Yearly Archives: 2014

My thriller of 2014

December 15th, 2014

My thriller for the year isn’t a book but a film: a thought provoking roller coaster ride through ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. Set at the beginning of ‘The Troubles’, …

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Christmas Book Choices

December 8th, 2014

The Suicide Club made two appearances in Books of the Year selections last weekend. It was Tam Dalyell‘s choice in Scotland on Sunday [7 December]. ‘The Suicide Club is a …

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November 23rd, 2014

Big thanks to Geoffrey Wansell for his generous review of The Suicide Club in last Friday’s Daily Mail. ‘Williams has quietly become one of Britain’s most accomplished thriller writers’, he …

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More Reviews

November 18th, 2014

Some more reviews of The Suicide Club in the last few days. Andrew Taylor describes it as ‘admirable’ in The Spectator. ‘What stands out about this book’, he writes, ‘is …

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The Times and Sunday Times Reviews

November 10th, 2014

Another couple of very nice reviews, in The Times and Sunday Times this weekend. Marcel Berlins writes that the ‘war damaged’ hero of The Suicide Club, is a strong, sympathetic …

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Reviews of The Suicide Club

November 3rd, 2014

Three reviews of The Suicide Club. Barry Forshaw in The Financial Times, writes of an ‘adroit balance of elements’: ‘economical but utterly persuasive character drawing, a pungent sense of locale …

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The rise and rise of the period thriller

October 20th, 2014

Some thoughts for Crimetime on the appeal of period spy thrillers: for writers and readers. God commands Moses in the bible to send spies into the land of Canaan to …

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Comrades, Conspirators and Reluctant Warriors at Peterborough Library

October 15th, 2014

I’m looking forward to talking about ‘Comrades, Conspirators and Reluctant Warriors’ with historical thriller writers, Bill Ryan and Robert Ryan at Peterborough Library on Wednesday 15 October. Expect we’ll talk …

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I came across this in a Canadian archive a few years ago and it seems like the time to dust it off: it is an unusual account of the coming …

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The Suicide Club

May 15th, 2014

The Suicide Club is at the copy editor’s and publication is 6th November, just before Armistice Day. It is a spy thriller set at Field Marshal Haig’s HQ in France …

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