Saturday 5th June, 12.30 p.m. Rachel Caine will be at Waterstone’s Bromley (100 The Glades Shopping Centre, Bromley BR1 1DJ)  to meet fans and sign copies of her books. Further information from the store on T. 020 8460 6037

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Friday 4th June, 6.30 – 8.30 p.m. Rachel Caine will be visiting Harefield Library for Bite Night, an evening celebrating teenage vampire/gothic writing. Rachel will be talking about her writing and answering questions. The event will also feature quizzes, prizes and pizza! Tickets are 50p and available from Harefield library, T. 01895 558184

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Friday 4th June, 2-4 p.m. Rachel Caine will be visiting the Hawth Theatre (Hawth Avenue, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 6YZ) to talk about her writing, meet fans and sign copies of her books. Tickets £3, available from County Mall branch of Waterstones, Crawley Library & The Hawth Theatre. Further details from Waterstones on T. 01293 […]

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Thursday 3rd June, 6-7p.m. Rachel Caine will be at the Forbidden Planet Megastore (Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR) to meet fans and sign copies of her books.

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Thursday 3rd June, 2p.m. Rachel Caine will be at Waterstone’s Sutton (71-81 High Street, Sutton SM1 1ES) to meet fans and sign copies of her books. Further information from the store on T. 020 8770 0404

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Thursday 3rd June, 11 a.m. – 12 noon. Rachel Caine will be at Waterstone’s Croydon (Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR0 1UX) to meet fans and sign copies of her books. Further information from the store on T. 020 8686 7032

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Wednesday 2nd June, 1-2 p.m. Rachel Caine will be at Waterstone’s Guildford (71-73 High Street, Guildford GU1 3DY) to meet fans and sign copies of her books. Further information from the store on T. 01483 536 366

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Wednesday 2nd June, 11 a.m. Rachel Caine will be at WHSmith’s (56 High Street, Guildford, GU1 3ES) to meet fans and sign copies of her books. For more information call the store on T: 01483 576217.

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Monday 31st May, 4.30 – 6.30 p.m. Rachel Caine will be at The Platform (Faringdon Road, Swindon) to talk about her writing and meet fans. Tickets for this free event are available at the Central Library, but places are limited.

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Friday 28th May, 4.30 p.m. Rachel Caine will be at Waterstone’s Worthing (28 Montague Street, Worthing BN11 3HA) to meet fans and sign copies of her books. Further information from the store on T: 01903 234148.

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Monday 31st May, 1-2 p.m. Rachel Caine will be at Waterstone’s Salisbury (7-9 High Street, Salisbury SP1 2NJ) to meet fans and sign copies of her books. Further information from the store on T. 01722 415596.

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Searching for the perfect gift for someone who has everything? What about a ‘Reading Spa’? At independent publisher Mr B’s Emporium you can be treated to just that – a pampering treatment including: Coffee/tea & cake 45 minutes book-chat with Mr B discussing your likes and dislikes, being shown the best of what’s new & special […]

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Many of you may have asked yourselves the above question, and perhaps felt inspired to take a shot at it. And this is exactly what Penguin proposed readers do when they offered up a chance to have people design their own covers to a Penguin Classic. The results have been posted here – some better […]

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I recently attended the launch of the new Saf Restaurant in High Street Kensington – serving only natural vegan raw foods. The original Saf restaurant in London is in Shoreditch, but this new branch can be found on the top floor of Wholefoods in the area of the Food Hall previously taken up by the ‘home’ store […]

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Ha! Here’s a news story that caught my eye the other day. I can appreciate that preparing for impending fatherhood must be a daunting business. There’s your hormonal partner for one and the joys of anticipation when it comes to nappy changing for another. But I hadn’t quite realized that parents were feeling quite so clueless about […]

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While I was on holiday at the beginning of April, I happened to be in New York over the Easter weekend. It was lovely! The weather was balmy to my winter-numbed skin, the blossom in Central Park was beautiful (see pic) and there was a buzz in the air. That buzz though may have had […]

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We’ve had so many compliments about our paperback cover to The Hidden Dance, by Susan Wooldridge that I had to highlight it here for this week’s cover story. We love the image so much we chose it as the cover to  our new catalogue too.  Are you as enamoured by it as we and others […]

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From 11 – 15th May, Bill Naughton’s classic comedy drama Alfie, will be revived on stage with a new production at the Greenwich Theatre in London.

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Blogging is an ephemeral business: if we have second thoughts about a blog there’s always the option of erasing it from the online world. Which makes me wonder whether this is the reason we are becoming more fascinated with the letters of yester year? Were people more decisive or opinionated when the missive was a […]

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I was on Dovegreyreader‘s book review blog the other day, and was scrolling down the list of books she has featured under her 2010 reads when one cover caught my eye – even as a thumbnail. It was The Boys in the Trees, by Mary Swan. Those daubs of red stood out against that emerald […]

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Wednesday 2 June, 7pm READING CENTRAL LIBRARY Enjoy an evening with romantic writers Tania Crosse (author of Lily’s Journey), Julie Cohen, Beth Elliott, Janet Gover and Rau-Anne Lutener at Reading Central Library, Abbey Square, Reading RG1 3BQ. The authors tell you all there is to know about romantic fiction – from Mills & Boon and […]

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