SPOILERS FOLLOW – I saw the latest Star Wars film over the Christmas holidays, and then, because it’s a Star Wars film, noticed the debate that sprang up around it. Star Wars creates debate over and above any other series – over forty years of films, a massive extended universe, and a fandom that […]
I’m writing this on a British Airways flight from Tenerife to London on my way back from our family holiday. It’s been a lovely break – I disengaged from work and did no writing – but, as July pushes on, it’s time to get back to my desk. I’ve wanted to send Milton to […]
It’s going to be a busy year this year – and a lot of fun if you like my books. So what do I have coming for you? I’m just putting the finishing touches to the first book in a new detective series. The protagonist – Holden Priest – draws upon all the […]
In case you missed it, I was recently interviewed on national television in the United Kingdom prior to the launch of the new John Milton novel, Sleepers. I live and work in Salisbury, a beautiful mediaeval town that has recently found itself in the news after the attempted assassination of a Russian defector and […]
I started planning the next Milton book as I was putting the finishing touches to the last one, Redeemer. I’d been planning to write something based around the case of Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-Russian spy who was allegedly poisoned by the SVR in 2006. You might remember that case: his tea was laced with radioactive […]
One of the things that’s particularly important to me when I’m writing is that my books are as authentic as I can make them. That has led to me getting into some scrapes now and again, and it’s also meant that I have possibly limited my market a little bit. Let me give you a […]
One of the questions that I get asked most often, and one that has already been asked in the Facebook group that I set up for the purposes of this book club, is where I got my inspiration for character of John Milton. The truth is that Milton came to me fairly easily. There are […]
The release of a new Milton book is always an exciting time for me. I love writing these books, and it is with a combination of elation and trepidation that I press that button that makes them available to readers. Thankfully, the reaction to the thirteenth Milton novel – Redeemer – has been very positive. […]
I’ve been interested in putting out a line of punchy, lightning-fast, unputdownable books for a while. Not that the Milton and Rose books aren’t those two things – readers assure me that they are – but, rather, I’ve been meaning to pen a series of shorter novellas that are designed to be read in one […]
Fifteen years ago, my first book – The Art of Falling Apart – was published by a major UK imprint. It, and my second book, Subpoena Colada, sank without trace. Hardly any sales. No reviews. The only contact I had with readers was when a friend handed me a copy of Subpoena Colada that she […]