Originally published in The Guardian There was just one question I had to ask myself. How could I have ended up dangling from a flagpole, twelve stories above a street in North London, with an armed maniac walking toward me, a rabid dog snapping at my fingertips, and the world's worst…
The man from Whitehall didn’t know he was being followed. His name was Davenport and he worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Defence. He was carrying a black, leather briefcase which bumped against the side of his leg as he walked. He had no idea that there had been someone behind him…
Originally published on the BBC Radio 2 website The amazing Anthony Horowitz - author of The Diamond Brothers series, The Power Of Five and the phenomenally successful Alex Rider series which celebrates 15 years in print in 2015 - has written his very own 500 Words story for the Radio 2 Arts Show…
Originally published by Country Life Magazine. It was just her luck. All Deborah Watson wanted was to be at home in Suffolk, back in the rambling, slightly ramshackle manor house just outside Woodbridge. Her parents would be there, her brothers and sisters…all the family including cousins she…
Henry Charles Wevill, otherwise known as Lord Wevill off Framlingham, regarded his visitor with a mixture of curiosity and disdain. At the same time, he tried not to give anything away. Of course, he had met the type before. In his years as chairman of ZFG, one of the world’s largest private…
Evelyn Thomas, author of Boris the Bear, Boris Wins the Day, Boris Meets the Queen and thirty-two more books with Boris in the title, stepped out of the taxi and found himself in front of a village school that was almost preternaturally sweet; old red bricks and ivy that reminded him of his own…
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