There are thousands upon thousands of books published each year. Only a small percentage of those make it to the best-seller list. That doesn’t mean that the rest aren’t worthy of reading. It may be that they are written by self-published authors who don’t have the marketing knowledge or a small independent publisher who doesn’t…
Month: April 2018
Christopher Wakling – Q&A
Christopher Wakling is the author of What I Did, On Cape Three Points, The Devil’s Mask, The Undertow and Beneath the Diamond Sky. His latest novel, Escape and Evasion, is published by Faber on 3 May 2018. Christopher kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about Escape and Evasion. It’s…
Declaring Independence – celebrating independent book shops: Burway Books
It’s the latest in my sporadic Friday feature, where I want to highlight some of the many independent book shops that are out there waiting to be discovered. Whilst there are the usual online book retailers and big name high street shops there are also some wonderful independent bookshops with a treasure trove of literary…
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim – review
Published by Vintage Publication date – 9 July 2015 Source – own copy Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows – review
Published by Bloomsbury Publication date – 7 June 2010 Source – own copy It’s 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer’s block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second-hand…
Declaring Independence – celebrating independent book shops: Goldsboro Books
It’s the latest in my sporadic Friday feature, where I want to highlight some of the many independent book shops that are out there waiting to be discovered. Whilst there are the usual online book retailers and big name high street shops there are also some wonderful independent bookshops with a treasure trove of literary…
Julia Heaberlin – Q&A
Julia Heaberlin is the author of Playing Dead, Lie Still and Sunday Times best-selling Black-Eyed Susans. Her latest novel, Paper Ghosts is published by Michael Joseph on 19 April 2018. Julia kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about Paper Ghosts. I like to call it a spooky slow dance…
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths – review
Published by Quercus Publication date 2 June 2016 (orginially published 2009) Source – own copy Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child’s bones are discovered near the site of a pre-historic henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or…
Peter Swanson – Q&A
Peter Swanson is the author of the LA Times book award nominated The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, the Ian Fleming Silver Dagger shortlisted The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear. His latest novel, All the Beautiful Lies was published by Faber on 5 April 2018. Peter kindly answered a few of…
Simon McDermott – Q&A
Simon McDermott’s memoir The Songaminute Man, details the life of his father, Ted, and how Ted’s Alzheimer’s led him to have fans all around the world. It was published by HQ Stories on 5 April 2018. Simon kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about The Songaminute Man. The Songaminute…
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