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Updated on: 20th September 2024
A Lurking Primrose, the third novel in the Primrose Oughterard trilogy, was published by Severn House this year on 2nd July 2024. It is available from Amazon, Waterstones, W.H. Smith, Abe Books and other outlets. For more information, please check the BOOKS section.
Updated on: 20th September 2024
A Lurking Primrose, the third novel in the Primrose Oughterard trilogy, was published by Severn House this year on 2nd July 2024. It is available from Amazon, Waterstones, W.H. Smith, Abe Books and other outlets. For more information, please check the BOOKS section.
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
Pub. Collins Crime Club 2020. Hardback.
This is a handsome and magisterial tome edited by the intrepid Martin Edwards, current president of the venerable Detection Club (founded in the 1930s by Dorothy L. Sayers and other notables). I say 'magisterial' because there are no fewer than 90 contributors – the majority from the present day, but also a number of big names from the past, e.g. Agatha Christie, Eric Ambler, G.K. Chesterton, Margery Allingham et al. Yet past or present, they share one aim: to convey the art, methods, and nature of the genre. But oh my goodness, within that aim what an amazing diversity of topics, viewpoints and interests – and delivered with lively eloquence. (NB. In this respect my own contribution may be an exception, but at least it’s relevant!). I can guarantee that for afficionados of crime fiction this will fast become their literary “bible”, to be dipped into, consulted, savoured and thoroughly enjoyed.
The collection seems to cover every facet of the fiction game; and in saying this, I do not mean simply that of detection and crime. For such is the scope of this work, that much of what the contributors say about the task of composition applies to literature generally. Thus, I thoroughly recommend that you beg, borrow or buy this book (an antidote to the tedium of Lockdown or an excellent Christmas present!) It won’t disappoint.
Pub. Collins Crime Club 2020. Hardback.
This is a handsome and magisterial tome edited by the intrepid Martin Edwards, current president of the venerable Detection Club (founded in the 1930s by Dorothy L. Sayers and other notables). I say 'magisterial' because there are no fewer than 90 contributors – the majority from the present day, but also a number of big names from the past, e.g. Agatha Christie, Eric Ambler, G.K. Chesterton, Margery Allingham et al. Yet past or present, they share one aim: to convey the art, methods, and nature of the genre. But oh my goodness, within that aim what an amazing diversity of topics, viewpoints and interests – and delivered with lively eloquence. (NB. In this respect my own contribution may be an exception, but at least it’s relevant!). I can guarantee that for afficionados of crime fiction this will fast become their literary “bible”, to be dipped into, consulted, savoured and thoroughly enjoyed.
The collection seems to cover every facet of the fiction game; and in saying this, I do not mean simply that of detection and crime. For such is the scope of this work, that much of what the contributors say about the task of composition applies to literature generally. Thus, I thoroughly recommend that you beg, borrow or buy this book (an antidote to the tedium of Lockdown or an excellent Christmas present!) It won’t disappoint.