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Frederick Forsyth

October 2021

  • ‘The twists and turns are riveting’: Stephen King, Paula Hawkins and others on their favourite le Carré

    The master of espionage wrote 26 novels – top authors share the books they love the most

October 2018

  • boy at computer. illustration for The Fox by Frederick Forsyth Digested Read

    Digested read
    The Fox by Frederick Forsyth – digested read

    John Crace puts the squeeze on the master thriller writer’s tale of teenage hackers, Russian spies and English baronets

September 2016

  • British writer Frederick Forsyth poses for a portrait before an interview with AFP in London on September 13, 2016. After a dozen novels and 70 million book sales under his belt, British writer Frederick Forsyth told AFP he is giving up on thrillers because his wife told him he can no longer travel to adventurous places. / AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLISJUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images

    Frederick Forsyth to stop writing thrillers

    Writer is giving up on fiction because he has ‘run out of things to say’ and his wife thinks he is too old

January 2016

  • Writer Frederick Forsyth, CBE author and occasional political commentator. Photographer: Murdo Macleod.

    Guardian Live
    Frederick Forsyth in conversation with Mark Lawson - Guardian Live event

    To celebrate the publication of his autobiography The Outsider, Frederick Forsyth gives a rare public interview discussing his life as a bestselling novelist and Cold War spy

October 2015

  • Frederick Forsyth gestures standing up with a brooding look

    Frederick Forsyth: what we learnt from his Live event

    Thriller writer lifts the lid on his daredevil exploits and on the creative process but plays down his own brushes with death

September 2015

  • Writer Frederick Forsyth, CBE author

    Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth review – anecdotal vignettes

    The writer of The Odessa File fails to get to the heart of his own story, but there’s fun to be had in these James Bond-style escapades
  • frederick forsyth Digested Read illustration by Matt Blease

    Digested read
    The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth – digested read

    Frederick Forsyth’s memoir – in which he outs himself as a spy and swashbuckles across eastern Europe – gets the thriller treatment from John Crace
  • Frederick Forsyth.

    Frederick Forsyth: I was an MI6 agent

    Day of the Jackal author reveals in autobiography that he worked for the intelligence service for more than two decades

August 2014

  • Edward Fox in The Day of the Jackal

    Books blog
    A book for the beach: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

    Forsyth's classic thriller unfolds at a leisurely pace that makes it the perfect holiday read, says reader Daniel Gooding

October 2013

  • Houston, Texas

    Thrillers roundup
    Thrillers – review roundup

    John O'Connell on Prayer by Philip Kerr, The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth, 419 by Will Ferguson, If You Were Here by Alafair Burke, Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler

February 2012

  • Frederick Forsyth

    Frederick Forsyth wins Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award

    The Day of the Jackal author honoured for settting 'a new standard of research-based authenticity' in thrillers

June 2011

  • Writer Frederick Forsyth

    The Day of the Jackal – the hit we nearly missed

    Charles Cumming
    Charles Cumming: Forty years on, few books have changed the literary landscape like Frederick Forsyth's political thriller

August 2010

  • digested read the cobra frederick forsyth

    Digested read
    The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth

    'That's an even more absurd plot twist,' thought Dexter, suddenly realising that Devereux had switched the 200 tonnes of cocaine for baking soda

June 2010

  • Martin Luther King

    Hellhound on his Trail by Hampton Sides

    A new book about Martin Luther King's assassin James Earl Ray has echoes of Frederick Forsyth but lacks a satisfying denouement, says Peter Preston

September 2009

  • Moscow Sting by Alex Dryden

    Alex Dryden's second novel genuflects to early John le Carré and Frederick Forsyth, finds John O'Connell

September 2008

  • A British soldier patrols the northern suburbs of the southern Iraqi city of Basra

    Tory report aims to restore military covenant

    Frederick Forsyth tells Conservative conference damage to armed forces may never be repaired

March 2007

  • The Observer profile
    The Mr Big of publishing

    Profile: Ed Victor, the charismatic literary agent has snapped up Alastair Campbell's much-awaited diary. By Stephanie Merritt

January 2006

  • The spy who talked to a rock: the novel

    Frederick Forsyth

    Frederick Forsyth: The story of the British diplomats caught using a transceiver hidden inside a rock in Moscow as their dead-letter drop would not, in itself, make a novel. What we know is only the tip of the iceberg; the novel is the rest of the iceberg.

May 2005

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