Enough for 4-6 as an accompaniment 2 x large aubergines 2 or 3 red pimento peppers 1 x large clove of garlic, skin on 1 x jar or tin of a...

Just try this very simple recipe and prove yourself wrong. You can prepare all this in advance except for the final 10/15 minutes of fin...

I thought I ought to post this to my blog, given that it came out today. To read the article in larger format, click on the picture and n...

Great with a glass (or two!) of prosecco or chilled rosé, this takes a bit of preparation but is SO good! The great news is that you can ...

Finally, here we are. Book Launch Day! Welcome to the world of Oleg Usmanov, Natalia and Calum Ross. I hope you enjoy each of them as new...

When I ordered this earlier in the week, Amazon had promised it would arrive on 6 May. Yesterday in The Times newspaper, there was an art...

It's as if the global re-set button has now been pushed (to quote Caitlin Moran in the Times). Well, sort of, but here we are, two weeks ...

This is so simple (assuming you can still get lentils, aubergine and coriander at the moment!) Slice the aubergines and lay in a thin lay...

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It must be tough to follow George Smiley as a character. As much as Smiley helped define Le Carré in his early years, for me Alex Guinnes...

I was given this book for Christmas and it was much better than I expected. It wasn't a classic page-turning thriller in the manner of th...

The good news is that my next thriller, my first spy thriller, is finished and ready to publish. Yippee! Some of you may be asking why it...

Some of you may have read Jason Matthews' Red Sparrow spy novels - in which at the end of each chapter he gives simple recipes for popula...

I had several books in my Christmas stocking this year and these were three of them. I finished the Lee Child first of all and I have to ...

So, 2020 is upon us and it is about this this time in January when many of us are a little bit challenged by our New Year’s resolutions. ...