We talk about how much the publishing industry is changing at the moment, about how new technology is giving authors a new voice, but this move by Kodak just underlines how radical that change is. Via The Independent Publishing Magazine, a great source of info…

It first broke on Twitter this weekend, the story that has shaken up the crime writing fraternity, and indeed, may well have unscrupulous authors in other genres scurrying for their laptops. Best-selling British crime writer, RJ Ellory, has been caught using pseudonyms to pen fake…

Louise Phillips is a writer who has been chipping away at this writing business on her path to publication for (as you can see from the list below) a few years – but it’s been some pretty impressive chipping… Short Listed – Molly Keane Memorial…

Sometimes you meet someone who leaves a lasting impression. Mark Heffernan is one of those people. At only twenty-eight he has fitted more success into his life than most people can even dream of. Growing up in Carew Park, Southill, a local authority estate in…

When you meet Brian O’Connor he seems like a gentle, mild mannered chap, but when it comes to his opinions, think cat and pigeons. The Irish Times racing correspondent writes a “Tipping Point” column on Mondays that tends to get people’s back up, including comedian…

There is something serene about Jane Casey that utterly belies the darkness of the books she writes. Brought up in Dublin, Casey is elegant and cultured, her Irish accent subtle. On meeting her you might guess that she has a degree in English from Oxford,…

‘Compulsive page turner’ is a bit of a cliche but boy, does it apply to Chevy Stevens STILL MISSING. I have to confess that when I first picked up the book, thinking Chevy was a male writer, I didn’t really feel he’d captured the female…

On a hot summer’s day in the sleepy American town of Rockville, Jessie Conway, a teacher at the local high school, notices a car driving slowly around the school grounds. Twenty minutes later Jessie is fighting for her life and Rockville is plunged into living…

There are a few masters of the crime thriller, and Lee Child is one of them. The Affair is his 16th novel, and takes us right back to where Reacher began, to six months before his first smash hit novel The Killing Floor which won…