'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

I stumbled across the Talking Pictures TV channel recently, and it's proved to be a real find, featuring plenty of obscure and rather in...

The Doll , written by Francis Durbridge, was a highly successful TV series when first screened in 1975. Durbridge has always been very popul...

The British Library has published its catalogue of forthcoming publications for the first six months of next year, and it's full of tr...

I've written here previously about my enthusiasm for the crime fiction of Shelley Smith, the pen-name of Nancy Bodington, nee Courlan...

I was truly sorry to learn that Tim Heald died last Sunday, at the age of 72. Tim was a man of many parts, and novel writing was only o...

Fireside Gothic , recently published by Harper Collins, is a hardback collection of three novellas by Andrew Taylor. Andrew is one of those ...

A couple of weeks ago, I spent an enjoyable evening at the British Library. Mark Lawson was interviewing Ann Cleeves and me on the topic of ...

E.C.R. Lorac was not one of the Golden Age's most famous Crime Queens, but she was, perhaps, a Crime Princess. Not quite Christie, S...

Last night I had the pleasure of attending the launch, at Simply Books in Bramhall (a very good indie bookshop, by the way) of Kate Ellis...

On Thursday evening I had the pleasure of presiding over an unforgettable evening at the Dorchester Hotel. It was the Detection Club's...