"which the livery (alongside the police markings) changes each year to match the jacket of his latest Roy Grace novel. Roy Grace Novels Other Novels Non-fiction Peter James (writer) Peter James (born 22 August 1948) is an international British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton, the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. James was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne Film School. For a brief period of time whilst at film school James worked as Orson Welles' house cleaner. Subsequently he spent several years in North America, working as"
"Dougie Brimson Douglas Brimson (born 1959 in Hemel Hempstead) is an English author and screenwriter best known for penning the multi-award-winning feature, ""Green Street"". After 18 years service with the Royal Air Force, including both the Falklands War and the first Gulf War, the ex-Sergeant engineer’s literary career began in 1996 when he co-wrote a book exploring the culture of football hooliganism entitled, ""Everywhere We Go: Behind the Matchday Madness"". He has subsequently written a further 14 books in a variety of genres including fiction thriller and fiction comedy. He is a supporter of Watford F.C. In 2003 Brimson made"
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from 1950 on throughout the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writer from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired"
"written about astanga vinyasa yoga. He was the Observer newspaper’s crime fiction critic 1999-2011. Between 1996 and 2005 he wrote an award-winning series of satirical crime novels featuring a yoga-obsessed journalist, Nick Madrid, and his tough-as-nails sidekick, Bridget Frost. His latest publications are the non-comic Brighton crime trilogy: ""The City of Dreadful Night"", ""The Last King of Brighton"" and ""The Thing Itself"" (formerly ""God's Lonely Man""). The Trilogy and later Brighton books are published in French by Le Rouergue. A fourth Brighton novel, ""The Devil's Moon"", was published in 2013. A fifth, ""Those Who Feel Nothing"", was published in May"
"written a number of ghost books including ""Haunted Brighton"" and regularly writes for ""Fortean Times"". In 2005 he was succeeded by Kathy Gearing, the club's first female chairperson. Gearing announced her resignation in the club's Summer 2009 newsletter. The club continues to meet monthly at the Victory Services Club near Marble Arch, in London. Several investigations are performed in England every year. In recent times, investigations have been organised in Scotland by the club's Scottish Area Investigation Coordinator. The club has been mentioned in numerous books, the most notable being ""No Common Task"" (1983), ""This Haunted Isle"" (1984), ""The Ghosthunters"
"6th Light Dragoons and ADC to the Duke of Wellington is back in the saddle ...He is as fascinating on horseback as Jack Aubrey is on the quarterdeck."" -""The Times"" ""Captain Matthew Hervey is as splendid a hero as ever sprang from an author's pen."" -""The Times"" ""As good on the details of the workings of a cavalry regiment in 1820 as ever Patrick O'Brian was on the workings of an 1820 warship."" -""Spectator"" In UK hardback publication order, the ""Hervey"" novels are: Allan Mallinson Brigadier Allan Lawrence Mallinson (born 6 February 1949) is an English author and retired British"
"after her mother walks out on them. ""Silver's Revenge"" is a humorous sequel to ""Treasure Island"", and ""Candy for the King"" is a fairytale about a giant influenced by Voltaire's ""Candide"". Leeson's ""Reading and Righting: the past,present and future of Fiction for the young"" (1985) is a history of children's literature. He has also written for radio, television and the theatre. Leeson cited the fiction of Geoffrey Trease as an influence on his work. Robert Leeson Robert Arthur Leeson (31 March 1928, Northwich, Cheshire – 29 September 2013) was an English author, mainly known for his children's books. Before becoming"
"Century"". He married Marian Boyer (1906-1989) in 1933 and they spent most their marriage in Colwall, near the Downs School, Great Malvern. They had one daughter, Joyce and moved to Bath to be closer to her, shortly before Marian's death. Geoffrey Trease (Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with ""Bows Against the Barons"" and ending with ""Cloak for a Spy"" in 1997. His work has been translated into 20 languages. His grandfather was a historian, and was one"
"male writer to do so. Bill Spence (writer) William John Duncan 'Bill' Spence (born 20 April 1923) is an English writer. He has written war novels as Duncan Spence, and Westerns as Jim Bowden, Floyd Rogers and Kirk Ford. He has also used the pseudonym Hannah Cooper. His most successful novels have been historical romances written under the name Jessica Blair. Spence was born in Middlesbrough in 1923. He worked as a schoolteacher from 1940 to 1943. He saw active service during World War II with Bomber Command. On 1 October 1943, he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force"
"Lee, the soldier"" (Constable and Co, London, 1925) ""Governments and War"" (William Heinemann, London, 1926) ""An aide-de-camp of Lee"" (Little, Brown and Co, London, 1927) ""The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent"" (Cassell and Co, London, 1928) ""British Strategy"" (Constable and Co, London, 1929) ""The 16th Foot"" (Constable and Co, London, 1931) ""The History of the Scots Guards"" (Chatto and Windus, London, 1934) ""Haldane"" (Faber and Faber, London, 1937, 1939) ""The Armistices of 1918"" (Oxford University Press, London, 1943) ""The Adventures of Edward Wogan"" (G Routledge and Sons, London, 1945) Frederick Maurice (soldier) Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st"
"2010, Blyton was listed as a Top Ten author, selling almost 8 million copies (worth £31.2 million) in the UK alone. In 2003 ""The Magic Faraway Tree"" was voted 66 in the BBC's Big Read. In the 2008 Costa Book Awards, Blyton was voted Britain's best-loved author. Her books continue to be very popular among children in Commonwealth nations such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malta, New Zealand, and Australia, and around the world. They have also seen a surge of popularity in China, where they are ""big with every generation"". In March 2004 Chorion and the Chinese publisher"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and was named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul"
"that Tears the Skies"", ""The Lion of Midnight"", ""The Battle Of All The Ages"", ""Death's Bright Angel"", ""The Rage of Fortune"" and ""The Devil Upon the Wave"". Not officially one of the series in some lists, another book (2014), ""Ensign Royal"", also features Matthew Quinton but is a shorter novella. Davies won the Julian Corbett essay prize for naval history in 1986, and in 2009 ""Pepys’s Navy"" was awarded the Samuel Pepys prize and Latham medal. Davies was elected chairman of the Naval Dockyards Society in 2005, a position that he continues to hold, and served as Vice-President of the"
"Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis CBE FRSL (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British crime writer, and former steeplechase jockey, whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. He came to further prominence in 1956 as jockey to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, riding her horse Devon Loch. It fell when he was close to winning the Grand National. Francis retired from the turf and became a journalist and novelist. All his novels"
"to Death"" (1932), ""Trooper O'Neill"" (1932), and ""No Escape"" (1936). Born in Kingston upon Thames in 1888, he married Dora Mary Hill, had one son and two daughters while living at The Great Quarry, Guildford. Before full-time writing, he worked in journalism and publishing. He died at Aldershot in 1969, aged 80. His complete works include novels, plays, novelizations, short stories, non-fiction, anthologies, collections, films, editing, even an early 1921 Children's News sci-fi submission. Featured characters include Inspector McLean (inspired Inspector McLean Library from D. C. Thomson*19, like Agatha Christie Mystery Collection republished by Bantam Dell*20), spy catcher Q33 Trelawney,"
"Diana Wynne Jones Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer, poet, and scholarly researcher, principally of fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and adults. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series; the novels ""Howl's Moving Castle"" and ""Dark Lord of Derkholm""; and ""The Tough Guide To Fantasyland"". She has been cited as an inspiration and muse for several fantasy and science fiction authors: including Phillip Pullman, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Penelope Lively, Robin McKinley, Megan Whalen Turner, J K Rowling and Dina Rabinovitch. Her work has been"
"the best-selling, award-winning The Last Dragon Chronicles. His books often contain environmental themes, and events based on things that have happened to him. In July 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leicester for his contributions to children's literature. Although writing is now his main source of income, he still works at the university as the operator of the confocal microscope. His favorite children's books are the Paddington Bear series and ""The Hobbit"", and his favorite children's authors are Allan Ahlberg and Roald Dahl. Chris d'Lacey Chris D'Lacey (born 15 December 1954) is an English writer"
"and public speaker. His bestselling novels have won numerous national and international awards (including the Giller Prize in 2008), and have been published in over 20 languages in more than fifty countries. Boyden grew up in Willowdale, North York, Ontario, and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School. The ninth of eleven children, he is the son of Blanche (Gosling) and Raymond Wilfrid Boyden, a medical officer renowned for his bravery, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was the most highly decorated medical officer of World War II. Boyden studied humanities at York University and received his MFA in"
"Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ian Fleming, Robert Louis Stevenson and Bram Stoker, it is predominantly a retelling of ""The War of the Worlds"" by H. G. Wells. The volume continues the narrative of Mina Murray, Allan Quatermain, Hawley Griffin, Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde and Captain Nemo who respond to an invasion of England by extraterrestrial invaders. On the planet Mars, John Carter and have assembled an alliance of Martian races to combat an invading race of non-Martian aliens called ""Molluscs"" (the aliens from H.G. Wells' ""The War of the Worlds""). After a fierce battle, the Martian alliance successfully force"
"publish more fiction, including Gerald Lund's historical fiction series The Work and the Glory and Jack Weyland's novels. Mormon authors are well-represented in various literary genres. A tradition of conforming to conventions and building communities may explain why Mormon authors are successful in genre fiction. Glenn Beck, Jason F. Wright, and Richard Paul Evans have written inspirational fiction featured on New York Times bestseller lists. Orson Scott Card, Stephenie Meyer, and Brandon Sanderson are award-winning popular authors of science fiction and fantasy novels. Shannon Hale, James Dashner, and Ally Condie are popular authors of young adult science fiction and fantasy."
"1912, Ralph Connor's ""Corporal Cameron of the North-West Mounted Police: A Tale of the MacLeod Trail"" appeared, becoming an international best-selling novel. Mounties fiction became a popular genre in both pulp magazines and book form. Among the best-selling authors who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were James Oliver Curwood, Laurie York Erskine, James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of Sam Steele), and William Byron Mowery. In other media, a famous example is the radio and television series, ""Sergeant Preston of the Yukon."" Dudley Do-Right (of ""The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show"") is a 1960s example of"
"from 1997 to 2014 as an Honorary Captain in the Royal Canadian Navy, tasked to promote public awareness of early Canadian naval heritage. Since 1997 he has otherwise been a full-time writer and occasional historical adviser and on-screen presenter for film and television productions. He is the author of fourteen books, including several works of historical non-fiction, and his seven sea adventure novels, the Paul Gallant Trilogy and the Edward Mainwaring series, now also are published as e-books. His most recent book was a new biography of the Atlantic pirate Bartholomew Roberts (1682-1722), ""Black Flag of the North"", published in"
"In 2014, she won the CWA's Dagger in the Library award for her body of work. Sharon Bolton Sharon Bolton is an English author of mystery fiction who has also been published under the name S.J. Bolton. Bolton is the author of ten novels, including the Lacey Flint series of police procedural novels. Lacey Flint is a female detective constable with London's Metropolitan police. In 2016, the motion picture of ""Sacrifice"", starring Radha Mitchell and Rupert Graves, and directed by Peter A. Dowling, was released by Luminous Pictures. Bolton's second novel, ""Awakening"", won the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award. ""Blood"
"up his family inheritance, whilst his step-mother leaves for France. Davern, now amicably separated from his husband, comes to him. Badge of Glory Badge of Glory is a nautical historical novel by Douglas Reeman. It forms the initial part of the multi-volume Blackwood saga. which follows the adventures of several generations of Royal Marine officers over 150 years. The year is 1850 and a young Queen Victoria is on the throne. Philip Blackwood, a captain in the Royal Marines, and son and grandson of marine officers, rejoins his ship, ""HMS Audacious"", which is to sail to West Africa to help"
"Chris d'Lacey Chris D'Lacey (born 15 December 1954) is an English writer of children's fiction, he is best known for writing ""The Last Dragon Chronicles"". He has also written many other books including ""A Dark Inheritance"". Chris D'Lacey was born in Valletta, Malta, but as a child moved first to Leicester and then to Bolton. After gaining a degree in biology from the University of York, he returned to Leicester and got a job at the University of Leicester in the Pre-Clinical Sciences department. Originally his writing was confined to songs and he didn't turn to fiction until he was"
"and Modern History. She was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Durham. In 1958 she was elected Jubilee Research Fellow at Royal Holloway College in the University of London, where she worked on Thomas Wolsey. H F M Prescott is best known however for her historical novel ""The Man on a Donkey"". Written in the form of a chronicle, the book tells the story of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular rising in protest at the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. The book is still in print, the latest edition being published in December 2016 by"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"Geoffrey Trease (Robert) Geoffrey Trease FRSL (11 August 1909 – 27 January 1998) was a prolific British writer who published 113 books, mainly for children, between 1934 and 1997, starting with ""Bows Against the Barons"" and ending with ""Cloak for a Spy"" in 1997. His work has been translated into 20 languages. His grandfather was a historian, and was one of the main influences on his work. He is best known for the children's novel ""Cue for Treason"" (1940). Trease is best known for writing children's historical novels, whose content reflects his insistence on historically correct backgrounds, which he meticulously"
"two books, one by patrol commander Steven Mitchell (writing under the pseudonym Andy McNab), ""Bravo Two Zero"" (1993) the other by Colin Armstrong, writing under the pseudonym Chris Ryan – ""The One That Got Away"" (1995) as well as those by the SAS's RSM at the time of the patrol, Peter Ratcliffe (""Eye of the Storm"", 2000), did not always correspond, leading to accusations from the media of lying. The investigative book ""The Real Bravo Two Zero"" (2002) by Michael Asher followed the patrol route and interviewed witnesses. The subsequent book, ""Soldier Five"" by patrol member Mike Coburn, was released"
"February 1974 general election. He was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services in the United Kingdom's National Savings Movement during World War II. The series was continued after Creasey's death by William Vivian Butler (""as J.J. Marric""): Four additional Z5 stories have been written by the author's son Richard; in these, the central figure is Thomas Palfrey, the doctor's grandson: ""Eternity's Sunrise"" (2012); ""Hard Targets"" (2013, an omnibus of three shorter adventures – ""Wings of Fear,"" ""Burning Night,"" and ""Deadly Sleep""). In the asterisked titles, Folly was added for the revised editions of"
"Cormoran Strike Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction books written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant (later partner) Robin Ellacott. Four novels in the series have so far been published. The fourth, ""Lethal White"", was released on 18 September 2018. Rowling has stated that she has plans for at least another ten. The first two novels were adapted as a television series for BBC One and aired in the summer of 2017. The series was renewed for a second"
"Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment's commanding officer (himself a former SAS officer), gave his celebrated address to his troops on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A film of Blair Mayne's life has long been mooted. Eddie Irvine has become executive producer for the film. A number of books have been written about Mayne, the first being ""Colonel Paddy"" by Patrick Marrinan (1960). ""Rogue Warrior of the SAS: the Blair Mayne legend"" was written by Roy Bradford and Martin Dillon (1989, updated 2003) and features a foreword by David Stirling, who endorses the book. It purports to separate"