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As well as consuming a wealth of films, social history books, and crime exposés, I drew great inspiration for my Golden Age crime series, Piccadilly Noir , from a collection of written works with a distinctly local provenance. After all, unlike the American milieu of Chandler’s and Hammett’s detectives, my protagonist George Harley, who first appears in Midnight Streets , inhabits a peculiarly British world – a world of grubby bedsits, all-night cafés, egg and chips, and Gol

Robert Aickman In the late 1980s I bought a copy of Robert Aickman’s novella The Model , purely based on its intriguing cover: a...

On May 31, 1959 – four years after Senator McCarthy’s televised anti-communist hearings – the fresh-faced heartthrob Bobby Darin debuted...

I was lucky enough to be invited as a guest on the fab podcast ‘My Favourite Beatles Song’ with Tim Tucker. We discuss the emotional...