Kay Scarpetta comes out of retirement in Patricia Cornwell’s new novel Autopsy
WHEN Patricia Cornwell was writing her novel Unnatural Exposure she came up with a fiendish murder plot involving her heroine Kay Scarpetta and deadly, lab-mutated smallpox. At the time, this was the mid-nineties, More...
Never REVIEW: Ken Follett goes nuclear in new crime novel
Never have I been more inclined to dislike a book. The size and scale of Ken Follett’s first contemporary thriller for more than a decade is not only daunting but Follett also pretentiously hopes “it More...
Never REVIEW: Ken Follett goes nuclear in new crime novel
Never have I been more inclined to dislike a book. The size and scale of Ken Follett’s first contemporary thriller for more than a decade is not only daunting but Follett also pretentiously hopes “it More...
The Christmas Pig: JK Rowling’s first children’s novel since Harry Potter
THE new JK Rowling novel sprang to life as her family sat on a sandy beach and she told them a story of what happens to the precious objects we lose. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Father’s Salmon Fishing In The Yemen novel inspired Piers Torday to become a writer
AUTHOR Paul Torday became an overnight bestseller at 59 with his comic novel about a hare-brained scheme to introduce angling to the desert. His career was cruelly cut short by cancer but today his son Piers is More...
Miles Jupp’s debut novel tells the story of a rich kids’ history teacher in midlife crisis
In this debut novel from comedian Miles Jupp, Clive Hapgood is a history teacher at a minor public school. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
1979 review – Val McDermid’s latest novel is just as riveting
Before she became the queen of Scottish crime fiction, Val McDermid was a tabloid journalist in Glasgow. She recently recalled working in a newsroom rife with misogyny back in the late 1970s: “To survive More...
Dolly Parton writing debut thriller novel with James Patterson and an accompanying album
DOLLY PARTON has announced she’s writing her debut novel, a thriller with James Paterson called Run, Rose, Run, plus an accompanying album. Daily Express :: Books Feed More...
Writing saved my life says crime novel of the year winner
The winner of Britain’s most prestigious crime novel of the year award revealed last night that writing had “saved his life”. Chris Whitaker suffered severe post-traumatic stress and suicidal More...
Metallica: Kirk Hammett took inspiration from Stephen King novel for second album
METALLICA: Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett was so inspired by a passage in one of Stephen King’s novels that he named the band’s second album after it. Daily Express :: Music Feed More...