Interview: Peter May
Novelist, TV writer and producer Peter May is best known for his highly acclaimed Lewis Trilogy, which to date has sold more than a million copies in the UK alone. His latest novel is Entry Island, a standalone novel set in Canada – but the…
DeathBecomesHer: Top five books of 2013
It’s been a vintage year for crime fiction, and I’ve been lucky enough to pass judgment over a veritable constellation of five star books in the past 12 months. Which makes it so very hard to come up with just five picks. I’ll start with some…
NTN: Shadow of the Rock by Thomas Mogford
The Rock of Gibraltar, a British territory and gateway to the Mediterranean, is an intriguing starting point for a series that feels both foreign and familiar. There’s a siege mentality to this small but significant promontory. ‘No Enemy Shall Expel Us’ is Gibraltar’s motto, and…
The Chessmen
Those strange little figures – squat and grumpy, kings and bishops, still evocative after 800 years. They provide a haunting backdrop to this, the final book in Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy. Please don’t feel that you are coming late to the party, because this book…
MyBookishWays: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction
A little while back, we asked a simple question on Twitter: what books got you into crime fiction? Well, our twitter account was buzzing for three or four days – the topic really caught the imagination of crime fiction lovers. So we decided that everyone…