Author M W Craven’s career thrives on a ride of happy accidents, luck and instincts
His Cumbrian-set crime novels have inspired everything from a Carlisle coffee blend to tourist trips to the stone circles of his plots. Ahead of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, as M W Craven’s brilliant new series is snapped up by TV, he admits life has been one mostly happy fluke after another. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
“I was raped yet I’m still punished”: Grooming gang victim tells all in new book
EXCLUSIVE: While Christina O’Connor views the prison term she received when she was 19 as her salvation, she feels the criminal record she received prevents her receiving total “absolution”. Daily More...
How Dracula saved Bram Stoker’s poor widow
Although no records of the settlement survive, Florence received a huge payday when Tod Browning made the first Dracula film in 1931. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Johnson At 10 review: A career that promised so much and ended in ignominy
Was Boris Johnson the worst PM in recent times? That was the question posed to one of the co-authors of this book, Sir Anthony Seldon, on television. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
The ‘curious damn contraption’ that has saved 7,694 lives (including mine)
EXCLUSIVE: With rapid advances in aircraft development during the Second World War, countless test pilots were dying in crashes, including James Martin’s best friend. His solution was the ‘ejection seat’. More...
Baking pans and broomsticks: Bake Off star on fighting ‘unfair’ stereotypes of witches
EXCLUSIVE: Former Bake Off contestant Helena Garcia has built an intriguing career from her quirky, gothic-themed books and accessories. Now she’s on a mission to change the ‘unfair’ stereotype of More...
The Real Ted Hastings – A look at the man who inspired the Line Of Duty inspector
Line of Duty’s AC-12 reflects the real anti-corruption squad set up by police chief Robert Mark in 1971 – A10. This was established to take down corrupt networks of officers. Sabotaged by bent coppers, More...
James Bond author slams ’embarrassing’ No Time To Die ‘They got 007 wrong’
James Bond author Charlie Higson argues that No Time To Die felt like a 007 movie “made by people who are embarrassed to make a Bond film” and left the cinema thinking “Oh f*** off with that”. Daily More...
Former detective Neil Lancaster’s crime novels shed light on real-life police corruption
EXCLUSIVE: Thriller writer Neil Lancaster’s books have a timely appeal in the wake of scandals involving the UK police force. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Celia’s War review: A rollercoaster of a debut novel
Difficult to know quite where to begin with the roller-coaster ride of a period novel, set early in 1963, the most severe winter at the time in living memory, the entire country as frozen as is its heroine’s More...
