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The Great White

February 27th, 2023

I was so amazed by this photograph of the Dowlais Great White Spoil Tip I worked it into chapter one of The Prime Minister’s Affair. It dominated Merthyr Tydfil until …

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A Spy Among Friends

November 29th, 2022

Looking forward to the new ITV drama, ‘A Spy Among Friends’, the story of British super spy Kim Philby and his university and MI6 mate, Nicholas Elliott. A great cast …

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Daily Telegraph Review of The PM’s Affair

June 18th, 2022

Super review of the The Prime Minister’s Affair from crime and thriller aficionado, Jake Kerridge in the Daily Telegraph.: ‘Williams has fashioned a wickedly entertaining tale of political chicanery…. A …

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Hardback of The Prime Minister’s Affair

May 30th, 2022

Advance hardback copies of the latest, my political thriller, The Prime Minister’s Affair, have arrived at home. It always feels like something that might never happen, what with months, sometimes …

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Waterstones Review of Witchfinder

June 16th, 2020

Ahead of paperback publication, Waterstones has done a ‘Waterstones says’ review of Witchfinder:  ‘A dazzling, authentic spy story set in Swinging London at the height of the Cold War, Witchfinder hymns a …

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The Book copy and launch

May 17th, 2019

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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Proof and Publication

April 30th, 2019

Proof copies of my new book, Witchfinder, are on their way to reviewers and, after more months (or is that years?) than I care to recall, my novel set in …

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WITCHFINDER

October 1st, 2018

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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Lies, spies and Bulgakov

July 20th, 2016

Half way through my next book set in the British intelligence services in the years after the defection of master spy, Kim Philby in 1963, and I keep coming back …

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The execution of Roger Casement

August 3rd, 2015

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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