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A Villa in Portofino by Evonne Wareham
I'm completely in love with Italy and have definitely put Evonne Wareham's new novel, A Villa in Portifino on my to be read list. So, I thought I'd invite her onto my blog to give a bit of background to the novel. As she says...it's complicated! Many thanks to Chris...
read moreChris and Lizzie’s Book Marketing Adventures: Trains, Planes and Automobiles – or ‘going with the flow’
I always look forward to meeting up with Lizzie Chantree. We have a lot of fun, talk about books, our ideas, how we write, and all sorts of random stuff! We always start with a plan...a cup of coffee, and if our meeting is in Southend, a full English breakfast in one...
read moreHer Nanny’s Secret by Jan Baynham
My fellow Ruby Fiction author, Jan Baynham has a new novel published this week. Her Nanny's Secret is set in Wales and France, and Jan explains how and why she choses her locations Thank you, Chris, for having me on your blog to talk about my third novel, Her Nanny’s...
read moreChris and Lizzie’s Book Marketing Adventure: Films – where we take our books on location. Can someone make some films of our books please…?
Lizzie Chantree and I during one of our long, industrious meetings (which is what we call a - breakfast, b - coffee, c breakfast and coffee, d - coffee and cake) discovered that we both love films and we are both rather keen to have our novels adapted for the big...
read moreThe Talking to my Friends About Books Podcast: Sue McDonagh and The Art Cafe Series
My new novel, Finding Summer Happiness is set on the Pembrokeshire coastline and reflects my love of the south Wales coast. i was born in Neath in South Wales and have always been entranced by the beaches, coves, cliffs and landscape of that part of the world....
read moreThe Talking to My Friends About Books Podcast: Gina Hollands
In this episode of The Talking to My Friends About Books Podcast, fellow Choc-Lit and Ruby Fiction author, Gina Hollands chat about her latest novel, Yours Trudy and our shared love of salsa dancing. She explained how she started salsa Listen here:...
read moreChris and Lizzie’s Book marketing adventure! Or Lizzie and Chris and the Blustery Day…
From Chris: Writing can be very solitary really. Even if you’re sitting in a café working on your latest masterpiece, you’re still alone with your own imagination, because, basically, you have to be to create the world you’re putting on the page. So, its...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about Books Podcast: Rob Jelly
I'm really enjoying arranging chats with my friends about the books they are reading. And I'm also enjoying listening back to them. I now have a long list of new novels to discover which is growing and growing. In this episode of The Talking to my Friends about Books...
read moreShh… It’s Our Secret, by Lizzie Chantree
I'm delighted to welcome international best selling author, Lizzie Chantree onto my blog today to celebrate the publication of her new book on May 6th 2021 Over to you Lizzie! Shh… It’s Our Secret, by Lizzie Chantree Thank you for inviting me onto your blog today and...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about Books Podcast: Lizzie Chantree
I love chatting to my friends about what we've been reading and getting recommendations for new books to try In this edition of the Talking to my friends about Books Podcast, myself and author Lizzie Chantree discuss our love for romantic fiction, Marian Keyes and how...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about Books Podcast: Claire Sheldon – The Source
Here's another recorded chat with a fellow book lover for Talking to my friends about Books. This time its Ruby Fiction writer, Claire Sheldon, author of Perfect Lie and Silent Child. Unsurprisingly crime and thrillers are at the top of her favourites list, including...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about Books Podcast: Jodie Halford – Back Home
I am really enjoying finding out what my friends are reading and adding more and more novels to my list of Must Be Reads! This time, my Talking to my friends about Books pal is Jodie Halford, She talks about books and motherhood and rediscovering her reading mojo...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about Books Podcast: Ella Cook on Terry Pratchett
I've now got a very long list of recommendations of books to read as a result of chatting to my friends about their favourite reads. In this edition of Talking to my friends about Books, Ella Page, author of Beyond Grey explains why Terry Pratchett is so important to...
read moreThe Talking to my Friends about Books Podcast: Helen Bridgett on Where the Crawdads Sing
I'm really enjoying my zoom chats with my friends about books, and this time I got to talk to Helen Bridgett, author of Summer at Serenity Bay and One By One about one of her favourite books, which, it turns out, is one of my favourites too - Where the Crawdads Sing...
read moreThe Talking to my Friends about Books Podcast: Owen Ward on Tombland
Because I love talking to my friends about books...here's another one. Imagine discovering that one of your ancestors was famous! Host of the Essex By the Sea podcast, Owen Ward chats with me about a book that's based around events involving a distant relative of his,...
read moreThe Talking to my Friends About Books Podcast: Victoria Polley – Bridget Jones and Hurrah for chick lit!
I've arranged some Zoom chats with friends recently because I miss talking to them about books. And I decided to record them and am writing down their recommendations and adding them to my list of To Be Reads... Today, Victoria Polley talks about why she loves Bridget...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about books Podcast- Oliver Rogers on Inspector Rebus and Anna Karenina
As I love chatting to my friends about the books they've read, I've decided to record some of our discussions and share them with everyone. Today's guest is Oliver Rogers who I worked with at BBC Essex many years ago. He is a big fan of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus...
read moreThe Talking to my Friends about Books Podcast: Lisa O’Sullivan – Rivers of London series
I really miss chatting to my friends and during the conversation getting onto the subject of books and what they've read recently. So I have decided to chat to them over Zoom about it and record their recommendations. My friend Lisa O'Sullivan is Talk Sport's Tennis...
read moreThe Talking to my friends about Books Podcast: Deborah Stephenson – No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Like every book lover, I thoroughly enjoy chatting to my friends about what they've been reading and why. And as many of us are reading even more avidly than ever due to the way we are living our lives at the moment, I don't get the chance to do it so much. So I...
read moreMagic in the Air – Cascais and New Beginnings
When I wrote my debut novel, The House That Alice Built, I had no intention of embarking on a sequel. That was until I finally sent the book of to my publishers, with all of the edits done, and realised that I didn't want to say goodbye to Alice just yet. So, I had to...
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