Tag: books
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Coming soon… #books
Not quite a new book, but definitely the next best thing – I’m delighted that DP Books, the UK arm of a large German digital publisher, will be re-releasing three of my older suspense novels over the next few weeks. First up is The Attic Room, originally published in 2015. The pre-order is running already,…
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Summer? #SilentSunday (almost)
June was sweltering. July was… I’m not saying it was wet, or anything, but the pic below speaks for itself. The water level – dark blue line – of Lake Constance rose dramatically. Good job it was abnormally low to start with or we’d have had flooding. This month, however, has been better and I’ve…
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A Street Art Festival… #books
Last week, fellow writers Alison Baillie, Louise Mangos and I went to the International Street Art Festival in Frauenfeld. Many of the exhibits from the first festival in 2023 are still there in town, and this year, a different set of artists was invited to contribute with paintings on walls and buildings, also ceramic artwork…
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Many quilts and a bargain #book…
(Scroll down for the bargain book…) It was raining in St Gallen last Monday, so a friend and I decided to go to a museum. The Textile Museum being nearby, we dripped in there and found an exhibition of very photogenic quilts and quilting: I seem to have lost the full version of the one…
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Four beers and a “snowstorm”…
Here we are in May, and we had several lovely summery days in N.E. Switzerland last week before the weather broke and brought us some much needed rain. Last week, I visited a microbrewery in St Gallen with the Anglo-Swiss Club. No one has ever called me a massive beer drinker, but it was fascinating…
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Pictures of Switzerland… #books
We’re getting beautiful spring weather here in N.E. Switzerland – it’s lovely to be able to get out and about without packing woolly hats and gloves and scarves. Last week, a friend and I went to the Würth Haus in Rorschach, where the new exhibition is ‘Sport and Free Time’. The exhibits were many and…
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On the other side of the Alps… #travel #SilentSunday
On Friday, a friend and I set off (very) early to visit another friend in the Ticino – Locarno, to be exact. It was a fabulous day: Happy reading!
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Dreich in November… and a bargain! #SilentSunday #books
Make that almost Silent Sunday… November hasn’t been the sunniest month so far in N.E. Switzerland, but the old town is impressive even in grey gloom. My “Christmas” cactus collection is looking good too. Not sure we’ll make it to Christmas, though. And finally – Daria’s Daughter is on a UK/US 99p/c deal for the…
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A wacky exhibition and three #book bargains
Book bargains first, so if you’re here for the exhibition pics only, just scroll on by. Last week I parted ways – very amicably – with my publisher, and set about republishing the books on Amazon. The process is still ongoing and reviews for two of them haven’t transferred from the existing audiobook versions to…
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Lake Constance… #travel
I have two kinds of lakeside pics for you this week. First of all, both Saving the Lakeside Hotel and Return to the Lakeside Hotel are available in paperback now as well as ebook. Secondly, below are a couple of photos I took from the ferry on the way to and from Friedrichshafen on the…
