'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Today represents quite a significant landmark in my career as a writer, since it is my last day as a full-time partner in a law firm. As fro...

Nemesis at Raynham Parva is the rather grand title of my Forgotten Book for today. The book was published in 1929, and the author was J. J....

I wrote here a while ago about Desmond Cory’s obscure but intriguing book Bennett , and I’ve now watched a film based on one of his other no...

Cornell Woolrich is a writer whose work was ideally suited for adaptation into movies. And this has been widely recognised by succeeding gen...

My choice for today’s Forgotten Book is Christopher Bush’s 1935 novel, The Case of the Chinese Gong . This is one of a long series of books ...

Pocket Essentials is a series of very useful guides to a variety of subjects, and the newly revised and updated Mark Whitehead and Miriam Ri...

Absolution is an intriguing film from the 60s, with a screenplay by that fascinating and varied writer Anthony Shaffer. It stars Richard Bu...

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that I enjoy a good "impossible crime" story, and by definition this means that I ...

Sophie Hannah is a poet who turned to crime fiction a few years ago and who has achieved enormous success. That success is, I think, due to ...

For any writer, it's important to match the length of what one is writing to the strength and scale of the story. Some ideas are essenti...