The tour has ended, thank you to everyone who took part.
Here you can see a wrap-up of the tour!
You can follow the reviews with the poster, and the tour page here – Food Fight
Publication Day: 12th july 2024
Thirteen students on a party night dream up a plan to save the world. They will create an app to slash food waste and improve diet.
A decade later green activist Astra Wallace hires Danny Lancaster to trace her uni friends.
Despite the help of ex-gangster entrepreneur Big Eddie Archer and reclusive Ukrainian tech wizard Steroid Stepan, Astra’s pals are hard to find.
The trail leads to celebrity chef Bix Battersby, a TV action hero, feisty retired medic Lillian Bayliss, and her lively cavapoo Petal.
It’s a twisting trail made harder by friction between Danny and Astra. But their uneasy partnership reveals people are dying.
One thing Danny’s dead sure of – this FOOD FIGHT is going to get messy.
Meet Bill Todd
I’ve spent my working life as a journalist. You meet a lot of people, see things, learn stuff. For a crimewriter, it’s a plot factory.
I’ve also done a lot of travelwriting. It’s not all cocktails under the palm trees but it is a fantastic job that’s taken me to more than 40 countries, from the white wastes of Arctic Finland to the deserts of Namibia.
People often ask my favourite place. In a world of globalisation, many destinations look the same but Iceland and Namibia are like stepping onto another planet. Go if you can.
I’ve also enjoyed a long love affair with Western Crete, the mountains, coastline, food and people. And I was delighted and surprised to receive the Ed Lacy Gibraltar travel award in 2007.
Another interest is my family tree. I’ve traced the ancestors back to William of Byfield, a farmer in 1600s Northamptonshire, just down the road from Shakespeare.
I love maps. They might seem old fashioned in the age of GPS but they tell stories, make promises. I have a ragbag collection of more than 3,000.
I’m also a fan of interesting cheeses, good beer and wilderness. They’re like Marmite, you’re an empty places person or you’re not.
I have written six crime thrillers and a book of short stories featuring Danny Lancaster, a wounded Afghanistan veteran turned private investigator. They are:
The Wreck Of The Margherita
Death Squad
Rough Diamond
Rock Hard
Gargoyle Pixie Dog
Godlefe’s Cuckoo
Last Orders
I’ve also written three non-fiction books. GUNNER is based on my father’s World War Two diary. PIGTAIL PILOT is the tragic story of a talented young woman pilot. A CROCUS FROM JERUSALEM is about a 19-year-old country lad’s journey to war in the Middle East in 1917.
If you fancy a chat I’m easy to find.
