Val Culley

How the ‘new Queen of Crime’ found the ideas for her novels P D James was seen by some as 'the New Queen of Crime' When crime writ...

The value of keeping an ideas notebook I am often asked where I get my ideas from by people in the audience when I give talks about my boo...

T he Body Parts in the Library arrives at a library! Partners in crime There are many significant milestones when you write a novel, such as...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles has now been entertaining readers for a century My copy of The Mysterious Affair at  Styles was published i...

Have library assistants become an endangered species? Libraries have been under pressure for several years because of economic cuts I have a...

Agatha Christie had her first novel published when she was 30 years old Imagine being the best-selling novelist of all time. Imagine being s...

The Parsonage in Haworth, where the Brontë sisters grew up, is now a museum celebrating their lives I have always loved visiting the homes o...