Tom McCulloch

Publication day for my novel Riprap - deeee-lighted to be joining the @RunAmok_books stable. Many thanks to @realVernonSmith and Gary Anderson for taking me on... Available here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…

@MNGrenside @RunAmokCrime @realVernonSmith Cheers man. Glad u liked it!

@tomamcculloch @RunAmokCrime @realVernonSmith Just read the article. Enjoyed it.

Delighted to have an article in this fantastic magazine discussing my new novel 'Riprap', out now from @RunAmokCrime. Many thanks Paul! @realVernonSmith

No bloody wonder! Ultramarathon swimmer sets record pace over 55km in crocodile-filled Australian river theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr…

#OnThisDay in 1987 Dundee United progressed to the UEFA Cup final after an excellent 2-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach in West Germany Iain Ferguson & Ian Redford were the heroes on a famous night for Jim McLean’s side #DUFC

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New Aspects of Crime on Kindle, Issue 4. amzn.to/4vIvD4o @Paulodaburka @AspectsHistory @SabineDurrant @tomamcculloch @BardosAlan @BernardOKeeffe1 @for_fi @David_Jarvis_ @toniviola_books @stevenveerapen @MRPhill25 @RunAmok_books

@offtheballbbc The Blair Atholl Project

What would be the name of a Sci-Fi film set in Scotland? 👽 Can you do better than Lost in Speyside, Invasion of the Tullibody Snatchers or The Man Who Fell To Perth?🛸

@HarrySword Excellent work Mr Sword. Hurl a Twitter grenade as the Friday evening pubs come intae view. See what happens.....

I don’t understand the obsession with Guinness. It’s quite a boring beer. Can be good ‘in Ireland’ but even then it’s not that good. And at its worst it’s like drinking whipped cream with seven 2p coins in your mouth.

@MrEwanMorrison @chronicalihere An excellent work...

@chronicalihere Capitalist Realism- well worth a listen and a read. youtube.com/watch?v=FNF17M…

Mark Fischer extensively discussed this phenomenon in his works, how there was a "slow cancelation of the future". He theorized that because capitalism places a limit on what we can imagine as an alternative to it— where a future without it is rendered both unimaginable and impossible— culture as a result loops the past endessly, instead of creating something new. It quite literally cannot. It's forced to recycle the same cultural products. Only what capitalism produces is natural, real and permanent; nothing outside of it. So it has to keep going back. The future is bound to the socio-political and economic limits of its current reality— what it produces cannot be so radically different. We cannot imagine a world distinct from, or beyond it, so instead we extend the present. We keep going back to what we knew. That is why nostalgia is probably the most powerful marketing tool; it presses into something that is no longer there, but we hold onto; that we yearn for again— it exploits that bond we have to that memory/ feeling to sell us the idea that you can actually go back. Nostalgia after all in greek literally means the pain an old wound. Fisher says modern culture shows us how actual innovation isn't really possible, instead capitalist culture is only capable of imitating what came before— so it recycles, remixes, reboots— aesthetics, music, art, fasion etc. A past that we long for, yet we can not go back to. Waiting on a future that is promised, yet never arrives either (look up his writings on Hauntology).

@is_glasgow This is well worth a listen. An excellent essay focused on the Govan docks, people and community by the poet Sean Lìonadh... bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Love the new public space which has been created at the historic Govan Graving Docks in Glasgow. For me, it has just the right mix of old and new to maintain its links with the past while still giving it a modern feel. #glasgow #govan #govangravingdocks #glasgowtoday #publicpark

@cambuslangsteve Now. I am not a man to gloat because I know how the universe works, Stevie. But two wins on the bounce, 30 years on? Let's just leave it at a Beautiful Sunday..... @dundeeunitedfc

First, well done, United - a well-deserved win. Second, we are a poor team. Powder-puff football by players lacking technique and heart.

@tomamcculloch @Paulodaburka @RunAmok_books @realVernonSmith Great to see this, congratulations Tom. A piece Tom wrote for us coming in the new @aspectsofcrime magazine at the end of the month @Paulodaburka - thank you

@HarrySword It 'could be you'. Was you. Wasn't you. Then only you, shonkin along.... I agree, Harry, a Rake's Progress of national decline...

Fact: Britain went to absolute shit as soon as ‘the lotto lout’ stopped being ‘in the news’ all the time.

Friendly hecklers, I should add.....

A fantastic event to launch my new novel 'Riprap' at Waterstones, Witney last night. Fun was had and wine was drunk, hecklers dealt with! Many thanks to Patti and the team and the wonderful host, Dave Kelly @RunAmok_books @realVernonSmith

A never to be forgotten night. Luggy ripping Barcelona down the left. One of the greatest nights in my lifetime of Scottish football.

We have an outstanding story by Ewan Morrison in ‘Call of the Isles’ where a girl has joined an island community and is cutting ties with her parents. @MrEwanMorrison You can find Ewan’s latest novel ‘For Emma’ which @IrvineWelsh dubbed a masterpiece on his website: ewanmorrison.com

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!”

@HarrySword Excellent stuff! I am still vibrating.......

#nowplaying Stephen O’Malley - Spheres Collapsar Bandcamp link: stephenomalley.bandcamp.com/album/spheres-…

Thrilled to contribute to @aspectsofcrime in the next couple weeks. Thanks for reading my work and all your support, Paul!