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Crime Time: Who guards the guards?
A piece I’ve written for Crime Time on my new book, Witchfinder, and the age old question of who guards the guards?
Bloody Scotland Book Festival
Looking forward to being back in Scotland Saturday 21st September for the ‘Bloody Scotland’ book festival in Stirling. A chance to talk about the 60’s and the 70’s with authors, …
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Publication Day
Publication Day. Fancy sharing it with David Cameron! I guess ‘Witchfinder’ took me as long to write as ‘For the Record’ and perhaps there’s another connection: it’s a story of …
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Irish Times Review
A nice little review of Witchfinder in The Irish Times: ‘Every bit as cynical in tone as Mick Herron’s Slough House mob (“We’re all trying to pretend we’re as worldly …
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The Book copy and launch
I didn’t post the jacket copy for the proof of Witchfinder last time… This is the story… And after the birth pains… I’m launching the book in the world at …
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Honouring old spies
My new book is about the witch hunt that takes place in the British intelligence services following the defection of Kim Philby in 1963, so a story in The Guardian …
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WITCHFINDER
After a long silence, I want to share this….. I have FINISHED! It has taken me an age, but WITCHFINDER – my political-espionage thriller – has reached the copy edit …
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Runnymede Literary Festival
A turn at the Runnymede Literary Festival at Royal Holloway College, London University, on March 12th, to talk war and war fiction, from World War 1 to Afghanistan. A good …
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The Suicide Club in Crime Review
A cracker in Crime Review: A ‘dark and disturbing story’. ‘Williams somehow manages to balance all the elements with totally persuasive characters, a strong narrative and disturbing correspondences between fact …
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The execution of Roger Casement
On this day Sir Roger Casement was hanged for his part in trying to smuggle German weapons to Ireland for the Easter Rising of 1916. I wrote about his time …
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