WINNER OF THE GOLDSBORO LAST LAUGH AWARD The latest hilarious and scathing satire from Ruth Dudley Edwards ‘…the Turner Prize…is named after an innovative painter of genius and is awarded…

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…oh it works. It SO works. The two Kjell Eriksson paperbacks: The Princess of Burundi and The Hand that Trembles. They scream Scandinavian crime and I find the spines stand…

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…Wild Girl plus The Whole World and The Start of Everything (which went down a treat). 2. Loved too, the themed-images on the New Holland Publishers stand, marking their shelves…

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…to decide if it’s a nonchalant or petulant pose) and the brighter The Fair Maid of Bohemia (where I’m inexplicably drawn to the silver creases of the woman’s fabulous dress)….

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…style with a capital S) Art Editor, Christina, wowed the office in a super-chic onesie from OnePiece. (Who knew a onesie could look this good?) Editorial Administrator, Sara, rocked the…

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…read! To help this initiative visit www.thebiggive.org.uk/donate/vrh now! And to help even further…if you’re planning to buy any books off Amazon, visit the VRH website first and then click on…

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An utterly captivating reinvention of the Rapunzel fairytale weaved together with the scandalous life of one of the tale’s first tellers, Charlotte-Rose de la Force. Charlotte-Rose de la Force exiled…

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…huge online library run by volunteers that now provides free access to over 36,000 e-books online. “What allowed me to think of this particular use for computers so long before…

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With Easter on the way, and having attended the South Bank’s annual Chocolate Festival (also in Bristol on 30th and 31st March) on the weekend, I’m craving some chocolatey goodness….

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There are millions of book blogs and websites out there, full of reviews both devastatingly crushing and over the top exalting. And, in the same way that I marvel at…

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From the gentle romance of ”Kissing Emily Baker”, to the trials and tribulations of a young English family setting out for a new life in 1920s Australia in ”The Group…

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Never one to shy away from any kind of excuse for festivity, I am happy to broadcast that today is my birthday. On this note, I confess that I am…

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Last week I went to see the musical Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre (and now consequently break out into renditions of Mr Cellophane and All that Jazz when feeling bored)….

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…now finds that he must save her from the clutches of death once more. It’s a task that seems destined to fail with bloodthirsty, relentless Turks at every turn ….

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…Trouble ensues when a woman from the Home Office vanishes; a mysterious lady turns up at the archery shooting gallery; and Paul’s gambling addiction worsens . . .  Recommend This:…

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The lone swimmer, turning over now to switch to a perfectly executed back crawl wasn’t a man. It was a woman, a girl. It was Catherine. Of course it was…

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The second book in the Mercia Blakewood historical crime series that spans Restoration London and the New World Following adventures she would sooner forget in the newly renamed New York,…

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…has it in black. Are we to deduce from this that the black cover is more successful? Which do you think works best? Another recent two-cover release is the new…

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…shortlist. There will be three categories: Best Published Author Blog, Best Unpublished Author Blog and Best Author Microblog 15 April – Voting closed. 19 April – Winners announced! Considering there…

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…worldwide bestseller) was one of the best adaptations I’ve seen. I was delighted to hear that the best animated short film went to a story about a man who cares…

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…drink fourteen glasses of Moët & Chandon at PR launches. Don’t go home with inappropriate men. And certainly don’t get all besotted with your best friend’s brother. As her rules…

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