'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

The Wasp is a film with a script by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, who adapted her own stage play. Those theatrical origins are fairly evident, give...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to change our world for the better in any number of ways. It's here to stay, it can't be u...

I've mentioned the crime fiction of Shelley Smith (the pen-name of Nancy Bodington) admiringly on this blog quite a few times over the y...

Crime writers are a diverse bunch, but over the years I've noticed that friends of mine who enjoy enduring success tend to be not only h...

I don't find it easy to make up my mind about Fedora , the 1978 film that was a late entry in the illustrious career of director Billy W...

  I'm back home after my third weekend festival in successive weeks. This time it was up the M6 to Sedbergh to take part in Death in the...

Dewey Death , originally published in 1956, was the first crime novel of Charity Blackstock; this was one of several pen-names used by Ursul...

  The past week has been as hectic as it's been varied, and above all it's been great fun. A lunch in London with my editor Bethan a...

It's ages since I last went to the theatre. Not through lack of enthusiasm, but simply due to lack of time. However, some friends propos...

Here is a little mystery for bibliophiles, concerning the now-forgotten author Kenneth O'Hara. I first came across 'his' name on...