Today I am delighted to bring you all an extract from It’s A Mad World: Travels Through a Muddled Life by Susie Kelly, published February 17th with Blackbird Books. FrenchEntrée Magazine – ‘There are a handful of authors who achieve that elusive trick of making you laugh out loud. For me it’s James Herriot, Bill…
‘The most dangerous stories are the ones we tell ourselves’– Mirrorland [ About the Book ] No. 36 Westeryk Road: an imposing flat-stone house on the outskirts of Edinburgh. A place of curving shadows and crumbling grandeur. But it’s what lies under the house that is extraordinary – Mirrorland. A vivid make-believe world that twin…
‘She has to know the truth about Overtoun Estate, but there is a reason it has stayed buried for so long.‘– The Thin Place [ About the Book ] When journalist Ava Brent decides to investigate the dark mystery of Overtoun Estate—a ‘thin place’, steeped in myth—she has no idea how dangerous this story will…
‘The German #1 bestseller from the ‘Queen of Krimi’– Hotel Cartagena [ About the Book ] Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages…
Gunpowder and treason changed England foreverBut the tides are turning and revenge runs deep…– The Drowned City [ About the Book ] 1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wave devastates the Bristol Channel. Some proclaim God’s vengeance. Others seek to take advantage. In…
A vintage necklace. A long-hidden secret. A second chance for love– Hepburn’s Necklace Hepburn’s Necklace by Jan Moran, a USA Today bestselling author of romantic women’s fiction, was published with Sunny Palms Press Jan 12th. Hepburn’s Necklace is a dual-timeline family saga that begins on the film set on Roman Holiday in the 1950s and continues to…
Blue helmets and blurred lines While Nobody is Watching delves into the dark world of PTSD and a battle scarred soldier struggling to find a place in her new world. [ About the Book ] A semi-inflated football and a curious little girl. They called it peacekeeping. For Corporal Lindsey Ryan it was anything but.…
“We’re all human beings, and with a little effort and a willingness to put aside preconceptions, we can all be understood”– Backstories Backstories by Simon Van der Velde is published today March 25th with Smoke & Mirrors Press. Described as ‘a unique collection of stories each told from the point of view of a famous,…
‘A young TV journalist is forced to revisit her harrowing past when she’s thrust into a sex-trafficking investigation in her hometown’– The Source [ About the Book ] 1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another…
“His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story” [ About the Book ] Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships.…