Books

As Queen Camilla joins tributes to the master storyteller, how his charm and enthusiasm won many fans as he kept working ’til the end…

Lesser known past of Saffron Walden lends the setting for a gripping new historical thriller from a bestselling author

OPINION – HARVEY PROCTOR: What distinguished him above all was an extraordinary capacity to turn adversity into activity

Exclusive: The entertaining Bookshop Diarist lifts the lid on the quirky, sometimes often bizarre, joys of running Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop

Seventy years after the Ian Fleming masterpiece, which became 1971 Sean Connery film, Dan Jones has been inspired to write a new short 007 adventure

As he publishes a riveting new history of the end of the Second World War, Sir Max Hastings takes aim at the PM… brace yourself for explosions

The master storyteller lays down his pen after last book; also reviewed – spy supremo David McClosky; the latest Bond novel; and a brilliant historical thriller

Exclusive: Lucy Foley reveals how she revisited St Mary Mead’s most famous spinster aunt and amateur detective after half a century

The Blackhouse author’s wife mourns her ‘soulmate’ and crime community pays tribute to ‘titan of the genre’

As he publishes a new full-length James Bond novel, Fast Show star Charlie Higson on bringing the secret agent bang up to date… and his hopes for new movie