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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.

Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith (1899-1966), an English historical novelist famous for his tales of naval warfare. His most notable books were the 11 Horatio Hornblower stories about a Royal Navy officer in the Napoleonic era, and ...

This Christmas, hordes of tourists and the English themselves would have again enjoyed the towering Norway spruce in Trafalgar Square. Some but not all would have known that a tree is donated each year by the city of Oslo “to the people of London ...