Read Sally Emerson’s Q&A with the Portobello Book Blog…

Sally Emerson was asked some questions by Portobello Book Blog and here are the answers. Get your copy of Separation and Second Sight today!

Radio Gorgeous interview Georgia de Chamberet on Lesley Blanch and Far to Go and Many to Love

You can listen to Radio Gorgeous interview Georgia de Chamberet on Lesley Blanch and Far to Go and Many to Love here and get your copy of this extraordinary title here.

Sally Emerson writes about her London for the London Magazine

‘I will never quite understand London, my cool, embracing, mysterious and wicked lover. My novels are an attempt to come closer to what you are and the passion at the heart of you. But whatever you are we all celebrate you every day.’

Sally writes about her London for The London Magazine which you can read here. You can read more of Sally’s London in Separation which you can buy here.

Country Life give a fantastic review of Far to Go and Many to Love

‘Those who have read Blanch’s books, with their vivid descriptions of far-flung places and deeply felt emotional involvements, will recognise how accurate the gypsy’s forecast was. This new collection of her early journalism, biographical essays and travellers’ tales adds a whole new dimension to her adventurous and romantic life… Blanch may be best remembered for The Wilder Shores of Love, but as she explores the souks and bazaars of Central Asia in this eccentric and fascinating book, she also discovers ‘the wilder shores of shopping’. She is as good company on the page as she must have been in the alleyways of Bukhara.’

Country Life gives a fantastic review of Far to Go and Many to Love by Lesley Blanch. You can get your copy of the book here today.

Fantastic review of Separation by Sally Emerson on Shiny New Books

‘This is a novel of immense subtlety and perceptiveness. The story is told from the multiple points of view of all the characters, including the baby Kate, whose attempts to make sense of the strange new world around her are wonderfully conveyed in short, concise chapters. Emerson’s writing manages to be both beautifully spare and deeply profound.’ 

Great review of Separation by Sally Emerson on Shiny New Books. You can read the full review here and get your copy of the book here. 

Five page spread in the British Airways High Life Magazine

Simon Courtuald has done a fantastic five page spread called ‘Sketches of Spain’ for High Life Magazine. Get your copy of Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtauld here today.

 

 

Fantastic review of Far to Go and Many to Love by Lesley Blanch

‘There is no resisting the spell cast by Lesley Blanch’s words’

There’s a fantastic review of Far to Go and Many to Love by Lesley Blanch in the August issue of The Literary Review. Get your copy here today.

The Daily Mail reviews Separation by Sally Emerson

‘The nail-biting plot is skilfully interwoven with observations about motherhood and career conflict, the passionate bond between parent and offspring and the pain endured by a child of a broken marriage.’

The Daily Mail gives a fantastic review of Separation by Sally Emerson in the ‘Retro Reads’ feature. You can read the full review here and get your copy of the book here today.

 

Read this piece on Mother of Darkness and Venetia Welby’s perspective on Mental Health and Drugs in the UK for Volteface

‘What motivated you to explore drug addiction amongst young adults (in particular men such as Matty) in Mother of Darkness?                                                

It started more as an exploration of escapism – the idea of a young man’s reality being so unbearable that it’s preferable to block it out and live within the worlds of his own mind. Matty is in crisis and attempting to carry on with his life, though that life as he knew it is over and now full of grief and guilt. Drugs enable him to disappear from this daily horror show and access the infinite possibilities of his vast, if somewhat egocentric, inner worlds. I wondered at what point this internal reality becomes not just more compelling but more convincing than the external world.’
Read the full interview and feature on Mother of Darkness here and get your copy of the book here today.

Sally Emerson on How Novels Change for Women’s Writers…

‘Curious that the novels I have written belong to me, and yet don’t at all. They seemed almost to have changed while I haven’t been looking at them, found more substance, and linked themselves together with themes. But of course time does that. And in some ways all my six novels began with that confused young London girl Jennifer Hamilton, dislocated from normality after the death of her best friend, who tries to keep hold of her imagination. The quiet girl in a noisy world’

Sally Emerson writes about the ways in which the novel changes for Women’s Writers. You can read the full piece here.

Harriet Devine gives a glowing review of Second Sight by Sally Emerson for her blog!

‘Sally Emerson writes beautifully and has a wonderfully clear understanding of the way peoples’ hearts and minds work. I’ve since read a second one of her novels which I’m going to be reviewing on Shiny soon, so watch out for that. And I look forward to reading more by this talented and fascinating author…’

Read Harriet Devine’s full review of Second Sight by Sally Emerson here and get your copy of the book here today.

Top Travel Books from The Telegraph

The Telegraph Travel section recommends Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtauld as one of its best travel books…

‘Amid the huffing and puffing about what Brexit might mean for Gibraltar, Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtauld (Quartet), which chronicles the long history of relations between Britain and Spain and has a chapter on The Rock, could be a useful primer.’

You can read the full article here and get your copy of Footprints in Spain here today.