The Journal by R D Stevens was published by Vulpine Press on 18 August 2022. R. D Stevens kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about The Journal. Firstly – thanks so much for inviting me on to your blog! It’s great to briefly have the opportunity to talk about…

So on 30th September I took myself off to London for the day. Not for a random jaunt to see the city that has streets paved with gold. I went to Battersea Park to attend the second day of Capital Crime, the second annual crime writing festival that takes part, as the name suggests, in…

The Clinic by Sally-Anne Martyn was published by Joffe Books on 3 October 2022. Sally-Anne kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about The Clinic The Clinic is a dark thriller set in an ex-asylum. It tells the story of Jenny, an ex-patient who escaped in the 90’s. A local…

The Prisoner by B A Paris is published by Hodder & Stoughton on 3 December 2022. Today I have an extract to share with you. Present I sense the shift of air beneath my nose a millisecond before something – thick, sticky tape – is clamped over my mouth, silencing the scream that would have…

Alice Castle is the author of the Beth Haldane mystery series, starting with The Murder Mystery. The lastest, The Murder Garden  was published by Bookouture on 10 November 2022. A winding path leads past the beautiful begonias to an overhanging oak tree. But underneath, a deadly secret is hiding… Beth Haldane cradles a warm cup of…

I like October. The weather tends to be mild (for the moment anyway), and there is the hint of something in the air. The leaves turn and fall, the clocks go back and there’s a sense of settling, of gently, predictable, welcome change. We have a birthday to celebrate, half term to survive and of…

Harriet Kline is the author of This Shining Life, published by Doubleday on 1 July 2021. She kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about This Shining Life. This Shining Life is about a boy who is puzzling his way through grief while the adults around him learn their own…

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. So it’s been a while since I did one…

So that’s September over and done with. It was, to say the least, a slightly strange month. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s a tad trying living through history as it happens. It would be nice to just take live in the time that skips the chapters in the future history…

August is over. The month that seems to last at least three, well in this house anyway. The kids aren’t quite back at school yet (shakes fist at inset days), but there’s a trip to the seaside to ease the way. The end of August also sees the end of the #20BooksofSummer reading challenge. You…