Bestselling author Robin Cook started his first novel when he was in the third grade. "I only wrote it because I was disappointed with the fact that Stuart Little and Margalo never got together," he ...

Robin Cook, the first Robin Cook (not the guy who writes bestselling medical thrillers), was born in London in 1931 and died there 63 years later, suggesting an order otherwise absent in a chaotic and ...

The building on New York’s East Side that used to house Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital has inspired tales of horror from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and served as the model for Arkham Asylum in ...

Robin Cook is the pioneer that created a new category of fiction: a medical thriller, with his first novel Coma. Since then he has written 35 more. When our books landed on a "10 best" list of novels ...

Commons Leader Robin Cook has become the first Cabinet casualty of the planned war on Iraq - quitting his post minutes before an emergency meeting of ministers. Downing Street announced his ...

Robin Cook’s latest novel, “Host,” is the story of a frightening moneymaking scheme that leaves patients brain-dead. “Host” mirrors the plot of 1977’s “Coma,” but with new characters. In this story, ...

Robin Cook s premature death at the age of 59 has robbed the world of a distinctive politician whose life allows us to see rather clearly what is wrong with the foreign policy of Tony Blair. The key ...

Politicians from around the world have paid warm tribute to former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook after his death. Mr Cook collapsed while hill walking in north-west Scotland. The 59-year-old resigned ...

For nine weeks, they have been making their solemn way to the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster to account for their actions - or inactions - in the build-up to war. More than 70 ...

Robin Cook, the former Foreign Secretary, died yesterday after suffering a suspected heart attack while walking on a mountain in Scotland. Mr Cook's second wife, Gaynor, was with him when he collapsed ...

ON MARCH 18th this year, Robin Cook—former leader of the House of Commons, former foreign secretary, MP for Livingston—wrote a column for the Guardian. It concluded: “I am on Bongo Fury for the County ...

Premature, unexpected death has been cruel to the Labour Party since the Second World War - Evan Durbin, Aneurin Bevan, Hugh Gaitskell, Gerry Reynolds and Brian O'Malley (the last two potential ...