As the summer takes its final breaths, I’m taking a moment to explain that I’ll be in hiding for the next few weeks (hopefully not months). This summer has been an adventure, full, active and heaps of fun. I’ve read at least a book a week, enjoyed spending time with my children and, if I’m […]
A warm welcome to Sophie Hart, author of The Naughty Girls Book Club, as she tells us about her novel and delves into the world of erotica. Thanks to Caroline for inviting me onto her blog to talk about all things erotica! It’s a subject I’ve been immersed in for the past year or so […]
To celebrate the publication of the very perfect ‘More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops’, the lovely Jen Campbell has written a letter … Dear Children In My Bookshop, You are quite excellent. In fact, you are the best part of my job. (Little girl points to a cupboard beneath one of our bookcases) Little […]
After reading ‘A Fucked Up Life in Books‘ I bought a book journal and that simple act has totally altered how I read. In the last few weeks I’ve given myself permission to give up on books, I’ve started folding over page corners when I’ve found a quote I want to note in my journal, […]
I am thrilled, proud and a little bit tearful to be welcoming my friend Matt Hill to my blog. His debut, ‘The Folded Man’ is published TODAY. ‘The Folded Man’ was named runner-up in the fiercely competitive 2012 Dundee International Book Prize by a judging panel including Stephen Fry and Philip Pullman. Of the novel, […]
I am absolutely thrilled to welcome the super-talented Sue Welfare to my blog today. She’s talking about what it is that makes us all love stories. Over to you, Sue: What’s it all about…? I should never have been a writer. I’m the kind of person who likes, if not order exactly, then at least […]
To celebrate the launch of the very wonderful ‘The Foster Husband’ by Pippa Wright, I’ve got 3 COPIES to give away and all details can be found after my (gushing) thoughts on the novel: Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and never […]
One of the reasons why I love paper books is because of what I leave in them after or during reading them. My bookmark will be a train ticket, a note from my child, a postcard, a boarding pass, a receipt – I like that I can link the book to a specific moment in […]
To celebrate the launch of Jacqui Rose’s second novel ‘TRAPPED’, I’ve a copy to give away at the end of this post. Jacqui Rose shot up through the Amazon ranks last year, being a best-seller with tens of thousands of book sales. Readers raved about her. Like many others, I devoured her debut ‘Taken’ and […]
With just over two weeks until the launches and publication, people have been receiving ARCs of ‘The Drowning of Arthur Braxton’. This means that some people have been reading the novel and that some of those people have been letting me know what they think. I like that they have. But, I must admit that […]