Welcome to my review of books read in 2022. I read over eighty books and it’s always fun to look back over the year and spot trends. I discovered many brilliant UK YA books compared to 2021 when the market seemed dominated by the US. MG writing is also still...
My blog this month is another in the series about crime fiction. This time it’s about unusual narratives, which is more interesting than it sounds! Yes it’s a bit niche, but whether you’re a writer or a reader, I think you’ll enjoy seeing the...
As part of a series of blogs about crime and thriller novels, September’s blog focused on the top ten locations. This month I take a look at unusual narrative forms. While we probably all recognise the groundbreaking work of those writers from the Golden Age of...
I’ve had a productive few weeks which has resulted in me sending four completed projects to my agent – with profuse apologies, but she said something interesting. She said this time of year was often a ‘finishing off and unloading’ time of year...
Halloween is fast approaching, so why not get yourself in the mood by reading your way through my list of the scariest novels of all time? A few of these are supernatural, but not all; instead they are the kinds of books you just can’t put down and which are...
