…So if you have some free time this week, why not open up a book from your own childhood and take a trip down memory lane? You never know, it…

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Lovatt Island is one of a group of beautiful, uninhabited islands, near the isolated village of Innellan in south-west Scotland. The skeleton found in one of its sea-caves, shackled to…

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September 1143. Sergeant Catchpoll hopes a fire at a Worcester silversmith’s is just an accident, but when there is a second fire, and a charred corpse is discovered, he has…

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…across this article – read here. Apparently today is Eeyore’s 140th birthday – which is Very Old Indeed. I don’t think he’d be a fan of publishing: ‘This writing business….

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…to the addresses provided when you entered, you’ll need to reply to those with a valid UK postal address to which the book can be sent. And finally, if you…

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…Evil Intent, by Kate Charles – another one of ours! (‘A great writer. I’ve read all her books but this is a good one to start with’) and A is…

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I’ve been on a light-hearted reading spree lately. After finishing David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, which was great but I must admit quite long and serious, I turned to R.J. Palacio’s…

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Searching for the perfect gift for someone who has everything? What about a ‘Reading Spa’? At independent publisher Mr B’s Emporium you can be treated to just that – a…

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…fact it was seen as ensuring a daughter’s security. In the world of the time, that was correct. There was the odd exception where a single lady carved out a…

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When tragedy strikes Alba Ashby, she finds herself at the door of a house she’s never noticed before. Number Eleven, Hope Street in Cambridge is no ordinary house. Its walls…

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…below. Our RSS Feeds Our blog – our Behind the Books blog Books of the Month – our selected books for this month Book Club – our current and recent…

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…Josef’s coffin has Bernie terrified, and so when he tells Rose Arnold, about it, she immediately suggests that Bernie go and talk to her son, Lee, and his colleague Mumtaz….

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…Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent o A genuinely original quirky voice and I was immediately riveted by the opening scenario in which Sally puts out her dad’s dead body…

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…a character was introduced, an African princess and ward of Queen Victoria, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. I followed my first instinct, which meant I immediately Googled her name—one of those fact-or-fiction…

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Too much of our day is spent looking at our computer screens, having conversations with authors, agents, printers, reviewers and retailers by email. Efficient it may be, but sometimes you…

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…gates and tall columns; while they may not be as efficient at passing 10,000 passengers through its arches as its modern day equivalent, I love the classical feel, they are…

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…knives are incredibly popular, and efficient too, but let’s be honest: they’re a little passé. You’ve seen (or read) them a thousand times. Dropping a Steinway piano directly on the…

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…things) ideas for the cover to our latest acquisition Bitter Greens, by Kate Forsyth (an absolutely mesmerising novel built around the Rapunzel fairy tale – just finished it, loved loved…

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…Encountering even more frightening security measures enforced by unknown authorities, Dunbar realises that those who might hold the keys to the mystery are not prepared to help him, and those…

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…eleven – a little disappointing, but when I looked at the answers there were a few that made me kick myself! What’s your score? Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…Jude Law as Henry V, and Sheridan Smith and David Walliams in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and there are £10 tickets for the budget-conscious, see www.michaelgrandagecompany.com. The blurb for the…

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