19 Jun
1816 Frankenstein was created. Mary, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and others were staying at Byron's villa on lake Geneva - On this stormy night they decided to all write ghost stories - Mary's would become Frankenstein. Read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Read the opening extract of the brand new J. A. Kerley book before its publication on 20/06/2013
A Spy by Nature Charles Cumming
A Spy By Nature is the bestselling novel with which Charles Cumming announced his arrival as heir apparent to masters like John le Carre and Len Deighton; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly intense, it will grip you... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2012
The Spanish Game Charles Cumming
A vivid and gripping novel which sees Alec Milius coaxed back into the secret world to face the uncontainable danger of 21st century terrorism! Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2012
The Trinity Six Charles Cumming
Longisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2011.
Europe is still littered with the darkest secrets of the Cold War. And the most deadly revelation of them all is about to be made when Gaddis, a Russia expert stumbles across... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/09/2011
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre
March 2013 Guest Editor Charles Cumming on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold...
John le Carre has written longer, more complex books, but this remains his masterpiece. The story of a weary British spy who is sent out... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/07/2010
The Ipcress File Len Deighton
March 2013 Guest Editor Charles Cumming on The Ipcress File...
I love Deighton’s witty, ironic style, particularly in the Harry Palmer books, and wanted to capture some of that atmosphere in the early part of A Foreign Country. The... Format: Paperback - Released: 00/10/1968
The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Joseph Conrad
Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in Penguin Classics . In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
The Ghost Robert Harris
March 2013 Guest Editor Charles Cumming on The Ghost...
Probably the best thriller I’ve read in the last ten years, Harris’s story about a ghostwriter hired to pen the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister is both a gripping... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
A Coffin for Dimitrios Eric Ambler
March 2013 Guest Editor Charles Cumming on A Coffin for Dimitrios...
I read a lot of Eric Ambler when I was writing The Trinity Six. Ambler specialized in stories about ordinary men who find themselves caught up in extraordinary... Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 01/09/2004
A Foreign Country Charles Cumming
April 2013 Book of the Month.
This is another first-rate crime novel, perfect for fans of John le Carre, from an author who is establishing himself as the pre-eminent writer of the... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/03/2013
'Authentic, tautly written and cleverly plotted' ...Robert Harris
Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. He was educated at Eton and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 with First Class Honours in English Literature. The Observer has described him as "the best of the new generation of British spy writers who are taking over where John le Carré and Len Deighton left off". In the summer of 1995, Charles was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). A year later he moved to Montreal where he began working on a novel based on his experiences with MI6. A Spy By Nature was published in the UK in 2001. His latest book, A Foreign Country, is out in paperback in March 2013.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre John le Carre has written longer, more complex books, but this remains his masterpiece. Click here to read more...
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton I love Deighton’s witty, ironic style, particularly in the Harry Palmer books, and wanted to capture some of that atmosphere in the early part of A Foreign Country. Click here to read more...
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad One of the most enthralling political thrillers of all time. Conrad describes an anarchist cell plotting a terrorist atrocity in London in the early 1900s – his observations on the terrorist mindset could equally apply to a brainwashed 21st century jihadi in Bradford. Click here to read more...
The Ghost by Robert Harris Probably the best thriller I’ve read in the last ten years, Harris’s story about a ghostwriter hired to pen the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister is both a gripping mystery and a thinly-veiled attack on Tony Blair and the legacy of Iraq. Click here to read more...
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler I read a lot of Eric Ambler when I was writing The Trinity Six. Ambler specialized in stories about ordinary men who find themselves caught up in extraordinary circumstances. Click here to read more...
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