Finding love in England’s most famous prison – Megan Clawson’s charming debut novel
At one time, residents of England’s most famous prison were likely to lose their heads, but Beefeater’s daughter Megan Clawson lost her heart… falling for a Royal Guard. The fairy tale experience has inspired her charming debut novel. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Celia’s War review: A rollercoaster of a debut novel
Difficult to know quite where to begin with the roller-coaster ride of a period novel, set early in 1963, the most severe winter at the time in living memory, the entire country as frozen as is its heroine’s heart at the moment we first encounter her. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Chef Rosemary Shrager ventures out into crime writing and talks about new novel
EXCLUSIVE: Celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager extols the benefits of boiling taps, cooking islands and even spice racks as she reveals everything about her new career as a cosy crime writer… including the kitchen sink. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Fairy Tale review: Stephen King’s new novel a ‘spellbinding’ read
THERE is always a darker side to fairy tales, with violence and menace simmering underneath the happy-ever-afters and the magic. And Stephen King taps into this darkness with his dazzlingly inventive fantasy novel where danger, quite literally, lies beneath the story’s hero Charlie. Daily Express :: Books Feed
The Night Ship review: ‘wonderful, wonder-filled novel’
THIS brilliant, imaginative tale of magic, heartbreak and dark destinies tells the story of a historic shipwreck. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Dr Zhivago plagiarism case turns Lara Prescott’s ‘dream’ novel into a nightmare
A NOVELIST locked in a £2million plagiarism fight with a descendant of the author of Dr Zhivago says she sometimes wishes she had never written her bestselling book. Lara Prescott has been dragged to court by Anna Pasternak, who claims she stole key parts of a book she wrote about her great uncle’s novel. Daily […]
French author of novel Camilla called ‘a masterpiece’ thrilled by Clarence House soirée
WHEN THE Duchess of Cornwall shared a royal reading list in the spring of 2020 at the height of the pandemic, she introduced it with Ernest Hemingway’s famous quote: “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Indeed, having recently spent 14 days isolating after Prince Charles fell prey to coronavirus, Camilla, like many […]
Holocaust graphic novel Maus banned by school – author ‘baffled’ by ‘Orwellian’ act
MAUS author Art Spiegelman has spoken out about the news that a Tennessee school has banned his graphic novel from their library shelves, claiming its “profanity, nudity, and unnecessary violence” were to blame. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Kay Scarpetta comes out of retirement in Patricia Cornwell’s new novel Autopsy
WHEN Patricia Cornwell was writing her novel Unnatural Exposure she came up with a fiendish murder plot involving her heroine Kay Scarpetta and deadly, lab-mutated smallpox. At the time, this was the mid-nineties, the idea was deemed fanciful. Daily Express :: Books Feed
Never REVIEW: Ken Follett goes nuclear in new crime novel
Never have I been more inclined to dislike a book. The size and scale of Ken Follett’s first contemporary thriller for more than a decade is not only daunting but Follett also pretentiously hopes “it transcends the thriller genre in the way that The Godfather transcended the genre of the crime novel”. But, from the […]