Month March 2021

An accessible, vivid and vibrant book that offers a voice to the untold stories of black women – both in the UK, and in the wider world as a whole – Girl, Woman, Other is a poetic and prose-rich tale…

Josephine kindly answered a few of my questions. Embers is a YA Mystery and crime novel set in the fictional mining town of Svartjokk in northern Sweden. It can be described as a Scandi Noir version of The Curious Incident…

Facebook – mary w craig Buying link – Beside the Annexe My book is about the lives of the people who lived beside the annexe in which Anne Frank and her family and friends hid. How they endured the Nazi…

Despite the obvious humour, Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters is an insightful look at the changes to a woman’s life at that point when her children are grown but still haven’t let go of the apron strings. I enjoyed the…

Buy A Little Life from Bookshop.org, Book Depository, Waterstones, Amazon or Amazon AU. Buy Love in the Time of Cholera from Bookshop.org, Book Depository, Waterstones, Amazon or Amazon AU. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert Buy Alonement from Book Depository, Waterstones,…

Dora takes refuge in the comforting routine of the farm, the sheep never allowing her too much time to dwell. But, as the seasons change, the snow starts to melt, and as lambs begin to fill the fields, Dora can’t…

The World at My Feet is a really touching novel. Catherine Isaac writes so beautifully about the complexity of life and love. It’s a book that had my heart in my mouth and a lump in my throat on more…

This is an atmospheric and engrossing historical tale of murder by poison together with a touch of magical realism. The issue of betrayal features heavily throughout and the moral issue aside as to whether Nella should have been providing women…

I can’t believe how many times I read my own book while editing. My novel is slim so it was quite easy to do but I have no idea how an author would repeatedly plow through a thick tome during…