Mother of Darkness by Venetia Welby will be touring blogs from the 28th February… The book will be available here soon!
Gerald Jacobs will be speaking to David Goldberg at The Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town on Monday 27th February from 7.30pm. It will be a fantastic evening and will coincide with the Jewish Book Week.
Go here for more information.
‘Alexander leaves a great journalistic legacy. However, after 40 years of friendship I shall remember him above all as so very lovable. And he had an unforgettable laugh.’
Simon Courtauld remembers Alexander Chancellor in The Spectator. You can read this moving and beautifully written piece here and get your copy of Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtauld here.
‘Is there a more surreal way of learning the name of your mother, who vanished when you were four? A woman airbrushed from history.’
The East Anglian Daily Times had a piece on Darling Baby Mine by John De St. Jorre in their Weekend paper. You can read the full piece here: east anglia daily times 1 and get a copy of Darling Baby Mine here today.
Lucy Beresford held a brilliant author event at Jaipur Literary Festival. She drew in a fantastic crowd and talked about her recent title Invisible Threads. Please see the above pictures of the event… You can get your copy of Invisible Threads here and Hungry for Love here.
‘One can’t read this book without examining one’s own life: how even a single year of age difference can affect siblings differently: how one child seeks answers in an effort to better understand his life and another chooses to move on, as if the past never existed.’
‘Simon Courtauld evokes the popular picture of “country of blood and death, heat and dust, fierce light and deep shade, passionate love and tragic loss”…There is much here to inform and delight.’
Footprints in Spain by Simon Courtuald is reviewed in The Oldie Magazine. You can read the full review here: Portraits of Spain The Oldie and get your copy of Footprints in Spain here.
“It is a little bit odd because it is something I have lived with all of my life, but didn’t start writing about until much later… As a journalist I am used to writing about other people and I had to write about myself and my family…Because of the way it happened it reads like a detective novel and I create scenes and invent a bit of dialogue so it is not just a memoir.”
The Colchester Gazette interviews John De St. Jorre. You can read the full interview here. To read more about Darling Baby Mine by John De St. Jorre, read here.
We were very sad to hear about the recent passing of Emma Tennant, a co-author of Did We Meet on Grub Street? .
“My life has really been about writing,” she said, “though some think it’s all about once having been in a ball dress and having an odd life and marrying all the time. But it’s the writing that’s always been the point.”
To read the full wonderful obituary in the Guardian, follow this link.
ght, our author Dr Pam Hirsch was on the One Show discussing the life and work of Phyllis Bottome. You can watch The One Show now