Podcast: Jessie Burton & Hayley Attwell discuss The Muse

Out now is Jessie Burton’s The Muse, her followup to The Miniaturist, Burton’s acclaimed debut novel. Find out how The Miniaturist came to be in this interview with Hayley Attwell, part of the 2015 Essex Book Festival. Continue reading “Podcast: Jessie Burton & Hayley Attwell discuss The Muse”

Podcast: Essex Book Festival week 2 – Jessie Burton & Hayley Atwell

We’re into week two now of the Essex Book Festival and it’s a great podcast this week! We have Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist, in conversation with Hayley Atwell. Continue reading “Podcast: Essex Book Festival week 2 – Jessie Burton & Hayley Atwell”

Essex Book Festival: Birth of the Book Live Blog! Francesca Main

Join us as we liveblog the ‘Birth of the Book’ event at Essex Book Festival featuring critically acclaimed author Kerry Hudson, Literary Agent Jo Unwin and Picador Editor Francesca Main. We move on to Picador Editor Francesca Main. Continue reading “Essex Book Festival: Birth of the Book Live Blog! Francesca Main”

Essex Book Festival: Birth of the Book Live Blog! – Jo Unwin

Join us as we liveblog the ‘Birth of the Book’ event at Essex Book Festival featuring critically acclaimed author Kerry Hudson, Literary Agent Jo Unwin and Picador Editor Francesca Main. Continue reading “Essex Book Festival: Birth of the Book Live Blog! – Jo Unwin”

Essex Book Festival: Birth of the Book Live Blog! – Kerry Hudson

Join us as we liveblog the ‘Birth of the Book’ event at Essex Book Festival featuring critically acclaimed author Kerry Hudson, Literary Agent Jo Unwin and Picador Editor Francesca Main. Continue reading “Essex Book Festival: Birth of the Book Live Blog! – Kerry Hudson”

Podcast: Essex Book Festival week 1 – Kate Hamer and Kerry Hudson

Kate and Rob are back to discuss the first week of the Essex Book Festival, and their thoughts on The Girl In The Red Coat by Kate Hamer and Thirst by Kerry Hudson.
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Announcing Essex Book Festival 2015

Some exciting news from our neck of the woods: today, the line-up for Essex Book Festival 2015 was announced at The Mercury Theatre in Colchester. There are some fantastic events to look forward to in March this year, and we can’t wait to be a part of it. Continue reading “Announcing Essex Book Festival 2015”

Podcast: Essie Fox and Wendy Wallace at the Essex Book Festival

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Essie Fox and Wendy Wallace discuss their latest books and ‘The English and the Exotic’ at the Essex Book Festival. Continue reading “Podcast: Essie Fox and Wendy Wallace at the Essex Book Festival”

His and Hers Review: The Sacred River by Wendy Wallace

Harriet Heron’s life is almost over before it has even begun. At just twenty-three years of age, she is an invalid, over-protected and reclusive. Before it is too late, she must escape the fog of Victorian London for a place where she can breathe.

Together with her devoted mother, Louisa, her god-fearing aunt, Yael, and a book of her own spells inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Harriet travels to a land where the air is tinged with rose and gold and for the first time begins to experience what it is to live. But a chance meeting on the voyage to Alexandria results in a dangerous friendship as Louisa’s long-buried past returns, in the form of someone determined to destroy her by preying upon her daughter.

As Harriet journeys towards a destiny no one could have foreseen, her aunt Yael is caught up in an Egypt on the brink of revolt and her mother must confront the spectres of her own youth. Continue reading “His and Hers Review: The Sacred River by Wendy Wallace”

His and Hers Review: The Goddess and The Thief by Essie Fox

Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor.  When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their lives, Alice is drawn into a plot to steal the priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond, claimed by the British Empire at the end of the Anglo-Sikh wars.

Said to be both blessed and cursed, the sacred Indian stone exerts its power over all who encounter it: a handsome deposed maharajah determined to claim his rightful throne, a man hell-bent on discovering the secrets of eternity, and a widowed queen who hopes the jewel can draw her husband’s spirit back. In the midst of all this madness, Alice must discover a way to regain control of her life and fate…

Kate and Rob share their thoughts on Essie Fox’s latest novel. Continue reading “His and Hers Review: The Goddess and The Thief by Essie Fox”

Adele Parks – the preview interview, for Essex Book Festival

On Tuesday 4th March, Adele Parks will be at Rayleigh Library as part of the Essex Book Festival, talking about her fascinating new novel Spare Brides. In a huge departure for Adele, Spare Brides takes us back in time, nearly 100 years, to follow the stories of four friends in a generation where few women could hope for a husband, after the appalling destruction of World War One.

In this centenary year of the beginning of that conflict, Adele took time out to answer some questions about her first historical novel from Kate, to give us a taster of what we can expect… Continue reading “Adele Parks – the preview interview, for Essex Book Festival”