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Back on the bookshelves… some old favourites
It’s thirty years since I first entered the crazy world of authordom and there have been a good few books along the way. Inevitably, that means titles readers still want to find fall by the wayside over time. Some of my more popular titles from the past are currently unavailable due to the expiry of…
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The Blade Must Fall… a prequel
France, 1976. Julien Baptiste is a young, smart but inexperienced detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a small town in northern France riddled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he’s nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux.…
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Out today… Garten der Engel
Many thanks to my publisher in German, Folio, for this beautiful edition of Garten der Engel which is out today. It really is one of the loveliest hardbacks I’ve ever had. And thanks too for the company in Venice for our media event last week. Fingers crossed the tale of Paolo and Nico Uccello will…
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Now out in a new print and ebook edition… Hamlet
It’s something like ten years since I started work on an adaptation of Hamlet for Audible with my good friend A.J. Hartley. It was an experimental project, one that took a sideways look at a very familiar story. The work also introduced us to an actor chap called Richard Armitage who took our original script…