It’s a real pleasure today to be joined by author Pauline Barclay. Pauline has a number of wonderful looking books to her name – the latest, The Wendy House, was published in September 2016, and is already an indieBRAG award winner. In addition to her writing, Pauline is behind the Chill with a Book awards… Read More »

Now I know I’m a little bit early with this one, but with my holidays coming up I didn’t want to miss out on my chance to tell you how much I enjoyed Just for the Holidays by one of my favourite authors, Sue Moorcroft. It’ll be published by Avon on 18th May – but it’s available… Read More »

I go on my holidays in a couple of weeks, and that’s when it’s rather a treat to read for pure pleasure. And an author who can always be counted on to supply pure pleasure is Sheryl Browne – although I’ve recently been focusing on her thrillers (I adored both After She’s Gone and Sins… Read More »

I’ve been incredibly impressed by the books being published by Elliott & Thompson, and you’ll know that I’ve recently featured quite a few here on Being Anne, all with an emphasis on the natural world. Today I wanted to tell you about something very different. A couple of years ago, Elliott & Thompson published a remarkable first-person… Read More »

As part of her ongoing blog tour, I’m really delighted to welcome Alison Morton, author of the acclaimed Roma Nova thriller series, to Being Anne today. The sixth in the series, Retalio, was published on 27th April. Sadly I still haven’t had the opportunity to catch up with this series, so Alison’s post is the perfect introduction.… Read More »

It’s a real pleasure today to welcome author Pam Lecky as my guest on Being Anne. I haven’t (yet) had the opportunity to catch up with Pam’s full-length debut novel, The Bowes Inheritance, but I have read her short story, In Three-Quarter Time, and liked it very much. A few more words about it later, but first… Read More »

When Julia Thum contacted me to ask if I’d be able to review the book she had written with her friend Gaynor Pengelly under the pen name Ginger Black, she told me all about their partnership and friendship, their experience of writing together and seeking crowdfunding for the paperback, and their future plans – and there was… Read More »

I’m sure many people will have noticed that I quite often host tours for Brook Cottage Books, and I’m always delighted to do so. Very often, being part of a tour gives me the impetus (and that all-important deadline!) I need to read books that have already caught my eye, but I’ve also discovered a lot of new-to-me… Read More »

Every now and again, it’s good to take a punt on a fairly new author when the blurb for their book looks like something you’d enjoy – and Kate Ryder asked so nicely! Cry of the Gulls, available for kindle and in paperback, looked like it had “one Anne will enjoy” written all over it –… Read More »

It’s an honour and a pleasure to welcome author Emma Davies to be my guest on Being Anne today. Now where shall I start in introducing Emma? Well, maybe I should start as she did, with the wonderful Letting in Light – almost 200 reviews now, mostly five stars, including mine – which was followed this… Read More »

I’m really delighted to be joining the blog tour today for Dreaming of Venice by T. A. Williams, published as an e-book by Canelo on 24th April. It’s not without a sense of guilt though, because I still haven’t managed to squeeze one of Trevor’s books into my reading schedule – yes, I know I’d love them! Just take… Read More »

It’s such a pleasure today to be joining the first day of the blog tour (together with Chelle’s Book Reviews and Bookloverwormblog) for Watching You by JA (Joyce) Schneider. Subtitled “a terrifying thriller with a mind-bending twist”, this is the the third police/psychological thriller featuring intuitive NYPD detective Kerri Blasco, released today, and eagerly anticipated by… Read More »

I’m delighted to be introducing you today to another first time author and member of Book Connectors. Offshore by Andrea Jones intrigued me greatly from the moment I heard about it, and I’m pleased to tell you that it’s fully available from today, for kindle and in paperback, via Amazon in the UK and US.… Read More »

I always enjoy very much introducing a new-to-me author, particularly when they’re also a member of the excellent Book Connectors group on Facebook. Miles of Files by Mike Sahno was published in March for kindle and in paperback: you’ll find it on Amazon in the UK and US (and through other retailers I’ll add below), and… Read More »