Sophie Toscan du Plantier
Sky’s “Murder at the Cottage” Raises New Questions
PAUL DETTMANN
Writer at Americana Vibes + White Owl and Pen & Sword Books.
The Mystery of Agatha Christie
Can the individual author ever match up to the brand?
The Power of Old Letters
Expecting Paddy’s Letters, I was Stunned when Larry’s Arrived Letters have always been strange things to research. They are inconvenient documents, unlike diaries. You know where you stand with diaries. The odd thing about letters is that the writer holds the copyright, but the receiver keeps (normally) the
Do You Really Want to Know Them?
Be careful what you wish for
Great Writers
There are always difficulties with great writers. With great writers. You would like it if their writing stood alone, created not by human…
Amateurs in Eden
A Highlight by Joanna Hodgkin
Truth or Dare
What is the truth in biography?
Paddy and Larry
The friendship between Patrick Leigh Fermor and Lawrence Durrell
Beginning the Journey
Just as I closed the laptop lid on another writing project, two books arrived from the London Library. Lawrence Durrell: A Biography, the…
Passing Time In The Loo
I write on a slow Sunday about our downstairs lavatorial. This is on its last legs and we are planning to turn it into a fully equipped…
Book: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Whatever the title of this book makes you think of, you’re likely to be wrong. This book is incredible and original.
WW2 Crete: Abducting a General
There is something that always bothered me about Patrick Leigh Fermor’s account of Crete and also of his own ‘great trudge’ across Europe…