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There’s an interesting story behind the writing of Peter May’s last book.

Written back in 2005, it was his third manuscript and penned while the author was struggling to get his works published. When he submitted it to his agent, he was told that, while they liked it, the idea of a city-wide lockdown in London during a bird-flu pandemic seemed hopelessly unrealistic. May took the novel, placed it in a drawer and forgot about it for fifteen years.

There is a genre out there for everyone, and, as mentioned on the blog before, the popularity of certain genres is somewhat cyclical. Thrillers are all the rage now but prior to that it was teen/young adult, and prior to that we saw the techno thriller and horror selling like gang busters. There have, however, been other genres that have comfortably sat at the side and remained a constant throughout these periods of specific popularity, that retain an audience despite never having shared the limelight themselves.