Now I don’t know about you but I’m partial to a bit of Golden Age Crime. Reading it, not partaking of it of course, I’m old but not that old. I’ve a fondness for the British Library’s Crime Classics series which re-introduces crime fiction novelists from the early to mid 20th Century. Many were contemporaries…
Category: Spotlight on Publishers
Toppling the TBR Pile – Penguin Michael Joseph – January to June 2022
It’s getting to that time of year again. Publishers are starting to release their 2022 catalogues which means only one thing. Getting the metaphorical red pen out and circling everything you want like a child does with the Argos Catalogue. I’ve had a look at the bookish equivalents of the Christmas Radio Times to see…
Toppling the TBR Pile – Penguin Michael Joseph 2021 titles (January to June)
We are well into 2021 and it looks like it is set to be a year where we once again seek solace in the written word. I’ve taken it upon myself to scour publishers catalogues (a hard job as you can imagine) and have a look to see what we can all look forward to….
V. Press – Q&A
V. Press is an independent publisher of poetry and flash fiction and was shortlisted in the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award 2017. Editor S.A. Leavesley kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about V.Press. V. Press mainly publishes sole-authored poetry pamphlets, poetry collections, and flash fiction pamphlets (either a selection of unconnected…
Louise Walters Books – Q&A
Louise Walters Books is an independent publishers based in Banbury. Founder Louise Walters answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about Louise Walters Books. I founded LWB in 2017 after self-publishing my second novel, A Life Between Us. I turned fifty in that year and decided I needed to get on…
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…
An evening with @HQStories
So what happens when I’m let loose in a room full of authors and other guests? Turns out I bore them talking about Jane Austen, persuade an author to buy a copy of the book I’m reading and discuss the architecture of the town I live in… Last night I was lucky enough to be…
Bluemoose Books – Q&A
Today I’m pleased to welcome Bluemoose Books to the blog. Bluemoose are an independent publishing company based in Yorkshire. September sees the 10th anniversary of the start of the company so I invited Kevin Duffy, the head of Bluemoose onto the blog to answer a few questions. 1. Tell us a little about Bluemoose Books….
Toppling the TBR pile – Orenda Books
Today’s cause for the imminent collapse of my precariously balanced wishlist is Orenda Books. They launched in 2015 with some terrific titles and it looks like they have some treats in store for the latter half of 2016 after the range of fabulous books they published in the first half of the year. You can…
Toppling the TBR Pile – Hodder & Stoughton (Autumn-Winter)
So the Autumn/Winter publishers catalogues are appearing and so the threats to the TBR are here again. First up is Hodder and Stoughton whose imprints include Hodder, Hodder Fiction, Mulholland, Sceptre, Coronet. John Murray has imprints including Two Roads, Faith, JM Learning and Nicholas Brealey Publishing and is part of Hodder and Stoughton. This is a round…
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