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LATEST NEWSFrank Tallis Up For Thriller Award FATAL LIES by Frank Tallis has been named a finalist in the Best Paperback Category for the 2010 International Thriller Writer Awards. The winner will be announced at ThrillerFest weekend on July 7-10th at the Grand Hyatt in NYC. Tallis willfeature in a panel on Psycho-Thrillers at Jewish Book Week Psycho-thrillers: Tallis And Sington Speak A panel on Psycho-Thrillers is to be a key event at Jewish Book Week. In the best traditions of historical crime writing, Philip Sington's The Einstein Girl and Frank Tallis' Deadly Communion interweave fiction and fact, as well as re-create whole eras. The reader is not only entranced and entertained but takes away an enhanced understanding of the theories of Einstein or Freud. These highly accomplished practitioners of their craft discuss fiction, myth and reality with crime critic Barry Forshaw LATEST REVIEWSTHE Tory Party's mantra "Broken Britain" might be said to be affirmed by Simon Lelic's provocative debut novel Rupture. Britain is in the grip of a humid summer when teacher Samuel Szajkowski strides into assembly at his school and unleashes a barrage of gunfire. Three pupils and one colleague lie dead before he turns the gun on himself...Barry Forshaw in The Express The remarkable life of the writer Joan Brady is surely a fit subject for an autobiography – but until she writes one, we'll have to be content with highly assured thrillers such as her latest, Venom. We'd already been acquainted with Brady's non-pareil skills in the much-acclaimed Bleedout, which had such writers as Jeffery Deaver and Val McDermid queuing up to scatter praise; the new book builds on (and consolidates) the success of its predecessor... |
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LATEST FEATURES
Jonathan Buckley on Contact I think this book began to take shape as I was reading reports on the Iraq war - specifically, on Operation Phantom Fury, the massive US-UK assault on Fallujah in November and December of 2004. It struck me - as it has struck many people - that the public attitude to what has happened in Iraq would have been hugely different if the fighting had been shown on TV as the Vietnam War was shown, instead of being presented to us by 'embedded' and therefore controlled reporters...
Clem Chambers On The Twain Maxim It is not just the fantasy of a writer to come up with the perfect crime, it is a mental puzzle I think that most people have thought about. Thanks to the credit crunch, a lot of people have realised that there are plenty of perfect crimes and many are in the world of finance. I thought I'd make one of them the basis of my second book, The Twain Maxim... LATEST INTERVIEWS
Lynn Shepherd On Murder At Mansfield Park The thing that always occurred to me about Mansfield Park was how much it resembled the set-up of the classic English detective story - a group of characters in a relatively isolated setting, with plenty of simmering tensions and under-currents, and where the arrival of a charismatic outsider sparks a chain of ultimately murderous events...
Chasing The Dead: Tim Weaver On The World Of The Missing About ten years ago, I read three thrillers in quick succession that immediately cemented my desire to write one of my own. 'Every Dead Thing' by John Connolly, 'The Poet' by Michael Connelly and 'A Simple Plan' by Scott Smith were an incredible grounding in the genre, weaving cheesewire-tight plots and fantastic writing; each very different but each making such an impression on me that my ambition to write a book – a desire that was always out there on the peripherary of my thoughts somewhere, from when I was still in my teens – quickly became much more than that... |
