I’ve never really made much of a secret of how much I love Sue Moorcroft’s writing, have I? I’m often loud and proud about being one of Sue’s Street Team: if you love her writing too, come and join us here. But with all my recent trials and tribulations, I really haven’t shouted as loudly as… Read More »

  I was delighted to welcome Lesley Downer as my guest last November as part of the blog tour to launch The Shogun’s Queen in hardback and for kindle (you can read the interview again here). And I’m equally delighted to welcome her back – The Shogun’s Queen was published in paperback yesterday (27th July) by… Read More »

I’m a little bit late to the party as I share my review of Before You Go by debut novelist Clare Swatman. So many people have read it and enjoyed it in hardback and on their kindles – this was one of those rare first novels that featured in many a bestseller list, even before… Read More »

As always, it’s a real pleasure to be joining the blog tour for another book from Orenda – this time The Other Twin by L.V. Hay, available for kindle, in paperback and audio format. Everything I read about this book told me I would love it… A stunning, dark and sexy debut thriller set in the… Read More »

It’s such a pleasure today to welcome Fanny Blake as my guest on Being Anne. While Fanny has long been one of my favourite people to spend time with at book parties, I’m a relative latecomer to her books – but I absolutely loved House of Dreams (do read my review again here). Her latest,… Read More »

Every so often, a book comes along – without any great fanfare – that makes me want to shout about it from the rooftops. Not Thomas by Sara Gethin – published by the consistently excellent Honno Press on 15th June – is one of the most stunning books I’ve read this year. As I finished reading, I immediately… Read More »

I am thrilled today to be joining the blog tour for The Secrets of Villa Rosso by Linn B Halton, published by Harper Impulse on 21st July. Linn – until this momentous day – has had the great distinction of being one of my favourite authors that I’ve never actually read. I’ve featured her books several times… Read More »

I’m delighted to be joining the blog tour today for Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy, released in paperback and for kindle on 6th July by Penguin UK. I really like the description of this one… When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The… Read More »

I had the great pleasure of welcoming author Linda MacDonald as a guest on Being Anne in March (you can read her article again here), and I was really keen to try her writing. The Man in the Needlecord Jacket is published by Matador: the kindle version released on 24th March, with the paperback following on 28th May. Here’s the rather… Read More »

I do sometimes rather wish T.A.Williams would slow down a little. When he visited the blog with his lovely guest post on thinking himself into a woman’s head, to celebrate the release of Dreaming of Venice (read it again here), I really intended to read and review whatever he did next, but he’s beaten me… Read More »

I’ve been meaning to read a book by Laurie Ellingham for a while – I’ve had the pleasure of meeting her at a few book events (she’s so thoroughly lovely…) and I’ve always found myself shuffling a little with embarrassment and promising to read one soon. One Endless Summer was published by HQ back in… Read More »

It’s really frustrating that life is so busy at the moment, because I’m having to turn down the chance to read and review some excellent new books. Choc Lit books are always some of my favourites, but I just couldn’t find a space to read Meet Me at Number Five by Lisa Hill, published on 18th… Read More »

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 »