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First book in the Escape to Switzerland series:
Saving the Lakeside Hotel
‘Armchair travel at its best!’
Cass Grafton
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Stolen Sister
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Daria’s Daughter
‘Chillingly suspenseful…‘
Carmen Radtke
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The Un-Family
‘A brilliant read & highly recommended’
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The Cold Cold Sea
‘An emotional read, a turbulent read.’
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Tag Archives: reading
Cover Love – with Helen Pryke… #books #amreading
I read once that the main purpose of a book cover is to attract the reader’s attention. Obviously, it should have something to do with the subject of the book too – you wouldn’t put an image of a vegetable … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Helen Pryke, reading, Writing
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Cover Love – with Rebecca Collins… #books #amreading
I read recently that the main purpose of a book cover is to attract the reader’s attention. Obviously, it should have something to do with the subject of the book too – you wouldn’t put an image of a vegetable … Continue reading
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Tagged Cousin Ash, Hobeck Books, reading, The Cat and the City
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Coming soon in feel-good fiction… #travel #Switzerland
A holiday in Switzerland… that was something I’d never experienced when I arrived at Basle Airport on a cold January afternoon in the 1980s. That day, I was all set to work for a year, see something of Europe, learn … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life, travel
Tagged Lake Constance, reading, Saving the Lakeside Hotel, Switzerland, travel, Writing
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2022… The best of times and the worst of times #NewYear
If anything taught us that nothing lasts forever, it was 2022. The moment we got used to the covid numbers going down, up they went again. As soon as we were accustomed to calling one person ‘the prime minister’, someone … Continue reading
Posted in books, Life in Switzerland, My books, The Writing Life
Tagged 2022, books, crime fiction, feel-good fiction, Happy New Year, Hobeck Books, reading, Writing
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Maureen Myant
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne of Green Gables, Maureen Myant, reading, The Confession, Wordsworth
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Terry Tyler
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts, The Writing Life
Tagged Jerome k Jerome, reading, Susan Howatch, Terry Tyler, Writing
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Classic Comfort Reads… with A.J. Griffiths-Jones
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts
Tagged A.J. Griffiths-Jones, crime fiction, reading, true crime
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Cass Grafton
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
Posted in books, Guest Posts, The Writing Life
Tagged Ada Bright, Cass Grafton, JK Rowling, reading, Wilkie Collins
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Classic Comfort Reads… with Alison Morgan
The idea behind the Classic Comfort posts is that each featured writer chooses a favourite title from the classics – we’ll define ‘classic’ as pre-1940 – and a favourite comfort read, a book they always return to, for whatever reasons. … Continue reading
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Tagged A.B. Morgan, Hobeck Books, John Falkner, Quirk Series, reading, Roald Dahl
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The ‘Z’ Books… #A-Z books
And here it is – the last post in my 26-part blog series, started on April 7th 2019 and continued – roughly – every month ever since. It’s an adaptation of something I saw on Twitter – people were posting … Continue reading
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Tagged Gerald Durrell, James Higgerson, reading, Swallows and Amazons, The Almost Lizard
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