Monthly Bookish Blog

Novelist Rachel Hore describes the benefit of a peaceful mini-writing break away from home ‘We are staying in a rented cottage in North Norfolk this week, where I am polishing my next novel prior to delivering it to my editor.  I value the peace and solitude here to do this.  Reading through the entire script, […]

I’ve recently had the thrill of curating Murder by the Book, an exhibition of crime fiction at Cambridge University Library. The Library holds a stunning collection of rare crime novels across the genre, most in their original dust jackets. Treasures on show include a first edition of The Moonstone displayed alongside Wilkie Collins’s writing desk; […]

Author Chioma Okereke gives us an exclusive peek into her work space ‘To be honest, I do write across many rooms in the house, but this space has been designated as The Writer’s Room. The soft light and a desk stacked with distractions is actually why I return to this spot to write. Many of […]

I write a series of books about a very special landscape – Dungeness in Kent. Hopefully it’s always there in the books. Hopefully, too, when people read them, they get sense of what it’s like there, even if they’ve never been. The weird thing is, halfway through writing the series, in which the look of […]

Siobhan Horner-Galvin tells us what drew her to volunteering at the Felixstowe Book Festival 2024   I’m very excited to be volunteering at the Felixstowe Book Festival this year where I’ll be helping out with the website and author events. As an avid reader and writer myself, I love a book festival, but I’ve only ever […]