Starting soon, Charlie McGarry (you remember him) and I, plus Hugh MacDonald and a rogue's gallery of guests will be reading through the Dave Robichea...

This is Debut, a podcast about one crime writer and his novel, from the bedroom to the bookshelf. Charles E McGarry has just lost the agent it took hi...

Charlie meets Val McDermid, one of the most successful crime writers of the Tartan Noir generation. In a career spanning 30 years, Val has sold over 1...

Charlie meets Christopher Brookmyre, to talk about his experience starting out with Quite Ugly One Morning, in 1997. Chris and Charlie talk about thei...

We take the Hogwarts Express (kind of) to the real-life Highland location that inspired the setting of most of the novel. Charlie is our guide round t...

Just as the book is being typeset, an unexpected discovery sends Charlie back to the drawing board. We meet the hero of his novel, and find out a bit ...

How Charlie landed a deal with the publishers of the No1 Ladies Detective Agency, without an agent; his editor tells us what made her say yes to the n...

How does one crime writer get his idea from the bedroom to the bookshelf? This is Debut, a podcast that tells that story. For information regarding yo...