A A Chaudhuri is the author of The Scribe, The Abduction, The Final Party and She’s Mine. Her latest novel, The Loyal Friend, was published by Canelo on 23 June 2022. She kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about The Loyal Friend. The Loyal Friend is a dark and…
Month: December 2022
Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow – review
Published by Baskerville Publication date – 19 January 2023 Source – review copy Birmingham, 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Birmingham’s canals, specialises in facilitating divorces for the city’s male elite. With the help of his best friend – charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton – William…
C J Farrington – Q&A
C J Farrington is the author of Death on the Trans-Siberian Express . His latest novel, Blood on the Siberian Snow, was published by Constable on 29 November 2022. He kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about Blood on the Siberian Snow. Blood on the Siberian Snow is the…
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand – review
Published by The British Library Publication date – 10 April 2022 Source – review copy It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron’s Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering will turn out to be…
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season by Various Authors – review
Published by The British Library Publication date – 27 October 2022 Source – review copy In the night the snow came. She awoke on Christmas morning in that unmistakable light, coming up from the earth and shining between her curtains. Celebrate Christmas through the creative minds of a host of authors, including Beryl Bainbridge, Maeve…
The Haunting Season by Various Authors – review
Published by Sphere Publication date – 29 September 2022 Source – review copy Long before Charles Dickens and Henry James popularized the tradition, the shadowy nights of winter have been a time for people to gather together by the flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a ghost story. Now eight bestselling, award-winning…
Post After Post-Mortem by E C R Lorac – review
Published by British Library Publication date – 10 February 2022 Source – review copy “Now tell us about your crime novel. Take my advice and don’t try to be intellectual over it. What the public likes is blood.” The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews and…
Literary Gift Guide
So we are fast approaching that time of year when the halls are decked with holly, the mince pies have been in the shops since August and it’s getting close to the time when the big man comes to visit. If you have a book lover in your life, but they seem to own all…
Balancing the Books – November 2022
So November is no more. We remembered the 5th and stood outside (on the 4th just to be different), whilst we either celebrated that Guy bloke either failing to blow up the Houses of Parliament or celebrate him trying. Reading seemed to have been a bit slow but when I checked I had read more…
Single in the Snow by Helen Whitaker – review
Published by Hodder & Stoughton Publication date – 17 November 2022 ebook and 29 December 2022 paperback Source – review copy Jen is turning thirty and has spent her entire life jumping from man to man. So, when her latest relationship ends in disaster, she decides she needs to stop pleasing others and focus on…
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