Gareth brown

Eldritch artefacts alert

Most writers need some kind of support network, whether it’s from a writing group, mentorship or tutorial group. It’s so important to find the right balance of encouragement, advice, constructive crit

What makes a novel of ideas?

Mark Gatiss’s star-filled new detective series Bookish is a case of mischievous fun

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

It’s a scorcher of a summer’s day in Belgium’s Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, a small village between Brussels and Antwerp, but the atmosphere inside its Ursuline Winter Garden is positively chilly, due to t