David Downing

Apr 28, 2024 | seattletimes.com | David Downing

It’s an epidemic, but one on the quiet side. Our community’s young people are literally up against it, facing an alarming mental health crisis that has impacted every community and every economic level. That’s the 30,000-foot view; the view from the ground is far more devastating.

Feb 27, 2024 | westobserver.com | Terry Hayes |David Downing

Dying to Know When asked about the connection between writers and spies, John le Carré ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") said: "It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters." Three writers of recent espionage fiction turn their keen powers of observation on 1950s Los Angeles,...

Feb 24, 2024 | independent.ie | David Downing

My Life in BooksDavid Downing has been a professional writer for 50 years. In the last 20 of those he has concentrated on the eight-book ‘Station’ series, about an Englishman reluctantly engaged in espionage before, during and after World War II. The eighth – Union Station – comes out next month from Old Street Publishing. The books on your bedside table? I’m currently reading the latest in Michael Russell’s ‘City of’ Dublin police series.

Nov 17, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | David Downing |Lisa Jewell |Ariel Lawhon

It's hard to read but hard to look away from. When two women who share a birthday meet, a journalist becomes the subject of her own true-crime mystery. On their 45th birthdays, Josie Fair and Alix Summer meet at a pub and discover they were born not only on the same day, but in the same hospital. Alix is a successful journalist, and Josie convinces Alix that her story is worth telling: Josie met her husband when she was 13 and he was 40.

May 30, 2023 | sw.co.uk | Hayley Evans |Richard Farr |Guy Owen |David Downing

The labour party is set to propose a new policy allowing local authorities to use compulsory purchase powers to acquire land at below market value. According to a report in the Financial Times, if the party wins the next election, the proposals mean landowners could be forced to sell land without factoring in ‘Hope Value’, which is the added value a plot gains when it has a prospect of achieving planning permissions.