Blog

A regular update on what I’m doing, thinking, and writing.

• A profile of Charles Maddox, Victorian investigator

  02 May 2012

• Revisiting Dickens' London

  02 May 2012

• Judging a book by its cover

  02 May 2012

• Putting the 'literary' in 'literary murder'

  02 May 2012

• From Jane Austen to Charles Dickens

  02 May 2012

• My case for Bleak House as Dickens' masterpiece

  02 May 2012

• Five literary greats and five great adaptations

  02 May 2012

• Three 'R's for the aspiring writer: resolve, regularity, and room

  24 January 2012

• The Murder at Mansfield Park video

  15 December 2011

• James Bond vs. Jason Bourne: Peter Pan vs Grown-up?

  27 October 2011

  My recent post for the Criminal Element website

• Reviews of Murder at Mansfield Park

  02 October 2011

  The forthcoming PD James murder mystery inspired by Pride & Prejudice has provoked a lot of media interest, and both The Times and The Observer have acknowledged this week that Death Comes to Pemberley is following where Murder at Mansfield Park led the way!

• The Devil is in the Detail, or How Not to Write a Regency Novel

  29 August 2011

  Another chance to read the post I wrote for Lesley-Anne McLeod's regency blog http://lesleyannemcleod.blogspot.com/

• 'The End' is nigh...

  15 July 2011

  Another chance to read my piece on reading and writing endings for the Terri Giuliano Long blog.

• Tweet-writing fan

  08 July 2011

  Another chance to read the post I wrote about the Twitter Austen project for Scott Pack's blog

• 'Law & Order: English Regency Unit'

  02 July 2011

  Another chance to read the post I recently wrote for the www.criminalelement.com website

• 'Best First Mystery' at the RT Reviewers' Choice awards

  22 April 2011

  Murder at Mansfield Park wins an award in LA

• BBC Oxford interview

  13 March 2011

  Here's a link to the interview Adam Spunberg and I did with Joel Hammer about the Austen Twitter project. It starts 2 hours 20 minutes into the programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00fcjyp/Joel_Hammer_12_03_2011/ There's also this fantastic picture taken while we were recording....

• Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie

  24 January 2011

  How Mansfield Park got a murderous makeover

• BBC Book Cafe

  13 December 2010

  Here's the link to my interview with Clare English on BBC Book Cafe! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00wk8z8/The_Book_Cafe_13_12_2010/

• Interview on BBC Cambridge

  29 November 2010

  I had a great time talking to the lovely Mandy Morton of BBC Cambridge this weekend, and you can listen to it on the iPlayer all this week http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00c8vbr/Mandy_Morton_27_11_2010