Arvind Ethan David

Just finished @francis_spufford wonderful #Nonesuch - billed as a sort of revisionist #Narnia but to my mind more a love-letter to his sex-positive WW2 Grandmother and all the women like her, denied opportunity by their time and class and then given a chance by the cruelty of war, grabbed it with well manicured hands and sucked the life from its bones. Recommend! #WritersOfInsta #Books #Fantasy

I’ll be hosting a Saturday night table at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival in Harrogate in July. It’ll be my first time there, so all tips welcome. The launch this week at @hachetteuk in London was as usual very hospitable with good speeches from @theakston.simon @sharon_canavar & curator @lisajewelluk - and so many friendly faces, including these ones @libbythescribbler @arvind.david @indiepublishermatt of @duck_books @wordsbyyemi @gr_halliday_author @dugaldbrucelockhart @heatherjfitt @ajaychowdhury.author Mick Herron @blake.books of @firefinchbooks & @ayoonatade I’m already partial to dark beer from Harrogate sponsor @theakstonbrewery but perhaps I should bring some @oldmonk_indiaa to add an Indian flavour? @harrogatefestivals @waterstonesharrogate @yourharrogate @welcometoyorkshire @yorkshirelifemag @yorkshirelistcom @uk_litfests @crimewritersassoc @dhhlitagency @bedfordsq.publishers @noexitpress @penguinindia @slow_horses

Celebrating with @allisonforward - i may not have won an Olivier tonight but it was lovely to be nominated and I think I may have won at life.

Great night at the @olivierawards with @lennyhenryofficial and our loves - celebrating “BoyWithWings and British theatre.

I like a good bib when eating a messy meal, a habit that led @therealbaddiel ' s children to call me "Winnie the Pooh" when they were younger. But @bonedaddies really does take things to the next level. Worth it for their excellent #ramen

The ARCs have arrived! This is a good moment. Uncorrected they may be, beautiful they are. #authorsofinstagram #thegreatgame #sherlock #raffles

Today would’ve been Douglas Adams' 74th birthday. Here is a snippet of Arvind David talking at BLF’s event - Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth at BLF 2025. For more Sci-fi and fantasy events, follow our socials to be the first to know about this year’s festival. #DouglasAdams #HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy #BradfordLitFest

Just to say that without @khalilmadovi there is no #BoyWithWings and no @olivierawards nomination for us. His tunes lifted my lyrics and made beautiful battle rap twixt birds and cats.

Waking up to an Olivier nod! Go go @polkatheatre @danielbailey @lennyhenryofficial and all the wonderful cast and crew behind this production and thanks @olivierawards voters for giving this boy flight! #AllKidsHaveWings

Beyond flattered at what these greats have been saying about THE GREAT GAME @officialjefferydeaver @imranmahmood777 @daveruddenwrites #MattGoldman Praise for the Great Game “Breathtaking! The Great Game is nothing short of transcendent. Yes, it is a brilliant, relentlessly paced classic crime thriller of good versus evil, populated with living, breathing characters (some familiar to us, some not, but all so fully fleshed out that they might be our neighbors). Yet it soars beyond that, offering psychological, cultural, and political insights that touch our souls—often on issues that have been tragically neglected. Told in a unique and captivating literary voice, this is a roller coaster of a tale that, I promise, you’ll read in one sitting. Bravo!” —Jeffery Deaver, author of the Colter Shaw novels (the basis for the television series Tracker) “David breathes new life into familiar characters with this wry, wickedly arch tale about decolonization, integration, and imperial arrogance, not just interrogating the classic caper but elevating it—stealing it out from under the Empire’s nose.” —Dave Rudden, Sunday Times bestselling author of Sister Wake “An audacious book…[The Great Game] has the pace of a thriller, the voice of history, and the charm of a writer who knows his way around a story…Full of intrigue and mystery and a completely unique story. One for fans of Vaseem Khan and Abir Mukherjee.” —Imran Mahmood, award-winning author of You Don’t Know Me “Arvind Ethan David’s The Great Game has the heart of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the social conscience of Charles Dickens. A wonderful trip to the origin of crime fiction…infused with real people from early twentieth-century London and also fictional characters of the day. A tantalizing whodunit.” —Matt Goldman, New York Times bestselling author of the Nils Shapiro series

It's my birthday and there's no one I rather share it with than @allisonforward or is that @directedbyallison - one of them anyway. Thank you my love for making everyday special.