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Sam Eastland on his Stalin-era thriller Siberian Red
Posted On: April 24, 2012Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
Sam Eastland, pen-name for author Paul Watkins, discusses the third in his Stalin-era Soviet thriller series, Siberian Red.
Read More...Sam Eastland discusses his fictional hero Pekkala
Posted On: April 13, 2012Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Faber
Sam Eastland, pen-name of the author Paul Watkins, discusses Pekkala, the hero of his Stalin-era Soviet thriller series, first introduced in Eye of the Red Tsar.
Read More...A Q&A with Sam Eastland
Posted On: August 30, 2011Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Sam Eastland, resident of the UK and the US, is the creator of Inspector Pekkala, the most famous detective in Soviet-era Russia. Pekkala struggles to balance the hard line Soviet world with his own morals and loyalty to the deceased Tsar. Read an interview with Eastland about how he grapples with Pekkala’s permanent outsider status.
Read More...Nicolai Lilin interviewed
Posted On: September 16, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Set in a small and tight-knit community of ‘honest criminals’ in a remote part of Russia, Siberian Education is a tale of an extreme boyhood – exotic, violent and completely unique. Author Nicolai Lilin answers questions put to him by Bookdagger readers.
Read More...Read an extract from The Reluctant Hero, by Michael Dobbs
Posted On: September 10, 2010Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
In his latest adventure Reluctant Hero, Harry Jones is caught in a web of international intrigue, with an old friend as bait, and a female scorpion at his side.
Read More...July crime round-up
Posted On: July 26, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Booknoir Crew
Modern day Hollywood and Los Angeles, the desolation of Greenland in 1067, an England torn apart by conflict in 1326, London in 1903 and the gulags of Russia. This month’s releases takes the willing reader on sinister travels through time and place.
Read More...Read an extract from Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Posted On: July 16, 2010Posted In: Articles, Audio
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Tom Rob Smith’s first crime novel Child 44 has been shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2010. Bookhugger gives you the chance to read the first chapter, listen to a clip, and watch an interview with the author.
Read More...June crime round-up
Posted On: June 28, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Booknoir Crew
A selection of the best in new crime fiction and non-fiction from the Bookdagger publishers for the month of June featuring five reissues from the P. D. James backlist, two new Lynda La Plante thrillers, the realities of the cocaine trade, and the codes behind Russia’s equivalent to the Mafia…
Read More...April crime round-up – part two
Posted On: April 28, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Booknoir Crew
Part two of April’s round-up features four reissues from the P. D. James backlist, interviews with eminent pathologists and historical crime fiction in Yorkshire and Russia.
Read More...April crime round up – part one
Posted On: April 2, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Booknoir Crew
Let there be blood… a summation of the latest crime releases from our sinister publishers.
Read More...Read an extract from The Reluctant Hero, by Michael Dobbs
Posted On: February 17, 2010Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Harry Jones, hero of The Edge of Madness is caught in a web of international intrigue, with an old friend as bait, and a female scorpion at his side.
Read More...Crime round-up
Posted On: February 15, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Booknoir Crew
The latest red hot releases from our publishers…
Read More...Read the first chapter of The Secret Speech – the follow-up to Child 44
Posted On: February 1, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Tom Rob Smith talks about his hotly-anticipated follow-up to the Booker long-listed Child 44, The Secret Speech, and we let you read the whole of Chapter One!
Read More...Best of the Web: Inspector Pekkala
Posted On: January 26, 2010Posted In: Reading Groups
Publisher: Faber
It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala – known as the Emerald Eye – was once the most famous detective in all Russia, the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.
Read More...Read the first chapter of Child 44
Posted On: January 25, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
In Stalin’s Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to his execution.
Read More...Adventures in TwitLit: A Gentle Axe Experiment
Posted On: October 20, 2009Posted In: News
Publisher: Faber
Two frozen bodies are found in Petrovsky Park – a dwarf neatly packed in a suitcase, and a burly peasant hanging from a tree – and R.N. Morris has been serialising the adventures of Police Detective Porfiry Petrovich on Twitter…
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