
My Writing Life: No Place to Run by Mark Edwards
This exceptional account by Mark Edwards, chronicling his long-held and hard-earned ambition to become a
This exceptional account by Mark Edwards, chronicling his long-held and hard-earned ambition to become a
When I first joined the police, I worked with a young rascal of a cadet
The desire to write fiction came on when I was at home with small children.
The first time I was in the Nyanza province in Kenya, HIV infections were at
I write a series about a World War Two Scotland Yard detective called Frank Merlin.
An incredible thing just happened. Just now – I mean just now. I opened a
The subject for my dark, twisty domestic thriller, The Adoption, set in Tampa, Florida, began
For me, writing focuses my various interests and hobbies into something unique that is immensely
I found a woodcock in my garden recently, stunned from a collision with a window.
Writing fiction wasn’t something I thought I could do until a character named Maisie Dobbs
My debut novel, The Truth Will Out, began with a feeling. It was March 2020,
Digging deep to uncover inspiration for The Nurse. Inspiration can come in many forms and
There’s myth, a legend, a well-known fact – take your pick – that any rock
You’re always thinking about the next book. Right at the time you’re negotiating the flabby
I was still living in Seattle, Washington when my family and I visited Bletchley Park
I’ve now written seventeen books and one of my favourite parts of the process is
When I was putting together ideas for the novel that became The Burning Boy, I
One of the first things people say when they discover that I write novels is,
Book ideas always start for me at two or three separate points, ‘light bulb’ moments that converge to form a story.
This article was first published in August 2021. 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard went