1950 – Celebrating Agatha Christie’s 50th Murder in 1950, the flyer delves into Christie’s life with pictures and commentary. Some famous names congratulate Agatha including the Prime Minister at the time, Clement Attlee!… Read More

1975 – This quirky pamphlet showcases Agatha Christie’s last Poirot case – ‘Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case’. In the style of a play’s programme, it gives details of the cast and crew (prominent members of the Collins business) and a synopsis of scenes. Read More

We were SO excited to find out that Payback by the brilliant Kimberley Chambers hit the number 1 spot in the Sunday Times charts last week! Check out these fantastic video trailers for the book – if you haven’t read Payback already you’ll definitely want to after… Read More

I started dabbling in writing in my early twenties in some counsellor’s office in the States as per his suggestion. I suspect he thought it would be an outlet for me, an alternative to having to hear me rant and rave with a million F-bombs. He was my only audience… Read More

Your name: Jax Miller Tell us about yourself: I have a love-hate relationship with writing. I usually do it in binges. Tell us about your latest book: Freedom’s Child is about Freedom Oliver, a woman in the Witness Protection Program who gets into too much trouble. She watches the children she put… Read More

From Rachel Abbott: I’m enjoying my journey as a self-published author very much and that’s partly because one of the great things about the self-publishing community is how supportive indie authors are of each other. We often compare notes, and offer each other advice. But I don't really know many traditionally published authors, so I was delighted to be introduced recently to Paul Finch, whose novel Stalkers has been in the Kindle top 100 for over a hundred days. We had a chat about the similarities and differences in our experiences. Read More

In this month's newsletter there was a special offer for all those on the Killer Reads mailing list to book their place on crime writing course Thriller School for a discounted rate. We managed to catch up with founder Sarah Williams before she launches the inaugural event in January to see what she hopes to achieve with the course and why specialise in crime fiction... Read More

For the bargain price of only £1 a vote, Dundee University’s cutting-edge new  forensics centre could be named after HC author Stuart MacBride. Read More

We are so excited about this trilogy of books, published in December. Set in Stockholm, they follow Henrik ‘HP’ Pettersson, who finds a mobile phone on a train which changes his life forever… The phone invites him to play a Game – he takes a small risk, and gets a… Read More

World Book Night 2014 is officially celebrated today, with a call for the public to inspire more people fall in love with reading. 12,500 copies of 20 specially printed World Book Night titles, totaling 250,000 books, will be given by a network of volunteer reading enthusiasts and institutions. Very excitingly,… Read More

An international best seller and co-author of 5 James Patterson books, a native New Yorker he has combined sales of over 10 million worldwide Read More