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White as Snow: Shedding Light on Iceland’s Dark Underbelly

When most people think of Iceland, they conjure up images of stunning landscapes, geysers, and the magical Northern Lights. This pristine imagery, however, stands in stark contrast to the inspiration behind my latest English release, ...

Five Fun Facts about Jørn Lier Horst

1. My first job was as a gravedigger and cemetery attendant. 2. I was a traitor in the first Norwegian celebrity season of The Traitors (but I was exposed in Episode 6). 3. The National ...

Victorian Inspirations for Characters in The Fascination – Essie Fox

I've always loved Victorian novels and the history that made them, especially the worlds of dramatic entertainments – whether the sideshows of quack doctors who travelled round the rural fairgrounds, or the glamorous theatres where ...

Ronnie Turner’s Top Ten Unsettling Reads

Waterstones senior bookseller and author of the haunting gothic thriller So Pretty chooses her favourite creepy, unsettling books. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward (General Fiction/Crime) This book is electrifying. When a ...

Orenda Books signs Jenny Lund Madsen’s staggering accomplished, darkly funny meta thriller in a two-book Frankfurt pre-empt

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for Jenny Lund Madsen’s debut Danish thriller, Thirty Days of Darkness and a sequel, in a two-book Frankfurt ...

Orenda Books signs Ronnie Turner’s startlingly original, hypnotic modern gothic thriller in a two-book deal

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for Ronnie Turner’s So Pretty and a second (untitled) sequel, in a two-book deal negotiated with Emily Glenister ...

Orenda Books signs Essie Fox’s glittering gothic novel The Fascination

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for Essie Fox’s The Fascination, in a deal negotiated with David Headley at DHH Literary Agency. Set in ...

Disability Pride Month: Awareness and Change

Karen Sullivan, Publisher of Orenda Books For anyone with optimum ability – physical, mental and otherwise – it’s difficult to imagine what it might be like when things we’ve always taken for granted are no ...

Disability Pride Month: Louise Beech on disability in her novels

I’ve taken some big risks with my novels, not only in that I write in almost a different genre every time, but because of the topics I’ve chosen to explore. I don’t like to make ...

Orenda Books signs Suzy Aspley’s disturbing, atmospheric thriller Crow Moon, in a two-book deal

Karen Sullivan, publisher of Orenda Books, is delighted to announce the acquisition of World English Language rights for Suzy Aspley’s Crow Moon and a second (untitled) sequel, in a two-book deal negotiated with Euan Thorneycroft ...

Indies need your support…

If you’re reading this, we know you have exceptional taste – you love good independents and great books, and you champion diversity and cultural variety in all its various forms – and for that, we ...

Sarah Sultoon’s Top 5 Most Dangerous (And Interesting) Places To Work

Afghanistan's Nuristan and Kunar provinces At the time this was thought to be the heart of Bin Laden country and that he was likely to be found hiding in one of its many cave complexes ...

Fall – My Inspiration. An interview with West Camel

Fall – My Inspiration. In the late 1990s, the sprawling Pepys Estate in Deptford, south-east London, built in the optimistic 1960s, was almost crumbling into the River Thames. As part of a regeneration plan, Lewisham ...

Thirteen thrillers in three years?

An interview with J.D. Kirk In September, I had the pleasure of chairing an event at Bloody Scotland, with our own wonderful Antti Tuomainen and Doug Johnstone, and a new author to me, J.D. Kirk ...

GUEST INTERVIEW: James Delargy and his chilling new thriller Vanished

We are absolutely delighted to have an exclusive interview with James Delargy, author of Vanished, which is out on 30th September (Simon & Schuster). A riveting, atmospheric thriller set in the Australian Outback, its complex ...

Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series to be adapted by Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. International Television Production Germany (WBITVP Germany) has acquired the exclusive international rights to bestselling Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series. The series will be co-produced with Herbert L. Kloiber’s Night Train Media ...

26 August: Launch event at The Portobello bookshop – Doug Johnstone in conversation with Helen FitzGerald to launch The Great Silence

Doug Johnstone will be celebrating the publication of the third book in his The Skelfs series, The Great Silence. He’ll be in conversation with fellow crime writer Helen FitzGerald. The event will take place at ...