Historical Fiction | Only the Dead | T J Gorton
We’re delighted to be sharing Alice-Jane’s thoughts today for Only the Dead by T J Gorton. Only the Dead is part adventure story and part exploration of the moral complexities arising from war, brutality and the desire for revenge. As old Vartan sits reading mystical Persian poetry amongst the dust and disintegration of war-torn Beirut, the fluted pillars of his decaying house wreathed in shadows, his thoughts wander back, inevitably, to another conflict, many years before… Only the Dead is the story of Vartan Nakashian, a young Armenian from Aleppo caught in the midst of a world war that is proving catastrophic for his people. We follow his journey of…
Historical Fiction | A Bitter Harvest | Charles Ellingworth
I’m delighted to be hosting Charles Ellingworth in my hot seat on tour today. Charles is chatting to us about his historical novel A Bitter Harvest which is the first volume in a sequence of novels that will follow the events of the inter-war years and the lives of a unique generation of women. 1919. The Great War is over and an armistice agreed but peace is not a given. England, riven by grief and loss, attacked by the Spanish Flu, with its younger generation of men killed, traumatised or wounded, is adjusting to a changed world. The slaughter of the Great War is over, but the Roaring Twenties are…
Crime | The Unbeliever by Oggy Boytchev
I’m delighted to be taking part in the blog tour today for debut novel The Unbeliever by Oggy Boytchev. Oggy Boytchev shares with us the restraints in the small town he grew up in and the event that inspired his career as well as a window into his writing process. I’m sure you’ll join in with wishing Oggy good luck on his blog tour. x I grew up in a dusty god-forsaken place behind the Iron Curtain in communist Bulgaria, in a small town with unpaved streets and a military factory in the outskirts. My father was interned there for anti-communist activities and was made to break stones in the…
Rediscovered Classics from Quartet Books | Separation by Sally Emerson
Quartet Books is publishing all six of award-winning author Sally Emerson’s novels as Rediscovered Classics in a newly designed series for 2017 (Sally Emerson was my guest in March when Fire Child was released). Today, Sally Emerson is in my hot seat chatting about Separation, the fourth of the six stories reissued. Find out her inspiration, the scene she enjoyed writing the most and much more! Daughter of a doctor and English teacher (who had worked in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park) who met at Cambridge, Sally Emerson is married and has two children, a journalist and a novelist. She spent three years in Washington DC 1989-1992, the inspiration for…
Travel Memoir | Far to Go and Many to Love | Lesley Blanch
Far to Go and Many to Love : People and Places is a selection of Lesley Blanch’s early journalism, essays and traveller’s tales and forms an irresistible sequel to her posthumous memoirs, On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life. God-daughter Georgia de Chamberet is sharing with us today an evocative article “The Romantic Retreat Created by Lesley Blanch with Treasures from a Lifetime of Travel” which I know you will enjoy as much as I have. First, here’s more about Far to Go and Many to Love. Hardcover: 376 pages Publisher: Quartet Books; New edition edition (1 Jun. 2017) Language: English ISBN-10: 070437434X ISBN-13: 978-0704374348 Savvy, self-possessed, talented and successful,…
Rediscovered Classics from Quartet Books | Fire Child by Sally Emerson
To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Fire Child’s first publication, Quartet Books is publishing all six of award-winning author Sally Emerson’s novels as Rediscovered Classics in a newly designed series for 2017 and I’m delighted to be hosting the author on tour. Fire Child was published alongside Heat on 23 March 2017, bringing these two dark love stories to a new generation of readers. Second Sight and Separation will follow in June, with Listeners and Broken Bodies published in October. The Washington Post called Sally Emerson’s Fire Child ‘an ambitious exploration of morality in its modern forms.’ Paperback: 232 pages Publisher: Quartet Books; New edition edition (23 Mar. 2017) Language: English ISBN-10:…
