Books on the Beach

Time for a Quick Dip with M.W. Craven! 🌊 Phil fires the quick-fire questions at the bestselling crime writer, and Mike reveals: 🏖️ Why he hates swimming in the sea but loves reading on holiday 📚 His favourite bookstore in the world, which has a staggering 39 different rooms full of books 🤫 The huge, world-famous writer he has NEVER read Clue: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,...

Bestselling crime writer M.W. Craven joins Phil Williams on Books on the Beach to talk about his new thriller,  The Killer’s Mark . It’s a story of triads, concubines and the porn industry, and Mike explains how he came to write it. He also reveals why the book’s original title,  The Red Chamber , had to be scrapped. It turns out to be Chinese slang for China ... well: It sounds a lot like for Chi...

Rachel Gillig takes The Quick Dip, our bonus quick-fire round on Books on the Beach. The questions are fast and the answers are honest. Want the full conversation? 📚 Enjoyed The Quick Dip? Follow the podcast on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to this channel for new episodes every Thursday and a Bonus Ep every MondayJoin the newsletter, The Beach Read, at https://joinbooksonthebeach.co.ukBooks on the Bea...

What happens when you mix gothic fantasy, a little romance, a rather memorable gargoyle, and a murder mystery? You get bestselling author Rachel Gillig. On this episode of 'Books on the Beach', Rachel joins us to talk about her journey as an author, the world of Romantasy, and selling three million copies of just four books. We get into the pressure of bestseller success, writing with dysl...

Sir Ian Rankin takes The Quick Dip, our bonus quick-fire round on Books on the Beach. Ian explains why every crime writer he knows secretly wants to be a rock star, and why he doesn’t like swimming, which is an odd confession for a guest on a show called Books on the Beach! Want the full conversation? Listen to my main interview with Ian, where we talk about his first standalone thriller in 20 yea...

Sir Ian Rankin has written his first standalone thriller in 20 years. He joins me on Books on the Beach to talk about The Heights , why he hates the super rich and the 40th anniversary of Rebus next year - the character who changed crime fiction. Plus Ian opens up his folder of big ideas, the place where his next stories begin. 🎁 WIN A SIGNED COPY OF THE HEIGHTS I’m giving away my own proof copy,...

Come for A Quick Dip with Six Million Seller, Adele Parks. Answering Questions like: Beach or Pool, Favourite Bookshop in the World, Plotter or Pantser...? We chat Yoga, Parenting and Adele gives you an Exclusive 11 word set up for 2027's brand new novel that she's currently writing. Subscribe to the YouTube Channel Join the Books on the Beach Newsletter Follow on Instagram

This week on Books on the Beach , I'm joined by the queen of the domestic thriller herself, Adele Parks . With over six million books sold, Adele has kept readers turning pages late into the night for years, and her latest, EYES ON YOU, is a spine-tingling thriller that will have you looking over your shoulder! We chat about why she's the only author Phil's ever met who agents herself;...

The Quick Dip is your new Bonus Ep which asks questions like: Physical Book/E-Book/or Audiobook? Beach or Pool? Writing Snack of Choice? Plotter or Pantser? Name a famous writer you've NEVER read? Charlie Higson is the first to take those answers on, and we somehow manage to talk farts too. I blame Ian Fleming! Make sure you're signed up to the newsletter. And thank you to our sponsors for...

Charlie Higson is on his 26th Novel. The Fast Show star has been commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write a Brand New James Bond 007 Novel for adults. King Zero is that book: A brilliantly funny, contemporary Bond thriller. In this brand new Ep, we discuss Bond and how he influenced Swiss Toni, the difficulty of creating fresh Action set pieces and why farts are still funny, even though we...

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On?2. Best Book You've Ever Read On Holiday? These are Chris Brookmyre's answers including a Book that he says is so large it should come with wheels and a carry handle! Season 2 is coming in October, so make sure you're signed up to the mailing list for exclu...

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read On Holiday? These are Jamie Smart's answers which include a rare French comic and why his best holiday happened on one of his birthdays.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read On Holiday? These are Abir Mukherjee's answers which include why he preferred holidaying in the Maldives to living there and how the best book he took finally unlocked his next novel after writers' block.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions:1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On?2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday? These are Sarah Vaughan's answers. Find out why she can't read a book set in a cold place, if she's sunning herself...!

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday? These are Anthony Horowitz's answers, which also ponder on whether the holiday setting you're in, affects your choice of book and why I Am Pilgrim got passed around his entire family.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday? These are Heidi Perks' answers with some brilliant book recommendations here too and why you won't find Heidi in the Pool playing ball!

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read On Holiday? Here are Dorothy Koomson's Answers which include the one holiday that led her to emigrate. She also reveals how many books she can burn through on a fortnight away and her Holiday Read is a blockbuster by the late, gre...

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday? Here are Ardal O' Hanlon's answers... Now with added Howler Monkey...! His full Ep is also available here, just scroll down.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes give you writers' answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best Holiday You've Ever Been On? 2. Best Book You've Ever Read on Holiday? Here are Michael Connelly's answers. His full Ep is also available here, just scroll down.

The Bonus Beach Bites Episodes, give you writers’ answers to two very simple questions: 1. Best holiday you’ve ever been on? 2. Best book you’ve ever read on holiday? Here’s Lynda La Plante’s answers. Her full Ep is available here too, just scroll down.

We end Season 1 with a genuine National Treasure. Lorraine Kelly has been on British television for over 40 years. Two years ago, she published her debut novel, The Island Swimmer and now she's back with the follow up, The Island Secret. In this interview Lorraine talks about her writing process; how she resented her brother appearing in her family as a little girl and the time the Daily Mail...

Chris Brookmyre is the multi-award winning author of 31 books, spanning an incredible thirty year career. He’s back with a follow up to his debut: Quite Ugly One Morning, which is called Quite Ugly One Evening.   In this wide ranging interview we talk about confected anger on the Internet; Views overtaking News; and how Chris learnt the guitar in later life to allow him to play alongside Val McDer...

The Brilliant Heidi Perks is the Sunday Times Bestselling Author who brought you,  Now You See Her . She’s back with a page turner of a locked room thriller, called  It Ends Here , which Phil really loved. In this chat you can hear about Heidi’s beginnings in marketing; why it took five years for her to get a publishing deal; how she’s scrapped endings of books on police advice, and why Mr Perks i...

Phil did Abir Mukherjee’s first national broadcast interview a decade ago for his debut, A Rising Man. Since then, Abir’s won the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year, the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Novel of the Year, the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, and much much more.   In this Episode, we get Abir’s views on India; his Jeffrey Archer impression (!) and we learn his family’s...

Jamie Smart has sold millions of children's books: The Bunny vs Monkey series, Looshkin and Megalomaniacs. His books are hilarious punk graphic novels for children and make my own kids howl with laughter. In this very special episode, some of Jamie's junior readers get to put their questions to their hero, one of which he says not even his own Editor has ever asked..!If you've got chil...