Annie Stanley All At Sea is a wonderful book in which the eponymous lead character, having lost her beloved father suddenly, decides to take his ashes on a trip round all the shipping areas surrounding mainland Britain. Her father, despite…
If you’ve read and enjoyed Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove then I promise you The Little Paris Bookshop evokes very much the same feeling. This book was a warm hug and it’s hard not to feel cosy and content…
Anna Wilson travels the world as a professional housesitter – stepping into other people’s lives – caring for their homes, pets and sometimes even neighbours. Living vicariously. A gripping and heartfelt story about overcoming the past and finding where you…
I’m delighted to be joined by Barbara Henderson today. I know Barbara primarily as an author of exciting children’s fiction but her new non-fiction book, Scottish by Inclination, is something rather different. The book is published by Luath Press and…
To the media, Hayes Campbell is the enigmatic front-man of a record-breaking boyband. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School, Robinne was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. As the daughter of Jamaican parents of African,…
With a flawed cast of characters who are often unlikeable – from the obnoxious teenagers to the philandering academics, from the stuffy professors to the spoilt rich kids – a dual setting of an American college town and the grittier…
Carmen kindly answered a few of my questions. 1. Tell us a little about Let Sleeping Murder Lie. 3. Are you a plan, plan, plan writer or do you sit down and see where the words take you? Let Sleeping…
Once she arrives, she discovers a mysterious unfinished manuscript written by her husband, and set in the very same city. Hoping to uncover more clues, Leah takes over a crumbling bookshop with her two young daughters, only to realise that…
Can a summer secret from the past allow a new future to bloom? Bloomsbury crops up in Summer’s Secret Marigold as the area in which Bohemian artist Elsie Pencradoc lives, and also in The Girl in the Painting as the…
Then he stumbles on a deadly, abandoned alien girl who has made a home under the green canopy of the deepest part of the jungle. Her spacecraft crash-landed a decade ago; his life crashed and burned well before that. As…
