I'll be at East Grinstead Library for a Dark and Stormy event celebrating World Book Night on 23 April from 7pm with fellow writers Jane Lythell, Susan Wilkins and PD Viner. Tickets are free but they need to be booked in advance. Library manager Sue Young says, “We expect tickets for this event to go [...]
A House of Knives is now out in paperback: I really like the cover. I think it's got a great sense of place and drama about it. There have been some great reviews in The Daily Mail and The Sun so far. The Toronto Star wrote, "“Cathal Breen is altogether the most welcome crime solver [...]
Today the news is that there will be no more bare breasts in The Sun. Only if you live in the UK will you understand how big that news is. It was the lead item on the BBC's Today programme this morning. This is the remarkable culmination of a brilliant three-year social media campaign, #nomorepage3, [...]
July 16 @ 7:00 pm 8:00 pm Waterstones 203 - 206 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9H "Behind Criminal Minds". Timandra Harkness will be joined by authors Ann Cleeves, David Hewson and William Shaw. Each author will delve into the psyche of their characters and investigate how the criminal mind works, how they piece together the mind [...]
Sprout Pictures, the award-winning independent Television and Film production company founded by Stephen Fry and Gina Carter, has bought the rights to produce William Shaw’s Breen and Tozer trilogy for TV. Sprout Pictures productions include the ITV adaptation of the Ian Rankin bestseller Doors Open, Chris O’Dowd and Nick Murphy’s comedy drama Moone Boy for [...]
