How did you come up with the title for your book? Joining me today to chat about her Christmas book is author Daisy James. I’ve read quite a few of Daisy’s books and they are such lovely, feel-good reads. I’ve…
Love this post? Click here to subscribe. So I have never got all the way through this book but I did a creative writing MA so you’re kind-of obliged to smirk over DFW with Very Cool Boys (or you were in the…
About the Book In Old Sins, DCI Kelso Strang is taking his first break for years, holidaying with an old Army friend in North West Scotland. Taking the opportunity to indulge his love of hill-walking, he spends a day climbing…
The Gift by R A Williams is published by White Fox on 18 November 2021. *The giveaway is open until midnight 18 November. UK only I’m afraid. The book will come straight from the publicist. Neither they, nor I, take…
My Thoughts I enjoyed reading about what happened next for Veronica. She’s such an engaging character, so determined and so sure of herself and yet she is very shaken by some revelations in the book. She makes me laugh at…
This book will definitely lift your spirits, warm the cockles of your heart and restore your faith in humanity. The stories may be fictional but they are none the less inspiring. There are small acts of kindness and thoughtfulness that…
About the Book Stuart Atkinson’s book A Ladybird Book: The Solar System was published by Ladybird on 5 August 2021. It was illustrated by Brave the Woods. Stuart kindly answered a few of my questions. 3. Are you a plan,…
Born in Brooklyn, New York to German immigrants, she grew up poor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These experiences served as the framework to her first novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). I loved this on the New Yorker: Why Mark…
Thrillers with an unreliable protagonist always feel particularly juicy and this one was no different; right from the get-go I didn’t really trust Rowan but with no one else seemingly telling the truth either, there was deception round every corner.…
Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house of Graham Coombe, the celebrated publisher of Murder by Mesmerism. Despite a handful of misgivings, the inspector joins a guest list of novelists and thriller writers disguised…
