The novelist talks about growing up with alcoholic parents, and how it shaped her writing and led to her fictional alter ego, Kinsey Millhone.
Schlagwort-Archive: John Crace
Interview: Jamal Mahjoub aka Parker Bilal
Mahjoub is living a double life, as a literary novelist and a crime writer. He talks about juggling two identities, an inherited love of Alistair Maclean, and his passion for Cairo.
Interview: Joe Nesbø
The bestselling author explains why Scandinavian writers are drawn to crime fiction – and why he can’t help torturing the hero of his books.
Digested read: Jo Nesbø: “Phantom”
Captain Tord Schultz sighed as he landed the plane. As the opening character in a thriller, he knew his only purpose was to die a slow, agonising death. Within 70 pages a brick studded with nails had ripped off half his face.
Pastiche: P. D. James: »Death Comes to Pemberley«
It is a truth not universally acknowledged that a classic novel is not in want of a sequel. And so it was that on the morning of 14 October 1803, that Mrs Elizabeth Darcy sat down with her husband to discuss the arrangements for the forthcoming Pemberley Ball.