Arvind Ethan David

This rather nice piece is now available online. Nothing like being recognized in your hometown. Thanks @theedgemalaysia.bsky.social www.optionstheedge.com/topic/cultur...

Some reviews mean more than others. This one from @malaysiakini.com meant a lot. www.malaysiakini.com/columns/8856...

I'm grateful that the good people at @ala-booklist.bsky.social continue to champion books and libraries. Here's an interview I did with them. #BookSky www.booklistonline.com/products/983...

This week #BookSky - in #SantaBarbara - @sbindependent.bsky.social www.independent.com/2026/08/30/h...

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

Why are Empires viewed so sunnily in much had sci-fi, asks @jdnicoll.bsky.social - one of the moments where Lucas got it very right. Empires are seldom (never?) benevolent. They are engines for extracting wealth and restricting freedom.

Pleased to have caught the notice of @jdnicoll.bsky.social - though his disapproval of my "choice of publisher" suggests that this first time author had a line up of keen presses at his door, which wasn't the case.

New Substack is up. A discussion of the unlikely fellowship of brown detectives, or how I found myself in a club #BookSky thedreadandtheenvy.substack.com/p/brown-dete...

#Booksky - The Daily Mail's WHICH BOOK questions are worth a ponder. Reading now? Gave you the reading bug? Take on a desert island? Left you cold?

And for fullness #BookSky #Podcasts #DouglasAdams @bbcsounds.bsky.social

UK based BlueSky friends, my #DouglasAdams audiobook is now available from @bbcsounds.bsky.social as a podcast! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Dear #booksky -- Author event in Santa Barbara coming up - come on down chaucersbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Me in @thedailymail.bsky.social who have an unrivalled ability to make everything about Hate. www.dailymail.com/home/books/a...

So we just launched The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tarot Cards on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/pro...

Talking #GreatGame with @easterneye.bsky.social www.easterneye.biz/arvind-ethan...

Ever since I wrote The Great Game, I've been wanting to talk to Arup Chatterjee, one of the academics whose work inspired it. Here's our conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewY...

The name of this playlist is hilarious 😂😂😂 the songs are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

In my new substack I try and make sense of the Emily Wilson, Tomi Adeyemi and Black Panther internet storms, which all seem to me to circle round the question WHO OWNS A GREAT STORY? Would love feedback. #BookSky #TheOdyssey #EmilyWilson #BlackPanther open.substack.com/pub/thedread...

It's lovely to see Dirk still appear on lists like this after all this time. #DirkGently www.cbr.com/best-forgott...

The Criterion closet is not going to survive The Odyssey promotional tour. If they let just one more cast or crew member in they’ll be completely depleted.

Well, if the Sirens turn up, it is every man for himself.

The venom of these critics on the question of the Odyssey and each other is so eighteenth century I love it!!! We are in Whig vs Tory land!!! We are in The Dunciad!!! And it’s all about the ancients vs moderns as well

Doing the page 69 test on The Great Game was illuminating. @marshalz.bsky.social #MarshallMcLuhan #Page69Test page69test.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

The influence of tarot on Sylvia Plath.

New substack now live thedreadandtheenvy.substack.com/p/my-first-m...

Had a great chat with @traceydevlyn.bsky.social on the High Stakes pod. Listen to it now. #BookSky #AuthorsLife #Classics #Sherlock tinyurl.com/SpotifyHSEp46

For someone who didn't know he was writing a literary satire, I'd still say this is a good result. #BookSky #BestSeller ? #ChartTopper @amazonpublishing.bsky.social

I wrote this piece for @writersdigest.bsky.social on what I learnt as a screenwriter and playwright doing my first novel #BookSky #Writer #WritingTips #Advice #Pontificating #Blowhard www.writersdigest.com/long-time-wr...

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On The Fellowship of Writers open.substack.com/pub/thedread...

Saw #THEINVITE last night and it was great on modern marriage & loneliness. A wonderful illustration of how to make a chamber piece cinematic. Director/star Olivia Wilde uses space, lighting, frame and lenses to tell the story as much as Rashida Jones & Will McCormack’s excellent script does.

"E.W. Hornung's Raffles stories... are almost entirely forgotten outside specialist circles, yet they contain one of Victorian literature's most compelling implicit queer relationships." crimereads.com/the-secret-q...

This was a fun interview with Desiblitz - #BookSky #Sherlock #Detectives #Indians www.desiblitz.com/content/arvi...

Now, ep. 411D: Arvind Ethan David brings back mystery the solving duo of Bunny and Raffles in THE GREAT GAME! @arvd.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/07/16/t...

The last thing I thought I was doing as I was writing "The Great Game" was writing myself into a members' club... but thanks to @imranmahmood777.bsky.social @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social @radiomukhers.bsky.social @ajaychow.bsky.social I find myself in one. wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com/2026/07/brow...

I wrote a piece on @crimereads.bsky.social celebrating the coded queerness of Raffles & Bunny, Sherlock and Watson's forgotten counterparts. crimereads.com/the-secret-q... #Sherlock #Edwardian #BookSky #QueerHero #LGBTQLit

It's nice to wake up to find yourself having cracked the top ten. Obviously, this is in one of Amazon's very specific subcategories, immigration fiction, but I don't hate my companions, not least The Extraordinary Flesh by my old classmate David Zsalay.

Q&A with Arvind Ethan David about his new novel, THE GREAT GAME. deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/q-wi... @arvd.bsky.social

Eric's agenting is a big part of why this book exists. So buy it already. #booksky

Thanks to @scalzi.com for letting me play in his bullpen - The Big Idea: Arvind Ethan David whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/14/t...

Thanks to you Dave, it's been a joy to work in your worlds and to invite you into mine.

#MRCarey - he of #TheGirlwithalltheGifts aka #MikeCarey, the comic creator behind #Lucifer and #TheUnwritten" is one of the most prolific, erudite, talented and nicest writers I know. I was a fan before we were friends. His endorsement of #TheGreatGame means the world to me. #Booksky

Thanks @medium.com and the mysterious "staff writer" for this lovely write up and Q&A - #BookSky #Quick6 medium.com/the-reading-...

In ONE HOUR. at 1730 BST / 930 PST / 1230 EST I will be talking to @saradivello.bsky.social -about the imminent release of THE GREAT GAME join us HERE - www.facebook.com/Murder-by-th... or for YouTube fans: www.youtube.com/channel/UCq_... #BookSky