Beyond historical fiction, Cooper is also credited with writing some of the earliest American spy novels. The Spy (1821) and The Bravo (1831) are among the first examples of espionage fiction in ...

Novelist Robert Harris, author of Conclave, has won Give a Book's The Pleasure of Reading Prize for 2025, worth £10,000.

Forsyth’s contributions to writing earned formal recognition: he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ...

Forsyth was also a Royal Air Force pilot, reporter, and secret agent who wrote around twenty novels that have sold over 70 million copies worldwide. True, half-true, or fiction? In 1971, when former ...

As soon as you mention historical fiction books set in Scotland, the first one that comes to mind for nearly everyone is ...

These six new fantasy releases explore big ideas like structural inequalities and unjust systems, and how heroes can fight ...

But now, the Bond prediction that a woman would head MI6 has become reality. As reported by the BBC, Blaise Metreweli will ...

A fellow journalist and academic researcher in the UK’s cold-war propaganda efforts describes his experience meeting the late ...

Forsyth’s life was as compelling as his fiction: a Royal Air Force pilot, a war reporter censored by the BBC, an MI6 asset, and a bestselling novelist ...

He’s the entire reason for them. And as long as I write them, a part of him is still alive," writes author James Ponti, ...

How Freddie Forsyth wrote The Day Of The Jackal in 35 days - and based his novels on his life as an MI6 spy. But after passing away eight months after the death of his wife of 30 years, did he die ...