As an author, I loathe asking for blurbs — most of us hate the cringe-making business of approaching your peers for a favour that eats into their precious writing hours — and sometimes struggle to ...

We’re in London, where popular mystery writer Agatha Christie and not-as-popular mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers (her Lord ... Marie Benedict, whose previous books include speculative fiction ...

When Lynne McEwan was looking for a locale for a new detective series, she settled on the Solway Firth and through the ...

For almost a century, Guinness has produced some of the most best adverts of all time. From the whimsical zoo animals of the 1930s to the emotionally charged campaigns of the present day, the Irish ...

On 18 November 1910, 300 women marched on the Houses of Parliament to demand the right to vote. Their protest was met with ...

Kate Solly, author of The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up ... Moving further back, Hampson also suggests Christie as well as, “Dorothy L Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh – known as the ...

Susannah Stapleton’s compulsively absorbing book about Maud West centres on a woman who was ... could have been a character in a Dorothy L Sayers novel – and in fact, she seemed to have lived her life ...

Martin Steven Novotny and Dorothy Lux (aka Luks) left what is now northeast Slovakia for a new life in America and married in January 1913. Almost exactly 19 years later, on Jan. 13, 1932 ...

In this lively and engaging book, he explains how the Commedia (along with some of Dante’s other core writings) in turn attracted ecclesiastical suspicion and became something like a touchstone of ...

Our columnist recommends books featuring centuries of L.G.B.T.Q. love stories that defy tragedy, laugh in the face of shame and lean into unabashed joy. By Olivia Waite Writing a list of queer ...