Incidental Music: Alison Layland
Incidental Music: Alison Layland Alison Layland introduces us to a playlist of some of the musical inspiration behind her latest novel, After the Clearances. I love mixing genres – my novel itself blends of mystery, suspense and revenge with speculative/climate fiction – and media, drawing inspiration from images and in particular, music. I’ve written before…
The Art of Occupation – Chris Lloyd
The Art of Occupation – Chris Lloyd The fourth book in the Eddie Giral series, The Art of Occupation, sees Eddie investigating the suspicious death of a dodgy art dealer, only to find himself drawn into the world of the surprisingly lucrative wartime art market and, even more reluctantly, into the theft of art –…
The Venetian Redemption: Philip Gwynne Jones
The Venetian Redemption: Philip Gwynne Jones By the time you read this The Venetian Redemption, the ninth adventure for Nathan Sutherland, British Honorary Consul in Venice, will have been out for just over a week. He took a break last year as I was busy with the first of a new series, The Magus of…
Writing a series – by accident: Jacqueline Harret
Writing a series – by accident: Jacqueline Harret When I wrote ‘The Nesting Place’ five years ago I did not know it was the first in a series. In fact, I had little idea what type of crime novel I was writing when I started. My vague plans were for a whodunnit or psychological thriller.…
A Summertime Murder: Mary Grand
A Summertime Murder: Mary Grand A Summertime Murder is the fifth in a series of Susan Flynn murder mysteries, classic who-dunits, set here on the Isle of Wight. It can be read as part of the series or as a stand-alone. The novel opens with a sinister prologue. We are taken inside the mind of…
My Grandmother was a Victorian: Alis Hawkins
My Grandmother was a Victorian: Alis Hawkins I wrote my latest novel full of rage. Rage at something that happened more than a hundred years ago. Something that happened to my beloved grandmother when she was in her teens. Something that happened to many, many working class girls. My grandmother was a Victorian. She was…
Eamonn Griffin: How I Write (Kinda)
Eamonn Griffin: How I Write (Kinda) I write better under time pressure than when I’ve got all the time in the world. Or is this what I tell myself? Like lots of people who are writers, writing is only one of the things that I do, and writing has to fit to at least some…
How I got published: Mark Ellis
How I got published: Mark Ellis We all know it is no easy thing to get a book published. I started writing some twenty years ago and struggled for several years to get published as many do. Eventually I decided to self-publish my first book. Then I was picked up by a small publisher. Eventually…
Blood among the threads? David Ebsworth
Blood among the threads? David Ebsworth Palmer stopped, taken by one particular exhibit. A patchwork of pieced needlework, about seven feet by eight, perhaps a little smaller. Alive with vivid images. The object label declared that it was Industrial Annexe Exhibit Number 46, a Table Cover, produced by the hand of military master tailor James…
Six of One: Sarah Bax Horton
Six of One: Sarah Bax Horton I am a Crime Cymru member who writes true crime books about Jack the Ripper and his contemporary ‘rival’ the Thames Torso Killer. I recently featured in Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club miniseries on the Thames Torso Murders, now on BBC iPlayer. I hope you enjoy my pick of…
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