How we became a nation obsessed with crime

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Crime fiction and screen adaptations have long gone hand in hand, from Slow Horses to Karen Pirie – now Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet are flipping the script and turning their new murder mystery, Bookish , into a novel

Book adaptations have never been more in demand, but can they ever really do justice to the original work? With a slew of bestsellers getting the big- or small-screen treatment, Christobel Hastings explores why the trend is good news for women

Despite his soaring success as a cosy-crime writer, family still matters more than anything to Richard Osman

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These days, we’re all craving a bit of escapism. And is it any wonder that, for so many of us, it involves losing ourselves in a steamy book? The UK has reportedly seen a huge surge in ‘romantasy’ – r