Ever wondered how Susan (left) and I ended up with indie publisher Lakewater Press – a fabulous boutique publisher, based in Queensland, Australia, and run by an Englishwoman?

Find out in my guest post about taking chances on Rachel’s Random Reads.

Blogger Rachel Gilbey is hosting ‘Chances Fortnight’, a series of daily features where different guest bloggers write about the chances that changed their lives. Continue reading →

Take a good look at the two women pictured here.

Do they look like a pair of hidden gems?

Of course, they do!

We, or rather, our website Book Lovers’ Booklist has been nominated in the Hidden Gem category of the annual Bloggers Bash Awards.

It’s a huge thrill just to have been nominated because it means that someone somewhere likes what we do on the booklist.

Voting closes on Friday (June 2) so there’s still time to get your voting fingers ready to push the button for bookloversbooklist.com

You can find out more about the awards and information about how to vote here: http://sachablack.co.uk/

Don’t you just love the atmospheric cover of One to Watch, book number three in Rachel Amphlett’s Detective Kay Hunter crime thriller series?

Like Will to Live (book two reviewed here) this promises to be a gripping murder mystery in which Kay must not only confront a growing number of suspects but also her own enemies, who are waging a vendetta against her.

About the book

Sophie Whittaker shared a terrifying secret. Hours later, she was dead.  Continue reading →

You could say I live north of Leeds rather than North Leeds, and Sue is in Wakefield, but that didn’t stop us from featuring in a great magazine called North Leeds Life.

Continue reading →

Kicking of the Blog Tour today for The Book of Air by Joe Treasure.

This is a gripping dystopian fantasy in which two parallel stories explore the enduring impulse of humankind to find meaning in a turbulent world.

The story opens with wealthy property developer Jason, fleeing London from a deadly airborne virus, which has already killed his wife Caro.

He heads to his country estate where he is obliged to navigate a new way of life with an itinerant assortment of fellow survivors.

Far in the future, an isolated community of descendants is still farming Jason’s estate. Continue reading →

Sue and I were invited to attend a writers’ event at Leeds Trinity University (LTU) – and told we could have a stand for our books –  so we could hardly turn down an offer like that.  Continue reading →

Child actress Hannah Jayne Thorpe, who played the part of Peggy in last year’s film version of Swallows and Amazons, will take part in a marathon reading of  Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s story to be staged this summer on the shore of the lake where the tale was set.

The event, which marks the 50^th anniversary of the death of the author, takes place at Coniston on Sunday, September 3.

Other readers include the film’s screenplay writer Andrea Gibb and Christina Hardyment, author of several Arthur Ransome related books and senior executor for the Arthur Ransome Literary Estate.

It’s expected the book’s 31 chapters will take around nine hours to read.

Find out more here.

By Sue Featherstone.

Happy Birthday to us!

It’s one year today (March 21) since our wonderful publisher Lakewater Press was launched and we’re celebrating with a giveaway of our first novel A Falling Friend, a former Yorkshire Post Top 5.

Our book was the third of three launch titles published by Lakewater, a small boutique publisher, with a worldwide reach, based in Queensland, Australia. Continue reading →

We’re delighted to be the final stop on the blog tour for Kate Blackadder’s debut novel, Stella’s Christmas Wish.

Six days before Christmas, Stella must rush home to Scotland when her grandmother is taken to hospital.

As she reconnects with her past, old flames are rekindled.

And as Christmas fast approaches, Stella begins to wonder if her most heartfelt wish can come true?

Meet the Author

Find out Kate’s guilty secret and why she got a telling off from her son after she accepted a lift from a stranger in New York here.

Read our review.

The Book Lovers’ Booklist is entering a new chapter as a contender in the UK Blog Awards.

You can vote for us here.

Voting opens on Monday, December 05, at 8am and closes Monday, December 19, at 10 am.

It’s an exciting way to end an exciting year which began with the publication of our first novel, A Falling Friend, in spring 2016. Continue reading →