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Grateful to Allan Massie for his generous review of The Poison Tide in The Scotsman. ‘Two novels – The Interrogator and To Kill a Tsar – have established Andrew Williams …

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1915.  German guns are on their way to Ireland.  The British government faces its worst nightmare:  insurrection at home while it struggles with bloody stalemate on the Western Front.  A …

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Handed in manuscript of the next novel, The Poison Tide,this morning and have had to spend the rest of the day recovering in front of the television watching episodes of …

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Authentic, moving, though-provoking, gripping … Andrew Williams’ sophisticated novel set in St Petersburg 37 years before the revolution that overturned Russia is about as good as historical thrillers get. To …

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By Andrew Williams THE engraving drew my eye because it was the only object in my teenage friend’s house that was older than him. It was the portrait of a …

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

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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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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60,000 words into The Poisoned Tide, the first in my trilogy of spy thrillers set at the beginning of the 20th century. The Poisoned Tide will be published next year …

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