Istria Gold by Mike Downey was published with MPress October 6th and is described as a novel that is ‘connected through the centuries by the almost mythical Istrian truffle…the three narratives of Lucia, Nino and Marco weave a tale of obsession, greed and bloodshed. Blending a complex plot and richly drawn characters, Istria Gold brings to life…
‘She tried to remember what life was like before she had met the Tilburys.She wondered how many years – if ever – it would be before the monster of awakened longing was subdued and she could return to placid acceptance of a limited life’– Small Pleasures [ About the Book ] 1957, south-east suburbs of…
‘She’d been steadily drifting further and further away from her life before. She would never get it back. She knew that. But maybe her destination was a place where she could forget, and be forgotten? This was all she wanted right now.’– The Island Girls [ About the Book ] When young nurse Emer loses her beloved…
‘America’s answer to Coco ChanelThat was the dream and nothing would stand in her way’– Gabriella [ About the Book ] ‘All she needed was one person to take notice – one person who could catapult her into the big time’ Gabriella Alvarez dreams of being the next Coco Chanel. Born in the Bronx of…
‘HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO’S ON YOUR SIDEIF YOU DON’T KNOW WHOSE SIDE YOU’RE ON?’– The Most Difficult Thing [ About the Book ] On the surface, Anna Witherall personifies everything the aspirational magazine she works for represents. Married to her university boyfriend David, she has a beautiful home and gorgeous three-year-old twin daughters, Stella…
It’s the perfect hideaway.Until he finds her….. [ About the Book ] No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . . Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men.She fell under the spell of one. The…
THE TWINS ARE CRYING.THE TWINS ARE HUNGRY LAUREN IS CRYINGLAUREN IS EXHAUSTED… [ About the Book ] Behind the hospital curtain, someone is waiting . . . Lauren is alone on the maternity ward with her new-born twins when a terrifying encounter in the middle of the night leaves her convinced someone is trying to…
A sweeping story of love, betrayal and war…. [ About the Book ] Love. War. Family. Betrayal. Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home…
Today I join Jan Edwards on tour with an extract from her latest novel In Her Defence. It’s book two in the series featuring Bunch Courtney and is set against a backdrop of an escalating war in 1940. I do hope you enjoy! [ About the Book ] Bunch Courtney’s hopes for a quiet market-day…
‘The deeper you go, the darker your intent’ [ About the Book ] “How far would you go to get out?” This is the question three unlikely friends living in a dead-end town in America ask each other. The answer would come to haunt them.The narrator is a writer in his late 30s, eking out…