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BESTSELLING AUTHOR
COLUMNIST & TEACHER

Simon Mayo
SIMON MAYO
ADAM BROOKES
LEE CHILD
MICK HERRON
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A TREACHERY OF SPIES
Tracking down her murderer leads police inspector Inès Picaut back to 1940s France where the men and women of the Resistance were engaged in a desperate fight for survival against the Nazi invaders.
A story of murder, betrayal and a passion that will shape a life.
And a death.
LATEST NEWS – A Treachery of spies is one of the times top ten thrillers of the decade: link here
WHY WE NEED TO READ THRUTOPIAS
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Imagine a future where our great grandchildren look back and say, ‘Yes, it was hard. Yes, they made mistakes. Yes, they left it way, way too late, but that was because they didn’t know what to do. And my goodness, when they had the visions, they threw themselves into making them happen. And we’re here now, living lives we love, because they took the risk to change the way things worked.’
But Utopias that we don’t believe in can’t help us. We need stories that lay out a path from here to a future we’d be proud to leave to our the coming generations. We need Thrutopias…
She’s a nurse. She’s also a killer – and she’s good at it. But what happens when her team is betrayed and she’s the only one to get clear?

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Best Crime Fiction for 2018 - Financial Times
A Treachery of Spies is on the FT’s list of best crime fiction for 2018. It’s a great list including Jane Harper, Ian Rankin & C J Sansom.
INTRODUCING SOPHIE DESTIVELLE: ASSASSIN, SPY & REBEL WOMAN
Introducing the character who I now love as much as any character I’ve ever created: perhaps more than any of them…


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A NEW PROJECT FOR A NEW WORLD
My new project for 2020 is a podcast, blog and membership program.
Here’s the full story…
LATEST ARTICLES
Best Crime Fiction 2018
A Treachery of Spies is on the Financial Times’ list of best Crime Fiction of 2018. It’s a great list and includes Jane Harper, Ian Rankin and C J Sansom.
I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A SPY
INTRODUCING SOPHIE DESTIVELLE: ASSASSIN, SPY & REBEL WOMAN
Introducing the character who I now love as much as any character I’ve ever created: perhaps more than any of them…
7 TRAITS YOU'D NEED TO BE A SUCCESSFUL SOE AGENT
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BEHIND THE BOUDICA SERIES
NEW YORK TIMES
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
PUBLISHING NEWS
“The new Mary Renault”
LUCID DREAMING: ANCIENT SKILL OR MODERN FAD?
THE CELTS, WOMEN & SEX
BREAKING THE LEGACY OF ROME
THE OLD GODS &THE NEW
BOUDICA
NEW YORK TIMES
THE ADVERTISER, AUSTRALIA
“All historical novels should be this good”
PUBLISHING NEWS
“The new Mary Renault”
JEAN M AUEL
“A powerful novel, alive with the love, deceit, wisdom and heroics of humanity”
SAINSBURY’S MAGAZINE
“It is so well written that its world of prescient dreamers and fearless warriors lingers in the imagination long after the final page”
INTO THE FIRE
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING…
For six centuries, we’ve been told that Joan of Arc was a pious – and necessarily clueless – peasant virgin used as a standard bearer while the men got on with the messy act of winning the war against the English.
The truth is so much more interesting, but in the past and in the present day, there are people who will kill to keep the myth alive.
In this fast-paced, gritty thriller, past and present weave inexorably towards an incendiary – and unexpected – conclusion. Read more.
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