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Summer Reads 2015
*SEE END OF POST FOR COMPETITION WINNERS* Welcome to SUMMER READS 2015, the 12th Literary Sofa listing of recommended new and recent titles. It’s been a very enjoyable task but deciding is never easy. As always, I have read every title here and many more in full and since variety is the key to an interesting … Continue reading
Fiction Hot Picks 2015
This is my seventh Literary Sofa selection of new/forthcoming releases and I am as excited as ever to share my choices with you. I can’t recommend a novel I haven’t read, so to arrive at the final 13 I considered dozens, enjoying many from cover to cover. These made the cut because I think they’re all highly compelling, well-written … Continue reading
The Literary Lunch Third Blog Anniversary Competition – results
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED – SEE END OF POST FOR WINNERS It’s hard to believe that this week sees the third anniversary of the Literary Sofa and it feels like something to celebrate. The blog continues to grow in popularity with more hits than ever in the last twelve months and this week’s post is, as … Continue reading
Summer Reads 2014
*SEE END OF POST FOR COMPETITION WINNERS* I’m very excited to unveil the Literary Sofa SUMMER READS 2014. From a field of over 50 titles considered, the twelve books I selected reflect the breadth of my taste and hopefully also yours. You’ll find crime and mystery, a memoir, comic and tragic family sagas, intriguing tales … Continue reading
The Literary Guilt and Inferiority Quiz
Many of you book-lovers will have seen this very interesting, possibly funnier than intended article by the supremely erudite Will Self in The Guardian, lamenting the death of the serious literary novel (again). Now, serious and literary are two of my favourite words but this piece contained one or two (dozen) others which challenged my … Continue reading
Second Blog Anniversary Competition – NOW CLOSED
Things have been pretty frantic since I returned from my month in America: I got straight back into my manuscript for the final push before I send it out to readers and then agents. On the blog I’ve posted a travelogue, a fantastic piece by Wendy Wallace, the first guest to ‘reappear’ on the Literary … Continue reading
My new novel SCENT – out in paperback on 19 May 2022
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