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Phil Miller wins 2019 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship
May 17th, 2019Congratulations to Phil Miller on winning a 2019 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship towards completing his new novel, Spook School, set in the Scottish art world. Fantastic news!
Catch Ben Lyle at CrimeFest, Bristol 9-12 May, 2019
April 16th, 2019Don’t miss the exciting CrimeFest programme – including Ben Lyle discussing his Wiggins spy thrillers, The Irregular & The Red Ribbon.
The Red Ribbon makes FT’s 2018 Books of the Year
November 26th, 2018Great to see HB Lyle’s second Wiggins spy thriller, The Red Ribbon, selected in the FT’s 2018 Books of the Year by their thriller reviewer Adam LeBor.
Publisher’s Weekly: ‘Readers will hope to see plenty more of Wiggins’
November 4th, 2018Great US review of HB Lyle’s ‘The Red Ribbon’ (Quercus US) in Publisher’s Weekly.
Crashing the Party reviewed on LARB’s new China Channel
September 25th, 2018‘Savitt’s memoir, the poignant Crashing the Party, brings us closer to the soul of the country,’
Catch Ben Lyle on Radio 4’s Open Book
September 23rd, 2018In case you missed Ben Lyle discussing the art of using a fictional hero – Sherlock Holmes – in his latest spy thriller, The Red Ribbon, with Mariella Frostrup, you can catch it here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bkqcqk
Lucie Brownlee wins 2018 Northern Writers Award
June 27th, 2018We’re delighted that bestselling memoirist Lucie Brownlee has won a Northern Writers’ Award to assist in the completion of her new novel. Congratulations Lucie!
Development deals for two books
June 8th, 2018The Writers’ Practice is thrilled to report that we have two books in development with major film & television studios…Stay tuned!
REVIEW Wall Street Journal: Back to Baker Street With ‘The Irregular’
November 6th, 2017‘English writer H.B. Lyle gives us “The Irregular” (Quercus $26.99), an inventive espionage thriller set before World War I and featuring a grown-up Wiggins, the former leader of Sherlock’s street-children posse of Baker Street Irregulars…this twist-filled adventure proves far from elementary.’
The Irregular by HB Lyle – KIRKUS REVIEWS
September 28th, 2017THE IRREGULAR (Quercus US), out in the US Nov 7th, is reviewed in Kirkus Reviews. ‘When Britain wants to inaugurate a secret service, who better to assist than the greatest detective in history?