Monthly Archives: September 2011

To Kill a Tsar in paperback

The paperback of To Kill A Tsar is published on Thursday September 29th. I’m working on some trumpets…


Writing History: join the debate

Writer, Aly Monroe and I have kicked off a discussion on Good Reads exploring the researching, planning and writing of historical fiction. We’ve set out some of our own thoughts …

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The last walk from Death Row in Texas

Read my friend and ex BBC colleague, Mark Dowd’s extraordinarily powerful account of the last efforts of campaigners to save Mark Stroman from being executed this summer, and of his …

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