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Hard-hitting memoir by Jenny Evans finds home
April 5th, 2025Robinson has acquired the hard-hitting memoir from investigative journalist and film-maker Jenny Evans. Emma Smith, publishing director for Robinson (an imprint of Little, Brown), acquired the world rights for Don’t Let it Break You, Honey from Jemima Hunt of The Writers’ Practice, to be published on 3 July.
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais remember Porridge
February 8th, 2025Fifty years on, legendary TV writing duo Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais look back at their landmark British comedy, Porridge.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026cg9/dick-clement-and-ian-la-frenais-remember-porridge
2024 Female Pilot Club Quarter Finalist
December 20th, 2024Congratulations to Hannah Swanston, Quarter Finalist in the 2024 BBC Comedy script call out Female Pilot Club for her Essex based murder-mystery-comedy script, The Retreat.
BOOK EVENT: HB Lyle in conversation with Simon Mason, Oxford, 20 June 2024
April 11th, 2024An Edwardian Spy & an Oxford Detective: HB Lyle will be in conversation with Simon Mason at East Oxford bookshop, Caper. Click on link below for tickets, £5. Drink included.
Spy Hunter by HB Lyle
November 8th, 2023‘A rip-roaring and action-packed derring-do adventure that pokes tongue-in-cheek fun at modern thriller tropes. Highly recommended.’
Irish Independent
‘This is full-on Wiggins, and it reads like a dream’
August 16th, 2023Listen to Spybrary Podcast for fantastic review of Spy Hunter.
‘What HB Lyle has done with one of Conan Doyle’s minor characters is nothing short of inspirational.’
HB Lyle at Capital Crime, 2nd September
August 8th, 2023Tickets now available for Crime Across the World:
J P Delaney, Awais Khan, and Leye Adenle with participating moderator H B Lyle
When: Saturday 2nd September 2023 Where: Capital Crime Writing Festival
WIGGINS IS BACK!
May 31st, 20231914.
Sherlock Holmes has been murdered. Nobody knows who did it, but Wiggins, former Baker Street Irregular and Holmes’ protegee, suspects a German spy.
OUT November 23
November 25th, 2022
Delighted that @lucieabrownlee will be teaching #memoir at Newcastle’s @FaberAcademy
https://faberacademy.com/announcing-faber-academy-newcastle/
As well as being a @richardandjudy pick – #LifeAfterDeath was adapted for TV by @georgiapudding
OUT NOW in paperback
November 8th, 2021The Year of the Gun – ‘Skilfully mixing real history with action sequences worthy of Lee Child.’ – John Williams, Mail on Sunday The Year of the Gun by HB Lyle
Get yours now.