I take my hat off to movie-makers. Earlier this week, a group of seven of us, occasionally swelling to fifteen, spent the entire day in the Chiltern Hills shooting footage for the video trailer of my …
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It’s Not What You Know…
… It’s Who. How often do we say this, bitterly, when others, less talented but with better connections, sweep away the prize that we believe to be rightfully ours? Well, just lately I’ve …
Don’t ask me if I’m ready for Christmas – I might just disembowel you.
(From the archives) If there’s one enquiry guaranteed to send me into orbit at this time of year it’s: “Are you ready for Christmas?” The next time I talk to my mother on the phone I know she’s …
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The Entirely Unnecessary Research Trip
Frederick Forsyth announced last week that, being ‘too old’ to go gadding about foreign parts, he won’t be writing any more political thrillers. Clarifying, he said that whilst he could Google …
A Reliable Narrator? Seriously?
Watching Question Time this week (special scheduling with Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith) I was struck, not for the first time by: What a charming, principled, honest man Jeremy Corbyn appears to …
Please don’t ask me when Lacey is coming back. I simply don’t know.
I get asked (more or less every day now) whether and when there will be a new Lacey Flint book. Some readers (the ones I prefer) beg me to write another Lacey story, telling me how much they’re …
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Who Is Maggie Rose?
Please help me find my blue haired muse. Maggie Rose is the enigmatic, reclusive protagonist in my latest book, Daisy In Chains. She is a criminal barrister and true-life crime writer and such is …
Why I Cleaned For the Queen
There’s been a right royal rumpus these last few weeks about a bit of tidying up. Clean For the Queen, in case you missed it, is a UK wide plan to spruce up our towns and villages in readiness for the …
The real face of evil?
Out in my new car last weekend, I witnessed a fascinating little drama unfolding in my rear view mirror. There were road works on the main ring road around Oxford. Two lanes had to merge into one and …
Some advice to fledgling filmmakers
A few weeks ago Sacrifice, the movie version of my first book, went into post-production. The process has been long and, at times, somewhat torturous. To those about to embark on the same journey, …