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Let’s celebrate. We’re going through a ghastly coronavirus crisis. But we should not forget that the world is wonderful. I thought I would write in…
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When I lived in Istanbul from 2012-16, people often asked me whether I was concerned about terrorist attacks, crime or civil disturbance. At the end…
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What to do, when you are stuck at home because of the #coronavirus outbreak? Read Middlemarch, by George Eliot. George Eliot’s real name was Mary…
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“Three people came up the walk to the old mansion just at dawn on a perfect May morning. Oliver Wilson in his pajamas watched them…
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In these coronavirus days, it’s worth recalling how to be happy. I’m going out to dinner tonight, so this might be my last chance. I’m…
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By Robert Pimm Financial Times, May 9, 2003 I’m picking up the kids from school here in Berlin when a teacher accosts me. “Started being a…
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Which rooftop bar in Vienna has: outstanding cocktails the best view in Vienna total coolness? Here’s a clue: Here are some reasons I like the…
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At a recent reading from my blackly comic “Seven Hotel Stories” in Vienna, a man asked me: ‘These stories seem explicitly feminist. Is that intentional?’…
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My two live readings in Berlin are coming up. I shall be reading from my thriller Blood Summit in Berlin on 21 and 22 February. I…
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How a convicted murderer (“‘Killed a man with a pool cue. Judge said it wasn’t premeditated… Just kinda happened”) introduced me to his girlfriend –…
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I am listening to literary folk on the Queen Mary Literary Festival at Sea (links in bold italics are to other posts on this site). After a…
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Welcome to a brand new “Hotel Story”. Seven Ukrainian Girls is the eighth story in the series, and follows on from the tales collected in my…
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It is time to plan your weekend in Berlin. I shall be doing two readings from my thriller Blood Summit in Berlin on 21 and 22…
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Vienna is full of cafes. But which are best? The entrance to the Cafe Hawelka – photo Robert Pimm Many Viennese cafes are rather good.…
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Welcome to the opening chapters of my Berlin thriller, Blood Summit. I wrote Blood Summit from my personal experience, after years of working with real terrorist…
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I’m sitting on a high-speed train, next to the window, with an empty paper cup. How best can I make myself happier? One of my…
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My blog of January 2016 recorded the discovery of a handwritten list of ten rules of behaviour amongst my father’s papers, two years after his death in…
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“They come now, the dark angels, the violent ones, their wings black against the sun, their swords unsheathed.” Does evil exist independently? Or does it arise…
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Respectable Austrian news service APA has published a report saying, and I quote, “according to employees sent abroad by companies, Vienna is the third-most unfriendly…
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How men and women think, and whether there is a difference, is one of the abiding puzzles of life. We all want to understand other…
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“You have 15 seconds to capture someone’s attention,” crime writer Mark Billingham says. Outside, the ocean rushes by, waves flecked with white horses. The wreck…
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‘Are the James Bond novels any good?’ a friend asked me the other day. ‘They are anachronistic, homophobic and sexist,’ I replied. ‘But James Bond himself…
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I wrote the following story as flash fiction at a writing course I attended recently at Loutro on Crete (links in bold italics are to other posts…
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I have finished reading from my book Seven Hotel Stories when a guy in the audience raises his hand. ‘How much of these stories is made…
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Have you seen the classic 1949 British thriller The Third Man (links in bold italics are to other posts on this site)? If not, watch it immediately! Either way,…
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What do you think a reading with Robert Pimm looks like? I was delighted on 18 October to read from my Berlin thriller Blood Summit in…
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I wrote the following story as flash fiction at a writing course I attended recently (links in bold italics are to other posts on this site).…
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The paperback version of Seven Hotel Stories is now out. It looks like this: I’m pretty excited about this, so all shares, retweets etc welcome! The text on…
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Hello to all you readers out there. I shall be reading from my Berlin thriller Blood Summit at the Stadtbibliotek (city library) in Innsbruck at 1900…
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What if Ian Fleming wrote a James Bond novel in which the hero did not appear until halfway through? The cover of my Folio Society…
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A new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, lurches over the horizon. Will it be any good? Almost certainly not (links in bold italics are to other posts…
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When I climb into an Uber driven by Jonathan (not his real name) in San Diego, he is playing reggae. Rashly, I comment on this.…
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Vor kurzem war ich zu Besuch in Berlin. Ich habe den Reichstag besichtigt: die Kulisse für meinen Berlin-Roman Blood Summit. Blood Summit gibt es noch nicht…
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An Austrian friend of mine was reading my Great Vienna cafe reviews recently (links in bold italics are to other posts on this site). My…
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In the shade of a quiet taverna, eight people sit writing. Crickets chirp on the fragrant hillside. A glistening kebab rotates; as fat hisses in…
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I recently visited Berlin to take another look at the city in which my thriller Blood Summit is set. My goal was the Reichstag, where much of…
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In the city, the heat is oppressive. Yet the evening, in a deck chair under a beach umbrella, is cool. The beer in my hand…
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How beautiful can a footpath be? Austria’s are amongst the best. I particularly enjoy the country’s system of footpath signs. Over the past three years…
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‘Where can I find out more about your paperback “Seven Hotel Stories”, featuring the world’s most homicidal hotel manager, Ms N, and her beautiful but…
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I recently visited one of my favourite places on earth, Lundy Island off the north coast of Devon, for the 22nd time. Lundy Island has…
