When Peter Taylor-Gooby approached me about his dystopian novel The Baby Auction, I’ll admit my first reaction was that it probably wasn’t one for me. But I was quite struck by the strapline – “Romance, revenge, revolution – and a forensic analysis of how market capitalism destroys human kindness” – and, having read a few extracts, I… Read More »

The lovely Jo Lambert is becoming quite a regular on Being Anne, and that’s something that gives me great pleasure. Her first visit, back in August 2015, was for a Brook Cottage Books blog tour too – that time with a lovely guest post to mark the publication of Summer Moved On, the South Devon Duo… Read More »

It’s always a pleasure to feature a fellow member of Book Connectors to Being Anne, and today I’m delighted to introduce you to Jo Worgan, who writes her fiction under the name of Jo Hollywood. Having met Jo on-line I took a look at her debut novel, An Unextraordinary Life, and was really intrigued by… Read More »

I’m totally thrilled today to take my turn on the blog tour for Barbara Copperthwaite’s Flowers for the Dead. Barbara’s books are just wonderful, and I can’t recommend them more highly – do try Invisible too, if you haven’t already discovered it yet. For as long as she continues to write such wonderful books, I’ll continue to… Read More »

Unless you’ve been totally avoiding everything book-related on-line recently, you really can’t have failed to notice the growing praise for Minty by Christina Banach. Published by Three Hares in March 2014 and available in paperback and for Kindle, most people seem to agree that it’s an exceptional first novel – haunting, heartwarming, emotional and compelling.… Read More »

There’s always something rather special about being asked to launch a blog tour on publication day – and today gives me even more pleasure than usual. I’ve been a fan of Sue Moorcroft’s wonderful books since crying over Judith and Giorgio in Uphill All The Way (such a long time ago…!), I could run tours… Read More »

I’d like to say that joining the blog tour for The White Camellia by Juliet Greenwood has introduced me to a new author to add to my “favourites” list – but it really wouldn’t be true. I read – and really enjoyed – Eden’s Garden more years ago than I can remember, and I reviewed… Read More »

With apologies to anyone who might not quite be in the mood yet, I’m a massive fan of  books based around Christmas. So you’ll forgive me, won’t you, for my excitement about revealing the cover of A Second Christmas Wish by Kathryn Freeman? Published by Choc Lit, it’s now available to pre-order on iBooks, and… Read More »

I do bang on a bit (yes, honestly, I do!) about the relatively small number of books that focus on the lives, realities and concerns of the older reader. And every time I do, someone says “have you read Thursdays in the Park?”. I have no idea why it’s taken me so long, but yes,… Read More »

The other week I decided it was time to be sensible. Much as I like to think otherwise, I can’t read every book I want to – and I’d had a lovely hardback copy of Cartes Postales from Greece, the latest book from Victoria Hislop (published by Headline Review on 22nd September, in hardback and… Read More »

I didn’t really have a post planned for today – it’s my preparation day for the weeks ahead – but I just had to tell you about the lovely evening I had last night at a couple of events that were part of the Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe. I’ve been rather badly organised this year… Read More »

What a perfect way to end the week! I’ve mentioned before that Jan Brigden and I have been on-line friends for longer than I can remember: you might have read her interview on Being Anne in January, just after As Weekends Go was released as an e-book. It’s now available in paperback – published by… Read More »

My turn to join the blog tour today for Nice Day For A White Wedding by A.L. (Andi) Michael, Book 2 of The House on Camden Square series, published on 22nd August by CarinaUK. Having read some of the reviews, I’m really sorry I couldn’t fit in a review of this one – but I’m… Read More »

It’s a real pleasure today to welcome Ada Bright and Cass Grafton to Being Anne to tell us about the inspiration behind their new novel, The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen, published on 24th June and available in paperback, for kindle and in other e-book formats. Everyone will know how much I love a… Read More »