ADAM WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAKE YOU HAPPY. EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU. Adam Bourne is a serial killer who thinks he is a saviour. When he murders his victims and cuts off the women’s lips, he believes he has done it to make them happy. How did he become warped from the sensitive four-year-old who… Read More »
An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship, Talk of the Toun is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, central belt Scotland.Lifelong friends Angela and Lorraine are two very different girls, with a growing divide in their aspirations and ambitions putting their friendship under increasing strain.Artistically… Read More »
Those of you who are my friends on Facebook will have already become bored of hearing about crossing the Andes, Chilean and Argentinian winelands, helicopter rides, cable cars, jet boats under the Iguazu Falls and walks on Copacabana Beach. I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m back, and will settle down again very… Read More »
I just wanted to let you know that Being Anne will be taking a short break, because I’m taking a rather special holiday. It’s my 60th birthday in a couple of weeks, so I’m pushing the boat out a little. I’ll be enjoying the salsa rhythms in South America – visiting Santiago and the Chile winelands,… Read More »
Squeezing herself into a frothy, flouncy, bubble-gum pink dress, Rosie Hamilton thinks that being a bridesmaid for her spoilt little sister Freya can’t get any worse.But discovering her boyfriend in a cupboard with the bride, ten minutes before Freya is due to say ‘I do’, is the icing on the sequinned wedding cake – and… Read More »
Le Vie En Rose…Bookshop owner Sarah Smith has been offered the opportunity to exchange bookshops with her new Parisian friend for 6 months! And saying yes is a no-brainer – after all, what kind of a romantic would turn down a trip to Paris…for Christmas?Even if it does mean leaving the irresistible Ridge Warner behind,… Read More »
One summer they’ll never forget…Meet Sabine, desperately fighting to save her little kiosk from closure whilst turning down her friend Owen’s proposals, time and time again.Cue Harriet, returning to Dartmouth after thirty years, haunted by the scandal that drove her away and shocked by a legacy that threatens her relationship with her journalist daughter.Enter Rachel,… Read More »
Jay has been roaming rootless for years until one morning he arrives in a small Yorkshire Dales town and sees a face in the crowd which takes him back to the best and worst times of his life. In the aftermath of a failed affair, Marilyn is rebuilding her life and her barn when a lightning… Read More »
It’s 2001, and amidst the political turmoil in Haiti, three disparate lives collide: Yolande, an impoverished farmer desperately looking for the sister her abusive husband has sold into slavery; Maddy, an eager British journalist on her first overseas assignment, set on making a name for herself; and Clare, an ex-pat gynaecologist who’s devoted the past… Read More »
Christmas: it’s the most wonderful time of the year…to fall in loveThe temperature is dropping, snow is on its way and Hayley Walker is heading for New York with one wish… to start over. With her daughter Angel, Hayley is ready for adventure. But there’s more to New York than twinkly lights and breathtaking skyscrapers. Angel… Read More »
The third instalment of the captivating Jersey Scene series. Izzy and her best friend Jess are badly let down when a Jersey socialite, who has agreed to hire their entire vintage party stock for her upcoming wedding, decides to elope instead – leaving the girls with no bookings and no money. Feeling despondent, the girls try… Read More »
Something new and lovely for me on Being Anne today – I’m delighted to be hosting a great review by Louise Wykes as part of the blog tour for Rainy Day Sisters by Kate Hewitt. Louise tells me it’s a beautiful and heart-warming romance which she really enjoyed (as I added it to my wishlist…). Welcome… Read More »
All the members of the CreativeWritingMatters team – Sophie Duffy, Cathie Hartigan and Margaret James – are looking forward to Christmas, and we’d love to share some heart-warming Christmas stories, brain-teasing puzzles and festive quizzes with you. The stories will make you smile. The puzzles will sharpen your wits and the quizzes will make you think… Read More »
What if you could only watch as your bright future slipped away from you? Sally Cummings has had it tougher than most but, if nothing else, it’s taught her to grab opportunity with both hands. And, when she stands looking into the eyes of her new husband Peter on her perfect wedding day, it seems… Read More »
Summer, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. Alone in the world, she is looking for Jack Fox, a man she had a brief but intense love affair with some months before. But the only address she has for him leads to a dead… Read More »