Jeffrey Archer, 1940 to 2026: the storyteller who always came back Jeffrey Archer died at his home in Cambridge on Monday 5 October, aged 86, between writing sessions. The day before, he had been on stage at the Leicester Square Theatre with Gyles Brandreth, signing books and talking about Adam & Eve, the novel he had declared would be his last. It was published the following morning, and he was due at Cheltenham on Saturday. Had his editor found that sequence in a manuscript, she would have struck it out as being far too neat and convenient. Neat endings were his trade, and his first one was born of necessity. Elected Conservative MP for Louth in 1969, he left the...
Some writers leave you with a plot. Others leave you with a place, and Peter May was one of those. Anyone who has read The Blackhouse can still feel the wind scouring the Butt of Lewis, smell the peat smoke and see the men of Ness rowing out to the guga hunt on that bare, bird-slicked rock. May died on Friday 25 September at his holiday home in the south of France, aged 74. His publisher, riverrun, put it in three words: "He is irreplaceable."
Michael Connelly created Haller in 2005, and over the past two decades has built a series that stands alongside his Bosch novels as some of the finest American crime procedural writing. Where Bosch is driven by conscience from a police detective's perspective, Haller operates from the defence: outsider, strategist, and reluctant idealist.
This week, Bookhound enjoys the festive pleasure of a spooky story by the fire... "It was nine-thirty on Christmas Eve. As I crossed the long entrance hall of Monk’s Piece on my way from the dining room, where we had just enjoyed the first of the happy, festive meals, towards the drawing room and the fire around which my family were now assembled, I paused and then, as I often do in the course of an evening, went to the front door, opened it and stepped outside.” So begins The Woman in Black, Susan Hill’s ghostly gothic masterpiece. While sitting around the Christmas fire, the narrator’s children have begged him to share in their game of swapping ghostly stories- but the...
It's Father's Day on Sunday 19th June- have you got his gift yet? Father Day is coming up on the 19th June, and we've got some fantastic gift ideas for the Dads, Stepdads, Grandads and father figures in your life. Whether they're individual titles for history buffs, gourmets and green-fingered gardeners or gripping crime and thriller bundles from top authors, we've got you covered- and all at our usual great Bookhound prices. Just click on the links below, and get those gifts sorted! For history buffs: History Without Tears (HB01A) (£9.99) For avid gardeners: RHS The Secrets of Great Botanists + RHS Gardener's Botanical (HG14A) £19.99 Creative Vegetable Gardening £7.99 For Kings of the Kitchen: Masterchef Kitchen Bible £12.99 For...
