I'll be opening the festival in the beautiful setting of Fishbourne Church in Sussex on Saturday morning at 10 am. It's quite a programme, with a great range of authors. Hope to see some of you there. I'll be talking about the background to two recent books, The Garden of Angels and When The Germans Come.
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Venice Noir is coming... save the dates. November 14-16 2025 in two of Venice's most extraordinary locations.
A couple of days ago I was on the bus from Piazzale Roma to Marco Polo airport. In front of me were a young couple, gleefully passing between them an iPad of the photos they’d taken in Venice over the previous few days. It was all so public those
I joined Twitter in 2007 when it was tiny and no one knew what it was for. Over the last eighteen years it's provided me with lots of interesting friends, countless fascinating facts and threads, free advice from helpful strangers and the odd nutcase who needed to be
