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Why “What”? What for? What’s the point? Why not why or where or when or which or who or whatever? Well, what does it matter? The point is, John Cooper Clarke, Doctor John Cooper Clarke actually, is a wordsmith, a professional wordsmith, a man ...

Of the 14 James Bond books written by Ian Fleming from 1953 to 1964, “From Russia With Love” in 1957 was the fifth and very nearly the last. Writing it had been excrutiating for Fleming, extending his talents to the utmost. He was sick ...

Fans of the murky worlds that emerged in the 20 Crime and Espionage back-catalogue novels from Penguin Randon House last year will welcome the batch of a further 10 to be issued in June, an opportunity to revisit some known authors or discover some ...

A book on Hungarian politics by American author Shea Bradley-Farrell, Last Warning to the West, was presented at the Hungarian embassy in Washington DC at an event linked to a CPAC meeting on Thursday.

This crime thriller takes a couple of unusual approaches, firstly telling the story through two alternating viewpoints: those of a precocious and strong-willed, roller-blading, 14-year-old girl searching for her lost dog, and a hard-drinking, middle-aged shamus with hypertension and a dislike for precocious teens. ...

“I’m just your average guy,” Lou Reed sang in that grating singing/non-singing voice of his (it’s hard to get past that whine), an ironical assessment if ever there was one by a complicated and cocky man often full of drugs, booze and aggro but ...

There’s a lot of artistic achievement to keep up with, from the cavemen’s daubs on their stone walls to the first clankings of the printing press to the discovery of the means to record sounds and sights, so – dash it all – no ...

Here in this office, it’s a bit of puzzle why, of the 20 Crime and Espionage books published by Penguin last year, this Raymond Chandler volume is the only one to contain two novels, and full-length ones at that. The other 19 titles included ...

All 75 “Maigret” novels were republished one a month from 2013 to 2020 in new English translations and with harmonising covers from the Magnum Photos agency. Then two of the books, “Maigret’s Revolver”, the 40th in the series, , and “Maigret and the Headless ...

Icelandic novelist Jon Kalman Stefansson and France will be the guests of honour at the 29th Budapest International Book Festival to be held from Sept 26 to 29, organisers said on Thursday.