I was 11 when I read my first romance novel. It was “Where Eagles Dare,” by Alistair MacLean. I was home from school sick with something that kept me snuffling under a snowdrift of rumpled tissues, ...

On Alistair MacLean’s 95th birth anniversary, take a look at his bibliography - which includes classics like The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. No other popular author has got such publicity.

Laurence Bowen’s London-based Dancing Ledge Productions has entered into a deal with publisher HarperCollins to adapt the novels of Alistair MacLean as event TV series. The first project under the ...

HarperCollins will reissue a series of novels about an international crimefighting organisation by the author of Where Eagles Dare next spring. Publication of the series by Alistair MacLean will ...

On March 6 1954, The Glasgow Herald announced the winner of a short story competition it was running. First prize was £100 (over four months wages for the eventual victor), followed by £50 for the ...

The match scratched noisily across the rusted metal of the corrugated iron shed, fizzled, then burst into a sputtering pool of light, the harsh sound and sudden brilliance alike strangely alien in the ...

Nearly every male reader of my generation would possibly remember which was the first Alistair Maclean book he read. To any schoolboy, Maclean?s gripping prose, the epic landscapes against which the ...

Gaming news site HomeLan Fed uncovered a recent announcement from European game publisher SCi's that states that the company has secured the rights to create and publish games based on three popular ...