MC Beaton: My six best books MC BEATON, 79, is the pseudonym of author Marion Chesney for her crime novels featuring Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin.

Marion Chesney, aka MC Beaton, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2014 Credit: Gareth Iwan Jones /eyevine Marion Chesney, who has died aged 83, was a dizzyingly prolific novelist best known ...

The woman behind the books, MC Beaton, is the most borrowed adult author from UK libraries, with 15 million copies sold and the TV series they inspired attracting huge viewing audiences, the ...

Jake Kerridge profiles MC Beaton, ... Another reason for the books’ popularity is that readers can relate to her characters in a way they can’t to melancholy cops or quip-flinging assassins.

The author of detective series featuring Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin has died, aged 83. Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose ...

Beaton's "The Rochester Wedding Party" strip covers much of the same ground — in six panels. And with jokes. Click on the panel below to see a high-res version of the full strip.

Open Book: India Knight, M C Beaton & library reads. ... about her hilarious new novel Mutton featuring 46 year old heroine Clara Hutt and her encounters with the opposite sex. M C Beaton age ...

My mother introduced me to reading. In Scotland, pre-television, nearly everyone read. The first book she bought me was Orlando The Marmalade Cat. Then came Alice In Wonderland.

MC Beaton's latest novel Agatha Raisin: Dishing The Dirt (Constable, £14.99) is out now. To order any of the books featured, post free (UK only), please phone The Express Bookshop on 01872 562 310.

Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose books were translated into 17 languages. Her son Charles Gibbons announced her death on ...

Hamish Macbeth author MC Beaton dies, ... Marion Chesney Gibbons, who wrote under the pen name MC Beaton, was an international best-seller whose books were translated into 17 languages.