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Bad Apples: crime fiction's enemies and anti-heroes. Bad Apples: crime fiction's enemies and anti-heroes From con artists to killers, crime fiction has served up some of the very best bad apples in all of literature. Ripley, Moriarty, Lecter and many more are resp ..

From The Woman in White and The Murders in the Rue Morgue to the most modern of monsters and their makers, a fascination with the Gothic has always lent colour to crime fiction. As the summer sizzles, let the shadows creep in at our 32nd Crime Fiction Weekend wher ..

'Grounding nature writing in scientific research, ecological commitment and direct, sustained experience of the natural object will provide the basis for writing about nature that will have scientific as well as literary credibility, potentially making an informed co ..

In 1914, only three years after Norwegian Roald Amundsen beat Robert Falcon Scott to the South Pole, Ernest Shackleton led an expedition to make the first land crossing of Antarctica; it was to end in near catastrophe as his ship, the Endurance, became trapped in the ..