Month: October 2017

#Bookreview The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

October 26, 2017

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication Date: 2017 Device: iPhone; mostly listened to audiobook Blurb: EVERYONE WANTS TO BE A ROANOKE GIRL. BUT YOU WON’T WHEN YOU KNOW THE TRUTH. ‘Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.’ The girls of the Roanoke family – beautiful, rich, mysterious … More #Bookreview The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Q&A: Author Alex Day on psychological thrillers

October 16, 2017

This week Alex Day answers my questions on psychological thrillers: their popularity, the writing of them and what she enjoys — and doesn’t — as a reader. Alex Day is author of THE MISSING TWIN, a psychological thriller published in August 2017 by Harper Collins (Killer Reads imprint). It is her debut psychological thriller; she also writes under another name. Any thoughts … More Q&A: Author Alex Day on psychological thrillers

My week away from civilisation, in which I sought inspiration and found only a long, deep silence

October 10, 2017

This August I set off alone to the house in the mountains of south-west France that my husband and I visit intermittently. I was hoping to write copiously and come up with reams of ideas for novel 4 (novel 2 is now finished and novel 3 is awaiting a final edit). A week without a dog to walk or a … More My week away from civilisation, in which I sought inspiration and found only a long, deep silence