Well, the Awards ceremony was indeed a glittering affair at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, on Friday night, and as usual, whenever I am lucky enough to be shortlisted for an award, I always arrive a nervous wreck…probably even more nervous than usual this time as it was such a prestigious award, AUTHOR…
On Friday 19th September, accompanied by Macmillan marketing supremo Charlie King and my wonderful publicist, Claire Barnett, I gave the Roy Grace tour of Brighton to six lucky winners of the competition run by my publishers (see earlier blog entry). One particular bonus of an event like this is that it gives me the opportunity…
On Thursday September 25 (next week!) I am doing a fun event at Waterstones, Piccadilly at 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm as part of London Crime Scene. I am appearing with Roy Grace’s career “doppelganger” Former Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Gaylor, on whose career path I based Roy Grace’s, and who has been my principal…
I’m delighted to tell you I’ve been shortlisted for the Author of the Year category in the inaugural ITV Crime Thriller Awards – details of which are in the press release below. One of you kind readers sent me an email of commiseration when I failed to win the Theakstons Crime Thriller Of The Year…
I am going into seclusion in France to try to finish my new Roy Grace novel and will be offline now until the end of the month. The next blog post will be on August 27th. I will respond to your emails as quickly as I can after my return. In the meantime I leave…
Thank you for your votes for the Theakson’s Old Peculier Crime Thriller of the Year Award for which Not Dead Enough was nominated. As you may have read, we just lost on the final judging committee decision to Stef Penney for The Tenderness Of Wolves. As this is the third award in a row for…
On September 19th I am giving a tour of Roy Grace’s Brighton followed by a champagne fish and chip lunch on the pier to five winners of the competition on the Pan Macmillan website and to one prize winner from the wonderful St Wilfrid’s Hospice in Eastbourne. So for any of you fancying a peek…
Just when I was thinking all the teething troubles I had with my Bentley had been sorted out, it went and caught fire! The saga began on a Sunday, three weeks ago, when driving along on a dry, sunny day, the windscreen washers suddenly came on and would not stop, even with the engine off…
Recently I did the popular Gordon Astley lunchtime show on Southern Counties Radio, which included picking five of my favourite records, and one I really hate!!! To find out which, click and listen to this MP3 file. It’s a 10 MB download, so it might take a little while. PJ on Southern Counties Radio MP3
Just a note to say that my appearance at Waterstones in Lincoln has been changed from the 17th July to the 16th July – 1 day earlier. I will be there from 7pm onwards – do come and say hello! You can see my complete list of scheduled appearances here