Declan Burke Writes

Fun and games – literally – in this week’s reading: Rob Steen’s THE MAVERICKS: ENGLISH FOOTBALL WHEN FLAIR WORE FLARES celebrates those foot...

The lovely people at Edition Nautilus, my German publishers, will release THE BIG O early in 2016, in a translation by the award-winning wri...

William Ryan, the author of the Captain Korolev series of novels, will be leading a creative writing workshop in the Limerick Writers’ Cent...

The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed the arrival of a new book in the right-hand column of Crime Always Pays – or a new book cover, t...

You get good weeks and you get bad weeks and I guess this is one of the good weeks. Yesterday I heard that ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL has been short...

It’s not a book I hear mentioned a lot these days, but Alistair MacLean’s WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL is one of my favourite crime thrillers, and...

Colin Bateman (right) was kind enough to give me a very generous plug last week, in a piece he wrote for the Guardian’s Book Blog , in whic...

Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like t...

A Grand Vizier writes : “‘And so / The beginning is near / And we face / The opening curtain …’ The uncorrected proofs of THE BIG O arrive...

A certain Neil was kind enough to leave a comment on Friday’s post about Barry Gifford’s WILD AT HEART , in which he described said novel a...

Patti Abbott is working on a project called Fridays: The Book You Have to Read, the gist of which is to refresh people’s memories about gr...

Greetings from the grimy coalface of independent publishing, folks, where the big-ups we’ve been begging from actual real writers have been...

“Findin’ out the meanin’ of life and all is fine, far as it goes, but dead’s dead, you know what I mean?” Barry Gifford doesn’t mince words...