Tag Archives: World War 1 fiction

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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Paperback of The Suicide Club

June 10th, 2015

The paperback of The Suicide Club is published on July 2nd, with the good opinion of reviewers inserted…. ‘Sheer story telling impetus that is impossible to resist.’ Financial Times ‘His …

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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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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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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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