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  • You may want to order that signed copy from Nightjar Press now …

    In The Gloaming In The Right « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2010

  • When I saw that Nightjar Press were selling one by Michael Marshall Smith for just £3, I decided to buy it.

    A review (and a confession) « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2009

  • At the end of my last published piece of fiction, written under my own name (‘A Hurricane in a Nightjar’, Savoy Dreams 1984), I wrote directly from the postatomic deserts to the reader: ‘For the time being, thank you’.

    Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) 2009

  • The first sign of a breeding season on its way are the two early birds: the Asian Koel and the Large-tailed Nightjar.

    Birds in the garden Glenda Larke 2010

  • The first sign of a breeding season on its way are the two early birds: the Asian Koel and the Large-tailed Nightjar.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Glenda Larke 2010

  • Also reliving the past, in terms of the cocktails, at least, is Nightjar + 44-20-7253-4101.

    Secret Bars Offer Whimsy Galore Jemima Sissons 2010

  • Tip Top, the town in 'The Nightjar Women,' the last story in the book, is a real ghost town in Arizona - you can visit its ruins, and some of the people, like 'Sadie' the prostitute and her pimp, those are real people from the Old West who were there at the time the story's set.

    Interview with Ed Erdelac (Interview by Mihir Wanchoo) Cindy 2010

  • Tip Top, the town in 'The Nightjar Women,' the last story in the book, is a real ghost town in Arizona - you can visit its ruins, and some of the people, like 'Sadie' the prostitute and her pimp, those are real people from the Old West who were there at the time the story's set.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Liviu 2010

  • The text opposite said: “Nightjar—‘Dead leaf ’ camouflage above, closely barred below.”

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • Nightjar song is a black stream of stout pouring from a tap, switched on to run at full pelt instantaneously, switched off equally abruptly.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

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