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The purpose of this article is to express some personal thoughts about spy novels and the experiences of characters within the fictional espionage world, finally bringing a central focus onto John le Carré’s George Smiley. This seems to be an apt moment to do so as the most recent James Bond ...
Elizabethan England was not, as some have suggested, a lawless kind of ‘Wild West’.
The critical reputation of Mark Ellis’ Frank Merlin novels has been growing so strongly that I leaped at the chance to review the sixth in the series so far, Death of an Officer. What I was confronted with was a gripping police procedural involving the solving of two apparently unrelated ...
Some reads are simply unforgettable, and I guess we all have particular favourites, the kind of books that stay with us. Every year I add a handful of titles to my, now long list, living rent free in my mind.2025 was another great one for crime fans, the genre continues to be the most ...
The case of Dr Roderigo Lopez, the only physician to English royalty ever to be executed for high treason, is not particularly well known, though Dominic Green’s The Double Life of Dr Lopez has done much to fill this gap in our knowledge. The case, however, provides a uniquely fascinating ...
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Author Interview
Can you tell us about the character and series that you are currently working on?The central character in The Queen’s Intelligencer series is Robert Poley, who started out playing second fiddle to Elizabethan ‘detective’ Tom Musgrave in my Master of Defence Elizabethan murder-mystery series. Poley was a real spy and equivocator, most famously involved in the murder of ...
Peter Tonkin, can you first tell us about your latest Poley novel – and who Poley is?
Robert Poley (who appears on the historical record between 1568 and 1602) is one of the three men in the room with Christopher Marlowe on the evening of Wednesday, 30th May 1593 when he was killed ...
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