Singapore Slingshot

Reluctantly leaving New Zealand (blog on which to follow) where I’ve been treated wonderfully, and the amazing Pennys’s bookstore who put on the best window display for my books I’ve ever seen – spot all the artefacts from Dead Simple – the shovel, the whisky bottle, the walkie talkie, etc… and the CDs from Looking…

New Zealand Coming Up

Currently in Australia on a tour to promote Looking Good Dead, with New Zealand next up. (You can see my full public appearance schedule here if you’re interested). There was a nice clipping in the New Zealand press which explains my upcoming appearance in Hamilton (you can read it here), and Linda at Penny’s Bookstore…

Making Elmore Leonard Disappear!

So I’m just back from a glorious week in the ski resort of Courmayeur, high in the Italian Alps, where I was President of the film jury at the Courmayeur In Noir film and book festival. Sounds grand, “President”, but actually (as the pic shows) the reason I got voted President is because I was…

Blind Date

I was put up as a dinner date by the German crime-writing website Krimi Couch – they held a national competition centred around the promotion of the hardback launch of Looking Good Dead (Stirb Schon) in Germany this autumn, and the luck (or unlucky, depending how you look at it…) winner got to have a…

The UK Bestseller Lists

Today I heard the brilliant news that the paperback of Looking Good Dead has gone to No 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. And… we sold almost 10,000 copies more than Jeffrey Archer, which gives me almost as much pleasure… And in addition we are No 1 in Tesco – the UK’s largest supermarket…

A Half Baked Bond?

I attended the Royal Premiere of Casino Royale last Tuesday, courtesy of my very charming Swedish cousin, Erik Olsson, a Bond fanatic (see the two of us downing an appropriate tipple at the pre-screening party). It’s always a levelling experience to walk along that red carpet across Leicester Square, all dressed up. You are aware…

Yemen And Oman – First Impressions

After all the dire warnings that to fly to Yemen was insane, we landed in Sana’a on a Tuesday evening, to one of the most friendly airports I’ve been to.  US immigration officers should spend a few days there getting a lesson in politeness. Having been on a five week German, US and then French…