In sunny Crete, it's easy to forget this is a country on the brink of economic collapse.Is it acceptable yet to talk about holidays? Being neither a pundit nor a politician (thank God) I had no need to rush back during the riots and instead watched them unfold on TV in a taverna in Crete,…
Under Blair, moral ambiguity became the order of the dayThe horror of Norway and the tragedy of Amy Winehouse may have diverted our thoughts from the scandals of the past few weeks, but as I pack my bags for a summer in Greece, I wonder what sort of country I’m leaving behind. All the pillars…
Richard Carpenter taught me how to get into a scene and how to get out of it; about cutting and pace. He was my starting point.Richard Carpenter, writer of Robin of Sherwood, gave me my first job in television. I was a not very well known children's writer when I sent in a story for the…
Screenwriter and author set his new drama, Injustice, inside a young offenders institution after visiting many of them.Anthony Horowitz, the screenwriter and bestselling author of the Alex Rider children's books, has criticised policy on young offenders, calling the current regime "a…
400 million readers love him. His fellow authors don't. Will Anthony Horowitz fall for the master page-turner's charms?This is almost certainly a mistake. I’m in the middle of my own book tour (the last Alex Rider) when I get an email from The Sunday Telegraph.Would I like to…
Ian Fleming has had a huge influence on me I always loved the Bond books and the films were a major event in a rather boring childhood. But Roger [Moore] was in that role far too long; he was 57 when he finished playing it. Then, in 1999, I had this thought: wouldn't it be great if Bond was…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did it. Ian Fleming did it. JK Rowling did it. And now I’ve done it. After ten years, 12 million copies sold and one film, I’m saying goodbye to Alex Rider, teenage spy, the most successful character I ever created.Authors have a strange and often unhappy relationship…
A change of scenery but no break makes a perfect weekend for author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz.As a writer, I don’t really have weekends. It’s a seven-days-a-week job, the only difference being that during the week I write at my home in Clerkenwell, looking out over the Old Bailey and…
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