Category: Featured Writer


  • M W Craven

    M W Craven: ‘Everything in my life seems to have happened by happy accident’ The bestselling crime writer talks about joining, and leaving, the army almost by chance, writing his way through trauma, the luck behind literary success and why Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw still have darker places to go. M W Craven would…

  • Joe Brewer-Lennon

    ‘I wanted to show gay life, warts and all’: Joe Brewer-Lennon on Andy Angus, chosen families and finding hope in dark times By Jonathan Welford The Scottish nurse and independent author talks about creating his accident-prone diarist, recording overlooked queer histories and Andy Angus is the grown up gay Adrian Mole Joe Brewer-Lennon’s latest novel…

  • Simon McCleave

    ‘I thought my mum and dad might buy a copy’: Simon McCleave on rejection, reinvention and selling 3.5m books By Jonathan Welford The bestselling crime writer talks to Caroline England, from The Late Late Book Show, about abandoning Hollywood, finding inspiration in the police cars of Peckham and creating an unexpectedly enduring detective in the…