'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

A few years ago, a chap at ITV asked me who I'd like to be cast as Hannah Scarlett in a projected televised version of the Lake Distr...

A book I've just been reading, and a TV show I've just watched, made me think about the value in writing of an economical style. If ...

We often recall television programmes of long ago with great affection, only to be rather disappointed when we see them today, in an age whe...

When starting a new book, a vital question is: how many main characters will take part in the story? This is closely linked with the questio...

The Shadow Collector is the 17th and latest entry in Kate Ellis's series featuring Di Wesley Peterson.and set in a fictionalised version...

Case Sensitive: The Other Half Lives concluded tonight, and a lot of plot development was packed into an hour. This meant that some bits ...

The Killing II finally came to an end this week-end. I'm not going to talk about the story-line in detail, because I imagine that some ...

The End of Time was a two-part holiday special episode of Doctor Who which saw the departure of David Tennant, who has been superb in the r...

I'm just back from my holidays, about which more soon. One of the many good things about getting away was the chance to catch up with a ...