Nicola Upson

Nov 5, 2024 | thetimes.com | Nicola Upson

Devices and Desires was the first PD James novel I ever read, back in my teens after a long, much-loved run of Agatha Christie. Admittedly, it was quite late in his career to meet the series detective, Adam Dalgliesh, for the first time but it was a wonderful gateway to what was already a remarkable body of work. Devices and Desires — published in 1989 and the eighth in the 14-novel sequence that began with Cover Her Face in 1962 — is a sparkling showcase for James’s writing.

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Juliette Bretan |Seamus Perry |Nicola Upson |E. J. Clery

Promising comfort is what a good stew should offer – but boeuf en daube, from Provence, with its cragged hunks of meat bespangled with olives and doused in shimmering, sepia-coloured broth, yields (if cooked correctly) exceptional pleasures. Or at least Mr Bankes in To the Lighthouse thinks so: “He had eaten attentively. It was rich; it was tender. It was perfectly cooked”.

Nov 7, 2023 | shotsmag.co.uk | Nicola Upson

Shot with Crimson. Nicola Upson. Faber. £16.99. Publ. 7.11.23. September 1939: World War Two has just started and the liner Queen Mary is steaming across the Atlantic carrying Americans heading home, a few English fleeing the expected bombs - and a Scottish crime novelist, Josephine Tey, on a brief visit to her lover in Hollywood.

Oct 15, 2023 | thetimes.co.uk | Nicola Upson

“The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood.

Aug 22, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | David Ulin |Nicola Upson |Wendy Walker |Andrew Klavan

Stephen King. Scribner, $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-6680-1613-8PI Holly Gibney returns after King’s 2020 novella If It Bleeds to face off against a pair of deliciously wicked predators in this lurid if somewhat plodding thriller. It’s July 2021, and the Finders Keepers detective agency is on hiatus, with Holly taking time off to mourn her mother, who recently died of Covid.