…been put off by it. And I know I’m not the only one. So, I’ve decided to run a regular slot each week: Wednesday’s Cover Story – to give book…

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…eachother and of course, Rachel Caine immediately bought Michelle’s latest book, Unrest, and had her sign it for her too. We found ourselves admiring the cover so it is only…

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…the subject arose because Susie had found herself watching an episode of Time Shift on BBC4 last night, entitled Between the Lines – Railways in Fiction and Film (click here…

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…immediately intrigued. Young Caleb Williams comes to work for Squire Falkland, but he soon begins to suspect his new master is hiding a terrible secret. Sure enough, Caleb unearths the…

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…cover designers for immediately putting me on edge and signposting that anyone who picks them up is in for a tense ride. It’s the same response that I get to…

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…particular (and rather banal) reasons for liking one image over another… Sophie – “I’ll go for The Roaring Boy – the mixed shades of blue/purple really makes the red writing…

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…The Art of the Assassin in August we invited Kevin to reflect about his experience walking the West Highland Way and from Sarjevo to Visegrad. Loch Lomond immediately after glorious…

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…our reluctance to admit to them. It seems to be something of a literary taboo – confessing which novels, whether from centuries ago or those which critics are rushing to…

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…whose covers immediately place the book in the winter season, like The Windermere Witness, Fear in the Cotswolds, or The Hand that Trembles (indeed all of Swedish author Kjell Eriksson’s…

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…me of one of our most successful cover designs of recent years – James Anderson’s The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy, which I believe was from a contemporary cigarette…

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…the case – “power cut”, a shadow announced from the living room. Like much of the South East, and other parts of the UK, with power off and on from…

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…humanistic – rare qualities in a world of dashed-off emails and text messages’. And indeed, I loved reading it, and immediately felt a wave of nostalgia, simultaneously grieving the loss…

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…immediately hampered by the death of a key participant: Picard.   With Picard’s wife and mistress, as well as the wife of the former owner of the estate, staking their…

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…book one, then switched to ebook editions when I just had to see immediately what was going to happen next over books 2 and 3. (A verdict on the side:…

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…the books feature London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs and explore the aftermath of World War I – a subject dear to the author’s heart having witnessed her grandfather’s own…

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…books that I remember vividly from my childhood. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly had me immediately humming lines I shouldn’t be able to remember. Likewise with…

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…Wrong about Everything? Immediately I think of celebrity culture and the sometimes foot-in-mouth messages celebrities spread across social media. Turns out I wasn’t wrong. I wonder what would happen if…

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The Hidden Dance – the debut novel by actress Susan Wooldridge – was recently reviewed in The Lady magazine (25th May). I’ve already raved about the cover to this book…

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…heretic, a rebel and a potential enemy, and has ‘a spirit full of enchantment’. An alluring description and one that immediately intrigues, rather than deters, the foreign prince. Accused of…

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…it doesn’t require an illustration. And it represents so many different things to different people – no image could be all-encompassing. Adding an image would immediately limit the scope of…

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…being both a film buff and a food-lover, so this is the kind of book that would immediately attract someone like me. Sadly, however, the one thing that really caught…

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