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I’ve always loved books that ask the question: What if? What if society took a different turn? What if technology became more powerful than people could handle? What if the world we know changed beyond ...

Rum Punch, by Elmore Leonard No one writes dialogue like Elmore Leonard, and his novels are mostly that: characters speaking. And doing things that are either dangerous or stupid or both. Leonard’s books were a ...

Rob McDonald is the author of the award-winning The Nancys series, set in rural New Zealand and featuring characters you’ll struggle to forget! Atmospheric, laugh-out-loud funny, but full of poignant and often dark themes, The ...

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights, excluding India and Pakistan, for acclaimed Pakistani author Awais Khan’s extraordinary new novel, Where the Light Falls, and ...

When I had the sudden notion of writing a retelling of Wuthering Heights, I did wonder if I might be considered too audacious. Or was I mad ... after all, who would dare to change ...

I love amateur detectives. I feel they are a bridge for readers to ask themselves what they would do in a situation where they had to solve a crime. They allow readers to solve the ...

I keep a secret list. It’s a growing, increasingly unwieldy collection of true stories from history that I think might one day become books. Some are famous; some are almost completely forgotten. Some have murders, ...

It was hard to pick just a few, but these definitely stand out. Ernest Hemingway, The First 49 Stories I keep coming back to this one. I have an old paperback copy that used to ...

Early reviewers of my first novel in the Annie Jackson series, The Murmurs, mentioned how much they enjoyed the Scottish history and folklore element of the book. Which came as a bit of a surprise ...

I have loved reading crime series ever since I was a teenager. There is something about following the same characters through several books that makes you feel particularly connected to them. More often than not, ...

People often ask us which detective dramas we recommend. After almost fifty years in and around policing, we probably watch them rather differently from most people. We are less interested in the cleverest twist than ...

Any selection of essential Scottish novels is obviously personal and arbitrary, and I would pick a different six on another day. But here are six books I love, books that speak to the diversity and ...

Lily Kintner in The Kind Worth Killing, by Peter Swanson Charming, devious, cunning and (of course) beautiful, Lily Kintner is the beating, dark heart of this brilliantly twisty thriller, full of morally dubious characters who ...

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene. Brighton Rock remains my all-time favourite crime novel. I started out as a poet, so its precise and visual writing style really appeals to me. Then there’s the marvellous depiction of ...

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for S.J. Watson’s Before I Sleep Forever, in a deal negotiated with Ariella Feiner at United Agents. Before ...

As a crime writer, I'm often asked which books have influenced me and it's always the hardest question to answer. The answer changes depending on when you ask, but there are certain books that have ...

Karen Sullivan, Publisher of Orenda Books, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for Norwegian artist and author Lars Elling’s extraordinary, devastatingly beautiful, brutal debut novel The Princes of Pauper’s Pond ...

In Under the Blazing Sun, disgruntled literary author Hannah struggles to overcome writer's block and write her crime sequel. In some ways, Hannah’s problem mirrored my own when writing my sequel about Hannah, except I ...

I have a secret. From the outside, most people would think that I must be quite an organised writer – in the same way I am on top of everything in both my professional and ...

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for Trevor Wood’s The Angel of Death, book three in the DCI Jack Parker series, in a three-book ...