Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning's lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible. It is 180 minutes to discover who you will die for and what men will kill for. In the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Told from the point of view of the people at the heart of it, from the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah in love for the first time, to the parents gathering desperate…
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Meet the Author: Helen Sedgwick of ‘When the Dead Come Calling’
Helen Sedgwick is the author of The Comet Seekers (Harvill Secker, 2016) and The Growing Season (Harvill Secker, 2017). Helen has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and has won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Her debut novel has been published in seven countries including the UK, US and Canada, and was selected as one of the best books of 2016 by The Herald and Glamour. She is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes of Curtis Brown. As a literary editor, Helen has worked as the managing director of Cargo Publishing and managing editor of Gutter, and she founded Wildland Literary Editors in 2012. Before that, Helen was…
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Guest: Author Keith Dixon talks about his 5 favorite books
Guest: Author Keith Dixon talks about his 5 favorite books
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Book Blitz | Unflappable – Suzie Gilbert
About the Book: Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is on the run. Licensed to care for injured and orphaned wildlife, she is determined to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. Hot on her trail is her furious husband, his bodyguards, the police, conservation officials, and an expert government tracker; aiding and abetting her is a smitten young tech guy, a lethal Navy SEAL turned panther advocate, and an underground railroad of wildlife rescuers intent on protecting one of their own. Waiting in Ontario is a legendary old eco-warrior…
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Guest: Camilla Downs on ‘The Decision to Feel’
Guest Post by Author Camilla Downs
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Meet the Author: Tony Riches
Interview with Tony Riches: Historical Fiction Author telling the true stories of the Tudors. Blogs at The Writing Desk - http://tonyriches.co.uk #WritingCommunity #Tudors #HistoricalFiction
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Meet the Author: Sarah Linley
Author Interview with Sarah Linley of 'The Beach'
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Book recommendation | The Spare Bedroom – Elizabeth Neep
Armed with a super-sized backpack full of optimism, Jess sets off in search of sun, sea and a much-needed new beginning. Things don’t get off to a good start. Instead of sunshine, she’s met with torrential rain. Her job prospects are as dismal as the weather and that friend-of-a-friend she was meant to stay with has fallen through. Just as Jess is homeless, jobless and wishing she’d gone for the waterproof mascara, she runs into the last person she expected to see. Sam. The ex she never got over. Jess always believed that one day fate would bring them back together. Now he’s here, more gorgeous than ever. Before she…
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Guest: RC Bridgestock on “Detectives Mantra – Never Assume!”
R.C. Bridgestock is the pen name of a married couple that is made up of Robert and Carol Bridgestock. The couple has nearly half a century in combined police experience. They take this experience and turn real cases it into fictional stories.
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Guest: Author Jo Jackson on “Books from different countries”
Jo Jackson is the author of two books, both written since she retired. Having worked with some of the most vulnerable people in society she has a unique voice apparent in her second novel Beyond the Margin, set in Ireland. She was a nurse, midwife and family psychotherapist and now lives in rural Shropshire with her husband. She loves travelling and walking as well as gardening, philosophy and art. Her first novel Too Loud a Silence is set in Egypt where Jo lived for a few years with her husband and three children. Events there were the inspiration for her book which she describes as ‘a story she had to write’ You can read…
