spoke to @evesmithauthor.bsky.social about her new novel 'The Cure' out this week from @orendabooks.bsky.social . Watch it here: interviewroomone.com/eve-smith-in...
- Our new April crime fiction quiz is up now- have a go and share with your friends if you’re feeling competitive :) interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
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- “It might seem strange for someone who has had 23 books published in a little over a decade, but I am fundamentally very lazy…” We think @sirbenfro.bsky.social might not understand the term lazy. Find out what he’s been up to lately in our new interview interviewroomone.com/james-oswald...
- April Newsletter coming week: if you haven’t signed up yet it’s free, has a monthly subscriber only competition & gives you a neat highlight of what we’ve done during the month… and the occasional heads up about big stuff coming… ;) interviewroomone.us22.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
- With over 100 reviews and more than 80 featured authors you're bound to find something that appeals - just 24 hours left to enter our competition. Visit the reviews, select the book that appeals most and share/ post in the message below! Good luck all!
- To celebrate 100 #BookReviews, read a review via the link here & reply to this post with the name/ author you'd most like to read. Follow us/like/share this post & we’ll pick 3 winners across our channels to receive their choice. Comp. closes 31st March. interviewroomone.com/reviews/
- “If the police ever seize my laptop and look at my search history, I might be in a bit of trouble…” Find out just what Neil Broadfoot has been up to in our latest Interview. interviewroomone.com/neil-broadfo...
- A new #crimefiction article for this Sunday evening. We love novels & short stories, but we're a sucker for a good story in our music too. Here team member Joe offers 10 #Storytelling songs with crime at their heart. Feel free to tell us your favourite... interviewroomone.com/crime-story-...
- Looking forward to this so much - still a few tickets left but going fast!
- To celebrate 100 #BookReviews, read a review via the link here & reply to this post with the name/ author you'd most like to read. Follow us/like/share this post & we’ll pick 3 winners across our channels to receive their choice. Comp. closes 31st March. interviewroomone.com/reviews/
- A new review of a new release of an old book. Confused? See our review for an attempted explanation... interviewroomone.com/books/down-c...
- Looking for your next #crimefiction read? We’ve got over 30 author interviews, with a new interview every Monday, including @barbaranadel.bsky.social @annamazz.bsky.social @mjarlidge.bsky.social @neillancaster66.bsky.social and MANY more: you can find them all here: interviewroomone.com/interviews/
- 3 new reviews up today: @callummcsorley.bsky.social @ajaychow.bsky.social and Claire Douglas' new releases. Check our thoughts out here: interviewroomone.com/reviews/
- Happy publication day @callummcsorley.bsky.social. The brilliant Paperboy is out now. Callum is giving us a signed copy for one winner. Read our interview & have a chance to win by sharing this & following us so we can let you know if you win Thursday 27th March interviewroomone.com/callum-mcsor...
- Calum McSorley’s Paperboy has been described as ‘Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale.’ Our interview covers gallows humour, skateboarding and the joys of a familiar, rat-nibbled corpse. Check it out here interviewroomone.com/callum-mcsor...
- New review up! Paperboy (out Thursday) by @callummcsorley.bsky.social, follow up to the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year 'Squeaky Clean', one of our stand out reads last year. Can this one compare? (Spoiler: yes!) Find out in our review: interviewroomone.com/books/paperb...
- Visited Tap Social in #oxford last week. Such a cool venue (pizza ovens ready!) .Looking forward to March 27th’s Interview Room One session with @sarahhilary.bsky.social & #mickherron + @dauntbooks.bsky.social -some tickets (£5 + booking fee) left but going fast eventbrite.co.uk/e/interview-ro…
- If you’re looking for a coffee break accompaniment this weekend our March quiz is up and the average score is 53% so far… interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
- Howard Linskey’s latest book has been described as “One of the year’s standout reads.” Read our interview this week to find out why a young William Shakespeare becomes a spy / crime solver, and how Howard went about researching the book. interviewroomone.com/howard-linsk...
- day late but our March quiz is up now! Another edition of page to screen: see how you do! interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
- If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter & entered our comp for @orlandomurrin.bsky.social 's Murder Below Deck check your inbox to see if you've won (if you didn't, it's out March 6th.) Not signed up? Do it now for our March newsletter & another great competition. bit.ly/IR1Newslette...
- February may be the shortest month but there were some great #crimefiction books released we reviewed, including @barbaranadel.bsky.social @jonathanwhitelaw.bsky.social @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social Check our reviews here… & keep following for something special soon interviewroomone.com/reviews/
- Out this week! If you've read @barbaranadel.bsky.social's books you'll probably already have this on your pre-order list. If you've only watched the #bbc series #theturkishdetective you'll love the source material. Out 20th Feb, here's our review: interviewroomone.com/books/the-ea...
- Happy Monday (if there is such a thing). A new interview with @william1shaw.bsky.social up on the site today. He talks to us about all things writing including his forthcoming book The Red Shore. Find out more at: interviewroomone.com/william-shaw...
- Ahead of his new book from @transworldbooks.bsky.social @orlandomurrin.bsky.social joins us to share his #writing space. #authours - want to share yours? Read the article to see how to tell us about you & your #crimefiction cubicle or literary lair! interviewroomone.com/my-writing-spa…
- Happy UK publication day to @jdwhitelaw13.bsky.social @alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social @josephfinderbooks.bsky.social Scott Turow and all other authors with books out today. We've got reviews up of those four authors' books up at: interviewroomone.com/reviews/
- This interview is getting lots of love from readers and writers! Have a look and follow for more
- Out on Kindle and Audio now & released in HB on Feb 13th from @headofzeus.bsky.social - The Oligarch's Daughter from @josephfinderbooks.bsky.social Described by Linwood Barclay as 'The Firm on Steroids' - here's our review: interviewroomone.com/books/the-ol...
- New week, new interview: @dominicnolan.bsky.social joins us to tell us about his book White City- @thetimes.com crime book of the year, & which @ianrankin1.bsky.social doubted would be bettered in his crime reads las year, his research methods & a LOT more. interviewroomone.com/dominic-nola...
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- It’s a new month, so a new #quiz ! This month we’ve got page to screen #CrimeFiction questions. See how you do! interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
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- Haven't signed up for our #newsletter yet? Our Feb edition is coming very soon. There's still time to sign up & ensure you're first to hear about new #crimefiction events, articles & enter our subscriber only competitions. There's a great one this month... bit.ly/IR1Newslette...
- This week we have Bestseller Laura Marshall talking about her Darkly Hilarious and Acutely Observed “A Good Place to Hide a Body,” as well as the joys of ‘just making it up,’ and discovering fresh fiction from the 50s and 60s. Read more here: interviewroomone.com/laura-marsha...
- We were lucky enough to go to the launch of @adberginwriter.bsky.social 's 'The Wicked of the Earth' published by @northodoxpress.bsky.social - now Nicola has written her review of this fictionalised account of the #newcastle witch trials. Find it here: interviewroomone.com/books/the-wi...
- Follow us and keep an eye on our events page: as well as our upcoming event in #oxford we’ve got exciting #crimefiction #eventsstuff coming elsewhere: more details coming VERY soon at interviewroomone.com/live/
- If you read our interview with Anna this week (and more than 300 of you have already) you'll be wanting to read this - if you haven't, take a look here and get your order in! interviewroomone.com/anna-sharpe-...
- What a week to have a book out about political corruption and powerful, abusive men! At least in my novel they get their comeuppance. My first Anna Sharpe thriller. Out today in all formats in the UK, and in eBook and audio in the US. #NotesOnADrowning annamazzola.com/notes-on-a-d...
- Huge Congratulations to Mick Herron on winning the CWA Diamond Dagger award - looking forward to hosting him & @sarahhilary.bsky.social at our 1st live event in #oxford at Tap Social March 27th. Tickets £5 (+ booking fee) at: bit.ly/IR127MarchEv... (raising funds for Tap Social's community work)
- Happy Monday! We're starting the new week with an interview with Anna Sharpe (aka Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social) who talks to us about her new book 'Notes on a Drowning and MUCH more. Read the interview here: interviewroomone.com/anna-sharpe-...
- Bored this Sunday? Why not see if you can beat the current average score of 50% on our review of 2024 #crimefiction #quiz ? interviewroomone.com/quiz-time/
- Our first physical event. In Oxford. At @tapsocialbrew On March 27th. Mick Herron & @sarahhilary.bsky.social in conversation. Tickets just £5 (+ small booking fee). Raising money for Tap Social's great social enterprise work. Places limited! More details at: interviewroomone.com/event/an-eve...
- We were lucky enough to get an early copy of @evesmithauthor.bsky.social 's forthcoming book - cover reveal today from @orendabooks.bsky.social. Hoping (and confident) we'll enjoy it as much as Eve's last: One (review here: interviewroomone.com/books/one/)
- So many good books out today - here's three we had the chance to read early... see what we thought of them here: interviewroomone.com/reviews/
