'The Man in the High Castle' is still the best what-if-the-Axis-had-won novel.

'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.