Ayo Onatade

2 weeks ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ayo Onatade

I am a native-born Scot with a Nigeriansurname, a US passport and an English accent.If some librarian of humanity were to place me on the shelf beside mybrothers and sisters, where, I wonder, would I be filed?In the fiction section, perhaps.Possibly under cryptids.

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Press ReleaseGeorge Smiley’s ‘Circus’ returns: with The Taper Man the new novel from John le Carré’s son, Nick Harkaway, and the first stage adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to London’s West End John le Carré’s son, writer Nick Harkaway, announces a new novel, The Taper Man, featuring his father’s iconic spy, George Smiley, for publication in 2026.

2 weeks ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ayo Onatade

Before I became a full-time writer, I spent a decadeworking as a criminal defence attorney. It was rewarding, exhausting,heart-breaking work. I’m glad not to be practicing any longer, but I also feellucky to have had the experiences I did during those years. They shaped me intoa better, more empathetic person, one who is able to look past a starkblack-and-white perspective and see all the subtle grey space in between theextremes.

3 weeks ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ayo Onatade

Breathless,the KGB man stumbles onto the crowded train platform, the prickling of his skinsignalling that he hasn’t yet escaped the shadowy figures on his tail. He scansrapidly for any likely spooks in the sea of faces: the middle-aged man in a mac,head buried in the evening newspaper; the woman dressed to the nines for anevening date and applying more lipstick with the aid of her compact; thebrightly-dressed juggler heading home after a day’s toil in street theatre. OurKGB boy sweats.

4 weeks ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ayo Onatade

NationalCrime Reading Month Returns this June with Bestselling AuthorsLivesof Crime: The Compelling Power of Dark and Twisty TalesThenational charity The Reading Agency and the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA)has a cunning plot to get the nation reading. ThisJune, the partners in crime invite the nation to step into the shadows anddiscover how crime fiction turns us into voracious readers.