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Writes Cesare Aldo historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS our now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg

An attempt at one of those transformation shots from Homes Under the Hammer, showing D V Bishop's writing space before and after (well, during, to be honest) tidying.
Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey.
Screenshot shows the opening of RETURN OF TARZAN: Chapter 1 The Affair on the Liner “Magnifique!” ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath. “Eh?” questioned the count, turning toward his young wife. “What is it that is magnificent?” and the count bent his eyes in various directions in quest of the object of her admiration.
A long list of events where D V Bishop will be the next few weeks
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Forum Books display of Aldo novels
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Sam Neill in Hunt for the Wilderpeople, blowing out a candle and saying "Goodnight mate."
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A video captioned When your book titles all sound like death metal album tracks... It shows the six Cesare Aldo historical thrillers (to date!) in hardback, being revealed in publication order,
A screenshot from The Bookseller magazine shows a green circle with the words 'Out next week' reversed out of it in white. Beside that three book covers are partially shown: Beyond the Edge of Light, Shadow of Madness, and Mad Mabel.
Jason Mantzoukas American actor and comedian
Cover layout for SHADOW OF MADNESS by D. V. Bishop
Cover for DAVID BISHOP AND THE LEGEND OF THE ORB by T. C. Crawford
Screenshot reads: Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said. Recommending a series of “trade-offs” in a letter to the Office for Students (OfS), which distributes the Strategic Priorities Grant (SBG), Phillipson said she recognised that “removing funding from these areas will be challenging”. The grant for 2026/27 will now no longer support some subjects at all, including archaeology, geography, nursing, computing and history courses, in order that funding for the likes of medicine, chemistry and engineering is “protected”. The SPG budget is an annual funding package spent on high-cost courses and other priority areas to supplement teaching costs, the guidance for the delivery of which is published annually by the Department for Education (DfE). The grant’s total budget has been set at £1.25 billion for the next financial year, down some £100 million from last year’s total.
Film poster for AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE
Screenshot of a Sunday Times article: Four great historical novels to read in July This month's picks include the drama surrounding a late-Victorian women's football team and a murder mystery in Medici-era Florence The SHADOW OF MADNESS cover is shown alongside three other book covers.
Screenshot of an article that begins: enre fiction continues to be a strong presence in July, and there are plenty action-packed thrills and spills coming from Scottish authors including Alan Parks (Deception, Baskerville, 2 July, £22), Douglas Jackson (Blood Enemy, Canelo, 9 July, £18.99), and debutant AJ Leslie (Pretty Valuable Things, Bold Wren Press, 21 July, £11.99). Edinburgh-based DV Bishop concludes his Renaissance mysteries with Shadow of Madness (Macmillan, 9 July, £20), and Jenni Daiches’ latest novel, They Know Where They’re Going (Scotland Street Press, 6 July, £12.99) is a dystopian tale of a dangerous journey through a drought-ridden future England ravaged by the effects of climate change.
Bouzkova's back today at Wimbledon.
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A WALK ACROSS THE ROOFTOPS by The Blue Nile vinyl
In Another World with vinyl copies of Laughing Stock and Spirit of Eden
Screenshot that reads: Shadow of Madness by D.V. Bishop, the latest Cesare Aldo historical crime novel, comes out this summer and it is a treat. The setting – a monastery inhabited by both nuns and monks – is fascinating and beautifully-described, and the writing is infused with a brutal wintry cold that seeps out of the pages, contributing to the tension.
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D V Bishop with a big stack of signed hardbacks
Artwork by Roger Langridge depicting Flying Nun, Sister of the Sky!
A panel from The Straitjacket Fits strips featuring a Jack Nicholson-esque character.
Images shows covers for the 2026 McIlvanney Prize longlisted titles: THE HOLLOW BOYS by Tariq Ashkanani 138 MAIN STREET by Gavin Bell QUITE UGLY ONE EVENING by Chris Brookmyre A BAD, BAD PLACE by Frances Crawford UNKNOWN by Heather Critchlow SOLITARY AGENTS by David Goodman WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID by Kirsty Lockwood RAT RACE by Callum McSorley THE DIARY OF LIES by Philip Miller THE PINNACLE by Abir Mukherjee THE VANISHING PLACE by Zoe Rankin LIAR THIEF by May Rinaldi
Partial cover image for THE FURY OF IRON FIST by Claremont, Byrne & Hama. It shows Iron Fist beating some guys.
Screenshot of Hot New Releases in Renaissance History Fiction form Amazon UK shows the audiobook for SHADOW OF MADNESS by D. V. Bishop is #1, ahead of bestselling authors Philippa Gregory, S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor - nice!
Dave Gibbons' cover of Tharg for 2000AD Prog 2017, published 11 April 1981
Screenshot that reads Warm congratulations to all those who have been promoted: Name School Promoted to David Bishop SACI Associate Professor
Dame Penelope Keith as Margot in The Good Life
Anthony Mackie in a two-piece suit in a pool
Judge Dredd Megazine 2.05 cover featuring Devlin Waugh painted by the characteer's co-creator, Sean Phillips.
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Screenshot of a caption from The Bookseller that reads: Percival Everett's Huckleberry Finn has sold 22,025 copies in the first half of 2026
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Mick McMahon's cover art for Judge Dredd Megazine 2.56, dated June 24 1994
Ppoof Blakes 7 title card for SERVALAN #FTW by D. V. Bishop
A graphic showing the title '6-7 March 2027' and 'celebrating half a century of Thrill-power'. The background is a field of dark blue night sky filled with stars, the lower half of the image is the top of Judge Dredd's helmet. Dredd art by Mick McMahon.
Screenshot that states: 3Comments Services to share this page. Share on Facebook Post Google Preferred Share to Flipboard 'Rogue Trooper' review 'Rogue Trooper' Liberty Films With his fifth film, Duncan Jones reveals that he was always more of a futurologist than a sci-fi guy, even though, like his films that preceded it, Rogue Trooper is another look into the black mirror of technology. Like father, like son, you might think, given that Jones’ famous father David Bowie never met a ’topia he couldn’t wait to diss. But while there is really no other overlap between the two artists’ work, it’s striking now that while Jones Sr. was very much a glass-half-empty kind of guy — “Five Years,” “Panic in Detroit,” even “Space Oddity” — Jones Jr. is still in thrall to the wonders of what H.G. Wells was thinking about when he penned William Cameron Menzies’s Things to Come (1936). Related Stories The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Global Box Office A still from the animated movie In Waves ‘In Waves’ Review: Tearjerking California Surfing Love Story Catches A Breaking Heart – Annecy Film Festival In some respects, Rogue Trooper is his Diamond Dogs (the concept album, not just the single), which Bowie modeled on George Orwell’s 1948 novel 1984. Jones Jr., however, looked to a less likely oracle for the basis of his first foray into full-blown animation — the gritty cult UK comic book 2000AD — to fashion a fast-paced, satirical and often visually mind-blowing war movie that plays out like Starship Troopers as made by René Laloux, the Disney-gone-Dalí director of the 1973 French cult classic Fantastic Planet. Watch on Deadline Next Video First, a few notes on 2000AD and its place in British pop culture. While the UK always has had a very strong contingent of science-fiction authors, their names rarely trouble the pantheon of great writers. 2000AD always was at the sharp end of that, arriving in the UK during the hiatus between the first…
Screenshot showing SHADOW OF MADNESS is #1 Hot New Release in Renaissance History Fiction on Amazon UK, ahead of Philippa Gregory's Royal Witch.
The final scene from IN THE LINE OF FIRE.
Somebody on abebooks is asking $500 for an old copy of my Nightmare on Elm Street novel even though its condition is only 'good' - madness!
Screenshot of social media post: Dr. Sarah Parcak ‪@indyfromspace.bsky.social‬ I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play. 2:20 AM · Jun 19, 2026
That Jim Royal gets around, doesn't he?