BOOKISH NEWS Hi, and welcome to our news feature, in which we highlight and discuss some of the news that has been big in the bookish world this week. Attempt to Ban Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Most people would think that the Diary of Anne Frank is not only a worthwhile book to read, but something that every child should study in order to understand the trials and tribulations that so many people went through during the Holocaust. It is regarded as a classic by many, and…
THE AUTHOR Elle Field is a twenty-something writer who lives in North London with her boyfriend. A social media consultant by day, she enjoys exploring and photographing Blighty’s capital, seeing far too many musicals, and eating her away around London’s culinary delights. Kept is her first novel, which will be followed by Geli Voyante’s Hot or Not later this year. THE BOOK RELEASE DATE: 22nd April 2013 | PUBLISHER: Self-Published GENRE: Contemporary Romance Life hasn’t quite worked out how Arielle Lockley planned. Becoming the next Coco Chanel, not shopping at Chanel,…
After the Kiss (The Stiletto #1) Genre: Contemporary Romance | Publisher: Loveswept | Release Date: Aug 2013 In the first book of a delightful new series from Lauren Layne, the star columnist of Stiletto magazine will do anything for a story. Anything… except fall in love. Julie Greene loves flings. Loves steamy first dates, sizzling first kisses, and every now and then, that first sexy romp between the sheets. Comfy pants, sleepy Sundays, movie nights on the couch? Shudder. But when Julie gets assigned the hardest story of her career—a first-person account…
STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS (2013) DIRECTOR: J. J. Abrams STARRING: Chris Pine, Zachery Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Simon Pegg, Zoe Salanda GENRE: Sci-Fi, Action CERT: 12A The second movie out of the gate, in the coveted Summer Movie Season, is the sequel to 2009’s reboot of the popular Sci-Fi series Star Trek. Rather than do a complete remake of the original series of films, Abrams has decided to go down the alternative timeline route, which allows him and his writers to pick which elements they want to re-use and develop it…
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young (On Dublin Street #1) Penguin (January 2013) Paperback, 407 Pages Erotic Contemporary Romance On Dublin Street is part of a collection of books I own called, “The publishers claim it’s hotter, darker, sexier, edgier than 50 Shades of Grey”. Anyone who has read any of my reviews on erotic romance knows how much I didn’t like 50 Shades to the point I only managed to read 10%. So again, I picked up this book, waiting to see what On Dublin Street had in store…
Brid Enright – International Sales I am a member of the international sales department at Headline Publishing Group. Our role is to sell Headline’s books to territories all over the world. It is a varied and challenging role but it does have some pretty sweet benefits. The main one being that we get to travel to lots of different places. I now look after our Australian and New Zealand territories. This involves liaising with our sister companies in Australia and New Zealand so that we can publish our books to…
The Silver Rose by Rowena May O’Sullivan (Greenwood Witches #1) Crimson Romance (Nov 2012) Ebook, 320 pages Paranormal Romance When the Bells of Marylebone toll, a witch has one month to bind her magic with a magical mate or give up her powers. Rosa is unprepared when she hears the bells toll for her, as there is no warlock in town powerful enough to help her. Aden is sent to Rosa’s town to help her find her mate and ensure she fulfills her destiny. He just doesn’t realize it is with him. The Silver Rose is…
NEW SERIES ALERT THE SERIES: Reviver BOOK #1: Reviver | GENRE: Supernatural Thriller PUBLISHER: Tor Books | RELEASE DATE: 18th June 2013 Revivers. Able to wake the recently dead, and let them bear witness to their own demise. Twelve years after the first reviver came to light, they have become accepted by an uneasy public. The testimony of the dead is permitted in courtrooms across the world. Forensic revival is a routine part of police investigation. In the United States, that responsibility falls to the Forensic Revival Service. Despite his…
Pretty When They Collide by Rhiannon Frater (Pretty When She Dies #0.5) Self-Published (March 2013) Ebook, 145 pages Urban Fantasy A beautiful, brave Dhamphir with a weakness for stunning blondes sets out to rescue the damsel in distress who is also a rare full blooded witch, but the master vampire Frank loves his little witchy slave and will not let her go without a fight. Pretty When They Collide is a spin off from the main Pretty When She Dies series using two characters that were introduced in Pretty When…
We are pleased to have Freda Warrington on the blog today. Freda is the British author of the Aetherial Tales and more recently, A Taste of Blood Wine. Please give her a warm welcome… The Past is a Foreign Country? What’s it like revisiting a series that you (the author) wrote 20 or 30 years ago? Have you changed so much that, when you reread the story, it’s as if someone else wrote it? Is it possible to go back in time and re-inhabit that world as if you’d never left? I’ve been…
Julie Crisp – Editorial Director For those of you who don’t already know me I’m the Editorial Director of Tor UK, Pan Macmillan’s science fiction and fantasy imprint. I work across a variety of speculative fiction and my authors include Peter F. Hamilton, China Miéville, Amanda Hocking, Seth Patrick, Mark Charan Newton and Adam Nevill. I’m incredibly lucky in that I’m working across a spectrum of authors that I’d read naturally as a fan. I picked up my first horror novel; Stephen King’s IT, from my Dad’s bookshelves when I…
Seal of Surrender by Traci Douglass (The Seven Seals #2) Crimson Romance (May 2013) Ebook, 187 Pages Paranormal Romance Seal of Surrender is the second instalment in The Seven Seals series. With the second in a series, there is always that worry that it will not live up to the first. This is not an issue here. I personally think it was better than Seal of Destiny. This is not to say that Seal of Destiny wasn’t good in the first place – I loved it. In this novel we…
‘Thoughtful Ramblings’ is where we discuss bookish topics. Ones that have us all hot and bothered and we need a good rant to air our grievances or topics that have us all thoughtful and we just need to have a bit of a ramble… Cliffhangers: Love Them or Hate Them? Cliffhangers. I think they might be a bit like marmite, in that you either love them or hate them. Or perhaps it’s more fair to say love to hate them. Me? I’m in the second camp, I am officially so…
Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas (Friday Harbour #3) Piatkus Books (August 2012) Paperbook, 336 pages Contemporary / Paranormal Romance Dream Lake is book number three in Lisa Kleypas’s contemporary romance series Friday Harbour. It follows three brothers who have all suffered from a neglectful upbringing, so much so that none of them have believed in happily ever afters. The last book had a paranormal twist, as does Dream Lake, this time in the shape of a ghost. The story centres around Alex the third brother of the family. Alex is…
Esperanza by Trish J. MacGregor (Hungry Ghosts #1) Tor Books (Sept 2010) Hardback, 336 pages Urban Fantasy Esperanza by Trish J. MacGregor takes fantasy to new heights with a thriller that will leave you cowering behind a cushion with all your curtains closed, praying the fog can’t get in… Those of you with a knowledge of Spanish will know that Esperanza means ‘hope’, but this novel strips hope away in the town of Esperanza, Ecuador. It very much takes advantage of the American perspective of Latin America as a mystical…
