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…
Half past five – and this was the sort of day that Orford did so well. Huge skies and racing clouds, the river glinting grey and silver and everything washed in that strange, bleached-out light that never seemed to belong to the modern world. There was a slight, nudging breeze. In the winter it…
Originally published in The Spectator They were spending their first Christmas together in Antigua, Simon and Jane Maxwell, enjoying not just a holiday but a honeymoon after a courtship that had taken them both by surprise. It was his second marriage, her first – and perhaps it was because she…
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra The perfect murder? You want to know about that night on Blackfriars Bridge? Well, of course, I’m happy to tell you. It makes no difference now. My victim’s name was Henry Allard. The motive? The oldest in the book, I’m afraid. The swine had been…
Originally published in The Sunday Times. The instructions were quite clear. They were to be back by half-past eight. They were to stay together at all times. They could accept sweets and chocolates – after all, that was the whole point – but they were not to eat anything until they got home.…
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