S. A. Harris is the author of Haverscroft, long listed for the 2019 Not the Booker Prize, which was published by Salt on 15 May 2019. In a rather fitting Halloween post, Sally discusses gothic novels and dark tales. Who Is Your Favourite Contemporary Writer Of Gothic Novels And Bone-Chilling Dark Tales? This is the…
Month: October 2019
Dead Lions by Mick Herron – review
Published by John Murray (Soho Crime in the US) Publication date 8 October 2015 (UK) 7 May 2013 (US) Source – library copy Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination. But once a spook, always a spook. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on…
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
My to be read pile (ok, stacks), could be said by some to be on the verge of hoarding. It obviously doesn’t stop me from adding to it regularly or visiting the library for a temporary rehoming of books. I will admit though that I occasionally forget which books are waiting (im)patiently to be read….
The Secret Santa by Trish Harnetiaux – extract
The Secret Santa, the debut novel by Trish Harnetiaux, was published by Cornerstone on 1 October 2019. Today Cornerstone have kindly allowed me to share an extract from the book with you. By midnight the snowfall would reach a foot, just shy of breaking Aspen’s one-day record set more than forty years before. No one…
A Rose Petal Summer by Katie Fforde – review
Published by Century Publication date – 21 February 2019 Source – library copy Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She’s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it’s time to make a change…
Under the Reader’s Radar – celebrating the quiet novel
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…
Hydra by Matt Wesolowski – review
Published by Orenda Books Publication date – 15 January 2018 Source – review copy A family massacre A deluded murderess Five witnesses Six Stories Which one is true? One cold November night in 2014, in a small town in the northwest of England, 21-year-old Arla Macleod bludgeoned her mother, stepfather and younger sister to death…
The Unfathomable Case of the Forgotten Female Crime Writer – a Q&A with Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press was founded in 1997. They publish novels, essays, memoirs, children’s books—everything from timeless classics to the urgent and contemporary. This month sees the reissuing of The Listening Walls, the third forgotton crime classic from Margaret Millar, following on from the publication of Vanish in an Instant and A Stranger in my Grave. Daniel…
Six Degrees of Separation – from Three Women to If Beale Street Could Talk
Six Degrees of Separation is the brainchild of Kate from Books Are My Favourite and My Best. Each month there is a different starter book and through six books, with what can be, on my part, extremely tenuous links, you see which book you end up at. The starter book for October is Three Women…
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue
My to be read pile (ok, TBR room), could be said by some to be on the verge of uncontrollable. It obviously doesn’t stop me from adding to it regularly or visiting the library for a temporary rehoming of books. I will admit though that I occasionally forget which books are waiting (im)patiently to be…
From First Page to Last 