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The South London Hospital for Women & Children, the main location, no longer exists, although its buildings still stand. It was founded by two remarkable women, Maud Chadburn and Eleanor Davies-Colley, with the support of many others, in 1913. It was a hospital where women treated women, a ...
As you emerge from the Northern Line at Clapham South underground station you can see, about a hundred yards away, a concrete pillbox of a building, on the common but very close to the busy A24. Currently graffiti covered, it marks the entrance to a warren of tunnels deeper than the London ...
Many policemen had enlisted to fight in WWII or been called up, some had not come home and, of those who did, some were incapable of returning to their previous job. In London the crime rate had risen by 57% during wartime, aided by the black-out and a shortage of police. This continued post ...
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 ...
In 2023 I was lucky enough to have my book Opera listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. It didn’t win, that accolade went to Agent Seventeen by John Brownlow, but I found myself in illustrious company. The book, the third in the Whitehall Trilogy featuring civil servant Cassandra ...
Gilly MacMillan is known for her psychological, twisty thrillers, often family-focused domestic noir, which reach back into their characters’ past. So, The Burning Library is something of a departure for her, striding firmly into Dan Brown ancient-truths-and-secret-societies territory, but ...
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 Midnight Man:I’ve lived in Clapham, South London for thirty-five years. During that time, like most Londoners, I ...
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Why did you decide to write crime novels?At first, I didn’t. My first novel was an epic adventure story set in thirteenth century Spain. I wrote it for my nephew when he was a child. Years later I dusted it off, re-edited and self-published it. The book, ‘Reconquista’, was long listed for the Children’s Book of the Year award 2016. It didn’t win, but it ...
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