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Come Into My Parlour, written by Dennis Wheatley and published in 1949, was the sixth of Dennis Wheatley’s novels featuring secret agent Gregory Sallust—a series that critics sometimes…
The Scarlet Pimpernel, written by Baroness Emma Orczy and published in 1905, was based on a popular play also written by the Baroness first performed in 1903. The…
Fair Stood the Wind for France, written by H. E. Bates and published in 1944, was Bates’ first commercially successful novel. Although not strictly an espionage novel, it includes…
I seem to have one of those faces that remind people of someone else. Throughout my life, people have kept telling me how I look like someone they…
Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published in 1992, is one of the greatest alternative history novels ever written. It’s the only alternative history novel…
First, a story that illustrates what a MacGuffin is: In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock was making the spy movie Notorious, which is about renegade Nazis in South America. Hitchcock…
As an author, one of my favourite things about writing is putting my characters in the cockpit of fictional aircraft. There’s something fascinating about being able to imagine…
Amazon has had a lot of negative publicity about its ethics, and that’s led to some people looking for alternatives. In this article first I’m going to look…
Revolutions 2: More Speculative Short Stories set in Manchester is my second anthology as an editor – a collection of science-fiction, fantasy and horror stories with one thing in…
A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…