A couple of things collided in my attention this week and formed a proto-thought about ‘AI’ I thought I’d share here. I always put ‘AI’ in quote marks, by the way, because it’s an acronym that stands for so many different and disparate things it might as well stand for nothing. But that’s a post […]
The Dog Days Are Over
Sad news at the farm as we say goodbye to Dogmael, the tricoloured sort-of sheepdog. He had a minor stroke last week and died in his sleep on Saturday afternoon at the grand old age of fourteen and a half. Dogmael – or just Dog for short – came from a farm near Trecwn in […]
The Rest Is Death – Book Launch
Inspector McLean book fourteen – The Rest Is Death is published on March 27th 2025. To mark this momentous occasion, I will be in conversation with the redoubtable Russel D McLean, whose own new novel – The Friday Girl – is out a fortnight earlier. Why not come and see the both of us at […]
Farewell, my lovelies
It’s been a while coming, but I have finally made the decision to no longer update my Twitter account @SirBenfro. I’m not shutting the account down, and it may well be that I return to it some day, but for now I’ve had enough. I first started tweeting in early 2009, frustratingly just one month […]
If you go down to the woods…
Tomorrow, September 12th, sees the publication of my first standalone novel, Broken Ghosts. I am equal parts proud and terrified, although copies have already been spotted in the wild and a few good reviews have popped up here and there. Broken Ghosts is not like any of my other books, so I don’t have the […]
Floofs, mostly
Linen Change!
Broken Ghosts
The news is out! The lovely people at Wildfire Books have taken on the task of publishing my odd little standalone novel, Broken Ghosts. It’ll be out in September, so more details in due course. For now, here’s the press release in The Bookseller – https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/wildfire-snaps-up-stunning-gothic-novel-by-james-oswald
Kirkcaldy here we come
Another event to add to the list for the For Our Sins book tour. I’ll be chatting away in Waterstones Kirkcaldy on Tuesday, March 5th. Kick off at 7pm. Come along if you’re in the area, why don’t you? Tickets and details here: https://allevents.in/kirkcaldy/in-conversation-with-james-oswald/200026039964559
Moo!
The 2023 calves were weaned on Thursday, and are still loudly vocalising their unhappiness at this state of affairs. We bring the calves down to the shed at weaning, as in previous years they have proven adept at getting under, over or simply through fences as they try to find their mums again. The mums […]