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Our Man in Havana: Book Review

Our Man in Havana, written by Graham Greene and published in 1958, is one of the funniest and best spy novels ever written. Our Man in Havana: Title…

Reading A Kill in the Morning

I was invited to read at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Manchester recently. Here I am reading from chapter seven of A Kill in the Morning. Thanks to Ian Carrington…

The Night of Wenceslas: Book Review

The Night of Wenceslas, written by Lionel Davidson and published in 1960, was Davidson’s début novel and won several awards, including the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger. Davidson went on to…

The Great Impersonation: Book Review

The Great Impersonation, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim, was published in 1920. Oppenheim wrote over one hundred novels, which sold millions of copies. Critics regard The Great Impersonation…

A Kill in the Morning Character Dossiers: The Assassin

The Assassin is the protagonist of A Kill in the Morning and narrates most of the chapters. Although A Kill in the Morning features a lot of historical…

A Kill in the Morning – Publication Day!

This is the day I have dreamed of… today is publication day for my first novel A Kill in the Morning. First thing this morning, I popped in…

Double Cross! How a British spy called Garbo saved D-Day

On the 70th anniversary of D-Day – how an amateur Spanish spy, his imaginary sub-agents and his sneaky British handlers saved D-day and pulled off the greatest espionage…

A Kill in the Morning Reviews

The A Kill in the Morning reviews are starting to come in and they’re almost entirely positive. I’ll be reposting the most interesting endorsements, professional A Kill in the…

Eye of the Needle: Book Review

Eye of the Needle (also published as Storm Island), written by Ken Follett and published in 1978, wasn’t his first novel, but it was his first big hit,…

From Russia with Love – Book Review

From Russia With Love was written by Ian Fleming and published in 1957. It was the novel that made his name, and James Bond’s. From Russia with Love:…