Bryant and May
Fret not, for ‘The Foot on the Crown’ (official title) will be published, although now you have me thinking about splitting it into two volumes. I never write long, which makes me suspicious that I had too much fun with this – probably more than the average reader can stand. (Not, dear fellows, that I […]
Hullo there. I put my glasses down a minute ago and now I can’t find them. I’ve been asked by Transworld, who are publishing ‘Bryant & May’s Peculiar London’ in July, to say something about the capital’s places and its people that we can be proud of (not the lad above, thankfully). What they mean […]
If you’ve been following this blog you’ll know that ‘Bryant & May’s Peculiar London’ is not a traditional murder mystery like the other volumes in the series but an investigation of an altogether different kind. The suspect is London itself, with the detectives, along with Janice, Meera, Colin, Dan, Sid, Maggie and various other characters […]
One Bryant & May book didn’t get published in the US. If you’re a career writer and manage to sell a few books over the years, you’ll be shocked at the space they take up. I live in a flat, so room is at a premium and international editions can’t be kept. I tried separating […]
16 Bryant & May HALL OF MIRRORS In which Mr May Spends a Weekend in the Country And Mr Bryant Gives the Game Away In 1969, ten guests stay in an isolated country house, Tavistock Hall, for the weekend, but one of them is harbouring thoughts of murder… Young detectives Bryant & May are […]
(I’m publishing these each day now because we have lots of other subjects to discuss, so there’s one more to come tomorrow) The Casebook Of Bryant & May (Graphic Novel) Two illustrated, untold and very silly cases for Bryant & May, ‘The Soho Devil’, saw them coming face-to-face with a clown cult and a runaway rhino, […]
When I look back at these plots, I’m surprised more at what I didn’t do with the series as much as what I did do. I didn’t marry any of the leading characters off, I didn’t write plots about drugs, pedophilia or trafficking and I didn’t use loads of Anglo-Saxon swears. Not for any prudish […]
Following on from recent discussions of plots, it occurred to me that I hadn’t ever bothered to publish my own guide to the 21 plots of the Bryant & May books (they’re probably lurking on another part of the site covered in cobwebs), so here in four parts follows your guide to what’s what between […]
A reader recently asked me why the Bryant & May novels are ‘so London-centric’. The short answer is that the characters were born there, and so was I. On average people live 37 miles from where they were born, with one in four people owning their final property within a five mile radius of their […]
The pitch was this: ‘Instead of a traditional Bryant & May novel, what if I used my knowledge of London to have the detectives talk about the city’s history, along with their guests, Janice, Colin, Meera, Maggie Armitage and a host of others?’ I thought there would be resistance to the idea and approached the […]
