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In the early 1990s, and for nearly a decade, I was a civilian contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense, assigned first in Belarus and, later, in Kazakhstan. My job was to assist in the dismantlem…
14 Dec 2023
The true crime that inspired my novel, The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou, had me hooked from the start. In 1954, Styllou Christofi, a 53-year-old Cypriot grandmother, came to England to visit her so…
29 Nov 2023
Throughout my screenwriting career I often thought, wistfully, about the notion of writing a novel. Partly to see if I was capable of creating prose in that form, but also because I felt it might in s…
22 Nov 2023
I was always fascinated by the concept of how organised religion has managed to convince large groups of people about certain dogma that can be easily proven to be false. In popular culture, we talk a…
07 Nov 2023
The tide had retreated late that evening, laying a ledge of grey sand in its wake where all else now sparkled in the dusk like a desert of broken glass. For too long, this was all she’d dreamt of – a…
31 Oct 2023
I have always been interested in the significance of dreams. What is our brain trying to tell us, as we sleep? Is it really trying to show us what we should be afraid of? Can it really predict our fut…
30 Oct 2023
When I was a boy, my dad was stationed on a U.S. Army base in what was then West Germany. There was no library, just a cramped little bookmobile trailer, the kind with low ceilings and fold-out steps…
06 Oct 2023
I think cults are so endlessly fascinating because they seem to attract such ordinary people who end up doing and believing things which might seem quite outlandish and extreme. People inevitably wond…
30 Jun 2023
I was mostly inspired by the slasher films of the 70's, 80's and 90's--Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp specifically. I grew up on horror movies and I wanted to write a book that felt just like that…
14 Jun 2023
IMRAN: I had been reading some scientific papers about free-will of all things and had been struck by the amount of serious scientific opinion that had concluded that free-will was in fact nothing mor…
18 Apr 2023
How does it feel to have She Is a Haunting out in the world, labelled as a New York Times bestseller and being read by so many people? TRANG: Joy, shock, and gratitude all at once. I never expected th…
06 Apr 2023
The Leviathan is such a powerful title, how did it come to you?ROSIE: I like a title that does what it says on the tin. I also enjoyed studying Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes and it provided some of the i…
16 Dec 2022
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