Paris

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Scent – paperback cover reveal

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ March 30, 2022 ⋅ 1 Comment

As promised a few weeks ago, today I’m very excited to share the cover for the paperback of my second novel Scent, which will be published on 19 May. I’ve been very lucky with covers, not least because I’ve always been involved. This is the first time I’ve had a second cover for the same … Continue reading →

Paris Before and After

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ March 4, 2015 ⋅ 23 Comments

One morning last week I found myself on the Eurostar to Paris with a strong cup of coffee, reading a book about Baudelaire, one of my literary heroes (‘influences’ sounds a bit pretentious). Rain pelted the windows, the sky low and heavy as he painted it in his poem Spleen but that didn’t matter to me. I … Continue reading →

First person, first draft – The Story of a Second Novel

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ July 29, 2014 ⋅ 30 Comments

I haven’t posted anything about my writing since the new year, but many of you know my current project is to write the first draft of my second novel in six months, finishing by the end of 2014. It’s a self-imposed deadline, because I have something to prove. I’m very grateful to have the support of … Continue reading →

Writers on Location – Naomi Wood on Hemingway’s Havana

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ February 12, 2014 ⋅ 26 Comments

I’m very excited to be introducing a new regular slot on the Literary Sofa: WRITERS ON LOCATION, inspired by my own love of travel (and the way it, in turn, inspires me) and the many novels which have a particularly vivid, interesting or exotic sense of place. Naomi Wood’s novel Mrs Hemingway, one of my … Continue reading →