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Scarborough-themed musings…
Friday, May 29th, 2009
This must have been one of the shortest weeks ever! Not only did we all have bank holiday Monday off (for once blessed with sunshine, miracle of miracles!), but I booked an extra couple of days off to spend a lovely long break up in gorgeous Yorkshire. Filey – normally a quiet, unspoilt little seaside [...]
Just when you thought you’d heard it all…
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
What? More Rachel Caine I hear you say? Ok, I admit it, we’re getting close to Rachel Caine overload but can you blame us? More and more people are clocking on to this brilliant series, including the reviewer John Loyd at The Bookbag who devoured the books and reviewed all four of them in just [...]
Quality not quantity
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
My parents are over in London at the moment and renting out a flat for the time they are here. Beats a hotel. Anyway, the interior design is modern and minimalistic - no real sign that anyone lives there for some of the year. In fact, there’s a large built in bookshelf in the living [...]
That last day with Rachel Caine
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
How lucky am I? I was the first person (from the A&B office) to get to see Rachel Caine when she arrived in London and I was the last to see her off on Saturday - the final day of her UK tour.
The day was split as follows: morning - signing at Watertone’s Bluewater; mid-morning [...]
Pictures from the Morganville tea party
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
On Monday, I promised you I’d be posting pictures from our lovely tea party with Rachel Caine, which saw our office filled with a jolly gathering of booksellers who came from far and wide (including Milton Keynes and even Bristol!) to meet her! So here, thanks to Christina’s camera work are some shots from the [...]
Rachel Caine’s visit to Boston
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
There’s quite a lot that succeeds in making me feel old these days. Bills. Songs on the radio. Slang that doesn’t make sense to my enfeebled mind. The prospect of my Young Person’s Railcard expiring - boo! But the thought of going back to a real school does the trick most completely. Timetables. School-dinners. Maths [...]
Muscles & Frites
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Don’t you find it weird how you’ll go for months not thinking about a particular thing and then all of a sudden it’ll be completely ubiquitous? For instance, one morning you’ll wake up and there’ll be a news report on Penguin Books, then you’ll read an article on the way into work about an oil [...]
Rachel Caine is in the building
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Just popped up to my desk very briefly to say that we have the wonderful Rachel Caine - author of the hit Morganville Vampire series - in the building right now! She flew in from the U.S yesterday and now is downstairs enjoying cupcakes and tea (how very civilised) and mingling with various booksellers [...]
I have been outed.
Friday, May 15th, 2009
So, just when I thought I could continue to pootle along undetected, generally keeping a low profile and letting our readers believe that the A&B office is staffed by only five people, along comes my colleague Louise who blows my cover by mentioning me in her entry about Lord of Misrule – thanks, Louise!!! Just [...]
My night at the RNA Summer Party
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Last night I was lucky enough to attend the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s annual summer party, one of the most anticipated events in any romance-lover’s diary. And the tickets for it must have sold like hot cakes – the wonderfully old-fashioned library (complete with sliding ladders, dusty tomes and marble busts) at the Institution of Mechanical [...]
GUEST BLOGGER: Tim Lebbon. Passing by on his blog tour…
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Tim Lebbon, author of Fallen and the upcoming release The Island, joins us today on the A&B blog - the 2nd stop of his blog tour.
To celebrate we’re giving away a copy of Fallen - just be quick to enter this prize draw, or try your luck again at the next blog stop. Enjoy the [...]
Christmas starts early at A&B
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
It seems so odd to be thinking about Christmas given I’m sitting here in short-sleeves with the sunshine pouring into the office … but think about it I must. Two lucky members of the A&B team need to know when we’ll be shutting-up-shop as they will be spending the holidays on the other side of [...]
JOIN TIM LEBBON ON HIS BLOG TOUR…and get lots of free stuff!
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Follow Tim Lebbon’s Blog Tour for some great interviews, guest blogs, exclusive extracts, free books and a chance to win a signed copy of The Island!
Ready for the printers!
Friday, May 8th, 2009
For a short week, thanks to the lovely long bank holiday weekend, it’s been surprisingly busy. I’m one of those people who make lists of everything – jobs to do at work, jobs to do at home, shopping lists, upcoming birthdays; you name it, I list it – and ticking off an item as ‘done’ [...]
What to get for a baby shower
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Am meeting up with the girls tonight to plan a baby shower for a friend. She’s doing the baby’s room in a Winnie-the-Pooh theme – how easy does that make it for us to buy gifts for her! In amongst the craziness of Ferrari strollers and Jamie Oliver bottle warmers, I got thinking about our [...]
The (over?) critical eye…
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Today I was discussing a manuscript with Lara (our Managing Editor). She’s read it all whereas I’m only a hundred pages into it, so far, but we were exchanging a few views. And in doing so it struck me how my attitude to a book changes when I’m not simply reading it for pleasure. I [...]
Westfield - good or bad?
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Opinions are divided on this one – mostly male vs females – but I for one am in love with this marvellous monstrosity of commercialism. From Gucci to H&M this shopping mecca offers me everything – windows to drool over and aspire to, as well as those shops I can actually afford to step into [...]
Morganville Vampire mania and UK book tour
Friday, May 1st, 2009
Buzz is building for the first UK Morganville Vampire book tour! Rachel Caine, author of the bestselling teen vampire series, will be coming over at the end of May for a series of talks and signings.
Currently we are...
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The Rose of Sebastopol, by Katharine Mcmahon Lara: Mariella is an interesting protagonist – so far, not your traditional heroine and still second fiddle to the beautiful, enigmatic Rosa. This is the author’s aim I suppose, but I’m still interested to see if Mariella does finally come into her own – or if as readers you’ll always wish the story was told from Rosa’s point of view instead.
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