After working with Paul Stark (Audio Manager at The Orion Publishing Group), when he gave me The Scandal  to review, I went through the list of his attending authors and their latest releases but this caused me a problem, as I only had the titles and the name of the authors to go on.  I… Continue reading Orion Recommends

This afternoon, Abir Mukherjee gave a talk about his career so far with his twelve books, his latest, Death in the East, being released this Thursday. He began to tell the audience about why he became a writer and to explain that crime writing allows him to discuss crime in a social context that allows… Continue reading Learning about Death in the East Midlands

Caz Frear and TM Logan were on stage today to close out my afternoon. With Caz being a series writer and TM being a writer of standalones, they both encapsulate the opposite ends of the genre and look at completely different styles. However, from the talk this afternoon, I was able to discover some hidden… Continue reading Two sides of the same Coin

At the 2019 Nottinghamshire Libraries Readers Day, KL Slater opened with the first talk of the day at 10AM. There were many different options to choose from on the programme, but I chose to focus on the crime side of them today and Kim being local to Nottingham gave us a great local flavour. She… Continue reading The Council Chambers, with KL Slater

Abir Mukherjee is to appear at the Readers Day on the 16th of November in Nottingham and this has given me the opportunity to read Smoke and Ashes, the third Sam Wyndham and Surrender-not Banerjee novel. Abir’s books so far have followed Wyndham’s career from 1919 – 1921, in the third book Abir focussed on… Continue reading Clearing the Smoke around Gandhi

After I first met KL Slater at a talk with Will Dean, (that’s where the above picture was taken from), at the third time of asking it as finally been possible for me to read a book by the Nottingham author in preparation for Readers Day 2019.The Silent Ones is the second of three books… Continue reading A Hat-trick with KL Slater

The Dublin Murders concluded last night, so I can now see Sarah Phepls’s adaptation of Tana French’s universe and look at her view point of the novels in full. Given that the original books were over 40 hours of listening, it must have been difficult to stitch both “In The Woods” & “The Likeness” together… Continue reading Spotting the Stitching