MysteryFest 2021 will be delivered virtually next spring because of the uncertainty surrounding the current pandemic, local S&C contributor Julia Davey reports. The event will feature renowned authors speaking openly about their own literary journeys [… read more ]
MysteryFest 2019, the key crime and mystery literature event of this year’s Portsmouth Bookfest – in collaboration with Mystery People – took place at Portsmouth Central Library on Saturday 9 March. S&C contributor Julia Davey reports. [… read more ]
Husband and wife team Brian Murphy and Linda Regan return to Portsmouth as part of Mystery Fest, which was delayed back in March. Portsmouth Mystery Fest organiser Carol Westron reports. Anyone who remembers vintage classics [… read more ]
Bookfest, Portsmouth’s three week celebration of literature, is collaborating with Mystery People, the crime fiction promotion group, to put on an exhilarating event involving some of the best crime writers in the business. Local novelist [… read more ]
Richard Hardie is one of the founder members of Authors Reach, a co-operative of local authors turned self-publishers. Here’s how it works. The job of being an author doesn’t stop with the words “The End”. In many ways that’s just [… read more ]
An excerpt from Lawless and the Flowers of Sin, William Sutton’s second Victorian mystery, published by Titan Books and launching on 12th July 2016. Sergeant Lawless explores the nightlife of Soho in his role as [… read more ]
In the first of a season of posts celebrating local literary talent, we present a compelling sample from Christine Hammacott‘s psychological crime novel The Taste of Ash, which is set in Portsmouth and Lee-on-Solent. The full book [… read more ]
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