Rowan Coleman is one of my very favourite authors, and whenever I receive a pre-release copy of a new book by her – I’m so lucky being a blogger! – it takes iron willpower to ignore it for a while so that I can read and review it rather closer to publication. Things went a… Read More »
It’s been a significant oversight on my part that I still haven’t managed to fit in the reading of one of the excellent looking books by A.J. (Alison) Waines. I’ll definitely be putting that right with her next one – Lost in the Lake will be published on 7th September (available for preorder – links… Read More »
I was so thrilled when Laura Wilkinson asked me to launch her Skin Deep blog tour last month – and quite devastated when I had to bow out because of my mother’s illness. I’m an immense fan of her writing – highly original, each book totally different from the one before, but every one the most… Read More »
It’s always just a little bit more of a pleasure to feature an author when you’ve had the pleasure of meeting them. It was lovely to spend some time with Helena Fairfax at the Book Connectors lunch in Leeds, when I realised (to my shame…) how a couple of her books had sat unread on my… Read More »
I really wanted to post this review rather sooner – as part of Anne Goodwin’s excellent blog tour – but the wifi in Madeira just didn’t like my blog one bit. And since I returned… well, let’s just say that life’s been a little busy. But I really did want to share my delight with… Read More »
Phew – I just sneaked in under the wire there! When a book’s back cover description starts with It’s summer 1976; London is languishing in the sultry heat… well, I really just had to be part of the blog tour, and I’m so delighted Julia was able to add me as her final stop. And when that… Read More »
It’s a little bit of a coincidence that my review today is of another book from the excellent New Romantics Press. But when you find a good thing, it is rather good to shout about it. This time it’s the turn of Adrienne Vaughan, and you might remember seeing her as my guest with her… Read More »
It was a real pleasure to welcome Lizzie Lamb as my guest here on Being Anne back in November as part of a feature on Celtic Roots – you can read her lovely post again here. Although Lizzie has long been one of my party companions of choice, I’d never actually read one of her… Read More »
It was such a pleasure last year to discover the lovely writing of Ellie Holmes. I so enjoyed The Flower Seller – you can read my review and a conversation with Ellie here – and mentioned the little frisson of excitement I experienced from finding a new author and knowing that I’d discovered something rather special. I was… Read More »