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...

The first book in the Inspector Morse series by Colin Dexter was Last Bus to Woodstock, published in 1975. The final one was The Remorseful Day, publi...

The title of Eimear McBride’s third novel is slightly misleading. Rather than Strange Hotel (the cover is shown on the home page), the noun shou...