Sport, travel, food, art, humour. Award winning author of 13 non-fiction books. Based in North East England. Contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller UK. Wrote 800+ columns for the Guardian.
These classic crime writers were also people of the cloth.
The hero of his own thrillers.
The legendary women of the Golden Age of crime fiction.
Enter the seedy underbelly of British crime.
The haunting story of an abandoned ghost shop ship and its permanent impression on the esteemed author.
Discover these classic whodunits with international flair.
The top of the hit parade.
The Sherlock Holmes creator's unexpected connection to the Fairy Folk.
Freeman Wills Crofts, master of the mundane.
Was it delusion, or something deeper?
A classic eccentric.
George Orwell had some choice words for this 1939 crime novel.
When art imitates life.
Essential reading for mystery bibliophiles.
Your questions—answered.
Journey to the Ancient World...
All about the "murderous renegade" who shaped the spy genre.
Shop till you drop...
Meet the women who paved the way.