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Cover reveal: A Forsaken Friend and a make-over for A Falling Friend

16 Friday Feb 2018

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A Forsaken FriendIt’s so hard to keep a secret when you’ve been dying to shout from the rooftops and beg everyone to admire the beautiful cover for your new book.

But, at long last, it’s cover reveal day and we can finally share the cover of our new novel A Forsaken Friend.

It’s the second in our Friends trilogy and the cover of the first one, A Falling Friend, has had a make-over too.

Early feedback from friends, who were given a sneak preview last weekend, has been very positive and we’re hoping both covers will go down a treat with readers too.

And, now, we’re gearing up for the publication of A Forsaken Friend, which will be published by Lakewater Press on March 21.

A Falling FriendWe pick up the story where A Falling Friend left off with best friends Teri Meyer and Lee Harper both facing changes.

As the book opens things can’t get much worse for Teri: she’s lost her job at the university, as well as the regular allowance from her dad’s factory, and now her ex-best friend has gone and stolen her ex-husband!

Teri decides to hell with them all and heads off into the Continue reading →

Read an extract: it’s first period for Andrew Mackay’s wickedly funny heroines Vicky and Lizzie

15 Thursday Feb 2018

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Vicky and Lizzie's First Period (Kindle Cover) (2)Here’s the first of two extracts from what promises to be a wickedly funny novel: Vicky and Lizzie’s First Period by Andrew Mackay.

You can meet Andrew and read the book blurb here but first here’s an introduction to two rather mischievous girls.

Extract: Vicky and Lizzie’s First Period

‘Okay, settle down, everyone.’ Mr Parker walked to the front of the classroom with a few sheets of paper in his hand. He waited patiently for everyone to stop their chattering. ‘Guys, please?’

Vicky, Lizzie, and Jody sat at the back table next to Jonnie and Sam. The girls and boys exchanged glances and faced the front. Continue reading →

Cover Reveal: Vicky and Lizzie make author Andrew Mackay’s day

14 Wednesday Feb 2018

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Vicky and Lizzie's First Period (Kindle Cover) (2)And now for something completely different: introducing Andrew Mackay, and the brand new cover of what promises to be the wickedly funny Vicky and Lizzie’s First Period.

Mackay, who says his influences include John Cleese, Tom Sharpe and Michael Frayn, describes himself as a satirist who likes to expose the dark underbelly of modern life.

He likes to be a bit shocking sometimes – but promises he’ll also make readers laugh.

And he’d be delighted if you could join him tonight on Facebook for a virtual launch party Continue reading →

Blog tour: Isabella May shares a day in the life of River Jackson, star of The Cocktail Bar

12 Monday Feb 2018

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The Cocktail Bar bannerJoining the blog tour today for The Cocktail Bar, the new release from Isabella May, author of Oh! What a Pavlova!

 Here’s the book blurb

Rock star, River Jackson, is back in his hometown of Glastonbury to open a cocktail bar… and the locals aren’t impressed.
Seductive Georgina is proving too hot to handle; band mate, Angelic Alice, is messing with his heart and his head; his mum is a hippie-dippy liability; his school friends have resorted to violence – oh, and his band manager, Lennie, AND the media are on his trail. Continue reading →

Review: The First from A. Claire Everward marks a new struggle between good and evil

11 Sunday Feb 2018

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The FirstIt’s not often I turn the last page of a book and think: ‘Hmmm, I’m not really sure what I think.’

But that’s the effect The First, a debut novel from A. Claire Everward had on me.

There’s a lot that I liked: the plot, for instance, is unusual and intriguing.

Aelia returns from a vacation that did not go quite as she expected, to a life she does not feel at home in but that is, at least, hers.

Or so she thinks.

However, within days of returning she is targeted by a hit man and she has no idea why.  Continue reading →

Review: GB Williams scores with tense well-written crime thriller Locked In

10 Saturday Feb 2018

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GB Williams - Locked In_cover_high res (2)Talk about surprises! When I left former policeman-cum-convicted murderer Charlie Bell, in Locked Up, the debut crime thriller from GB Williams, he was no longer behind bars and starting to re-build his life.

Not quite sure what I expected would happen next. But I certainly didn’t think he’d become involved in a bank heist.

Nor, I suspect, did prison warder Ariadne Teddington, who became involved with Charlie when she recruited him to help her investigate a prison killing.

So you can imagine her surprise when she gets caught up in a bank robbery and recognises one of the gang members… Continue reading →

Review: What happens when the systems are down in plausible cyber war thriller from Sam Boush?

07 Wednesday Feb 2018

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All Systems DownWhat if your mobile phone didn’t work?

Or your iPad? Or your pc?

Or the television or radio?

Because there’s no power. No gas. No electricity.

And when you turn on the taps, there’s no water.

And satellites are dropping out of the sky? Continue reading →

Review: Author Audrey Davis makes a gloriously ghostly debut with The Haunting of Hattie Hastings: Part One

06 Tuesday Feb 2018

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Audrey Davis, The Haunting of Hattie Hastings: Part One

The Haunting of Hattie HastingsIt’s impossible not to like Hattie Hastings.

She’s a very ordinary, very happily married woman, who loves her husband Gary to bits even if he drives her up the wall at times.

And when tragedy strikes – Gary dies after a drunk driver smashes into him as he puts the dustbin out, ready for the morning bin collection, leaving Hattie alone and heartbroken, she does her best to hold things together for the sake of Johnny, their university drop-out son.

She’s equally stoical – wobbly legs aside – when ghostly Gary returns, wearing Continue reading →

Meet the author: The future is looking great for debut novelist Sam Boush

05 Monday Feb 2018

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Sam BoushIt’s all systems go for Sam Boush, whose debut novel All Systems Down is a futuristic thriller set in the wake of a cyber war that has pretty much destroyed Western civilisation.

Sam has worked as a wildland firefighter, journalist, and owner of a mid-sized marketing agency.

Though he’s lived in France and Spain, his heart belongs in Portland, Oregon, where Continue reading →

Review: Sharon Thompson’s The Abandoned: a thought-provoking debut

27 Saturday Jan 2018

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The AbandonedIt’s a clever title The Abandoned – it works on so many different levels.

On the one hand, it refers to Peggy Bowden’s abandonment by both her father, who was never part of the picture, and her mother, who was committed to an asylum.

Not to mention the local priest who forces her into an abusive marriage.

But it could also be a reference to Continue reading →

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