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May 8, 2017
Inheritance Books: Kate Hewitt
Today’s Inheritance Books are from Kate Hewitt. I’ll go get the biscuits. While you’re waiting Kate, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself?
[image error]I am an American ex-pat living in Wales, with my husband, five children, Golden Retriever, and two newly acquired rabbits.
Which book have you inherited from the generation above? Why is it special?
[image error]My mother gave me the book A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett when I was about eight years old and bored one summer day. I was enthralled, and...
May 4, 2017
Inheritance Books: Dan Waddell
This week’s Inheritance Books are from Dan Waddell, prolific novelist and fellow Yorkshire person. Hi Dan, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself while I put the kettle on.
[image error]I’m a 44 year-old, recovering tabloid journalist turned author. The first half of my life was spent in Yorkshire, but for the past 20 years I’ve lived in exile in London, a city I always wanted to live in and which has not disappointed me. I finished my first book in 1999 and since then I’ve written more than 20 works...
May 2, 2017
The Trouble With Goats And Sheep by Joanna Cannon
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It’s the middle of heat wave in 1976 and woman has disappeared in the avenue. Everyone is on edge. With this as the backdrop, Grace and Tilly (aged 10, ish) decide to go searching for God, just to be sure that he’s in the avenue, keeping everyone safe.
This is a story about small communities and groups judging people because they are different. It’s a bit like Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, because the outcast is judged...
May 1, 2017
The Truth About The Other Guy – release day!
It’s formal release day for The Truth About the Other Guy – a short story set at a New Year’s Eve Party. [image error]
When I was a kid, we used to go to Christmas parties organised by my Dad’s old college. They were always held in a cricket stadium in the outskirts of Colombo. My memories are rather hazy but I remember the saris and jewellery of the aunties and, as the night wore on, the dancing. There were always fireworks at midnight (sometimes we little ones fell asleep and were woken up to watch). I...
Goodreads Book Review: Wedding Bells by the Creek by Janet Gover
Wedding Bells By The Creek: A Coorah Creek Novella by Janet Gover
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I love the Coorah Creek series (nearly all of them have made me cry – in a ‘good book cry’ kind of way) so, when I heard there was going to be a new novella – with a wedding in it, no less, I asked the author if I could have a review copy.
In this book we meet up with Ed Collins again (grumpy old bugger from Coorah Creek Christmas) who is a significantly happier man now that he’s reunited with his estran...
April 20, 2017
Bestsellerdom and the power of mailing lists
A couple of my books – Please Release Me and Girl Having A Ball were reduced to 99p over Easter on the UK Kobo site. Amazon was (still is) price matching. And then, earlier this evening, this happened:
Which means I’m a bona fide bestseller (in fantasy, if not romance). The book has a ghost as a main character – hence the fantasy listing.
Girl Having A Ball, on the other hand, is languishing much further down the charts.
What made the difference? Kobo included the cover of Please Release Me...
April 17, 2017
Inheritance Books: Lynne Shelby
This week on Inheritance Books, I’ve got fellow romance novelist, Lynne Shelby. Welcome Lynne, why don’t you make yourself comfortable while I get a brew on. Help yourself to Easter eggs. While I’m doing that, why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself.
[image error]I’ve always lived in or near North London, apart from three years as a student at Leicester University, studying history. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a writer, but over the years I’ve done a variety of day jobs, including...
April 11, 2017
Goodreads Book Review: The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I’m a sucker for a time travel novel and this one’s a good ‘un.
While visiting her late mother’s home town, Luna starts experiencing these weird episodes where she’s transported back to the 1970s at a crucial point in her mother’s life. She could save her mother from a terrible event in the past (which in turn could save her mother’s life in the present). However, in doing so, she would erase herself from existence.
The...
April 7, 2017
Dear Microsoft: absolutely not.
As those of you who’ve read Doctor January will know, I agree with most of this. Science is often a confrontational sexist place.
I now work in academic support, which gives me the double whammy of being female and not being an academic. I once had a physicist try to mansplain genetics to me. I had to correct his knowledge at one point. Bless (rolls eyes).
And it has nothing to do with your software. It has to do with your new ad campaign, which I happened to see while I was at...
April 6, 2017
Inheritance Books: Lesley Cookman
This week, I’m beyond excited to have Lesley Cookman visiting Inheritance Books. I’ve put extra cushions on the sofa in celebration. Hi Lesley, welcome to Inheritance Books. Please make yourself comfortable. Tell us a bit about yourself while I go make some tea.
[image error]I’m an ex-actor, feature writer, model, night club DJ, editor and a current mother of four and grandmother of two. I live with two cats and an occasional boomerang child on the Kent Coast.
Which book have you inherited from the genera...
