'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

Over the course of just five years, between 1928 and 1933, A.G. Macdonell, the Scottish writer best-known as author of England, Their Englan...

I've been a fan of Michael Ridpath's work since before I first met him, which in itself is quite a long time ago. He's a versati...

Stories which focus on characters who experience gradual psychological disintegration are often harrowing, but if told well, they can be eng...

My copy of Margery Allingham's Sweet Danger (1933) is a precious one, despite lacking a dust jacket, because it's inscribed by the ...

Speak No Evil is a 2024  American remake - written and directed by the accomplished James Watkins - of a Danish film of two years earlier w...

  I'm delighted to share, at long last, news of an anthology of mine that will be published in the summer. It's called What the Worl...

Martin Russell's speciality as a crime novelist was to write about ordinary people in extraordinary situations, confronting intolerable ...

Ron Perlman is a charismatic actor and his presence in the cast is enough to make The Gentleman worth a look. This recent film is set in Ba...

I chanced upon Fanny Lye Deliver'd on Amazon Prime, and although I'd never heard of the film, the cast was strong enough for me to ...

The sad news of Len Deighton's passing coincided with my learning that there was an exhibition at the Manchester branch of the Imperial ...