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Five Favourites: Books on Bond
5 – Ian Fleming , by Andrew Lycett, 1995. Lycett is an accomplished and celebrated literary biographer; his books on Kipling, Dylan Thomas and Wilkie Collins are close to definitive....
The Party to End All Parties by Lucy Roth
There’s long been a debate around whether our main characters must be likeable to ensure readers can relate (and no doubt to encourage more positive reviews). However, when I think...
SPYING AND SKULLDUGGERY IN THE NAPOLEONIC WARS by Rosemary Hayes
Much has been written about spying during warfare – particularly during WW2 – and I have always been attracted to stories of those working in the shadows, under-cover agents, brave...
Novel Crime Scenes: Twenty Deadly Landscapes by Christina Hardyment – Review
Clearly Hardyment is a lover of crime fiction and is intrigued by the stories behind the novels that thrill us all. I have always been fascinated by how crime writers...
The Clapham Trilogy by Julie Anderson
With the release date of Julie Anderson’s new historical crime thriller approaching, we asked Julie to tell us about the origins of her first novel in the Clapham series, The...
The Funny Side of Murder by Colin Bostock-Smith
There’s nothing funny about murder – agreed? Nothing funny about serious crime either. So why do I, with four crime novels under my belt, still find myself looking, amid the...
New Bond From Charlie Higson
The news is out - There's a new Bond continuation novel on the way, written by Charlie Higson. King Zoom was announced 31/3/26. 
Charlie Higson in central London breaking the...
Charlie Higson in central London breaking the...
In The Dark
I have always loved books. I know — every writer says that. But I clearly remember the first book I ever wrote. I was five years old at the time....
A Lot Can Happen In 24hrs, Most of it Deadly
One London Day is an outlier novel in my career, the only one I've written - so far - that is both a crime novel and set in the present...
Let the Bad Times Roll by Alice Slater
My second novel, Let the Bad Times Roll , opens with a cancelled dinner party: the guest of honour is missing and the ingredients for a decadent three-course meal of...
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