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Alan Parks

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2 years

Well this happened…!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Can never post this enough...

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Well that was a nice surprise!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Holy Moly!

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Alan Parks

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6 years

Slightly odd sign outside church...

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Bit hard to imagine if you are not my age but you cannot imagine how radical looking this band were at the time. Gamechangers...

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Is there a greater word in Glaswegian than “wurny”? ‘As in I was there and you wurny.’

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Postman’s been…

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Alan Parks

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10 months

This made me a bit tearful @G_Armstrong21

BBC Scotland

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10 months

Sometimes all you need is someone to believe in you. #StreetGangs is available to watch now on @BBCiPlayer

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Just arrived!

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Incoming….

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Alan Parks

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4 years

Glasgow looking a bit like somewhere else tonight...

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 years

I look like I’m on my way to court...

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

3 years

Paisley-born, Glasgow resident @AlanJParks spent more than 20 years in the music industry, before turning his hand to writing Tartan noir thrillers for @canongatebooks . He answers @tomtivnan 's questions here: #ScotlandFocus

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Look what just arrived!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Wrote this a wee while ago about Glasgow, music and drugs. Or my life as I like to call it…Glasgow: City of Crime and Culture ‹ CrimeReads

Glasgow: City of Crime and Culture

Glasgow has always been misunderstood and mislabeled, a city of contradictions. Most commentators see the (amazing at the time) nomination of Glasgow as the European Union’s official “City of Cultu…

crimereads.com

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Alan Parks

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5 years

Downtown Cambuslang tonight...

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Is it me or is the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan still the best bit of cinema ever made?

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Alan Parks

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4 months

Look what arrived today!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

New book out today!

Canongate

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3 years

A homemade bomb rips apart a grimy tenement. The maker is killed instantly, but Detective McCoy knows in his gut more will follow, and if the city is to survive it'll take everything he's got... Wishing a happy publication day @AlanJParks – THE APRIL DEAD is out now. #HarryMcCoy

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Alan Parks

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4 years

Free haircuts. free clothes and toiletries for people who need them under the bridge at Central Station tonight. Amazing volunteers.

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 years

Getting there…

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Sadly very true...

Jen🌻

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3 years

Exactly this

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Twitter world Glasgow edition. What would you call this building? Flats?

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Alan Parks

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4 years

Never thought I’d have a billboard!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

After a year or so The Airport Pint is back....

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Signed some books today….

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Had to be done...

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 years

Found one of the original seventies paperbacks of the first book. Haven’t seen one for years….

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2 years

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Very pleased to make ⁦Mark Sanderson’s crime books of the year on The Times..!

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Alan Parks

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4 years

New Book. Not out for a wee while.

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Alan Parks

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2 months

Some news…

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

9 months

On the upside at least I get a free bus pass….

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

Today is publication day! Run don’t walk to the bookshop and pick up To Die In June! It’s out!!!!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

In which I grin like a loon…

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

1 year

. @canongatebooks has signed To Die in June, the "brilliant, brutal and breathless" new novel from @AlanJParks . Read here:

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Hero. Always.

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Alan Parks

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3 years

New book alert!

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

3 years

"Alan Parks always delivers: peeling back the city’s layers in taut, gripping novels with supremely satisfying plots and real emotional depth", @canongatebooks has picked up the fifth Harry McCoy thriller book by @AlanJParks , May God Forgive:

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

Went second hand book shopping today and found this!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

2 years

Shelf goals…

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Paperbacks!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

7 months

Merry Christmas when it comes!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

2 years

Airport pint and some book they had in the bookshop! @Beathhigh

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Alan Parks

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2 years

When you are doing a panel and suddenly the futility of life overcomes you….

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Alan Parks

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4 years

Book four handed in. Treating myself to several proper beers tonight!!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 months

Sadly Bernard Hill has died. If you are of a certain generation this performance has probably stuck with you since you first saw it. He articulated the plight of a lot of people. Made distant political decisions real. R.I.P. You will be missed…

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Wow! That's a bit of a surprise! Bobby March nominated.

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3 years

#congrats @EdgarAwards @Rhysbowen @blacklionking73 @JamesKestrel @williamfleitch @katrosenfield @ErinLFlanagan @vera_kurian @FabianNicieza @CaitlinWahrer @DavidBellNovels @CJessCooke @darylwriterguy @ShekillsLit @AlanJParks @spookypurcell @margalitfox @elongreen @benjamintsmith7

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Alan Parks

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3 years

A friend of mine’s flat got burgled many years ago. I sadly was high on mushrooms when we got home and found out. I noticed the only cassette they had taken was some Jazzateers demos with Alison Gourlay singing. I attempted to tell the police this was a vital clue. :-(

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Alan Parks

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1 year

In which I blabber on…

Top 10 cops in fiction

At war with the establishment, putting themselves in reckless danger and succumbing to terrible habits, these unreliable figures are dependably entertaining

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Hotel reception is quite something…

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Alan Parks

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9 months

I feel seen…

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Alan Parks

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3 years

⁦ @Lloyd_Cole ⁩ on the Glasgow subway today!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

I can’t explain how loathsome this reduction in universal credit is. This ceaseless persecution of people on the breadline to placate the “Tory faithful” is stomach churning.

Anthony Costello

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3 years

Rishi Sunak offers a £500m hardship fund to hungry people. On Wednesday he removes £6 billion from universal credit which will create worry, stress +hunger for the poorest families + children in the UK. The most regressive and shameful economic policy in living memory.

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Alan Parks

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1 year

A very nice surprise!

The Crime Writers’ Association

@The_CWA

1 year

🗡 THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER @TheIanFleming #CWADaggers Linwood Barclay: Take Your Breath Away John Brownlow: Seventeen MW Craven: The Botanist Robert Galbraith: The Ink Black Heart Ava Glass: Alias Emma Alan Parks: May God Forgive

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Alan Parks

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2 years

New best friend.

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Alan Parks

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10 months

Partick Detective Writers Branch Meeting….⁦ @LiamMcIlvanney ⁩

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Very nice to see ⁦ @LiamMcIlvanney ⁩ tonight. Has been to long!

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Idea - James Bond. Reality - bouncer at dodgy club.

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2 years

Burn!!!

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2 years

Gdańsk

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2 years

Shawlands

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Alan Parks

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7 months

Some very nice editions arrived this morning…

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Alan Parks

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4 years

People of America! If you want to read about seventies Glasgow, drugs, missing teenagers and gang warfare now's your chance! (appreciate you may have other things on your mind at the moment)

Europa Editions

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4 years

“The meticulously described setting is so suggestive readers may even catch whiffs of stale cigarette smoke and patchouli. Fans of Scottish noir will be satisfied.” @PublishersWkly BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER by Alan Parks publishes April 6!

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Out in the wild! ⁦ @LiamMcIlvanney ⁩ ⁦ @WaterstonesGla ⁩

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Airport pint Berlin style…

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Alan Parks

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1 year

If it’s Saturday night in Kilkee we are in the pub!

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Alan Parks

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7 months

Starting the new year as I mean to go on….

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 years

Next week.

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Alan Parks

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5 years

Can’t quite believe it, book three done and dusted....

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Good advice.

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Alan Parks

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2 years

I make Lasagne.

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Glad tidings!

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Alan Parks

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6 months

38 degrees in the shade. I am Scottish. This is not good.

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Alan Parks

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3 years

View from Ben An today...

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Alan Parks

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4 years

What the fuck is wrong with the people who decide this is acceptable?

Marcus Rashford

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4 years

3 days of food for 1 family... Just not good enough.

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Phenomenal performance

Craig

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1 year

“Say it loud. Say it clear. Refugees are welcome here” FUCK THE TORIES.

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Alan Parks

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4 months

I look like the third in charge cop in the title sequence of a mid nineties police show….

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Alan Parks

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4 years

Well this was a nice surprise...

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

In which I look like a bouncer…

Ian Fleming

@TheIanFleming

1 year

There are just a few days until the announcement of @The_CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger winner, so we took the chance to talk to some of the shortlisted authors & find out more about their novels. First up, @AlanJParks & May God Forgive! Read here:

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

It’s Mayday! The paperback is out! I look like a buffoon!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 years

Thank you to The Times!

Canongate

@canongatebooks

3 years

“One of the great Scottish crime writers is back” Great to see The April Dead by Alan Parks as crime Book of the Month in The Times. (£)

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Hard to believe this was forty odd years ago. It's still the future.... Joy Division - She's Lost Control (Live At Something Else Show) [Remaste... via @YouTube

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

2 years

Made tom yum soup. Burnt both my hands really badly doing so. Tasted so horrible I only had two spoonfulls. Then had some pate and toast. Bought the pate the other day because I hadn’t had any for years. Had a bite and remembered why. That went in the bin too. Now drinking beer.

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Some shiny bloke on the tv…

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland is a truly amazing programme. A genuinely new perspective on The Troubles. Essential.

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 months

Stella for breakfast….

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Alan Parks

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2 years

Ever ordered something off the internet when you are drunk? Me - Hold my beer…..

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2 years

New pal.

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Alan Parks

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1 year

Bought a shirt. It is red. Very red….

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Alan Parks

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3 years

Happy new year! (In taxi home at half nine!)

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Alan Parks

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2 years

⁦ @WStonesArgyleST ⁩ got them early!

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

3 years

Very chuffed to be included here amongst these great authors. Thank you @BloodyScotland !

Bloody Scotland

@BloodyScotland

3 years

The big reveal! 🔪 Announcing the longlist for the McIlvanney Prize 2021. You can read more about the list here: With thanks to @GlencairnGlass for their support of this year's prizes.

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2 years

All dressed up….

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Alan Parks

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10 months

I will be interviewing @estellecostanza about his book tomorrow night in Toppings in Edinburgh. Apparently it's very good. Haven't read it myself tbh. Will maybe have a skim through on the train...

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

1 year

VULGAR SELF PROMOTION ALERT!! ‘May God Forgive has been longlisted for the @harrogatefest #TheakstonAward #TheakstonCrime – if you’ve read it and enjoyed it, the public vote is open now, vote! ’

Vote - Harrogate Theakston Crime Awards

Vote… The public vote is now closed. The winner will be announced on Thursday 18th July at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Voting is now open for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime...

harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com

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Alan Parks

@AlanJParks

2 years

Delighted to be on this list with such great books. Congratulations everyone!

Bloody Scotland

@BloodyScotland

2 years

And here it is! Our longlist for the McIlvanney Prize 2022! With thanks to @GlencairnGlass for their support of this year's prizes. #McIlvanneyPrize #Longlist