'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

So now the news is out. Last night Team Balliol were officially crowned series champions of  Christmas University Challenge 2022 , a brillia...

There have been TV shows other than Christmas University Challeng e on during the holiday season - though there's no doubt about which s...

Just suppose John Buchan had decided to confront Richard Hannay with a locked room mystery. It's quite possible that the result might ha...

So now the first heat of Christmas University Challenge has been screened, the news is out that our team managed to triumph over SOAS, by 1...

Over the years, I've said quite a number of times that my great unfulfilled ambition in life was to take part in University Challenge . ...

Over the years I've acquired a handful of books by Herbert Adams, but I've been deplorably slow in getting round to reading them. He...

One of the real privileges of being a published author is the opportunity to take part in a wide variety of festivals and other public event...

When I was growing up, Gordon Honeycombe was a very familiar presence on the TV screens. I remember him reading the news for a number of yea...

There are several books called Possession , but the one I'm talking about today was published by L.P. Davies in 1975. Davies is a writer...

I'm just back from a very enjoyable trip to Cambridge. When Sophie Hannah asked me to give a lecture on Golden Age detective fiction to ...