http://www.andrewwilliams.tv/ Andrew Williams en-uk Copyright 2012 Andrew Williams Sun, 20 May 2012 10:15:20 GMT To coincide with the publication of The Poison Tide I am appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Tuesday the 14th of August at 8.30 p.m. Come along if you can and hear me talk about the inspiration for the book, the history, the trouble and the toil - and ask me a question. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=61 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Poison Tide is on its way to the printer for publication in August. A spy thriller set in World War One, the action takes place in Berlin and New York between 1915 and 1916. As always with my books, it is based on real events - the ruthless campaign of sabotage waged by the Germans in neutral America against Allied interests. Click on the news title for a preview of the jacket copy. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=60 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT Handed in manuscript of the next novel, The Poison Tide,this morning and have had to spend the rest of the day recovering in front of the television watching episodes of The West Wing. 120,000 words, which is shorter than To Kill A Tsar but longer than The Interrogator. Publication day set for August this year. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=59 Thu, 1 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT Super review for the paperback by Pam Norfolk. 'Authentic, moving, thought-provoking, gripping....Andrew Williams' sophisticated novel set in St Petersburg 37 years before the revolution that overturned Russia is about as good as historical thrillers get.' THANKS! Good to get that sort of encouragement when you are 30,000 words from the end of the next one. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=58 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT Here's a feature for The Scotsman newspaper on the the extraordinary Scots-Russian connection that is the backdrop of 'To Kill A Tsar'. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=57 Tue, 4 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMT The paperback of To Kill A Tsar is published on Thursday September 29th. I'm working on some trumpets... http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=56 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT Writer, Aly Monroe and I have kicked off a discussion on Good Reads exploring the researching, planning and writing of historical fiction. We've set out some of our own thoughts but would love to hear what other readers and writers think. Please click on the title and follow the link. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=55 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT Click on the title and read my friend and ex BBC colleague, Mark Dowd's extraordinarily powerful account of the last efforts of campaigners to save Mark Stroman from being executed this summer, and of his final moments. Stroman murdered two men in a 'patriotic rage' after 9/11. In the ten years he spent on death row he became a very different man, and Mark's friend. His execution in July had nothing to do with justice and everything to do with politics and Governor Rick Perry's campaign for the Presidency. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=54 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT 60,000 words into The Poisoned Tide, the first in my trilogy of spy thrillers set at the beginning of the 20th century. The Poisoned Tide will be published next year and is set in the Secret Service Bureau, as MI 6 was known in its first years. The action takes place in Britain, Germany and the United States, and, as before, is based on real characters and events. One of the characters is Commander Mansfield Cumming, the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service to sign himself 'C'. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=52 Thu, 7 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT Andrea Levy was the winner of The Scott Prize for her wonderful story, The Long Song. The announcement was made at the Borders Book Festival in Scotland. The actor Robert Powell read brilliantly from the works of all the shortlisted authors before the announcement. Later in the festival bar, someone asked me; 'how does it feel to have your words read by Jesus of Nazareth?' 'Pretty good', I replied. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=50 Fri, 1 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT Great new service for authors and publishers - book ads, interviews, electronic books from video specialists.... Browse our copy of Dickens' Great Expectations, by clicking on the filmed features and interviews with the experts. There are interviews with authors, Fern Britton and Charles Cumming and much more. http://www.deepbook.co.uk/ http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=49 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT News of the formation of an Historical Writers Association for all those who write well researched historical fiction and non fiction. http://www.TheHWA.co.uk http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=48 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT Very nice to find myself in The Mail's Christmas stocking as one of the four thrillers of 2010. Geoffrey Wansell described To Kill as 'a superb evocation of spies, radical passions and revolution in St Petersburg in 1879'. In The Scotsman Christmas list, the book was described by Allan Massie as 'finely realised' with a 'compelling plot', but 'best of all is the moral discrimination with which Williams presents his terrorists to us'. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=46 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT For anyone interested in a new style of e-book, I've been working with colleagues in a company called Deepbook to produce a new edition of Dickens' Great Expectations, with video features shot at the locations that form the backdrop for the book, and interviews with experts. It's free to access, and is aimed at the ordinary reader who'd like to learn a little more about the book, and also for the student. Take a look - we think it's something new, and hope we'll be able to offer the same treatment soon with other books. Paste http://www.vyoo.eu/deepbook/ I would love to hear what you think. In the mean time, work continues on the new novel. The title has changed in the last week and may change again, but I'm making good progress. More soon. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=47 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT I'm well into the writing of a new book for John Murray - a spy thriller set in Germany and the United States in the first years of the 20th century. It is the first of a trilogy of books. Each book will have a different hero but there will be common characters, institutions, story lines, and themes. More soon. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=45 Mon, 8 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT To Kill A Tsar is to be published in a Spanish edition for Spain and Latin America and also in a new Polish edition. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=44 Mon, 1 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMT Here's a feature I've written for Shots magazine on how To Kill A Tsar was born on the streets of Belfast and Derry, and examining parallels between the Russian terrorists of a hundred years ago and the IRA.......and there's a competition to win a copy of the book too. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=41 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Thanks to Barry Forshaw for his kind observations on To Kill in The Independent........ Have just returned from Germany, Austria and Hungary where I've been doing a little research for the next book - and enjoying a break from the computer! http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=39 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT Generous review of 'To Kill' by Geoffrey Wansell in The Daily Mail on Friday [July 30]. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=38 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT John Connell review of 'To Kill A Tsar' in The Guardian [Saturday 24 July] http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=37 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT The writer Allan Massie reviewed 'To Kill' for The Scotsman on Saturday [July 17], and the paper did me proud with a full page. http://www.andrewwilliams.tv//pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=36 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT