Tag Archives: The Suicide Club

Interview for Writing Magazine

Some thoughts on my working day in an interview with Lynne Hackles for Writing Magazine.


The Sunday Times summer paperbacks

Great review in The Sunday Times’s pick of the paperbacks section to mark the pb of The Suicide Club. ‘Meticulously researched and classily written, the novel offers a distinctive perspective …

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Edinburgh Summerhall Historical Fiction Festival

Doing a turn at the Summerhall Historical Fiction Festival in Edinburgh on Saturday April 25th at 10.30. Will be talking about The Suicide Club, fiction and fact, spies and World …

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Suicide Club Q and A

Answers to some questions that were thrown at me in a recent interview about The Suicide Club….. Where did the idea for The Suicide Club come from? Ideas have long …

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Christmas Book Choices

The Suicide Club made two appearances in Books of the Year selections last weekend. It was Tam Dalyell‘s choice in Scotland on Sunday [7 December]. ‘The Suicide Club is a …

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More Reviews

Some more reviews of The Suicide Club in the last few days. Andrew Taylor describes it as ‘admirable’ in The Spectator. ‘What stands out about this book’, he writes, ‘is …

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The Times and Sunday Times Reviews

Another couple of very nice reviews, in The Times and Sunday Times this weekend. Marcel Berlins writes that the ‘war damaged’ hero of The Suicide Club, is a strong, sympathetic …

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