Hunter Class is Alan Bardos' second Daniel Nichols WWII spy thriller. Readers may remember that in Rising Tide Nichol, forced out of active service by injury, joined naval intelligence. Working...
In 2023 I was lucky enough to have my book Opera listed for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. It didn’t win, that accolade went to Agent Seventeen by John...
When did you start writing? I started writing little books, which I would illustrate, when I was about 10. I got hooked on the idea that you could just sit...
I grew up without a television in the house. So whatever movies and TV I watched, I watched with my Grandmother. The ultimate auto-didact and cinephile, our homes were separated...
I’m a huge admirer of the Italian writer Roberto Saviano’s remorseless denunciation of the Neapolitan Camorra Gomorrah . When I read it some years ago, I was blown away by...
Some reads are simply unforgettable, and I guess we all have particular favourites, the kind of books that stay with us. Every year I add a handful of titles to...
“I kept coming back to the same question when I was out on location for BBC Breakfast; ‘What if this broadcast got hijacked?’ My mates, who I was working with,...
How did the Lizzie Hardwicke series come to be written? One of the questions I’m asked most is, ‘Where did the idea for a prostitute-turned-sleuth come from?’ The answer is...