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Abbie from the Fiction team chats to Writer of the Week Holly Crawford all about Holly's story 'A Cracking Tale' and her other writing.

Banchory author Mike Masson served in the Metropolitan police force for 37 years. Now, he's written his debut novel, The Final Crossing.

Stefan Zweig's "The Royal Game" and Vladimir Nabokov's "Lushin's Defence" are the best-known novels about the destructive power chess can have. In "Chess Fever", a fine novel about youth, growing up, creativity and lots of chess, the English author Mark Ozanne describes the passion for the game in less sinister fashion, but much funnier and much closer to the mind of a chess player.

Jonathan Levitts book Contemplating Comedy analyses various aspects of humour - Credit: Jonathan Levitt Have you heard the one about a chess grandmaster writing a book about how to be funny?  Well, it’s no joke – because Ipswich’s Jonathan Levitt has made a checkmate move into writing about humour.  The 57-year-old says his new book, Contemplating Comedy, is “on the surface a compilation of funny lines and little jokes”.  There are plenty of laughs in the 330-page Conrad Press bo...

Jonathan Levitts book Contemplating Comedy analyses various aspects of humour - Credit: Jonathan Levitt Have you heard the one about a chess grandmaster writing a book about how to be funny?  Well, it’s no joke – because Ipswich’s Jonathan Levitt has made a checkmate move into writing about humour.  The 57-year-old says his new book, Contemplating Comedy, is “on the surface a compilation of funny lines and little jokes”.  There are plenty of laughs in the 330-page Conrad Press bo...