The QT

Friday 10 May 2024
10/05/2024

Writing

Thriller is worth the wait

Anyone who tore through Steve Chambers’ first thriller has had to wait quite a long time for his second — 11 years, to be exact. Worth the wait, though, I’d say. The Dark Months, set mostly in rural Northumberland and full of tension and lethal skulduggery, is that publisher’s dream, a page-turner. There’s a precedent …

Freedom To Be: A solo traveller in winter

I don’t see myself as a particularly adventurous traveller. I’ve only ever been to European countries (and North America), didn’t have a gap year and am not one of the one in eight British people who has apparently seriously contemplated living abroad.  However, I do see travel as representing freedom in a way — the …

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