The most coveted prize in crime fiction is now in its 17th year and celebrates crime writing at its best, transporting readers around the world from Calcutta to California to the frigid North Sea. This books on this year’s shortlist encompass a vast array of themes and topics, from white supremacy and radicalisation to PTSD and homelessness, and from nail-biting hostage…
My favourite books of 2019
What a brilliant year for books it has been, so many great titles by lots of new debuts and established authors. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the publicists that have sent books and for the invites to join blog tours and tour organisers – there’s so many of you to name – I know I’ll miss…
Haverscroft – S.A Harris – Blog tour – 29/10/19
I’d like to extend my great thanks to Emma Dowson for the invitation to join this blog tour – S.A Harris has written a really spooky read in Haverscroft published by Salt Publishing. Salt is one of UK’s foremost independent publishers. Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019 Kate Keeling leaves all she knows and moves to Haverscroft House…
Orenda Books Roadshow Hungerford 7th March hosted by Hungerford Books
13 Authors – 4 Events – Orenda Roadshow – Great work Karen Sullivan loves to find new authors, with fresh voices, who push genres in different directions, with their quirky beautiful writing, she wants goosebumps and with these authors, she has got all those things. What a great evening – 13 authors from several countries – Iceland, Finland, Germany, France,…
#Blogtour – Shadows of Regret by Ross Greenwood
My deep thanks to Caroline Vincent of Bits about Books who arranged this tour and asked me to be part of it. Katie committed a terrible crime. Sixteen years in prison was the price. When she is released from prison, the world has changed. Isolated and alone, Katie struggles to make sense of her life. Starting again isn’t easy especially…
Before A Christmas Carol, there was….. Miss Marley
Miss Marley was a real delight. A perfect Christmas read, and if I didn’t know better I would have said this was writtten first and Dickens added a sequel. A truly delightful tale of how Jacob Marley became the ghost who rattled chains at his aged friend Ebeneezer Scrooge – with the links forged to look like cashboxes and padlocks. Marley traveled…
Ransom Riggs – Book Signing St James Church, Piccadilly, London, 6th November 2018
Firstly what a fabulous venue! I’ve been to a few book signings – never one in such a beautiful setting. Designed in 1672 by Architect Sir Christopher Wren, consecrated in 1684. But then severely damaged during the second world war in 1940, which Ransom wrote about in his first Novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, published back in 2011. And…
Jodi Picoult – A Spark of Light Henley Literary Festival 28/10/18
I hold my hands up – I have never read any of Jodi’s books before, (though I do have some in my ‘To Read’ pile) – but I know about them. And this is why I wanted to see for myself, to hear what this woman is all about, in her own words. Because she has written some award-winning…
Salisbury Literary Festival – 20/10/2018 – CJ Tudor & Stuart Turton
I booked my tickets and headed off to Salisbury – a popular city – with its own cathedral, renown for its iconic clock- the oldest clock in the world, built in 1386 and the tallest spire 123 metres tall, but less of that, as I didn’t go to see the cathedral (but neither did the Russian spies). Google gave me that…
#Bloggers Book Night
Blackwells – Broadstreet, Oxford The name Blackwell has been associated with bookselling since Benjamin Henry Blackwell opened his bookshop at 50 Broad Street on 1st January 1879. Since then the retail company he founded has grown into a nationwide chain of bookshops serving the academic, professional and specialist markets. At Blackwell UK Ltd we are proud of our traditions and history that…
