Stig Abell Books In Order
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Death Under a Little Sky | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Death in a Lonely Place | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burial Place | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
How Britain Really Works | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Things I learned on the 6:28 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of The BBC National Short Story Award Books
The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2014 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
BBC National Short Story Award 2016 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2017 | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2020 | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2022 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2023 | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon | ||
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Stig Abell
Stig Abell is a journalist, author, newspaper editor, and radio presenter.
In September 2001, he joined the Press Complaints Commission as a complaints officer, completing other roles at the PCC including assistant director and deputy director, and press officer before he was appointed Director of the PCC on December 19, 2010.
Stig loves detective novels above any other type of literature, plays, films, or TV. Away from books, he presents a breakfast show on Times Radio, a station that he helped launch back in 2020.
Before this, he was a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Front Row and edited and published the Times Literary Supplement from 2016 to 2020. From 2013 to 2016, he was managing editor of The Sun. At one point or another he has written for just about every single newspaper in Britain as well as a couple in America, too.
“How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2018. Coming to grips with Great Britain is harder than ever. They’re a nation that selected Brexit, rejects immigration yet is dependent on it, is more demanding of public services yet is less willing to pay for them, is getting older yet less healthy, has grown tired of intervention abroad yet still wants to be a global authority. They have an over stretched and free health service (based on an idea from the 1940s which might not survive the 2020s), a military without an evident purpose, overcrowded prisons, and an education system that is the envy of no one in the Western world.
How did they get here and where are they possibly going? This book is a guide to Britain and its institutions. The military, the economy, schools, the media, hospitals, and so much more. It explains exactly how they got to wherever they even are at this point. It won’t tell you what opinions to have, however it will give you good information to help you reach some of your own. And by the end, you will know exactly how Britain works, or well, doesn’t.
This is an absorbing read, providing a clear-eyed and intelligent account of so much that goes on in Britain.
“Things I Learned on the 6.28: A Guide to Daily Reading” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2020. Stig, for an entire year while on his train ride to work, read books from across time periods and genre. Then he wrote about them, as well as their impact both on his own life and our culture.
The result is a work of many things: a brisk guide to the canon of Western literature: this intimate engagement with writers from JK Rowling to Marcel Proust, Shakespeare to Zora Neale Hurston; a funny and wise celebration of the power of words; and a meditation on mental unrest and how you can tackle it. This will give you some new books to discover and love, give you the confidence to quit on books you don’t love, and remind you of the ones that you already love.
This book was written for the reader in all of us.
“Death Under a Little Sky” is the first novel in the “Jake Jackson” series and was released in 2023. This is a widely praised debut crime thriller, and is about a high-flying detective leaving London for a fresh start out in the countryside, just to find himself on familiar ground while hunting for this dangerous murderer.
Jake Jackson inherits his reclusive uncle’s property out in the country, this detective seizes this opportunity for a brand new life away from the hustle and bustle of London.
The new home in this charming rural idyll is quite beautiful and the surroundings are rather stunning. Despite the locals being a tad eccentric, they are also friendly and they invite this newcomer to join their annual treasure hunt.
When one young woman’s bones are found, Jake finds that he is being pulled right back into the detective role, and is on the trail of some dangerous murderer that is hiding within this most unlikely of settings.
“Death in a Lonely Place” is the second novel in the “Jake Jackson” series and was released in 2024. Jake Jackson, ex-London detective, finds new life in the country threatened by this old case from the past.
A storm is brewing, in a quiet village.
Detective Jake Jackson departed from London to live a quiet life in Caelum Parvum. This idyllic country village offers him the peace that he craves, swimming in his lake, tending to his chickens, and spending lazy and long evenings with Livia, his new love. It is the perfect setting for their brand new relationship to blossom.
Then this case from the past emerges once more, shattering the calm and it plunges Jake right into the shadowy world of No Taboo, this clandestine group that serves the extravagant whims of Britain’s elite. And once Livia accepts this post working for a powerful publishing magnate, suspicions arise about her new employer’s connections to this mysterious group.
While unseen forces manipulate those people around him, Jake races so that he can expose the deception which threatens this peaceful world of his. Amid all the desolate beauty and the seemingly friendly faces of this cozy and small community, he has to decide who he truly can trust, or learn exactly how far No Taboo will go so that their secrets stay protected.
“The Burial Place” is the third novel in the “Jake Jackson” series and was released in 2025. A beautiful landscape. It all started as the project of a lifetime. This group of archaeologists, uncovering the remains of this Roman settlement on a gorgeous hill in the glorious English countryside.
A looming threat. However this idyll gets shattered once they start receiving these threatening letters. Jake Jackson gets pulled into investigate the matter further.
And a killer closing in. Before long, these threatening letters are just the least of their problems, when this killer strikes. And now the race is on for Jake to catch them, before they’re able to murder again.
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