Sunday 3rd October, 12noon-4.00pm WATERSTONE’S, BRIGHTON Come and Meet Dr Dale, leader of the hit comedy seminar How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse and author of Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary. Ask him anything you want about zombie survival and get a signed copy of his book at Watertone’s, 71-74 North Street, Brighton BN1 1ZA. For […]
Sunday 10th October, 7.30pm THE PAVILION, EXETER Would you know how to survive the rising of the undead? Catch Dr Dale (author of Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary) and his team of experts, on their autumn tour of How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse RELOADED – the brand new interactive seminar (and award-winning show) at The […]
Come celebrate the launch of Death on the Marais, the first book in a brand new mystery series set in France in the 1960s, at Goldsboro Books in London. Enjoy a glass of wine, meet the author and get your book signed!
In the office earlier today Christina (Art Editor) and I we were discussing the Ebury press publication Eat Me, by Xanthe Milton, and what finishes it had been printed with. It’s a regular conversation between Christina and I as we battle it out trying to decide on foils, embossing, spot uv and coloured end papers […]
The Reading Festival of Crime Writing took place this past weekend, which saw almost two thousand crime enthusiasts flocking to Reading’s Town Hall and the Central Library over the fours days to hear from the top of the crop on the crime writing circuit. Our authors Rebecca Tope, Mike Ripley, Zoë Sharp, Richard Jay Parker […]
Forget The Man Booker Prize, forget Newsnight, I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that now and then our brains are in urgent need of a rest. To plagiarise my husband: ‘Rather than sitting down to the mental or cultural equivalent of a hearty, three course meal, sometimes all that we need is chewing gum […]
This year is the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which was fought between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe over the summer and autumn of 1940, and the Blitz and this month sees a plethora of commemorative events and exhibitions to mark this piece of history. Find out more about events around London […]
Today’s confession: I judge a book by its cover. No, retract that; that’s not a confession. That’s a statement of the obvious. A book’s cover is (I have no need to tell you, rational blog-readers), what draws us to that particular book out of the hundreds of others flaunting their vibrant front faces in bookshops; […]
It’s an accepted fact that most (if not all) of the books picked for the Richard & Judy Book Clubs and now the new TV Book Clubs tend to come from the larger publishers. This isn’t a gripe, it’s just stating fact. We’ve been on the shortlist several times, but unfortunately not yet made it […]
Friday 1st October, 8.00pm THE CANAL HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM Enjoy a night of guaranteed laughs at this Nottingham Comedy Festival with the hit new show How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse RELOADED. Dr Dale, founder of the School of Survival, will lead this hilarious interactive seminar at The Canal House, 48-52 Canal Street Nottingham NG1 […]
Friday 1st October, 12noon WATERSTONE’S, NOTTINGHAM What better way to celebrate Nottingham’s Comedy Festival than meeting Dr Dale, leader of the hit comedy seminar How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse. He will be signing copies of his new book Dr Dale’s Zombie Dictionary at Watertone’s, 1-5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham NG1 2GR.
Last weekend saw me traipsing into central London to look at maps at the British Library. Thrilling, no? I’ll be honest, geography has never been my strong point so my enthusiasm for the day was not at its highest levels. However, I’d been promised that the day would have a pub ending. I’m easily persuaded. […]
The brand new film Tamara Drewe (out now) has been garnering rave reviews from the critics. I’ve seen the trailer and have to admit, the scene watching the jogger trip up beside a herd of cows had me sold. Why on earth should I find that so funny? But I have another reason to want […]
Somethings are worth paying insurance for. Like the direct debit covering my trusty iPhone (let’s try not to drop it again, Lesley, OK?) or, things like travel and health insurance. Take the honeymooner who hit the news recently, who broke her back falling over a balcony in Corfu and needed to be flown back to […]
Lionel Shriver presented a no-holds barred argument for less girly covers on her books in the guardian on Friday. Read article here… She maintains that publishers are underestimating women readers, cutting off potential male readers with soft-focus designs, and worst of all by dressing up hard-hitting novels in pastels and giving them weak titles, preventing […]
I have just returned from a weekend in Perugia visiting my Italian nonna (almost 103!) which means I’ve spent the last three days gorging on fresh pasta with homemade pesto, polpettone (meatloaf), fat and flavoursome sausages, minestrone, figs and prosciutto, more pasta, platefuls of borlotti beans with salt and butter (so simple, so delicious!) and […]
Beatrix Potter was an absolute favourite of mine as a child – Peter Rabbit and Miss Tiggy-Winkle were books I read and reread. And now I see that Emma Thompson has been signed up to write a new Peter Rabbit tale. Read more here… I’ll refrain from donning my cynical hat, as after all Ms […]
Finished knitting those booties for your new nephew? Cast off the final row of your new winter scarf? Sitting there clacking the old needles waiting for a new project to get your teeth into? How about the human brain? Or the digestive system? Click here for more original ideas… (Personally, I think this one on […]
These are the four different covers to the book Under the Dome, by Stephen King – depicting each of the four main characters in the book. As book covers go, these covers do look odd, with the title and author name pushed to the bottom of the image, almost as though the designer wished he […]
Susan Wooldridge’s debut novel The Hidden Dance is proving to be a favourite amongst the books shortlisted for the Big Red Read fiction award. Show the book your support by voting for it now!
You may not be surprised to hear that I’m not much of a pampering girl. I mean there aren’t many beauty treatments that justify a half hour of boredom, in my opinion. You can’t hold a book with tacky nail polish and you can’t have much of a conversation when your face muscles are being […]