This book is a tribute act of sorts. The first sentence of Erin Kelly’s author’s note to The Skeleton Key reads: “When I was a child...

After a gap of over 10 years since her previous book, Monica Ali has produced her fifth novel. Love Marriage (see the cover on the home page) is a vib...

Dick Francis published his first novel in 1962. It was called Dead Cert and its background reflected a livelihood its author knew so well. Horse racin...

This blog is about two authors whose final novels were recently published on the same day (October 14), and published posthumously – John Le Car...

It was 52 years ago today, August 9, 1969, that Charles Manson and his ‘family’ were responsible for the brutal murder of film star Sharon...

Fiona Mozley was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2017 for her first novel, Elmet. This is her second, the cover of which is shown on the home ...

In a fiction blog in November 2015, I wrote about J. K. Rowling, creator of Harry Potter. Since writing the seven Potter books (ostensibly for kids!) ...

This blog is a rather longer than most of mine. But then David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue is rather longer than most novels, weighing in at 560 pa...

Michael Connolly is an American crime writer who lives in Los Angeles, where nearly all of his books are set. There are a fair few of them, too: 34 in...