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The Ties That Bind by Erin Kelly
I met Erin Kelly for the first time last summer when I attended The Swanwick Writers’ Summer School at which she led an excellent course. I enjoyed the summer school and you can read my review about it at bookreviewstoday.info/2015/11/15/swanwick-writers-summer-school-2015/. Erin Kelly is a very impressive tutor. I like her style and her approach to writing, …
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
The Spare Room is a novel about caring for a friend with cancer by Australian writer Helen Garner. She is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist who was born in Geelong, Australia on 7, November 1942. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. Garner’s first novel, Monkey Grip, was published in …
Belonging by Ron Butlin
Ron Butlin is an author who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on January 1, 1949. He had various jobs, including a lyricist with a pop band, a barnacle scraper on Thames barges in London, England, a footman attending embassies and country houses, and a male model before he turned his talents to writing. His most recent …
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Markus Frank Zusak is an Australian writer. He is best known for this book, The Book Thief and The Messenger, two novels for young adults which have been international bestsellers. He was born in Sydney, Australia on 23 June 1975 and has received many accolades for his work including: Book Sense Book of the Year Award …
The Twilight Time by Karen Campbell
The Twilight Time was book of the month at my book group. We meet in the local library and our leader is the author, Evelyn Hood whose 40th book was published last week. She is an remarkable person who is very generous about sharing her time and experience with less experienced writers in her workshops. The …
Following the Wake by Gemma O’Connor
Gemma O’Connor is one of Ireland’s most popular mystery writers. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1940.Educated in both in Ireland and in France. She lived in Oxford, England where she worked as a bookbinder, a book restorer and also as a stewardess before she became a writer. In 1995 she published her first mystery story which became successful. …
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K. She was the youngest of three children. She wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan but it is for writing crime mysteries as Agatha Christie that she is best known. Evil Under The Sun is …
Blood Red Roses by Lin Anderson
I read this book as a quick reads edition. I needed to get through it quickly because Lin Anderson was coming to speak to the group of students on my Post-Graduate Creative Writing Class. She was delightful and very open. She took time to answer all our questions about whether to use a pen name, …
Second Chance by Jane Green
Jane Green is the author of fourteen New York Times best selling novels, dealing with real women and all the things life throws at them, with her trademark wisdom, wit and warmth. A former feature writer for the Daily Express newspaper in the UK, Green took a leap in faith when she left, in 1996, …
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