Richard Strachan

Writer: 'The Unrecovered' pub'd in 2025, 'Night Fire' in 2026, by @BloomsburyRaven. Rep'd: @SamEdenborough

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

@AdamScovell A wonderful book, a big influence on my first novel

[Joe Abercrombie @LordGrimdark]

The thing that blows my mind about Palantir is they've chosen the name of a wondrous seeing stone that was secretly debased by Sauron and ended up corrupting and destroying all who used it.

[Dr Tim Rideout @TimRideout1]

Great author, novel & bookshop. Not to be missed @RWStrachan1977 @ForumBooks #NightFire 😊

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Boosting this again!

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Just under two weeks to go before my event at @ForumBooks for Night Fire, on 15th June! Tickets still available, so if anyone is even remotely interested the link is below:

https://t.co/MkQc6Vi750

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Just under two weeks to go before my event at @ForumBooks for Night Fire, on 15th June! Tickets still available, so if anyone is even remotely interested the link is below:

https://t.co/MkQc6Vi750

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

New Substack: on being a 'former bookseller'

https://t.co/z4qTT7iHyP

[KarenKisreading 📚🐾 @KarenKingston8]

Thrilled to be sharing my 5⭐️ review for this excellent historical fiction novel, Night Fire by @RWStrachan1977 @BloomsburyBooks today. This emotional book should be read in schools and colleges.

https://t.co/LRjUJrgVP0

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Bloomsbury Books UK @BloomsburyBooks]

Join Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977 at Forum Books in Corbridge where he will be discussing his brilliant new historical fiction book, Night Fire!

7pm, Monday 15th June 2026
FORUM Books, NE45 5AW

🎟️ https://t.co/gpxq5WwPSp

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Glad to see more reviewers enjoying Night Fire!

[The_Secret_Bookreview @secret_bookblog]

✨✨ NEW REVIEW ✨✨

Night Fire by @RWStrachan1977 is a beautifully written and deeply moving wartime story. Poetic yet brutal, it captures grief, survival and the haunting reality of Bomber Command.

I was completely immersed! Thank you @BloomsburyBooks

✨ A dual narrative that balances air and ground perspectives
💔 Powerful exploration of grief, trauma and survival
✈️ Intense, high stakes wartime tension
🖤 Haunting undertones that blur reality and memory
📖 Beautiful, poetic writing that stays with you

Purchase link⬇️
https://t.co/wJIGqxy22Y

👏🏻👏🏼 👏🏽 👏🏾 👏🏿

#NightFire #RichardStrachan #HistoricalFiction #WarFiction
#thesecretbookreview

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

@secret_bookblog @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyRaven Thank you so much, glad you liked it!

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

More copies of Night Fire and The Unrecovered signed at Edinburgh's greatest bookshop, @GoldenHareBooks (who deserve a prize for selling so many of the paperback!)

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Current reading: Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny

[KarenKisreading 📚🐾 @KarenKingston8]

@bertsbooks Nearly finished the excellent and emotional Night Fire by @RWStrachan1977 and also reading a digital proof of The Wrong Man by @cmacwritescrime

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

New Substack!

https://t.co/lDO3Ws0G5Z

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

So Tokarczuk wanted to use AI for 'faster preliminary research.' Why? What's the hurry here?

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

Granta are now trying to work out if the prizewinning story they just published was written by AI and in order to work it out they are asking AI. You can’t make this stuff up.

Spoiler: it was written by AI. I know kids of twelve who’d tell you that from sentence one.

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

I could equally ask how many monasteries have woken up to the fact that when literacy collapses it will be on them (AGAIN) to keep things ticking over

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Shut up, books.

https://t.co/kkWh3nrgfF

[Richard Strachan @RWStrachan1977]

Re-reading an old Jonathan Carroll favourite I haven't read for about 25 years