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Messy Wonderful Us
by Catherine Isaac
We are absolutely delighted to be able to reveal the cover for the brand new Catherine Isaac novel, Messy Wonderful Us, which publishes in eBook and library hardback in November 2019 and paperback in March 2020. Some fabulous quotes and endorsements are starting to come through – and there’s still …
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The Secret Hours
by Santa Montefiore
We are delighted to be able to share a handful of the fabulous #BookClub and #NetGalley reviews we’ve had through for the brand new Santa Montefiore novel, #TheSecretHours, publishing in glorious hardback and eBook on 11th July. ‘Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the …
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#DigitalOriginals #OneDay Pearls of Wisdom from Rebecca Farrell
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With little over a month left until Books and the City opens its doors to submissions from authors far and wide, we’ve decided to share some #OneDay pearls of wisdom, and reveal to you exactly what TeamBATC are looking for . . . As I’m sure you can imagine, hundreds …
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#DigitalOriginals #OneDay2017 news!
by SJV
We are absolutely delighted to confirm that a novel, originally submitted to us as part of our #DigitalOriginals #OneDay open submission project back in 2017, is now LIVE and available to pre-order in eBook first edition! Love Songs for Sceptics by debut author Christina Pishiris, features a kick-ass music journalist, …
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Living My Best Life (Going behind the filters and revealing what it’s really like to have a book published!)
by Claire Frost
Part 1 – Going Under Cover (seeing my name on an actual book) I’m not embarrassed to say that I love my name. Growing up, there were four other Claires in my class at school, and so often my Christian name was followed by my surname in order to differentiate …
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Writing The Secret Hours
by Santa Montefiore
The Secret Hours was originally called The Forgotten Deverill, and I’d had the idea for some time, ever since book two of the trilogy, Daughters of Castle Deverill. I was going to weave Arethusa Deverill’s story into the narrative, but just didn’t have the space. The book was too long …
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Winning…
by Louise Candlish
Before 13th May 2019, the best prize I’d won was a Yorkie* for coming first in a junior school handwriting competition and, after I’d offered a piece to everyone in my family, I had one chunk left. (*Young folk: the Yorkie was the chocolate bar of the 1980s, targeted at …
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Moana….
by Paige Toon
Book ideas can come from absolutely anywhere. My debut novel, Lucy in the Sky, was based on my personal experiences of feeling torn between two countries – Australia and England. Chasing Daisy was inspired by my dad’s career as a racing driver and a particular crash he had when I …
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After the happy ending…
by Iona Grey
I read Claire Frost’s post about the difficulties she faced in writing her first book with a great surge of writerly empathy (and admiration – having been lucky enough to hear her read an extract of the finished and soon-to-be-published Living My Best Li(f)e I know it’s an absolute cracker!) …
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A word from Germaine Johnson, star of The Helpline
by SJV
Hello everyone, When I wrote on my resume I was first aid trained, I didn’t think they’d believe me. But next thing you know, my boss had me in a ‘refresher course’. I would have gotten out of it—I faint at the sight of blood—but it paid an extra $1.50 …
Listen to the Books And The City Podcast!
On 25th July 2019, the beautiful rose gold foil jacketed paperback edition of the debut novel by Anstey Harris, The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton, will hit the shelves of bookshops up and down the country. But we know that for many of you, that’s just too long to wait, so we are delighted to be able to give you a little treat of an exclusive first chapter extract of the audiobook, which is out now...