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 finishing off in the ov...

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 navigate to page 30. ...

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 prepare 95% of it in...

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 characters in The S...

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 article about how Amazo...

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 into an almost dysto...

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

New Book Cover Reveal

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 Guinness in the 1979 BBC ad...

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 the old Grisham (eg 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's been such a long ...

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 popular Russian dishes. I ...

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 say that I continue ...

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. This year, one of mi...