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Sarah Rayne talks about her darkly atmospheric thriller House of the Lost
Posted On: August 6, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
When novelist Theo Kendal inherits the remote Norfolk house in which his cousin Charmery was murdered, he believes it will bring him closer to the truth about her death. It will also be the ideal place to finish his new book.
Read More...Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin
Posted On: May 13, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Interviews, Video
Publisher: Canongate
Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 but has never been recognised. In this video, Lilin tells us more about his experiences in Siberian Education, his memoir of growing up in a society of ‘honest criminals’.
Read More...Read an extract from No Angel
Posted On: May 4, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Video
Publisher: Canongate
Jay Dobyns, alias Jaybird, is an ATF undercover agent who infiltrated the Hells Angels motorcycle club from 2001 to 2003. Read an extract and watch an introduction to No Angel, a gripping account of his time undercover.
Read More...Chris Carter on how he got started as a writer
Posted On: March 18, 2010Posted In: Articles, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Listen to the author of The Crucifix Killer discuss his writing routine.
Read More...Chris Carter on The Crucifix Killer
Posted On: March 12, 2010Posted In: Articles, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Listen to Chris Carter discuss the background of his debut novel which is released in paperback this March.
Read More...Win a Pocket Notebook goodie bag! [closed]
Posted On: March 10, 2010Posted In: Competitions, Video
Publisher: Windmill Books
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Bookdagger celebrates Windmill Books’ addition to the fold with an easy to enter competition.
Read More...Get to know Mary Higgins Clark
Posted On: February 22, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-two worldwide bestselling works of fiction and a memoir. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey, with her husband. Get to know her a bit better in this video, finding out about her dream talent, her best quality, and her favorite movie.
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Secret Speech – the follow-up to Child 44
Posted On: February 1, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Tom Rob Smith talks about his hotly-anticipated follow-up to the Booker long-listed Child 44, The Secret Speech, and we let you read the whole of Chapter One!
Read More...Interrogation: Neil Cross
Posted On: January 20, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Neil Cross reveals, under duress, just what makes him happy and who, if anyone, he can identify with.
Read More...Lynda La Plante talks about The Red Dahlia
Posted On: January 18, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Detective Anna Travis is working on a horrific, brutal murder case that has created a media frenzy. The victim, Louise Pennel, a 24-year-old, single, ‘fun-loving’ girl, was last seen in a London night club wearing a sequinned mini-dress and a red rose in her hair.
Read More...Neil Cross on new novel Captured
Posted On: January 12, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Neil Cross talks about and reads from his electrifying new novel Captured.
Read More...Tobias Jones on The Salati Case
Posted On: January 11, 2010Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
Tobias Jones introduces his first novel, set in the foggy northern city of Parma in winter time, and his detective Castagnetti, and suggests why Italy is hard to beat as a setting for crime fiction.
Read More...The Dark Lure
Posted On: October 2, 2009Posted In: Articles, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Megan Abbott discusses sex and violence in the crime fiction genre – and wonders what the attraction is for women writers. She also talks about the research for her novel The Song Is You.
Read More...Focus on… Neil Cross
Posted On: September 17, 2009Posted In: Articles, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Novelist and screenwriter Neil Cross talks about what makes him tick as a writer, and about his two most recent books, Natural History and Burial, and the book that changed his life, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22.
Read More...David Peace on Occupied City
Posted On: August 19, 2009Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
David Peace, author of the Red Riding quartet and The Damned Utd discusses the writing of his new novel Occupied City, second in the Tokyo Trilogy. Occupied City follows the notorious true story of the 1948 Teikoku Bank Massacre, where 16 bank employees were poisoned by an unknown man posing as a public health official.
Read More...Video interview: John le Carré
Posted On: June 27, 2009Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Sceptre
As BBC Radio 4 embarks on an extensive programme of dramatising John le Carré’s famous George Smiley novels, we have an extended interview with the master about his latest book, A Most Wanted Man, recently released in paperback, which focuses on the challenges confronting the intelligence services post-9/11.
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