David Brawn joined HarperCollins more than thirty years ago and has been Publisher of Estates since 1995, managing legacy authors including Agatha Christie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ngaio Marsh, Alistair MacLean, Desmond Bagley and Patrick O’Brian. In 2015 he relaunched the Collins Crime Club imprint to bring classic books back into print, as well as new anthologies and award-winning non-fiction about the genre. He […]
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Inside Story with Humphrey: Daniella Bernett
A Mind to Murder, by Daniella Bernett, begins at a performance of the Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap which has been performed in London’s West End for a record seventy years. It opened in 1952 with the story of seven strangers who find themselves snowed in at Monkswell Manor, a stately countryside guesthouse and, of course a killer in their […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Vyvyan Kinross
Death on the Nile is one of Agatha Christie’s most famous stories – a glamorous river steamer, an exotic foreign location, the terrifying search for a murderer when an idyllic honeymoon is shattered by violent deaths and the wonderful detective character of Hercule Poirot. It was published in 1937 when Britain controlled Egypt and Nazism […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Victoria Dowd
As Goldster Inside Story begins its Agatha Christie-themed month we bring you an author whose brilliance at plot twists, building suspense and unravelling mysteries had been compared to Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz and the great Agatha Christie herself. Victoria Dowd is the prize-winning author of compelling titles such as The Smart Woman’s Murder Club, Body on the […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Lucinda Hawksley
This week Lucinda Hawksley will find herself on the opposite side of the zoom window. She will be interviewed by her co-presenter Humphrey Hawksley, about her new book, Dickens and Travel, which was launched last month. From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see […]
Read MoreThe Democracy Forum live webinar
The Democracy Forum and TDF President Lord Bruce invite you to a live webinar, ‘Has the Belt & Road Initiative lost its lustre?’ on Thursday August 25, 2022at 2-4pm UK time. Moderator: Humphrey Hawksley, Author & former BBC Asia correspondent Panellists: Dr Ingrid d’Hooghe Senior Research Associate, Clingendael China Centre, Clingendael Institute Dr Richard Ghiasy […]
Read MorePurpose, Passion, Grit with Humphrey: Tess Eagle Swan
Tess Eagle Swan was a solitary, troubled child. At sixteen, she ran away from home. By her late twenties, she was battling violence, drug addiction and bad relationships. What she only discovered much later on, when she was fifty-four, was that she was on the autistic spectrum. That diagnosis helped her make sense of her […]
Read MoreInside Story with Humphrey: Gretchen Friemann
On the morning of 11 October 1921, Michael Collins, leader of the ‘Irish murder gang’, bounded through the door of 10 Downing Street and shook hands with the British Prime Minister. So began the first day of the most important political negotiations in modern Anglo-Irish history. Nearly two months later, in the early hours of […]
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