Paul Burke
Radio Advertiser and Columnist at The Spectator
Writer at Crime Fiction Lover
Learned to write at primary school. Learned little else so I write for a living. 4 novels and hundreds of ads, mainly radio. Married, 2 kids. Happy. Sort of.
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2 weeks ago |
crimefictionlover.com | Paul Burke
Real figures from the past are always an intriguing part of historical fiction. The bonus for crime writers is being able to mix them up in murder mysteries and Legat has chosen the Polish physicist Nicolaus Copernicus to be her protagonist and amateur detective in A Pact With the Devil. The mathematician and astrologer appeared in John Banville’s Dr Copernicus in 1976 – a fictional portrait of the man who challenged the Church’s teaching that the earth was at the centre of the universe.
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2 weeks ago |
thedrum.com | Paul Burke
We seem to have a problem in the advertising industry. There’s a gender pay gap and, apparently, it’s getting wider. According to the latest IPA census, that gap has increased from 15.2% to 19.7% in the last 12 months. In 2025, how on earth is this still an issue? Especially as the national average gender pay gap is 7% and falling. But the figures don’t lie, so once I started investigating, I realized how ignorant I’d been.
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3 weeks ago |
crimetime.co.uk | Paul Burke
Sadly, Ken Bruen’s death was announced on 30th March. He passed away at University Hospital, Galway sometime the night before, aged 74. Bruen was among the finest of contemporary Irish crime writers, revered and respected by his colleagues and loved by readers around the world for his unique brand of wicked humour and darkest noir. He was the winner of several of the top awards during his writing career.
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1 month ago |
crimefictionlover.com | Paul Burke
French author Johana Gustawsson and her Norwegian counterpart Thomas Enger are each formidable and successful in their own right. Now they’ve joined forces for a brand new crime fiction series set in Norway. It features a psychologist with specialist skills working for the Oslo police department on a brutal murder investigation, all the while coping with the fact that her own son went missing seven years ago.
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1 month ago |
medium.com | Paul Burke
Paul Wesley Burke in "All Paths."·Follow9 min read·--American Coup ForeseenPhoto by Crystal Berdion on UnsplashSucked into the inexorable maelstrom of a calamitous American presidency, it seems that there is no way out. We are being drawn down, down, down, and we struggle to understand how this happened. What if what’s happening is supposed to happen? What if this crisis is being orchestrated by Life, itself? Or by God, if you will?
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