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Review: Luminous brings Kristy Fairlamb’s YA thriller series to a heart-stopping end

13 Saturday Jun 2020

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Lucy Piper is both cursed and blessed with a wonderful gift – she possesses the horrifying ability to resurrect real-life tragic events in her nightmares, reliving over and over, as if she were there, the last few moments before the victim takes their final breath.

But, crucially, she can change the ending – so theplane crash never happens, the swimmer doesn’t drown and the car accident is averted.

But Lucy is living death by night and fearing sleep – and her dreams – by day.

It’s a hard burden for a teen and only her grandmother seems to understand what she’s going through. Continue reading →

News: A Falling Friend, by Sue Featherstone and Susan Pape, is four years old today

25 Saturday Apr 2020

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Happy Book Birthday to me and Susan Pape.

It’s four years today since A Falling Friend, first book in our #Friends trilogy, was published by Lakewater Press.

It’s been described as a 5* ‘rollicking good read’ and ‘chic lit with attitude.

Get your print or digital copy from Amazon. Or Barnes & Noble.

Review: Cloth of Grace brings Rachel J Bonner’s Choices and Consequences series to a cozy end.

28 Friday Feb 2020

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Is there such a thing as a cozy romantic thriller?

Daft question.

Because Weave of Love and Cloth of Grace, books three and four in Rachel Bonner’s Choices and Consequences series, definitely fall into that category.

And, though the coziness might not be to everyone’s taste, others will certainly enjoy a smooth-as-chocolate read.

Both are set in a post-apocalyptic world and Continue reading →

Review: Sparkling writing from Zoe May in pacey rom-com When Polly Met Olly

25 Tuesday Feb 2020

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Oh dear! When I realised Polly, twenty-something heroine of Zoe May’s rom-com When Polly Met Olly, was falling for forty-plus Olly, I just wanted to scream: ‘Run, Polly. Run.’

Because, sorry, and I know love has no age limits, AND, there are lots of very happy real-life cross generational relationships, AND, yes, I’m being ageist, but, for me, there’s something slightly ‘off’ about dating someone old enough to be your father.

Or young enough to be your child. Continue reading →

Meet the author: Romance writer Elly Redding dives in with new book In the Deep

13 Thursday Feb 2020

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You’ll never find award-winning romance writer Elly Redding, author of In the Deep, treading water in the deep end of the swimming pool.

Or, after she almost drowned recently, in the shallow end either.

‘I’ve never mastered swimming,’ she admits.

Elly, whose first novel, True Colours, won the Festival of Romance’s New Talent Award, and third prize in the Independent Author Book Award Words for the Wounded, has also received a Chill with a Book Readers’ Book of the Month Award and a B.R.A.G. Medallion. Continue reading →

News: Make a date and meet the authors at Bourne Old Town Hall

10 Monday Feb 2020

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Authors Sue Featherstone and Susan Pape are hoping for multiple dates with new readers when they take part in a Read Dating event at The Old Town Hall in Bourne on February 15th.

Based on the popular speed dating format, the session features a get-together of around ten authors. Readers will spend ten minutes with each writer, finding out about their books, their writing and their inspirations.

The event, which is organised by the team behind Deepings Literary Festival, takes place between 4pm and 5.30pm.

Other authors who’ll be attending include: Graeme Cumming, Ross Greenwood, Lizzie Lamb and Tracey Scott-Townsend.

If you happen to be in the area, please come and say hello. Tickets are only £2.50 and include a cup of tea or coffee.

Click here for tickets.

Meet the author: Nicola K Smith, author of A Degree of Uncertainty, on sharing a sofa with Springsteen

27 Monday Jan 2020

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Fish, Falmouth and BBC radio series, The Archers – the world’s longest running soap opera – are just some of the favourite things of Nicola K Smith, author of Cornish-set novel, A Degree of Uncertainty.

Find out why she also likes Daphne Du Maurier, Watership Down and Donna Tartt.

And why she’d like to share a night on the sofa with Bruce Springsteen.

Just don’t ask what’s in her handbag…

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Meet the author: Why The Cure author Patricia Bowen won’t share her guilty secret…

26 Sunday Jan 2020

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Author Patricia Bowen, who’s just published her first novel The Cure, can finally see the wood for the trees.

After 25 years living in the woods – her Twitter handle is @WoodsgalWrites – she’s now moved into a cosy townhouse with lots of time and space to write.

Just don’t ask her to share her guilty secret… Continue reading →

Read an extract: Rocks and Flowers in a Box (Lorna & Tristan Series #2)

21 Tuesday Jan 2020

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Here’s what the blurb says about Rocks and Flowers in a Box, book two in Cynthia Hilston’s Lorna and Tristan series:

The wedding bells for Lorna and Tristan Blake toll doom right as the honeymoon begins with an unexpected turn in Tristan’s health.

While World War II winds down, Lorna receives a letter from the War Department informing her that the brother she thought killed in action is still alive.

She’s overjoyed, but his return will dredge up a devastating secret about their parents’ tragic death – a secret that could destroy her new marriage and threaten her husband’s physical and mental well-being. Continue reading →

Review: MA Comley delivers a nail-biting finish in Criminal Actions, new addition to the Hero crime series

19 Sunday Jan 2020

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Surprise is the word that best sums up my reaction to Criminal Actions, fifth book in the DI Hero Nelson crime series by NY Times and USA Today best-selling author MA Comley.

It was altogether darker and more twisted and nastier than expected.

Does that matter?

That’s a toughie.

A crime novel is, by definition, about horrible things happening to people. And I’ve read lots of other thrillers where the body count and the violence ratio has been much higher.

Somehow, though, based on reviews I’ve read elsewhere about other books by Comley, I’d expected something a little more cozy – not a description that, in any shape or form, could be applied to Criminal Actions, which explores some very dark themes. Continue reading →

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