
Here's my cover story from yesterday's
Sunday Times Culture. I've had a fascination with Donald Crowhurst's utterly sad and tragic tale for years and was a big fan of
Deep Water, the 2006 documentary, which I thoroughly recommend. It's a fantastic piece of work, even if you've little interest in nautical matters. It's a human story above all. Funny, I haven't done much for
Culture in a while. On the strength of my 2006 book,
Dead Reckoning, I seem to be the go-to person for matters maritime, an expert on which I am most definitely not! I even ended up presenting
The Times' An Evening With Jonathan Dimbleby in 2016 to do with his book,
The Battle of the Atlantic. I think I just about pulled it off. There's a little bit of nautical stuff – only a bit – in my novel
No Ordinary Killing and some, too, in its follow-up, currently being written, so I guess it's seeped in somewhere!