The Serpent Under continues Bonnie MacBird’s glorious Sherlock Holmes series
“The sixth instalment from Baker Street continues to invoke the Holmes of Conan Doyle” There is always a challenge when an author picks up the baton and continues the legacy of a character that is entrenched in English literature. Both reader and, to some extent, the author must feel the weight of history and the…
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Melanie Blake says ‘real characters pushed me to trilogy after 39 rejections from publishers’
‘I had no idea debut would be a bestseller and translated into 10 languages’ Melanie Blake has told The Book Insider about how she found herself writing a trilogy when she was originally surprised that she would be writing a sequel. She released the second in a series of three stories, titled Guilty Women, and… Read more
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Janice Hallett admits ‘I couldn’t decipher The Twyford Code until I had written it’
‘I could not decipher The Twyford Code until I had written it’ When writing a complex, twisting tale which takes the readers on a roller coaster ride with seemingly dead ends which suddenly reveal a new path and a whole set of new suspicions for the readers, all the author has to do is keep… Read more
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Melanie Blake: “Working class authors are expected to live through misery to succeed”
‘The tough times are meant to be part of the overall package’ Melanie Blake has told The Book Insider that a working class voice can sometimes find it hard to break through because it is expected that the ‘tough times’ they have had in real life needs to be part of the package to promote… Read more
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Jess Impiazzi says ’emotions burst from my heart to the page’ when writing her story
‘I was realising my own beliefs about myself were holding me back’ Jess Impiazzi has not had a conventional journey to becoming a published author as for much of her life she has been known as a reality TV star, which is a tag she has found hard to leave behind as her acting career… Read more
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Milly Johnson: “I’m not great at writing fluff, my terrain is a gritty one’
‘I do like to counterbalance this with humour in my books’ Milly Johnson already had more than 20 best-selling novels behind her before Together, Again hit the shelves but this didn’t stop the prolific Yorkshire-based writer seeking some advice as to what the book buying market was wanting. Not that the answer Milly was given… Read more
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Janice Hallett: “The Alperton Angels are inspired by reality but it’s my creepiest story yet’
‘Compared to my previous novels, this is more procedural’ Janice Hallett was hailed as one of the UK’s pre-eminent crime writers in 2022, with The Appeal and The Twyford Code introducing readers to a new way to solve her complex mysteries. The new year gives fans of Hallett’s stories an opportunity to indulge in a… Read more
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