So tomorrow you can finally get your hands on The Girl in the Photograph, a brilliant and evocative story – As you may know I recently spent a weekend at Owlpen, the inspiration for the novel, you can find a link to my article about that further down the page…. Continue reading
So as part of the Blog tour for the terrific crime novel “Gone”, in the spirit of my “Why We Write” occasional drop in features, Rebecca Muddiman kindly wrote a guest article all about her writing process. My Writing Process I’m constantly searching for the perfect writing process and… Continue reading
Tell No Tales is the second in the DS Ferreira and DI Zigic series, an intense and terrific crime novel – I caught up with Eva to ask her all about it. The first novel “Long Way Home” set the scene and introduced us to DI Zigic and DS Ferreira… Continue reading
I’m pleased to welcome Jan McDonald to the blog today telling us why she writes. WHY DO WE WRITE? I have often asked myself this question, usually in the middle of the night when I’m sitting at the keyboard yawning, and I guess there’s no straightforward answer. I… Continue reading
Publication Date: Available now from Headline Source: Publisher review copy Syl Hellias: an Illyri, the first of her kind to be born on Earth. Paul Kerr: a human, dedicated to his people’s resistance of the alien invasion. Brought together by chance they formed the strongest of bonds. Now they are… Continue reading
So in at No 2 of my Top Ten Reads of 2014 came the magnificent “The Girl with All The Gifts” which reminded me why I read in the first place and still stays with me even now. Mr Carey kindly answered a few questions for me: so here you… Continue reading
Cover to follow Publication Date: April 2015 from Headline. Source: Publisher Review Copy Two young boys.Trapped underground in a bunker.Unable to understand why they are there.Desperate for someone to find them.Slowly realising that no-one will… Five years later, the boys’ bodies are found and the most difficult case of DI… Continue reading
So in at Number 7 on my Top Ten reads of the year was Murder, the follow up to Mayhem, from lovely lady Sarah Pinborough. She was nice enough to answer a couple of questions for me – here is what she had to say. Could you tell us… Continue reading
Publication Date: 29th January 2015 from Quercus Source: Publisher Review Copy In an overcrowded Stockholm underground station a father and his two boys are late for their train. Joel, the youngest, is howling in his pushchair and his seven-year-old brother, Kristoffer, refuses to take the lift. A woman approaches and… Continue reading
This Writer’s Life by Jeffrey Perren Up before dawn — tea for me, coffee for the wife, pet the dog. Check emails, correspondence with beta readers, and miscellaneous. So far, that doesn’t sound very exciting. But that’s the business side of things. I leave as much… Continue reading
