You may have seen me coming and going on the London underground this past week. Yes, that was me bowed under the weight of my library copy of Charles Dickens: A Life (it needed a bag all of its own) and trying to read it in cramped tube conditions. I’d had the book ‘reserved’ at […]
Some book covers work because they are sumptuous, colourful and detailed. Others work because of their simplicity. And none more sothan this design which I came across yesterday. So how do you illustrate a book about God? The answer is, you don’t. I can’t think of a better design for a biography about God. Those […]
Following Sara’s blog post yesterday heralding the importance of children’s books, and the fact I took my 3-year-old nephew to the London Zoo over the weekend, it brought to mind the fact that you can usually find children’s books to compliment real-life experiences. So I feel compelled to bring you a little selection of wonderful […]
Last week I accompanied author Rachel Caine to an event at Peters Books in Birmingham, and I was very impressed by the place. Peters is the country’s leading children’s library supplier, and getting a tour around their showroom was fantastic. In amongst life-size crocodile, gorilla and giraffe soft toys were 24,000 different children’s books – […]
I’ve been reading a little about Danny Wallace new debut novel entitled Charlotte Street. I don’t know much about Danny Wallace myself, aside from the fact that he’s also a journalist, but the title of his book caught my eye. Because there is in fact a Charlotte Street just around the corner from the office […]
SATURDAY 2 JUNE, 10.30am WATERSTONES, MARKET HARBOROUGH Crime writer Adrian Magson, author of the acclaimed Lucas Rocco series will be signing copies of his books, including Death on the Marais and Death on the Rive Nord, at Waterstones, 9 The Square, Market Harborough, LE16 7 PA. For more information call the bookshop on 0843 […]
Rachel Caine, author of the bestselling Morganville Vampire series, continues her mega tour of the UK meeting her legions of fans and signing copies of her new book Black Dawn. And we’re absolutely loving the fabulous effort and creativity so many bookshops and fans have put into making the events so memorable. Here are a […]
This summer we will be launching an exciting new Victorian crime series featuring London’s first forensic detectives. Devoured, by D E Meredith is the first book in the Hatton & Roumande series and will be out in August, to be followed by The Devil’s Ribbon next year. The likes of CSI and forensics may be […]
This Saturday just gone, YA fans flocked to Foyles, Charing Cross in London for a chance to meet Kimberly Derting (author of the new dystopian fantasy The Pledge published by us, and The Body Finders series published by Headline) where she was giving a talk and reading with fellow YA authors Tanya Byrne, James Dawson […]
The app-loving literary public has been spoiled of late, in my opinion. The Waste Land app in particular has made me very jealous of Faber & Faber’s archives and ingenuity. And then at the recent London book fair one of the few seminars I managed to get to was titled ‘What’s App? The Relevance of […]
Today, I came across this wonderful link to the most beautiful libraries in the world. Any place that is packed with books holds a world of inspiration within, no matter what size, shape or form it may take. But if your idea of a library is of a dated, boring or ugly hall with old […]
There seems to be a trend in the book world lately for ‘best first lines’. I first came across this article from the Guardian listing ten of the best opening lines, including of course ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of […]
Saturday 12 May, 10.00am – 12.30pm TRUMPINGTON PARK & RIDE To celebrate Adult Learning Week and the relaunch of the Park & Read initiative come and meet Mary Nichols, acclaimed author of historical sagas including The Girl on the Beach, Rosy Thornton and staff from the Cambridgeshire libraries who will be talking about the Park […]
Monday 16th July, 10.30am CHURCH STRETTON LIBRARY Acclaimed author of historical sagas, Mary Nichols, will be talking about her work and her latest book, The Girl on the Beach, set in the wake of World War II, at a coffee morning event Church Stretton Library, Church Street, Church Stretton, Shropshire SY6 6DQ. For more information […]
The latest release in the Morganville Vampire series is currently #17 on the overall UK Bestsellers List, #6 on the UK Children’s Bestsellers List and is #1 on the Small Publishers Children’s Bestsellers List!
This bank holiday Monday, I spent the day with Morganville Vampire author Rachel Caine and her husband Cat, as they headed to the next stops on the Black Dawn Book Tour. We had a lovely booksigning at Waterstones Oxford, had planned to enjoy a pub lunch at The Turf Tavern (wonderfully signposted with the strapline […]
Saturday 12th May, 11.00am – 2.00pm NORTH HARROW LIBRARY Come and meet Sangeeta Bhargava, author of the love story The World Beyond, set in India during the Sepoy Mutiny, who will be signing copies of her book at Harrow Library, 29-433 Pinner Road North Harrow, Middlesex HA1 4HN. For more information contact the library on […]
I’m usually the most oblivious person to trends and news, my dose of what’s going on in the world is most likely to be gleaned from a Thursday or Friday night flip through The Evening Standard. So, it’s with some trepidation that for the second week running, I give you lucky, literary-loving people a hot […]
In yesterdays Stylist I came across the story about the launch of DogTV. Quite literally, TV for Dogs. Yes, that’s right, a digital channel broadcasting programmes specifically for pooches. It is a known and depressingly accepted fact that we, humans, spend far too much time sitting in front of the TV. We have a child […]
When I first came across The Marriage Plot (in the form of a very large poster in the London Underground) I thought, ‘Here we go, another cover design trying to ride on the back of One Day‘s success’. They had blown up the silhouette of the girl and the boy on the poster for a […]
Death on the Rive Nord, by Adrian Magson has been shortlisted for CrimeFest’s eDunnit award for best crime fiction ebook of 2011, competing again the likes of Dennis Lehane and Linwood Barclay.