Fortune Favours the Dead – is your first novel. You are a successful playwright and journalist so what drew you to fictional crime writing at this point in your career? Crime and mystery fiction have been a part of my life for as long as I could read. I started with the Hardy Boys and ...

Rod Humphris talks to NB Magazine about his new thriller Bloodstock… Interviewer: Paul Burke Bloodstock: After what feels like a lifetime of mayhem, Simon Ellice returns to the Hampshire village where he grew up. He enjoys the solace and tranquillity of rural life, working on a farm and getting to know the lively locals, but ...

Love comes in all shapes, sizes… and levels of messiness. In Daughters, Lucy Fricke explores the relationships between Betty and Martha and their uniquely dysfunctional fathers, whilst celebrating female friendship in the weirdest and most darkly funny road-trip novel you will ever read. Here at NB HQ, we loved Daughters so much we selected it ...

The Young Survivors is inspired by the life of your own mother, I believe, and specifically her experiences during the Holocaust, can you tell us a bit about this background and the decision to transform it into this book? My mother was born in France in 1938. She lost her parents and two siblings, including ...

Congratulations on your new book – Beyond the Title – The Yearbook, can you tell us a bit about the book?    Well, since 2016 I’ve been developing a podcast called Beyond The Title where I interview a broad selection of figures from the world of entertainment and have been lucky enough to meet some ...