Category Archives: Books

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Through the Letterbox

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It is now just under six weeks until this year’s Clapham Book Festival takes place on May 12th in Omnibus Theatre and Clapham Library.  So publicity and promotion activity is cranking into gear.  Yesterday a fellow volunteer and I collected … Continue reading

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Walls Have Ears

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After the success and popularity of the Clapham Book Festival’s panel session last year about spies and spying, either real or fictional, ( see Espionage ) we decided to run a similar session this year focussing particularly on WWII and … Continue reading

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We interrupt this broadcast…

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We interrupt this broadcast… well, series of articles… about wonderful music and dance in southern Spain… to make an important announcement. Tickets for the 2018 Clapham Book Festival are ON SALE NOW. Go to https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/clapham-book-festival/ where you’ll be able to find … Continue reading

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Crimeland

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Ever since Oedipus instigated the search for the murderer of Thebes’ previous King we have been drawn to stories of crime detection. Today there are so many sub-genres – detective fiction, the whodunnit, the forensic thriller, the legal thriller, the … Continue reading

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The Department of Security & Crime Science

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What? I hear you say. Is this Kafka or Orwell? It isn’t fiction, but I’m not surprised at such a reaction, because University College London’s Department for Security & Crime Science is one of the first of its kind in … Continue reading