Monday
Mar052012

Books Monthly & The Mind Readers

Excellent and unexpected review of the Mind Readers at www.booksmonthly.co.uk. Looks rather a good site. MA would have LOVED this review as it actually takes her seriously!  Always worth remembering that Phil Allingham thought the MR was her best book ever.

Friday
Jan272012

Went the day well?

I think it did, rather. The wonderful Eastern Angles are still interested in the possibility of a play about Margery and meanwhile I haven't missed the advertising deadline to grab a space for the Oaken Heart in their spring production Private Resistance by Ivan Cutting. The Eastern Angles spring tour runs from February to May and takes in so many of the village halls and other unpretentious venues where Margery herself would have loved to stage plays. An idea firmly suqashed by her father Herbert in the mid-1920s.

Saturday
Dec032011

Joyce Allingham (in a dinghy)

New Bottle Street Gazette out. Includes my little piece abut Joyce - cameo in the Salt-Stained Book (click here)

Tuesday
Oct252011

Catriona McPherson misses Margery Allingham

Enjoyable article from Hollywood paper about Catriona McPherson. Says she started writing her own detective novels because MA & co were all dead. I was helping Francis plough through the CWA boxes and boxes of dagger submissions when her first novel came out. Both of us thought how deft and delightful it was - and quite rightly it won the Ellis Peters award that year.

Clearly Catriona's going from strength to strength and I'll be looking out for the next in her series.

Click here

 

Monday
Aug292011

belated notice