The Wall by John Lanchester Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid…
London Screenwriters Festival
This is a time-sensitive post which will be of interest to writers, be they screenwriters or novel writers. It’s an online screenwriters festival that has been a month-long (it’s nearly finished, hence the time-sensitivity) but all content is available for a year. I only signed up yesterday. You have until Sunday 7th June to sign…
ProWritingAid – Finishing Your Manuscript
This is an ad. In return for reviewing ProWritingAid on the blog, I will receive a year’s license for the software – and after trialling it, I really want the ProWritingAid software – you will see why when you read the blog post below! The following review of ProWritingAid contains my honest thoughts and feelings…
FREE Course – Great For Crime Writers – Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology
Last week I started a course to support my crime writing. It’s FREE with FutureLearn. That course is Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology. It lasts six weeks and they state it should take you about three hours to complete each week. I”m part way through week one and the first week isn’t going to take me…
#Virtualcrimebookclub – June’s book!
The voting has finished for the book we are going to read and discuss in June and the winner is… Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds. It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods. It is an eternity waiting for news.…
Recently Read – Streets of Darkness by A A Dhand
Streets of Darkness by A A Dhand The sky over Bradford is heavy with foreboding. It always is. But this morning it has reason to be – this morning a body has been found. And it’s not just any body. Detective Harry Virdee should be at home with his wife. Impending fatherhood should be all…
Virtual Crime Book Club – Video and New Vote!
Last night saw the second meeting of the #virtualcrimebookclub on Zoom. We discussed Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce. It was a well-attended meeting and we are growing as a club. If you are interested in joining you can sign up HERE. (This is so you can be sent the meeting room details prior to the…
And The Winner Is…
Following on from last weeks post Winning Two DI Hannah Robbins’ audiobooks I can today announce the winner after using a random number generator. And that winner is… Melanie Hodges via GIPHY Congratulations Melanie. Please contact me through the contact form and I shall sort out your audiobooks for you.
Recently Read – The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Guest List by Lucy Foley Set on a remote island off the Irish coast, this is one guest list no one would want to be on, just as no one would have wanted an invitation to the New Year’s Eve party in Foley’s previous novel, The Hunting Party . Lives unravel amid the revelry…
WIN Two Audiobooks!
As I mentioned in THIS POST it’s been difficult for some people to read during lockdown. Stress has played a big part in that. And yet reading and books are a real escape and should be the perfect place to run to. One of the suggestions I made to help get you back into reading…
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