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Honouring old spies

November 9th, 2018

My new book is about the witch hunt that takes place in the British intelligence services following the defection of Kim Philby in 1963, so a story in The Guardian …

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WITCHFINDER

October 1st, 2018

After a long silence, I want to share this….. I have FINISHED! It has taken me an age, but WITCHFINDER – my political-espionage thriller – has reached the copy edit …

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Lies, spies and Bulgakov

July 20th, 2016

Half way through my next book set in the British intelligence services in the years after the defection of master spy, Kim Philby in 1963, and I keep coming back …

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Runnymede Literary Festival

January 20th, 2016

A turn at the Runnymede Literary Festival at Royal Holloway College, London University, on March 12th, to talk war and war fiction, from World War 1 to Afghanistan. A good …

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The Suicide Club in Crime Review

October 14th, 2015

A cracker in Crime Review: A ‘dark and disturbing story’. ‘Williams somehow manages to balance all the elements with totally persuasive characters, a strong narrative and disturbing correspondences between fact …

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The execution of Roger Casement

August 3rd, 2015

On this day Sir Roger Casement was hanged for his part in trying to smuggle German weapons to Ireland for the Easter Rising of 1916. I wrote about his time …

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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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Interview for Writing Magazine

July 11th, 2015

Some thoughts on my working day in an interview with Lynne Hackles for Writing Magazine.

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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