Brighton Rock Walks

This year as every year, Julian Clapp, a very experienced police officer (and the only one to have arrested me… at least so far!!!) guides on a wonderful “Brighton Rock” walk all around Brighton town centre visiting locations featured in the film and book. The walk takes place during the Brighton Festival fringe and starts…

Bigging It Up In Romania

Well, the one country where I did not expect my publishers to collect me from the airport in a stretch limo came up trumps indeed, with the biggest, bling-blingest limo of all!!! We even made a splash in Romania’s largest-circulation newspaper! PJ and Helen – superstars in Romania! My wonderful Romanian publishers, Nemira, heard that…

Notes From The Underground

Last December 17th, in the UK (and abroad on digital radio) some of you may have heard me on BBC Radio Four, promoting a wonderful new literary magazine, Notes From The Underground, which was launched that day and handed out free, across London by men in bowler hats, looking like pastiches of the famous Magritte…

Dredging Up The Facts

Someone once likened being an author to being a mushroom. That we spend most of our lives in the dark, and occasionally someone opens the door of our shed and shovels shit over us…. Well – a few days ago was different! On one of the coldest days of the year, a freezing February morning,…

A Boy’s Own Adventure In Munich

My love affair with Munich just got even more passionate this week, after the launch of the German edition Not Dead Enough (Nicht Tot Genug), part of which is set in Munich. To my delight, Nicht Tot Genug went straight into the Spiegel bestseller list at No 21 joining the paperback of Looking Good Dead…