Month April 2021

Eleni Kyriacou is the author of She Came to Stay, which was published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback on 25 February 2021. 3. Are you a plan, plan, plan writer or do you sit down and see where the…

So in each post I’ll aim to highlight a couple of titles that may have been missed from your reading awareness. Hopefully you’ll discover a treat or two. And please do let me know if you have any books you’d…

This book lists a collection of lesser known, very infrequently used words and provides a definition for each, as well as a history of the word. So many of the words included seem to speak to our everyday experiences just…

Here, the sea was deep azure in colour. How could grown-ups not want to fling themselves into the waves and go for a swim, or just jump in and out of the sparkling foam, as Simone and I did for…

2. What inspired the book? Girl in the Walls was largely inspired by all those strange noises our homes make over the course of a day: the floorboards creaking, the walls popping, the occasional unexplainable sound from a closet or…

Kim won the Romantic Novelists Association’s Media Star of the Year in 2016, which she still can’t quite believe. She is now quite delighted to be a member of the RNA. First of all, can I just say how beautiful…

However, I say #challengeaccepted #amwriting #lovewritingfiction #issysmuggesays #rollonbooktwo Me: “Can you show me how to work Instagram? I need to share a story.” #youhaveruinedmylife ABOUT THE AUTHOR But the subject heading which really caught my eye was this one. Good…

4. Is there anything about the process of publishing a book that surprised you? When I started, what I heard most often was, “You won’t get published. Book industry is on hard times.” Encouragement was at about zero. About the…

I really liked the author’s style of writing which put me in mind of Alexander McCall Smith’s books. He has created some wonderful characters and some truly awful ones too! I particularly enjoyed the first story Coda and felt that…

Reading took a bit of a back burner this month as I discovered Unforgotten and had to binge watch the first three series so I could watch the latest one. No spoilers here but I’ve decided the only way I…