'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?'

During my recent trip on the Seabourn Ovation, I had plenty of time for pleasure reading on sea days and on flights to and from the cruise. ...

There are plenty of psychopaths about in the world, and all most of us can hope for is not to fall foul of them. Especially not in a road ra...

Last spring, I had my first taste of life as a 'guest conversationalist' on board a Seabourn cruise ship. This was a short but delig...

Thanks to Steve Barge, who blogs as The Puzzle Doctor (and if you don't know his blog, it really is consistently interesting and I recom...

I like horror fiction and films, but there's no point in denying that quite a lot of it is...well, horrible. The title of the film Blood...

Goldeneye is the title of a James Bond film, but before that it was the title of a 1989 biopic, the story of Bond's creator, Ian Flemin...

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 ...