Category Archives: News

A Srebrenica Diary – investigating the crime

July 14th, 2015

Twenty years ago this week, 8000 Bosnian Muslims were murdered in and around Srebrenica. A few months after the event I was a member of the BBC Panorama that went …

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The Sunday Times summer paperbacks

July 11th, 2015

Great review in The Sunday Times’s pick of the paperbacks section to mark the pb of The Suicide Club. ‘Meticulously researched and classily written, the novel offers a distinctive perspective …

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Poor old Agent ‘Le Nusse’

June 22nd, 2015

There were some spectacular espionage failures during World War 1… The Suicide Club was one of the worst. British Army intelligence came up with the idea of placing agents behind …

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Edinburgh Summerhall Historical Fiction Festival

April 15th, 2015

Doing a turn at the Summerhall Historical Fiction Festival in Edinburgh on Saturday April 25th at 10.30. Will be talking about The Suicide Club, fiction and fact, spies and World …

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MI 5 is watching…. your MP

March 26th, 2015

There’s a big fuss about MI 5 keeping files on British Members of Parliament. I’ve been doing some research for a new story idea and I’ve come across quite a …

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Suicide Club Q and A

February 12th, 2015

Answers to some questions that were thrown at me in a recent interview about The Suicide Club….. Where did the idea for The Suicide Club come from? Ideas have long …

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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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