the strange publishing history of...

These are the facts. People often ask for explanations, but that's something I can't offer. Who knows why one book works and another doesn't, or why an author sells in one country and not another? It's good to have one's books well received, as all of mine have been, it's good to receive the plaudits of other authors and of professionals who work in the fields portrayed in the books, just as it's good to have passionate and erudite emails from general readers, it's good to have film interest and award nominations. I've been lucky in all those respects, lucky in a way that many fine writers haven't been. Does that mean my books have always found their market? No. So should I write books that are more suited to the market? Perhaps, but that way madness lies. As long as there is a market for my kind of books, no matter where that is, I'll keep writing the books I believe in. Fortunately, I don't have the time to think about it beyond that. So, as I said, these are the facts...

"People Die" and "Among the Dead" were published in the UK - both are now out of print and the rights have reverted to me. "Among the Dead" is no longer in print anywhere in the world. Still in print elsewhere are the following books - "People Die", "For the Dogs" and "Who is Conrad Hirst?" were published in the USA. "Who is Conrad Hirst?" and "Dark Flag" were published in Finland, and "People Die" will be published in 2014. "Who is Conrad Hirst?", "Dark Flag" and "For the Dogs" were published in Germany. Keeping up? Good...