A misty portrait of crime writer Linda Hagan by publisher, Erik Empson From the outskirts of Dublin I head north, intending to go to Belfast, but something I can’t explain stops me from crossing the threshold that was and wasn’t, is and isn’t, will be and won’t be, a border, and instead I U-turn and […]

A portrait of Irish writer Anne Crosse by publisher, Erik Empson One might, on arriving in Ireland for the first time, disembarking the ferry as I did in Rosslare, think that one had got on the wrong boat and landed in Holland or such like, given the orderliness of the place – trimmed verges, perfectly […]

A portrait of novelist Pippa McCathie by publisher, Erik Empson Pippa McCathie is the tender age of twenty-three. One might not believe it by looking at this author, with her wide eyes, sun-weathered face, and shock of white hair, whom at first glance one might place at late sixties or early seventies at most. But […]

An oblique portrait of author Cheryl Rees-Price by publisher, Erik Empson Born near Taff’s Well, a small village in a vale north of Wales’ capital, on the slopes of The Garth, the hill that inspired Christopher Monger’s story and subsequent film An Englishman Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain, local character […]

A portrait of Wales-based crime fiction author Nicola Clifford After more than a year with radically reduced social contact, we’ve set out to meet up with some of our writers around the British Isles so as to find out more about them and their writing. by publisher, Erik Empson How does a west country woman […]