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GUEST BLOGGER: Victoria Connelly on the RNA conference

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

What’s the collective noun for a group of romantic novelists?  That’s the question that was being asked at the annual conference of the Romantic Novelists’ Association in Penrith at the weekend.  Suggestions included ‘a passion’, ‘a chatter’ and ‘a heartbeat’.
There were over 120 writers and the atmosphere was buzzing.  Writing is a lonely job and, [...]

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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 [...]

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  • Currently we are...

  • ...thinking

    Chiara: About whether the theatre production Shoes would be any good. Saw the poster for it and am intrigued.

  • ...reading

    The Slap , by Christos Tsolkias Lara: An excellent reading group choice as there’s much to discuss. Clever, yes. Would I recommend it? Not so sure. Very interesting subverting of characters but it’s taken me till around the middle of the book to start really getting in to it.

  • ...loving

    Chiara: People-watching.

  • ...un-loving

    Lesley: Bumpy, noisy trains – don’t they know I’m trying to catch forty winks?!