To mark the paperback publication of The Winter Job, I am delighted to be able to repost my review of the hardback, and to celebrate the fact that this not only won the CWA Crime Fiction In Transla…

Outstanding crime fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden shortlisted for the 2026 Petrona Award Seven impressive crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been sho…

Outstanding crime fiction from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden shortlisted for the 2026 Petrona Award Seven impressive crime novels from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have been shortliste…

The Butterfly House (Barcelona Nights, 2) Teresa Solana (trans Peter Bush) Corylus Books, 12 September 2026 Available as: e    Source: Advan...

1985. Nineteen-year-old Filip spends his days playing football, listening to music on his Walkman and drawing, searching for something he cannot yet name. He lives in a large family house shared wi…

1985. Nineteen-year-old Filip spends his days playing football, listening to music on his Walkman and drawing, searching for something he cannot yet name. He lives in a large family house shared wi…

Embargoed until 8am 27 August 2026 (UK time).   OUTSTANDING CRIME FICTION FROM FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 PETRONA AWARD Twelve crime novels from Finland, Icel…

Source: Review copyPublication: 26 August 2026 from OrionPP:320ISBN-13: 978-1398722552 My thanks to Orion for an advance copy for review IN THIS TOWN, EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE. BUT SOMEBODY KNOWS MORE THAN THEY THINK...Anna Maybourne dropped out of university to move to the farming town of Harper's Creek with her mother, sister and grandmother. They don't talk about why.

Clara and Christina by Andrew Cunning published July 30th with John Murray and is a spectacular debut written with skill and empathy.

From books to transport you around the world to books that are perfect for hot weather; from books set in hotels to books to take to the seaside; discover a wide selection of Booker-nominated books to...

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Anything you want to forget will come back to you, it will haunt you so vividly that it feels as if you’re going through it all over again, often causing you the same overwhelming and unmanageable …

One of the strands for my ten or fifteen or twenty books of summer were books about Berlin – but I went a little rogue, as I explained last time, and picked up some books at random from the l…

The right words bring them together: unscramble words in as few moves as possible.

The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’…

Folks, I think I have a new favorite Jim Thompson novel.

The Skelf women have been keeping their heads down, running the family’s funeral directors and private investigation businesses. But when a woman collapses at her husband’s funeral and …

The Skelf women have been keeping their heads down, running the family’s funeral directors and private investigation businesses. But when a woman collapses at her husband’s funeral and …

Another month of heatwave and general sweaty unpleasantness, which I don’t know about anybody else, really impinged on my ability to concentrate and read. As the days went by I had only read …

In the novel I’m currently revising (it’s a new Patricia Stanley novel), one of the characters died a hundred years before the novel takes place. So, the present-day characters can only get to know…

Another month of heatwave and general sweaty unpleasantness, which I don’t know about anybody else, really impinged on my ability to concentrate and read. As the days went by I had only read …