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Strike: Troubled Blood filming updates
• Filming begins on Monday 17th January and will wrap on Friday 8th April 2022.* • Filming WILL take place in Cornwall. Production will be based here for two weeks • London filming will take place over ten weeks.
*These dates may be affected at the time by the latest Covid-19 situation here in the UK, and by any updated Covid regulations brought in by the UK Government.
Artwork Credit: The Tottenham Date Posted: 01/12/2021
The Ink Black Heart - Published Tuesday 30th August 2022*
Amazon UK, Amazon US and Waterstones (UK) are all *currently* listing Tuesday 30th August 2022 as the date for publication of The Ink Black Heart. The book can also be pre-ordered now.
Print length is 944 pages (same as Troubled Blood). Suspect this will probably change, or is a placeholder, whilst editing is ongoing. It should also be noted that the Troubled Blood release date did change from its original announcement.
Date Posted: 17/01/2022 (This will be our final post on Tumblr and this page will no longer be updated henceforth. Follow us elsewhere on social media)
The Ink Black Heart - our cover design
Our attempt at designing the cover for the forthcoming sixth Strike novel, The Ink Black Heart.
Credit: The Tottenham Date Posted: 11/12/2021
Strike: Troubled Blood now in pre-production
• 4 x 60” episodes • Current TX date: 2022 • No filming dates but expect filming to begin in the new year • Tom Edge returns as screenwriter • Will be shown on BBC One / HBO
Artwork Credit: The Tottenham Date Posted: 21/08/2021
Strike Location A Day Day 345
The Ritz 150 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London
Cormoran reveals to Robin where they are going to celebrate her 30th birthday. What happens once they arrive at The Ritz? Well that’s for another day...
The current unknown is what kind of champagne experience Cormoran had booked for Robin and himself as there are three possibilities. He may have taken Robin to the Rivoli Bar just for champagne. The Art Deco bar offers light lunches or dinners alongside an impressive list of over 80 cocktails and different Champagnes of the month.
The second experience would have been an Champagne Afternoon Tea. Priced from £80 per person, evening bookings are at 17:30pm and at 19:00pm and last for about an hour and a half. A quintessentially British institution and famous world over, Afternoon Tea at The Ritz takes place in the opulent surrounds of The Palm Court. The service offers a selection of finely finger cut sandwiches, freshly baked scones and sweet English pastries alongside a choice of 16 loose leaf teas and Ritz Champagne. The Ritz in fact has its own brand of Champagne, which is made for the hotel by Barons de Rothschild. Today, on average, 400 people visit the Palm Court every day to enjoy the quintessentially English tradition.
The third, and most expensive, experience Cormoran could have paid for is an actual sit down meal in the Ritz Restaurant. Opened in 1906 and with its sparkling chandeliers, towering marble columns and soaring floor to ceiling windows overlooking Green Park, the Ritz Restaurant is often described as the most beautiful restaurant in the world. It offers a menu of distinctive classical French and British dishes.
The Ritz
Located in the heart of London overlooking Green Park, The Ritz is a symbol of high society and luxury and the hotel is one of London’s most prestigious. Opened by Swiss hotelier César Ritz in 1906, the exterior is both structurally and visually Franco-American in style with little trace of English architecture, and is heavily influenced by the architectural traditions of Paris.
César Ritz was very passionate about detail and elegance. The width of each corridor was designed to enable two ladies to walk comfortably in crinolines petticoats, side by side, while the lighting in the Rococo-style restaurant was chosen to be the right shade for a woman to look her most beautiful. The Ritz was actually the first hotel in the world to allow women to come unaccompanied by a male chaperone for Afternoon Tea.
The hotel has attracted a host of both famous and fashionable guests. During its early years, the hotel enjoyed the patronage of The Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) and other iconic figures include Charlie Chaplin, English playwright Nöel Coward, and Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle met in the Marie Antoinette Suite to discuss operations during the Second World War. The Queen danced the conga through The Ritz hotel in 1945 on VE Day with her sister, Margaret, after slipping incognito into the crowds that were celebrating in central London.
The Ritz is the only hotel in the world to have its name in the Oxford English Dictionary, which it entered in 1925. The informal term, ‘ritzy’, derives from the hotel, meaning fashionable, glamorous and expensive. The phrase 'puttin(g) on the Ritz' is recorded from 1911, and was later used by Irving Berlin in his 1927 song, and for the 1930 musical of the same name.
The Ritz has set its own service standard so high that many people are required to achieve it. There is an average ratio of 2 staff members to every guest. Ritz porters pride themselves on being able to fulfill any request, so long as its legal. An American ambassador once asked for a helicopter to be purchased on his behalf, while another guest requested a battleship. Talk about pushing the boat out...
That’s a wrap on #StrikeLocationADay. Over the past year we have posted:
🗓 345 Days 📚 5 Books 🗺 521 Locations 📷 2391 Photos 🖋 853 Quotes 🎞 8 Videos
We hope you have enjoyed this visual journey and that you have been left feeling visually enriched by the real world of Cormoran and Robin.
Date Posted: 06/04/2021
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#StrikeLocationADay was a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posted one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series ran both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay
“Now they walked together back through the store and out of the main entrance, where buckets of flowers surrounded them. “So where—?” asked Robin. “I’m taking you to the Ritz for champagne,” said Strike. “Are you serious?” “Yeah. It’s why I’m wearing a suit.” For a moment Robin simply looked at him, then she reached up and hugged him tightly. Surrounded by banked flowers, both remembered the hug they’d shared at the top of the stairs on her wedding day, but this time, Robin turned her face and kissed Strike deliberately on the cheek, lips to stubble. “Thanks, Strike. This really means a lot.” And that, thought her partner, as the two of them headed away toward the Ritz in the golden glow of the early evening, really was well worth sixty quid and a bit of an effort…”
Troubled Blood - Part Seven, Chapter 73
(We’re all about recycling, even our artwork. Which is why this is the fifth time we’ve used this Strike/Robin pose and the fifth change of colour of Robin’s dress...)
Artwork Credit: The Tottenham Date Posted: 05/04/2021
Strike Location A Day Day 344
Liberty Soho, London
In Liberty, Cormoran makes amends for his previous poor gift choices to Robin as he buys her perfume, of her own choice, on her 30th Birthday.
Looking like a building out of Elizabethan times, the Liberty of London department store carries all manner of luxury goods. In 1874, after spending more than a decade working for Messrs Farmer and Rogers, Arthur Lasenby Liberty decided to open his own store in London. The store bearing his named opened the next year, dealing with fabrics, ornaments, and Japanese art objects. Eventually, the store grew in its offerings until it was one of the most prominent stores in the city.
The well-known Liberty store with its Tudor revival main entrance on Great Marlborough Street didn’t come about until the 1920s. The 1920s was a time of Tudor revival, considered the most crafted and English of architecture. Construction began in 1924 and used timber recycled from the ships HMS Hindustan and HMS Impregnable. The frontage has the same length as the Hindustan. The weathervane on top of the store bears a model of the Mayflower, the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America.
The interior was designed to feel like a home, with each of the three atriums surrounded by smaller rooms, complete with fireplaces and furnishings. Dotted around the store are many heraldic shields as part of the decorations. The individuals represented on these shields include William Shakespeare, the six wives of Henry VIII, and many more. The building is now Grade II listed.
Known around the world for its close connection to art and culture and for working with British artists and designers, Liberty is perhaps most famous today for its bold and floral print fabrics.
Date Posted: 05/04/2021
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#StrikeLocationADay is a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posts one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series runs both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay
Strike Location A Day Day 343
Shakespeare’s Head Soho, London
Robin finds Cormoran, in his suit, waiting for her outside The Shakespeare’s Head.
The Shakespeare’s Head which was built in 1735, was originally owned by Thomas & John Shakespeare, who were distant relatives of the poet, William Shakespeare.
Dominating its Northern end, is the pub’s inn sign which is a reproduction of Martin Droeshouts’ portrait of Shakespeare when the poet was at the pinnacle of his genius. On another part of the building is Shakespeare’s life size bust which appears to be gazing down at the busy street below. A close examination of the bust will show one of the poet’s hands is missing. This occurred during World War II when a bomb dropped nearby.
Date Posted: 04/04/2020
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#StrikeLocationADay is a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posts one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series runs both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay
Happy Easter!
From your two favourite Private Det-egg-tives...
Remember:
• Don’t get anything that’s salted caramel for your partner. • Ensure you give your eldest nephew the broken egg.
Credit: The Tottenham Date Posted: 04/04/2021
Strike Location A Day Day 342
Regent Street Soho, London
Leaving Oxford Circus station, Robin makes her way down Regent Street.
Robin only walks the top northern part of Regent Street, rather than the more iconic curved section found at the southern end. Depending on which exit she took from the station, Robin could instead have walked down Argyll Street and leading straight to the front of Liberty.
The street is named after the Prince Regent who later became King George IV. He ruled as Prince Regent for 10 years (1810-1820) while his father George III was too ill.
The street's layout was completed in 1825 by architects John Nash and James Burton and it was an early example of town planning in England. Regent Street was intended as a royal thoroughfare, connecting two royal palaces but it was also the world's first purpose built shopping centre.
The street is unique in that every building on its 0.8 mile route is Grade II listed. This is despite all the original buildings designed by Nash were replaced following reconstruction in the late 19th century. The curvature of the street is because of land ownership issues Nash encountered, so he had to build round other pre-existing buildings. It was also thought that aligning Regent Street to go directly through Piccadilly Circus would position it too far east to draw in customers from the neighbouring wealthy area of Mayfair. As it is, Regent Street formed a barrier between the affluent Mayfair and the less respectable area of Soho.
Like Oxford Street, Regent Street is known for its flagship retail stores, including Liberty, Jaeger and the Apple Store. Hamleys toy shop, often used by Cormoran for presents for his nephews, is also located here.
Date Posted: 03/04/2021
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#StrikeLocationADay is a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posts one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series runs both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay
Strike Location A Day Day 341
Oxford Circus Station Soho, London
Robin emerges from the steps of Oxford Circus station and heads in the direction of Regent Street.
One of the busiest stations on the underground, Oxford Circus serves three Tube lines and has 8 different exits on the intersection with Regent Street and Oxford Street.
Robin would have probably caught the Victoria Line to the station. In 1969, to celebrate the opening of the new Victoria Line, The Queen ‘took the wheel’ of a train, and drove it from Green Park to Oxford Circus.
Date Posted: 02/04/2021
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#StrikeLocationADay is a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posts one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series runs both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay
Sooo... did we get you yesterday? 😏
Of course it was an April Fool. If you really want a creosote strength mug of tea, just add in a second teabag...
Date Posted: 02/04/2021
Strike Fanfic Friday #54 (Easter Edition) “There are days when only chocolate will do!” by hobbeshalftail3469
Title: “There are days when only chocolate will do!” Author: hobbeshalftail3469 / @hobbeshalftail3469 Published: 18th April 2018 Chapters: 1 Word Count: 919 Characters/Pairing: Cormoran Strike, Robin Ellacott Rating: General Audiences Warnings: None
Summary
“Robin and Strike are working at their office. The cut price Easter chocolate has been too much of a temptation for Robin, leading to the answer to a puzzle for Strike!”
Read the story here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/14362512
Date Posted: 02/04/2021
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About Strike Fanfic Friday
Strike Fanfic Friday sees a randomly selected Cormoran Strike story posted every Friday on our Tumblr site and our Twitter account (@tottenhamstrike). Sourced from Archive of Our Own or Fanfiction.net, each story has been allocated a number and a number generator is then used to select. To be eligible for selection, the stories must be marked as complete, be written in English, and not part of a crossover with another fandom.
To follow the series, use “#strike fanfic friday” on Tumblr or “#StrikeFanficFriday” on Twitter.
Some of you may have thought that this morning’s news about the Cormoran Strike inspired “Creosote Tea” from Yorkshire Tea was an April Fools joke.
It really isn’t...
We’ve just brought a pack in Tesco’s.
Date Posted: 01/04/2021
Strike Location A Day Day 340
Kyrle Road Wandsworth, London
After collecting Cormoran outside the Tube Station, Robin drives the Land Rover to Kyrle Road and parks outside the Victorian terraced house that belongs to Anna Phipps.
Kyrle Road is about a 3 minute car journey (3/4 mile) from Clapham South Station.
Date Posted: 01/04/2021
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#StrikeLocationADay is a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posts one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series runs both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay
Yorkshire Tea launches a creosote strength tea
Following the success of their Toast & Jam, Biscuit, Breakfast, and Bedtime Brews respectively, Yorkshire Tea revealed today that they are adding a ‘creosote’ brew to the line up, partly inspired by the Cormoran Strike novels.
You can read more via their product press release here:
“Yorkshire Tea unveils ‘creosote’ tea”
Boxes contain 40 tea bags and this limited edition is available to buy from today in all major Tesco and Sainsbury’s stores in the UK.
Date Posted: 01/04/2021
Strike Location A Day Day 339
Clapham South Station Wandsworth, London
Cormoran waits outside Clapham South Station for Robin to pick him up in the Land Rover.
(Why the pair didn't agree on Robin collecting Cormoran outside Nick & Ilsa’s Octavia Street house, given that she was driving close by from Earl’s Court, will forever remain a mystery...)
Opened in 1926, Clapham South serves the Northern Line. It is one of eight London Underground stations with a deep-level air-raid shelter beneath it.
The station was originally to have been called ‘Nightingale Lane’ (ties in with another Troubled Blood location...) and this name still exists hidden behind the blue bars on the platform roundels.
Date Posted: 31/03/2021
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#StrikeLocationADay is a photo series, which started on the 6th April 2020 and posts one Cormoran Strike location everyday, in chronological order from The Cuckoo’s Calling to Troubled Blood.
The series runs both here on Tumblr and on Twitter (@tottenhamstrike) using the hashtag #StrikeLocationADay