It’s a real pleasure today to welcome Fiona Rintoul to Being Anne. Her book, The Leipzig Affair, isn’t new – it was published  in 2014 by Aurora Metro Books – but I doubt anyone would argue with Fiona’s assertion that now is a good time to revisit the themes of a divided Europe and how politics… Read More »

It’s always an absolute delight to read and review a new book from Sue Moorcroft. The Little Village Christmas was published as an e-book on 9th October by Avon Books, but not too long to wait for the paperback – it’ll be available from 2nd November. I was lucky enough to be sent an advance… Read More »

I have an absolute stonker of a cold at the moment, and just couldn’t sleep last night for all the sneezing. There was a real positive though – I picked up my kindle at 3am (as you do…) and remembered I had the just perfect quick and light read. And so I had the absolute… Read More »

I was so thrilled when I found that Brook Cottage Books was organising this tour! You know those times when you read the blurb and just know it’s a book you’re going to love? I’ve enjoyed Kirsty Ferry’s books before, but this one was something rather special – and everything I hoped and wanted it… Read More »

Last Friday I had the immense pleasure of meeting up with the Belmont Belles – the Leicester RNA chapter – for lunch, with the warmest of welcomes and the loveliest of ladies to spend time with. My thanks again to Lizzie Lamb for her invitation, and I’ll really look forward to joining them again at… Read More »

Delighted today to be joining the blog tour for Invisible Women by Sarah Long, published in paperback on 5th October by Zaffre. I really wish I could have read this one – it’s always good to find a book featuring those women of a certain age that so many of us can identify with. Sandra… Read More »

I’m guessing that most readers will now be very aware of the annual bookshop campaign, Books Are My Bag. Created in April 2013 and now entering its fifth year, it has recruited well over 100 high profile UK and Irish and international authors, broadcasters, models, sports stars, actors, politicians, chefs, journalists and comedians – all… Read More »

The Book of Forgotten Authors by Christopher Fowler was published by Riverrun/Quercus in hardback and for kindle on 5 October 2017 – and I so want to be able to find time to read it. I’ve seen some wonderful reviews already as part of this blog tour, and as for the book’s endorsements… well, here… Read More »

I’m really delighted to be joining the blog tour today for The Flower Shop on Foxley St. by Rachel Dove, published for kindle by HQ Digital/Harper Collins on 26th July and available from Amazon in the UK and US. This book is part of the Westfield series, but comfortably read as a standalone. I had the… Read More »

Heavens above, it’s never October already! And this new month starts with a twinge of guilt because, although all the blog tour posts have gone out on time, there are quite a few planned reads I just didn’t manage to get to. If you’re the author of one of those much-looked-forward-to books, my sincere apologies,… Read More »

I receive a lot of emails from authors and publishers, asking if I could read/review/feature their book on Being Anne. Sometimes (maybe a little too often…) they’re books that would be way off my usual reading matter, but then every so often there’s a book I find intriguing enough to take a slightly closer look.… Read More »

Delighted today to be joining the October leg of the blog tour for There Was A Crooked Man, the second novel from Cat Hogan, published by Poolbeg and available now in paperback and for kindle. Here’s the story… Scott makes enemies everywhere. Powerful people want him dead. He’s coming back to Ireland to finish what… Read More »

Faith Hogan is always such a welcome visitor on Being Anne – her books are just so excellent, and their author is rather lovely too. I first reviewed her latest, Secrets We Keep, back in February – and I really couldn’t let her go on a blog tour without sharing the review once more. This… Read More »

It was such a pleasure to welcome Julia Roberts to Being Anne with her lovely seventies themed guest post when her latest book, Alice in Theatreland (now available in paperback and for kindle), was on a tour of the blogs. I said at the time that this book looked very “me”, and I was really looking forward… Read More »

If you take a close look at the lovely cover of Felicity at the Cross Hotel by Helena Fairfax, you’ll see it says “a feel good uplifting romance for the summer”. Well, it’s been pretty autumnal here in Yorkshire for the last few days, but this book most certainly introduced some summer sunshine – most… Read More »