I’ve just heard the wonderful news that I have been shortlisted for this award – huge thanks to the wonderful voting support from so many of you. The winner will be announced on July 18th, so a white knuckle ride until then, especially as I am up against immensely talented competition: The full shortlist, drawn…
To celebrate the publication of Dead Man’s Footsteps, it gives me great pleasure to announce that my publisher Pan Macmillan have sponsored one of Brighton and Hove Police’s patrol cars! You can see how the jacket design of Dead Man’s Footsteps has been incorporated into the body work below. Eagle eyed readers might also have…
We have a new addition to our canine family, the hugely delightful, 12 week old Coco, bringing the strength back up to three hounds after the sad losses of Sooty and Bertie last year. Coco is a cross between a Shitzu and a Poodle. Apparently the breed is known as a Shipoo, which sounds only…
Dead Man’s Footsteps goes on sale in the UK on Thursday June 12th, and is strictly embargoed by my publishers until then. However, for those of you who really cannot wait (a huge thank you!!!!) Waterstones in Notting Hill Gate has a special exemption to sell it on the evening of Wednesday June 11th. I…
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…
I’m delighted to learn that I have been longlisted for one of the UK’s most prestigious crime writing awards, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2008 – along with some very heavy opposition! The award is voted for by the public, so if you would like to support me please go to…
I recently appeared on the Sky Arts Books Show, hosted by the really delightful Mariella Frostrup. My fellow guest on the show was Jeffrey Archer. You can see my one-to-one interview on this clip, and, as one reader has gleefully pointed out, my red socks!
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…
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…
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,…