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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 →

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 →

Meet the author: Ravens Gathering writer Graeme Cumming on dinner with his dad

23 Sunday Sep 2018

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Graeme Cumming - AuthorIt’s always interesting to do a Meet the Author Q&A with an author you’ve already met and thought you knew…

So, it was a bit of a surprise to discover that Graeme Cumming, author of the genre-busting Ravens Gathering, reviewed here on Book Lovers Booklist in March, has walked on hot coals and likes to eat poached egg and mashed potato.

Find out what else rocks his boat… Continue reading →

Meet the author: introducing Paula Houseman and Odyssey in a Teacup

27 Monday Aug 2018

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Paula HousemanAuthor Paula Houseman was once a graphic designer.

But when the temptation to include ‘the finger’ as part of a logo for a forward-moving women’s company proved too much, she knew it was time to give up design.

Instead, she took up writing.

Her love of satire, combined with a fondness for double entendres, means her novels – earthy chick lit and romantic comedy – are a tad Monty Pythonesque.

‘But,’ says Houseman, whose Ruth Roth series features a humourless schoolmarm with Continue reading →

Meet the author: don’t cross swords with Death on Dartmoor author BA Steadman

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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Death on DartmoorWhatever you do, don’t mess with crime writer BA Steadman, author of Death on Dartmoor.

She’s a dab hand with a sword!

Although it’s a little while since she went into battle, Steadman’s a second Dan in the Japanese martial art laidō, which roughly translates into English as ‘the way of mental presence and immediate reaction’. Continue reading →

Meet the author: DA Watson and his brush with Hollywood star Margot Robbie

15 Friday Jun 2018

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Cutting Heads - fav1 (2)Prizewinning author DA Watson spent several years working in bars, restaurants and call centres before going back to university with the half-arsed plan to become a music teacher.

Halfway through his degree at the University of Glasgow, he discovered he was actually better at writing, and unleashed his debut novel, In the Devil’s Name, on an unsuspecting public in the summer of 2012.

Plans for a career in education left firmly in the dust, he Continue reading →

Meet the author: Why Jane Dunning loves being Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez

11 Friday May 2018

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Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez (2)[2605]Sometimes author Jane Dunning, whose first novel Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez  was inspired by her love of Provence, wonders if France is in her blood because she was born in Guernsey  in the Channel Islands.

‘I’m not sure,’ she says, ‘but I truly love our neighbour across the English Channel.’

Which, perhaps, explains why Brexit is testing her patience.

Her first visit to France was in 1978 when it had few Continue reading →

Meet the author: an adventurous life inspires The Picture writer Roger Bray

30 Monday Apr 2018

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The Picture (2)Life, says Roger Bray, author of The Picture, is an endless adventure.

And he’s had plenty of adventures – serving in the navy, fighting in wars and, finally, as a police officer, where he was medically retired after sustaining a serious injury protecting a woman in a domestic violence incident.

A period of depression followed. But he firmly believes that when one door closes, another opens. So, he enrolled in college and studied for bachelor and master degrees where, alongside the qualifications, he discovered an unexpected bonus. Continue reading →

Meet the author. AJ Waines asks, what if your daughter becomes your enemy?

24 Tuesday Apr 2018

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AJ (Alison) Waines is a hugely successful author, she has sold over 450,000 books worldwide and topped the UK and Australian Kindle Charts in two consecutive years with her number one bestseller, Girl on a Train.

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Following fifteen years as a psychotherapist, she is now a full-time novelist with publishing deals in the UK, France, Germany, Norway, Hungary and USA (audiobooks).

Her fourth psychological thriller, No Longer Safe, sold over 30,000 copies in the first month, in thirteen countries.

Her most recent book is Don’t You Dare, a thriller that explores the dark side of a mother-daughter relationship when pushed to the limit.
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