Here’s a tasty little something for the weekend… There is a warning at the beginning of the description for Behind Closed Doors which reads: This book is for ADULTS, Eighteen PLUS and for broadminded people. Please move on if you do not fit in these categories. Take that warning seriously, and don’t start moaning to anyone when […]
The students of Central College Nottingham are a prolific lot and within a course of, I believe, ten weeks they have managed to write, prepare and publish this anthology, Writes of Passage. Quite an achievement by the students, and their tutors. There is some really good stuff in here as well. The Rendezvous by Louise […]
As someone who loves watching other people I was really looking forward to reading The Girl on the Train. I thought the premise was terrific. Who hasn’t sat on a commuter train/any repetitive journey to work and imagined the lives of others as you pass by the same places day after day? There’s this bit […]
There are likeable and unlikeable characters in fiction and Ben Stephens is one of the latter, although it wasn’t always that way for me. At the beginning of Dark Fragments we meet a family man who dotes on his children and loves his wife. Quite rightly Ben is still grieving the death of his first wife, Alice, […]
Christmas means different things to different people. This is shown to great effect in The Twelve Days, a terrific anthology of short stories and poetry from the students of Central College Nottingham’s Intermediate Creative Writing course. Just Good Friends by N G Walters – right from the start of this story the descriptions are vivid, […]
Once upon a time there was a woman who wrote a trilogy and then thought she’d turn her hand to a standalone. Attempting a first draft in three months, deadlines (although self imposed, I know!) flashed past as she failed to meet them. Three months eventually became five and then one day, one day folks […]
There are many reasons why someone writes a book and for this author it was the death of his father that was the trigger for him to start telling his story in A Minger’s Tale which is in the form of a memoir, and this, as the subtitle promises, covers the early days of his […]
The voices in my head all have different accents… I’m assuming this is the same for everyone? Right? Coming from the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire area of England my natural voice doesn’t have any accent to it – anyone who knows me can correct me on this but it just sounds flat and dull to me. Despite being […]
I was attracted to Pigeon-Blood Red by reading another review for it, which shows that reviews do exactly what they should, and I was then asked to read and review the book by the Whispering Stories Review Blog. The main man in this story is Rico, the no nonsense enforcer of gangster, Frank Litvac. Due […]
Some of my most creative thoughts happen when on a dog walk, as do my best conversations with my dog-walking buddy. So I thought I’d invite some of my author friends along to join me and my girls and see if I can find out a little more about them and the book they’ve just […]
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