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Well they may not be coming to TV screens just yet, but my ancient detectives will be with you in other ways. Coming in August is the last book in my current Bryant & May contract, ‘Bryant & May and the Invisible Code’. I’ve now delivered it, and it’s a little longer than usual, with a [...] Well, after the excellent Clerkenwell Films worked long and hard to develop Bryant & May as a TV series, creating a script for the pilot and getting the wonderful Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon to sign to the show, ITV, Sky and the BBC all turned it down, citing the trend against original programming at [...] After much perseverance I’ve struck a deal for the Bryant & May graphic novel – and the result could not have been a better one. It will be published here in the UK by PS Publishing, as their first modern comic. PS are the producers of the great big beautiful ‘Red Gloves’ volumes – this [...] I’m just putting the finishing touches to ‘Bryant & May and the Invisible Code’, the tenth volume in the series. It’ll be bigger than recent volumes, because there’s a lot to get through, and will be published by Transworld on August 1st 2012. Here’s a jacket synopsis; Two children play a game called ‘Witch-Hunter’, and place a [...] Readers of the detective series may recall Leslie Faraday, the foot-in-mouth pubic servant who manages to upset everyone he deals with. He clearly has a counterpart in Colin Barrow, the Westminster City Council leader and former hedge fund manager who managed to unite restaurateurs, theatre impresarios, shopkeepers and the Church in opposition to parking plans [...] It looks as if ‘The Casebook of Bryant & May 1; The Soho Devil’ is not going to be appearing anytime in the immediate future. The finished fifty-page full-colour graphic novel I’ve been working on with cult artist Keith Page has been unable to find a publisher either in the UK or the US. The [...] Keeping track of various members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit has always been a bit of a puzzler for readers, but I hope this forms a definitive appearance list. Janice Longbright, Colin Bimsley and Ian Hargreave, the policeman Janice used to date, all appear in my very first novel ‘Roofworld’. Bryant and May make their first appearance [...] W F Howes, our excellent audiobook champions, are finishing the latest novel and it should be out soon for you to hear. That’s the way to do it! Here’s the cover art (click to enlarge): The Bryant & May Casebook continues to grow in scope. It seems Mr Keith Page and myself will be adding to the Casebook in order to turn it into something more than a mere graphic novel – there’ll be features and art as well. Here’s the latest to the growing collection of ‘alternative’ covers provided [...] Regular readers of this site will know that I try to maintain a level of interactivity about my books, and it appears from your comments that you favour stand-alone stories with an overall development arc that moves the lives of those in the Peculiar Crimes Unit ever-onwards. Thank God for that, because it’s where I’m headed. [...] |
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