Janet Edwards: Sometimes You Need Magic
I think it began with C. S. Lewis and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The book was on my shelves when I was a small child. I don’t … Continue reading
A Writer’s Guide to Magic by Bea Davenport
I blame Bewitched. It was my must-see TV series when I was growing up and I still love it, even though I now watch through my fingers because of the … Continue reading
Satchkin Patchkin by Bea Davenport
Satchkin Patchkin, will you lift the latchkin? Satchkin Patchkin, will you lift the latch? When I read stories to my eldest daughter, one of her absolute favourites was this book: … Continue reading
Evelyn Finds Herself — the first YA novel?
I know you probably haven’t heard of it. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a classic. Evelyn Finds Herself might sound like some kind of hippy-dippy Californian memoir from the … Continue reading
Book Birthday Interview with Bryony Pearce! by Kerry Drewery
I’m so excited to welcome Bryony over to the blog to talk about her new book – Savage Island. Here’s the blurb – When reclusive millionaire Marcus Gold announces that … Continue reading
Book birthday! THE GOOSE ROAD – by Rowena House Interview by Kerry Drewery
Set in France in 1916, THE GOOSE ROAD is Rowena House’s debut novel, a poignant and powerful First World War coming-of-age quest. The Goose Road is based on a … Continue reading
The Rule and The Exception by M.A. Griffin
I signed up for an online screenwriting course at UEA over Christmas. It ran for the first few weeks of February this year and I eagerly dived in. The whole … Continue reading
He’s not a naughty boy, he's the Messiah!
I am currently re-reading Middlemarch. It’s a good twenty years since I last ploughed through it and I’d forgotten one important fact: at the start of the book, when Dorothea Brooke makes the appallingly stupid mistake of marrying Edward Casaubon, thirty years her senior, she is only nineteen.
The Book That Changed My Life. Read on to discover yours – by Rowena House
OK, so this is a thought exercise, an attempt to funnel life’s complexity into a bookish article, because – surely – no one work deserves the title of The Book … Continue reading
