Mick Herron

Slow Horses actor Ruth Bradley on handling rejection, learning to say no and laughing it all off

The Irish star can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to act. There aren’t many downsides to the job, she says

Sat Sept 12 2026 - 06:00

Down Cemetery Road review: Emma Thompson stars as an eccentric detective, but this show feels dead on arrival

Television: Illustrious cast wasted on Mick Herron adaptation with an implausible plot and an obnoxious lead character

Wed Oct 29 2025 - 11:59

Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in October

Including Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Boots, Loot, The Diplomat and Down Cemetery Road

Wed Oct 01 2025 - 05:13

Slow Horses, the very British hit about misfit spies, is back and its budget is showing

The BBC passed on the show, according to Apple TV’s Europe boss. It was a mistake worthy of Slough House

Sat Sept 27 2025 - 05:15

Slow Horses returns: ‘Readers know by now I’m capable of killing off whoever is in danger,’ says creator Mick Herron

Mick Herron knows every character he jettisons spells the end for an actor too. That’s life, he says, as the Apple TV+ series returns and a new Slough House novel arrives

Sat Sept 13 2025 - 05:13

New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre

New novels by Mick Herron, Nicola Upson, Seishi Yokomizo, Janice Hallett and Rav Grewal-Kök

Sun Sept 07 2025 - 04:11

Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands

Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’

Thu Oct 24 2024 - 05:00

Mick Herron: the joyous juxtaposition of disgraced spies and cranky office politics

The auther of the award-winning Slough House series says he doesn’t dream about high-powered dinner parties but prefers the idea of a lock-in somewhere, with all writers welcome

Sat Sept 16 2023 - 06:36

Can rotund characters be represented by less rounded actors?

Donald Clarke: If authors can keep an open mind about appearances, so can readers

Sat Apr 09 2022 - 00:00

Mick Jagger: ‘It was so long ago I can’t remember. I didn’t know what I was doing’

As he lends his glorious voice to a new spy thriller, the Rolling Stone relives his greatest roles

Wed Mar 30 2022 - 10:54

Mick Herron interview: the Irish Times Books podcast

Described as his generation’s John le Carré, he has created the bestselling Slough House series

Sat Jul 06 2019 - 05:45

‘I sometimes feel like I’m the only spy writer who never worked for the Secret Service’

Mick Herron has been dubbed the le Carré of his generation for his Slough House series

Sat Jun 15 2019 - 06:05

Mick Herron: jogging bottoms and a clean shirt

There are two very different sides to being – and talking about being – an author, says the creator of the acclaimed Jackson Lamb series

Sat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00

Slow Horses and Whitehall Masters

Mick Herron’s superb thriller is set in the world of broken-down MI5 operatives Rule Number One is ‘cover your arse’

Sat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00

Finding a way in: Mick Herron on Spook Street

The Jackson Lamb spy series author, described by The Irish Times as heir to John le Carré and Len Deighton, on the world, more dead-end than deadly, he has created

Thu Feb 16 2017 - 12:02

Spook Street: The most impressive new work in spy fiction

Mick Herron possesses that intangible gift given to all great writers, the ability to persuade the reader that he or she alone is privy to an intimate conversation

Sat Feb 04 2017 - 06:00